Spicy bitter gourd pickled vegetables and preparation method thereof

Abstract

The invention discloses spicy bitter gourd pickled vegetables and a preparation method thereof, and relates to the technical field of health-care foods. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) selecting materials and processing the selected materials: excising bitter gourd stems from the selected bitter gourds, cleaning the bitter gourds without the bitter gourd stems with clean water, cutting the cleaned bitter gourds without the bitter gourd stems into pieces with a knife, removing bitter gourd pulp so as to obtain bitter gourd strips, and airing the bitter gourd strips until the aired bitter gourd strips are slightly withered; (2) pickling the bitter gourd strips: preserving the bitter gourd strips obtained in the step (1) with table salt and white wine with the proportion of the table salt to the white wine being 5:2 for 24 hours, taking the preserved bitter gourd strips out of the table salt and the white wine, and airing water on the surfaces of the preserved bitter gourd strips; and (3) infusing the bitter gourd strips: selecting proper pickle jars, washing the selected pickle jars, drying the washed pickle jars, mixing old salt water, white sugar and fermented glutinous rice juice with the proportion of the old salt water to the white sugar and the fermented glutinous rice juice being 1:0.01:0.01 so as to obtain a mixture, pouring the mixture into the pickle jars, uniformly stirring the mixture, then loading the bitter gourd strips obtained in the step (2), putting dried hot peppers and five spice powder in the pickle jars, sealing the openings of the pickle jars, placing the pickle jars at ventilated and dry places for fermentation, and infusing the bitter gourd strips for 3-4 days so that the infused bitter gourd strips can be mature. The spicy bitter gourd pickled vegetables which are disclosed by the invention do not contain a chemical preservative or an additive, are rich in nutrition and conform to requirements for the mouth feel of most people.

Description

technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of health food, in particular to a spicy bitter gourd pickle and a preparation method thereof. Background technique [0002] Bitter gourd is a kind of fruit and vegetable with both medicine and food. Bitter gourd smells bitter, non-toxic, cold in nature, and enters the heart, liver, spleen, and lung meridians. It has the functions of clearing summer heat, quenching thirst, lowering blood pressure, and lowering blood lipids. It is mainly used to treat heatstroke, heat and thirst, boils, excessive prickly heat, dysentery, sores, conjunctivitis, red eyes and swelling, carbuncle erysipelas, burns, oliguria and other diseases. In addition, the vitamin C content of bitter gourd is very high, which can prevent scurvy, protect cell membranes, prevent atherosclerosis, improve the body's stress ability, and protect the heart. Bitter gourd contains an ingredient that can effectively inhibit the canceration of normal ce...

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Problems solved by technology

This resource of bitter gourd has not been widely utilized yet, and the product of bitter gourd is very single on the market, so developing bitter gourd health food has very important practical significance