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TODAY SPECIAL: Crunchy Bottle Gourd (10 Servings)
PLACE: NIUTAO -- Webley Primary School (Photos by Jancsi)
RECIPE:
Ingredient
|
Condiment
|
1
bottle gourd
|
Salt
|
1 local
chicken legs
|
Sugar
|
3
cloves of garlic
|
Soy
sauce
|
1 chili
|
DIRECTION:
1.
Peel
and bone the chicken.
2.
Cut the
chicken into strips, and marinate with 1 teaspoons of soy sauce, 1 clove of
garlic (chop finely), 0.5 teaspoon of salt, and some sugar for 20 minutes.
3.
Peel the
bottle gourd and cut it into half, remove the seeds, and cut it into strips.
4.
Slice
the garlic and chili.
5.
Stir-Fry
the garlic and chili for a while, and add the bottle gourd into the wok.
6.
Add some
salt, soy sauce, and some sugar to taste. (The quantity of seasoning depends on
you.)
7.
Put the
chicken into the wok when the bottle gourd is half-cooked.
8.
When the
chicken is cooked, it’s done.
Additional dish: Pumpkin Soup
(the simplified one is suitable for the limited ingredients!)
Recipe
Ingredient
|
Condiment
|
1
pumpkin
|
Salt
|
2
onions
|
Sugar
|
Chicken
|
Milk
powder
|
Direction
1. Peel the skin and remove the seeds of pumpkin.
2. Cut the ¾ pumpkin into chunks, and steam for 30-40 minutes.
3. Bone the chicken and marinate with some salt and sugar for 15-20 minutes.
4. Stew the chicken bone with 500c.c water for 30-40 minutes.
5. Dice ¼ pumpkin.
6. Cut the onion finely.
7. Stir-fry the onion for a while and add the diced pumpkin into the frying pan.
8. Add some salt and sugar to taste.
9. Pour all the ingredients into the pot, and boil with the broth till the pumpkin is soft.
10. Mesh the steamed pumpkin and pour it into the pot.
11. Dissolve 2 small bowls of milk powder with hot soup.
12. Pour the milk and chicken into the pot, and boil it.
13. If you have corn flour, dissolve it with cool water, pour it into pot, and stir the soup to make it sticky.
Additional dish: Stir-Fry Cabbage (10 servings)
Recipe
Ingredients : 5 Cabbages、5 cloves of garlic
Condiments : Salt、Sugar、Frying oil
Direction
1. Wash the cabbages and cut them into medium size sections.
2. Slice the garlic.
3. Stir-fry the garlic, and then put the stem of cabbage into the wok, and add the leaves of cabbage when the stems are half-cooked.
4. Add some salt and sugar to taste.
Benefits Of Bottle Gourd
Not
very familiar to the western world, bottle gourd is one of the favorite
vegetables in Indian cuisine.
Known by various names, the bottle gourd is yellowish-green in color and
usually in the shape
of a bottle. Bottle gourd is cultivated in the humid weather of Sri Lanka,
India,Indonesia, Malaysia,
the Philippines, China, tropical Africa and South America. Though the vegetable
is quite bland and tasteless, it has many nutrition benefits. Read on further to know the nutritional value of bottle
gourd, along with the health benefits of eating it.
Bottle Gourd is good for:
- Bottle gourd is an excellent vegetable for hypertension patients.
- It is a suitable vegetable for light, low-cal diets as well as for children, people with digestive problems,
diabetics and convalescents.
- High in water content, and easy to digest when cooked.
- Be effective in treating constipation.
- Be helpful in treating urinary disorders.
- Bottle gourd is recommended by ayurvedic physicians for balancing the liver function.
- Drinking a glass of bottle gourd juice once in the early morning
helps in treating grey hair.
- Mixing the juice with sesame oil for massaging the scalp every
night, provides an effective medicine for insomnia.
- A glass of bottle gourd juice, mixed with a little salt, helps in
preventing excessive loss of sodium from the body. It quenches thirst, prevents fatigue and keeps one refreshed
during summers.
- Bottle gourd juice is also very useful for shedding extra calories and maintaining optimum health.
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