A Detailed Guide to the Benefits, Effects and Culinary Uses of Plantain

Plantain is deeply loved for its benefits of clearing heat and detoxifying, and clearing the liver and brightening the eyes. So people have developed many recipes for preparing plantain. Not only does it let your mouth enjoy something delicious, it also has a health-promoting effect.
Culinary uses of plantain:
One: Red date, goji berry and plantain water
1. Main ingredient: plantain.
2. Auxiliary ingredients: rock sugar, red dates, goji berries.
3. Wash the plantain clean with water, add half a pot of water to the pot, put in the plantain and start boiling.
4. When the water boils, add the red dates and rock sugar and bring to a boil again.
5. Turn to low heat and continue boiling for 20 minutes; add the goji berries and boil for about 10 minutes, and it is ready.

Two: Plantain cakes
1. Wash the plantain and drain off the water
2. Use a knife to cut the plantain into small sections, and juice them with a juicer
3. Discard the pulp and keep the juice for later use (you may keep a little of the pulp)
4. Add flour and sugar, and stir into a batter
5. Lay a piece of gauze on a steamer, pour the batter onto it, and spread it evenly with chopsticks
6. After steaming for fifteen minutes, take it out, press out shapes with cookie cutters, and plate it up
Three: Plantain stewed with pork bladder
1. Wash the fresh plantain clean with water and set aside
2. Put 200 grams of washed pork bladder into a pot of boiling water, cook it through and take it out, cut it into small pieces and put them into the pot
3. When the pork bladder is almost done, add the plantain as well as salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper powder, scallions and ginger, cooking wine, and meat broth, and once it is stewed until tender, it is ready.

Four: Plantain soup
1. Wash the gathered plantain leaves with water and set aside
2. Once the pot is hot, add soybean oil, chopped scallions, Sichuan pepper, refined salt, shredded ginger and stir-fry briefly
3. Add about 500 ml of water, put in the plantain leaves, and after they are stir-fried through, add monosodium glutamate and cilantro, and it is ready to serve.
Benefits and effects of plantain:
1. Plantain has a certain diuretic effect.
2. Cough-suppressing, anti-asthmatic and phlegm-clearing effects.
3. Anti-pathogenic microorganism effect.
4. Plantain has a counteracting effect on both excessive gastric juice secretion and the reduced gastric juice secretion caused by adrenaline.
5. Anti-inflammatory effect.
6. Plantain can also make breathing deeper, larger and slower, promote secretion in the bronchi and digestive tract, and promote the movement of the intestines and uterus.

Conclusion: The several plantain preparation methods introduced above by the editor can be tried out at home to see whether they are really so delicious, healthy and tasty.
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