Watermelon cup(xi gua zhong )

Watermelon cup method:

Raw materials for making watermelon Cup:

There are 2 watermelons (about 4000g each), 150g canned kiwi fruit, 100g canned pineapple, 150g canned orange, 100g melon and 100g water chestnut. Apple 100g, canned cherry 150g, rock sugar 150g, white sugar 300g.

Processing steps of watermelon Cup:

1. Choose 30 cm long watermelon with black skin, red flesh and good shape, and divide it into four sections from top to bottom. The two ends are carved into patterns, and the middle is carved into dragon and phoenix or other patterns. Cut off a part of the pedicel as a cover and dig out the pulp with a spoon. Another part of the pedicel of the watermelon is carved into a zigzag shape and a pattern to make the base of the watermelon cup.

2. Put rock sugar and white sugar in the pot, add water and boil them to sugar water, then put them in the refrigerator to cool. Cut all kinds of ingredients into 1.5cm cubes, put them into the watermelon cup together with the frozen sugar water, cover them, put them on the watermelon cup seat, and then put them on the large plate for eating.

Characteristics of watermelon Cup:

Beautiful appearance, cool and sweet taste.

Watermelon cup

Watermelon cup is a traditional famous dish with Fujian characteristics, belonging to Fujian cuisine. This product is cool, sweet, refreshing, fruity, and can relieve greasy. It is a good product in summer and children's favorite food.

A round watermelon (about 7 Jin), sugar lotus seed, sugar water chestnut, canned litchi, pineapple and Sydney are cut into 4 cm square grains, lotus seed cut in half, put into the soup cup, drench the rest of the rock sugar water, soak for 30 minutes, pour into the colander to drain the sugar water (another use). 4. Take out the frozen melon cup, pour in all the ingredients, add the melon cup cover, and then put it into the refrigerator to ice for half an hour, then take it out, you can eat .

brief introduction

Basic characteristics

Cool and sweet, refreshing, fruity aroma, can solve greasy.

Production method

Practice 1

1、 Put the rock sugar into the stewing cup, add 4 jin of boiled water, steam for about 15 minutes in the steamer, take it out, filter it with a clean cloth, cool it and cover it in the refrigerator.

2、 Wash watermelon, apple and Sydney with cold boiled water. About one sixth of the pedicel of the watermelon is cut transversely to cover the cup. Cut the mouth of the melon cup into a tooth shape. Scoop out the flesh of the melon with a tablespoon and soak it in 2 jin of filtered water. Wash the melon cup with 1 jin filtered water, pour in 3 Jin frozen sugar water, cover the melon and refrigerate.

3、 Pick out the flesh and seeds, then soak them. Peel the apple and Sydney, cut off both ends, take out the core, and soak them in 2 jin of filtered water. When using, take out the flesh of the melon and dry it with a disinfected clean towel. Then cut litchi, pineapple, apple and Sydney into 4 cm square cubes. Cut lotus seeds in half and put them into a soup cup. Soak in the remaining rock sugar water for 30 minutes. Pour in a colander to drain the sugar water

4、 Take out the frozen melon cup, pour in all the ingredients, cover the cup, and then put it in the refrigerator for half an hour to take it out. Then it can be eaten.

Practice 2

A round watermelon (about 7 Jin), sugar lotus seed, sugar water chestnut, canned litchi, pineapple and Sydney are cut into 4 cm square grains, lotus seed cut in half, put into the soup cup, drench the rest of the rock sugar water, soak for 30 minutes, pour into the colander to drain the sugar water (another use). 4. Take out the frozen melon cup, pour in all the ingredients, add the melon cup cover, and then put it into the refrigerator to ice for half an hour, then take it out, you can eat .

characteristic

This is a very natural way to eat, eat the original taste of watermelon, with pineapple, hawthorn after a sweet and sour feeling, you can eliminate heat and greasy, light and delicious

Practice 3

1. Wash the watermelon, make a circle of herringbone knife at the quarter, take off the top, dig out the flesh and carve patterns on the skin. Remove the seeds from the watermelon pulp and cut into 1 cm square cubes. Pineapple, litchi also cut into 1 cm square Ding;

2. Heat aluminum pot, add water, add sugar, boil, skim foam, add osmanthus, cool, put in refrigerator.

3. Put diced watermelon, diced pineapple, diced orange and diced litchi in the watermelon shell, pour cold sugar water on it, and then make a watermelon plate, and put it on the base carved with watermelon.

characteristic

This dish is cool, sweet, refreshing, fruity, and can relieve greasy.

Practice 4

1. Wash the watermelon, cut the cover at 1 / 6 place, cut the top and bottom into teeth, dig out the pulp of the watermelon to get the juice; wash the grapes, press them into pieces; scald the red tomatoes and peaches, tear off the skin and cut them into small pieces.

