In melon, up to 95% is water, low in calories, low in sugar. As a result, melon is an ideal dish for those who want to lose weight by enjoying a watermelon smoothie with diet sugar or combining a watermelon smoothie with dragon fruit. On hot summer days, eating melon helps us feel more comfortable and more energetic. So how to choose a delicious melon and avoid being soaked in chemicals? Prediction a to m  u code Delicious melons are often dark in color, with dark green stripes alternating with dark yellow. The melon skin is smooth, the outside has a thin layer of fluff. You should choose melons with a round shape, firm hand and not soft. The stalks are still new. Strong, old melons are usually delicious melons. In addition, one of the most “classic” tips for choosing delicious melons is to observe whether the melon skin has cracks or not. Watermelon with a little crack in the peel will be very delicious. Prediction a into the smell erm When the melon is about to ripen or is ripe, it will have a very pleasant aroma, and can even be smelled when standing at a distance. If the outside of the peel has a thin layer of hair with a pleasant aroma, you should spend money to buy that melon, because it is very delicious! This is also the difference between a naturally ripe melon and a chemically soaked melon, because when soaked in chemicals, the melon will lose all its thin hair and no longer have a pleasant fragrance. Compared to many other fruits, melons are both delicious and nutritious, but the price is much more “chestnut”. Therefore, regularly add melon to the menu for the whole family in the hot season to increase vitamins as well as cool down and purify your body! Clouds (Synthetic) Photo: Collectibles

Bitter melon is a fruit that, although not beautiful in appearance, is extremely nutritious. Bitter melon can be refrigerated and then eaten raw directly with very attractive, can be steamed, fried, cooked in soup… in which stir-fry is the most popular. However, not everyone dares to eat bitter melon because the bitter taste of melon causes an unpleasant feeling. Moreover, bitter melon is not easy to stir-fry, although the frying time is fast, if you don’t know how, it will make the melon soft and lose its original green color. So how to keep the crispiness of the melon, the beautiful green color and eliminate the bitter taste of the melon after stir-frying? Some people think that blanching bitter melon before stir-frying will reduce the bitter taste, but just blanching is sour enough, needing to take another step. Some people say, you should soak the melon with salt water before cooking. But we also know that salt has a very strong dehydrating ability, if you soak bitter melon with salt first, it can indeed reduce the water in the melon and remove a small part of the bitterness. But this will also make the bitter gourd lose its crispy taste, when eating the melon it will be a bit mushy. Long-time chefs share their experience, it is not difficult to process fried bitter melon with little bitterness. You can refer to the following tips: First, when buying melon, it is necessary to wash it with clean water to remove dirt on the surface of the fruit. Then use a knife to cut off the two ends, cut / remove the intestines of the loofah. Use a spoon to scrape out the white part of the bitter gourd. This white part is the cause of the bitter taste of the melon. At this time, use a knife to cut bitter melon into thin and even slices. Put bitter melon in a large bowl, add a moderate amount of sugar, stir well and marinate for about 20 minutes. When the time is up, wash the bitter melon twice with clean water. Next, pour a sufficient amount of water into the pot, turn on the heat and bring to a boil, add bitter melon to blanch quickly, blanch until the melon turns dark green, then immediately take it out and drain. Pour a little cooking oil into the pot, turn on the stove to high heat, add minced onion and garlic and fry until fragrant. Then add bitter melon and stir-fry on high heat, stir quickly. Add a little salt and seasoning powder (optional) to taste and then turn off the heat. Only stir-fry the melon for about 2-3 minutes to keep its crisp, beautiful green color, if it takes a long time to cook, the melon loses its color and becomes soft and not delicious. So when stir-frying bitter melon, you only need to remember 2 important steps, which is marinating sugar with melon. Sugar has a weaker dehydrating property (removing water from the fruit) than salt, will not soften bitter gourd, and can remove the bitter taste. Moreover, marinating sugar makes bitter melon more crispy. The second step is that after washing, it is necessary to blanch the melon, the bitter melon is both green and crispy, the bitterness is reduced again. Good luck!

