Eating pumpkins in August and a half
Old story: In many rural areas in Jiangnan, there is a custom of eating pumpkin glutinous rice in August and a half. Legend has it that a long time ago, there lived a beautiful girl Huanghua at the foot of Nanshan Mountain. On August 15th, she found two oblate wild fruits in the weeds on the mountain. She picked them back and cooked them for her parents. The two elders, who were bedridden due to years of famine, ate the fragrant and sweet wild fruits. The disease gradually improved. Therefore, the melon was picked from Nanshan, and later people called it pumpkin. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, it was always tasted in various cooking methods.
New flavor: pumpkin lily
Ingredients: pumpkin, lily, green pepper.
Preparation method: Cut the pumpkin into small cubes and the green pepper into small cubes. Boil the pumpkin in water, drain the water, and baste it with the lilies and green peppers. Leave a little base oil in the pot, heat it up, add all the ingredients, add salt, umami soy sauce and a little sugar, add some vegetarian soup, adjust the taste, add some gravy after the pot is boiled, drizzle with oil and serve on a plate. The taste is salty, fresh and slightly sweet.
: Pumpkin is a very popular food in recent years because it is very rich in vitamin A. Although it contains sugar, eating more will not make you fat. It is especially beneficial to diabetics. Nowadays, Many women pay attention to the beauty of their skin and body, and pumpkin is the best skin care and weight loss product in this aspect. Eating pumpkin during the Mid-Autumn Festival is warm, sweet and meaningful.