2. Mix the grape juice, watermelon slices and honey evenly, pour them into the watermelon cup, cover them with tremella, peach slices and tomato slices, put them into the refrigerator and serve them when eating.

Production tips

Canned Tremella is used in this dish

Practice 5

[main and auxiliary materials]

Round watermelon... 1 can pineapple... 150g

Canned litchi.. 150g Apple.. 250g

Sugar lotus seed 150 grams Sydney 250 grams

Sugar water chestnut 150 g rock sugar 750 g

[cooking method]

1. Put the rock sugar into the stewing cup, add 2000 grams of boiled water, steam for about 15 minutes, take it out, filter it with a clean cloth, cool it in the air and cover it in the refrigerator.

2. Soak in 1000 grams of water. In addition, wash the melon cup with 500 grams of filtered water, pour in 1500 grams of rock sugar water, cover the melon and refrigerate.

3. Pick out the seeds and soak them. Peel the apple and Sydney, cut off both ends, take out the core and soak in 1000 grams of filtered water. When using, take out the flesh of the melon, and use a disinfected clean towel to absorb the water. Then cut litchi, pineapple, apple and Sydney into 4cm square pieces, cut lotus seeds into two parts, put them into a soup cup, drench the rest of the rock sugar water and soak for 30 minutes, pour in a colander and drain the sugar water (another use).

4. Take out the frozen melon cup, pour in all the ingredients, add the melon cup cover, and then refrigerate in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Take it out and you can eat it.

[process key]

According to the traditional method of Qing Dynasty, one watermelon (about 3.5kg), 100g diced chicken, 50g diced ham, 100g fresh lotus seed, 100g longan meat, 50g walnut kernel, 50g pine nut kernel and 50g almond can be served as reference.

Mixed watermelon cup

Main ingredient: watermelon

Accessories: pineapple, pear, peach, orange, loquat

Seasoning: sugar, osmanthus

Method:

1. Wash the watermelon, cut 4 / 5 of the watermelon, dig out the pulp, cut the edge of the watermelon into serrated shape, and put 1 / 5 of the watermelon on the bottom as a support;

2. Pick out the seeds of the watermelon pulp and cut them into nail sized cubes and put them in a basin. Cut pineapples, pears, peaches, oranges and loquats into cubes and put them in another basin;

3. Sit the pot on the fire, add water, sugar and osmanthus. After the pot is boiling, add the fruit, skim the floating powder, put it in the basin to cool. After cooling, put some watermelon into the watermelon cup, put it in the refrigerator to cool. After cooling, you can eat it.

characteristic

It is one of the sugarbeets in summer.

It is suggested that pineapple, pear, peach, orange, loquat and other accessories can be canned.

History and characteristics of cuisine

History of cuisine

Watermelon cup is a famous summer dish in Qing Dynasty. Watermelon is one of the best products for relieving summer heat and thirst in China. Every summer in the Qing palace, the imperial dining room must make "watermelon Cup", which is to dig out the flesh of the watermelon, and put the cut ham, diced chicken, fresh lotus seeds, longan, walnuts, pine nuts, almonds, etc. into it, cover it again, and simmer for 2-3 hours. It tasted mellow and delicious. Both Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu liked it very much. Later, it became a famous dish for a royal banquet in the Qing Dynasty. In the late Qing Dynasty, this dish was also popular in the local government, and then became a famous summer dish in Beijing, Guangzhou and Jiangsu. When these restaurants began to operate this dish, they steamed it according to the traditional method of the Qing Dynasty. But after the 1920s, with the emergence of frozen drinks, the method of making watermelon cup was no longer steaming by fire, but taking watermelon and other ingredients and eating them in the refrigerator. This system is more perfect than the traditional system and more scientific. Because watermelon is fresh and tender with sufficient water content, it will lose its nutrition if heated and steamed by fire. The water content and nutrition of watermelon can not be affected by using ice. The taste of watermelon is more sweet and cool after being cooked with additives. Nowadays every household has a refrigerator, which is easier to make.

Cuisine features

This product is cool, sweet, refreshing, fruity, and can relieve greasy. It is a good product in summer and children's favorite food.

Health related

Watermelon is the most abundant fruit juice in all fruits, known as the king of summer fruits. Because it was introduced from the west, it is called watermelon.

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine of the motherland, watermelon has the functions of clearing heat, relieving thirst, diuresis and so on. For the patients with "bitter summer syndrome" who can't eat in midsummer and are thin, eating more watermelon has the functions of appetizing, promoting metabolism and nourishing the body.

Modern medical research shows that watermelon contains a variety of nutrients and beneficial substances needed by human body, such as a lot of sucrose, fructose, glucose, rich in vitamin C, organic acids, amino acids, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals.

The medicinal properties of watermelon have been discussed in many medical classics, such as compendium of Materia Medica. Li Shizhen said that it has the functions of "relieving vexation and thirst, relieving middle and lower Qi, benefiting small water and detoxifying alcohol"

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