Pickled wax gourd and making method thereof

Abstract

The invention discloses pickled wax gourd and a making method thereof and relates to the technical field of healthcare food. The making method includes: (1), material selecting and processing, namely scraping cortex of chosen wax gourd, and cutting the wax gourd into square blocks of 2-3cm in width and 7-9cm in length; (2), soaking, namely placing lime into a container, adding water, pouring the wax gourd blocks into lime water for soaking, feeding clean water for soaking after being fished out, using saline water of 30% to soak for ejection for 2d, fishing out, and air-drying; (3), pickling, namely selecting a pickling jar, adding white sugar and edible salt into the saline water according to a mixing proportion of 1:1:25, and adding fermented glutinous rice juice of 25%; (4), mixing and filling the wax gourd and dry chilly into the jar according to a proportion of 40:1, placing a spice bag in, pouring pickling saline water in, sealing, ventilating, drying, and pickling for about 8d. The pickled wax gourd is free of adding chemical preservative and additive, safe and healthy and meets requirements, on taste, of most people.

Description

technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of health food, in particular to a wax gourd pickle and a preparation method thereof. Background technique [0002] Wax gourd is a kind of melon vegetable with both medicine and food. It can clear lung heat and resolve phlegm, clear stomach heat and relieve thirst and quench thirst. There are records about the medicinal use of wax gourd in traditional Chinese medicine classics. It is usually used to treat lung heat cough, edema, fullness, summer heat, dysentery, hemorrhoids, asthma, diabetes, nephritis edema, fish and crab poisoning. Winter melon is usually used as an ingredient, but its medicinal value is very high, and it is cool in nature and sweet in taste. Return lung, large intestine, small intestine, urinary bladder channel. Contains minerals, vitamins. It has the effects of clearing heat and detoxification, losing weight and beautifying. Winter melon is not only a traditional Chinese medicine, bu...

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Problems solved by technology

This resource of wax gourd has not been widely utilized, and the development of wax gourd health food has very important practical significance