This small summer cold dish clears heat, detoxifies, cools you down and helps with weight loss; it is tasty, refreshing and appetite-stimulating

Mung bean sprouts and winter melon are two ordinary vegetables available everywhere, and both have high nutritional value. Paired together, they not only clear heat and detoxify, cool you down and help with weight loss, clear heat and promote body fluid production, and stimulate the appetite and relieve restlessness, but are also refreshing and tasty and simple to make, making them a rare home-style cold dish in summer.

Mung bean sprouts are cool in nature and sweet in taste; they not only clear heat and detoxify, but also quench thirst and strengthen the stomach, and nourish yin and strengthen yang. Bean sprouts contain protein, fat, carbohydrates, multiple vitamins, cellulose, carotene, zinc, amino acids and more, making them one of the best foods for weight loss. Winter melon is rich in nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and mineral elements, and is a typical high-potassium, low-sodium vegetable. It has effects such as clearing heat and relieving summer heat, lowering blood lipids and helping with weight loss, and beautifying the skin.

How to make the winter melon and mung bean sprout cold dish: first wash the winter melon and bean sprouts clean, and cut the winter melon into strips. Bring water to a boil in a pot, first put the winter melon into the boiling water and cook until 80 percent done, then blanch the bean sprouts briefly in the boiling water and put them into cold water to cool completely. Scoop them out, drain off the water and set aside.

Mix an appropriate amount of salt, MSG, white sugar, aged vinegar, seafood soy sauce and mashed garlic evenly; put the bean sprouts and winter melon strips into a container, pour in the mixed sauce and toss well, then sprinkle a layer of chopped cilantro on top. If you do not like cilantro, you can leave it out, and if you like chili, you can add an appropriate amount of shredded chili. The seasonings can be added or reduced according to personal taste.