What does hot weather need to add? Focus on food groups that help strengthen resistance and sleep: Food groups with cooling properties such as: Amaranth, water spinach, squash … help bring a feeling of coolness, while providing many vitamins. , add fiber, good for the digestive system; Provide protein and many important nutrients such as zinc, iron, calcium … with foods such as meat, fish, shrimp, crab, eggs, milk, oysters, oysters, mussels, beans; Strengthen the immune system, appetite and help develop skeletal muscle with foods such as fresh fruits, yogurt, onions, garlic, broccoli, tomatoes, herbs (perilla, marjoram, dill). …); Provide vitamin C, carotene and mineral salts with fruits and vegetables such as cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, lentils…; Helps stabilize nerves to help relax and sleep easily with milk, especially milk rich in calcium, tryptophan, taurin. What to eat to cool? Summer is very suitable for boiled dishes: boiled melon, boiled peanuts, boiled okra, red zucchini. Amaranth, water spinach, spinach, jute vegetables are cool to eat, but for people with a strong stomach (hot enough), it is good, but people with a cold stomach are easy to have wet stools. These vegetables should be cooked lightly or cooked with dried shrimp, minced meat, and tamari better than boiled. In the summer, you should eat a lot of boiled food, limit fried and spicy foods. Eat raw vegetables: Types such as ram, lettuce, cucumber, green mango, star fruit are very suitable, add a little herbs like marjoram, basil, Chinese smell, coriander very well. Lettuce is very good, has cooling properties, opens ventilation, tonic gas, gas, detoxifies inflammation. This salad can be made with mixed vegetables. In the summer, it is very good to find purslane to eat raw or boiled. Purslane has antibacterial, toxic heat dissipation properties to treat many diseases such as hand, foot and mouth disease, stomach burns, itching… Cooking dishes: This season, avoid eating fried foods that are cooked over too much fire for too long. All kinds of sour soup are very suitable. Can use star fruit, pineapple, crocodile, spoon, vertical, roasted leaves, sour tamarind … and even sour shrimp, vinegar suddenly. It is recommended to eat a lot of very good seaweed, store or cook soup. Very cool and delicious dish is miso tofu seaweed. Pumpkin is a very special fruit with many good effects. It cools without causing welding, helps clear heat, detoxifies, cools blood, nourishes yin, eliminates salt, animal protein is very good. Tea: Black bean tea is a very good and popular dish. Using rock sugar will be cooler than molasses sugar. When cooking, if you can add a little ginger will be better. Summer is very important to drink water. Drink enough so that the kidneys do not overheat. If it is too hot, the urine will be hot, drizzling, and dark yellow in color. Especially those who travel a lot, work hard. People can boil some types of leaves to make them cooler, such as bare kernels, sticky leaves, corn silk, mandarin leaves, and various types of tonic ginseng juice. Tapioca flour is also a good choice, its cooling and energizing properties help to relieve heat, ventilate, and treat itching and heat. Eating raw is cooler than stirring. Summer is full of fruits, but not all fruits are cool. There are many types of heaters. Eating too much can cause pimples. The best and most suitable fruit is avocado. Ripe mango, guava, jackfruit, durian, litchi, longan, pineapple are all hot fruits. The types of melons, melons, and cucumbers are quite cool. Watermelon is cool to eat at first, even seems cold, but eating a lot and later can cause heat… Summer should drink coconut water, salted apricot juice, lemon juice, orange juice. Foods to limit Limit fast foods, fried foods, high in fat such as fried chicken, french fries, fatty meat, sausages, canned goods, sausages… because they are both difficult to digest and require a lot of energy provide more water for metabolism; Limit eating a lot of sweets, including ice cream (to avoid respiratory infections), cakes, sweetened condensed milk…; Avoid eating frozen foods.

Banana buttercream has a particularly delicious taste. PANANA BUTTER CREAM Resources – Ripe bananas: 03 fruits; – Ripe avocado: 400g (02 small fruit or 01 large fruit); – Fresh coconut: 100g; – Peanuts (peanuts): 100g; – Yogurt: 02 boxes; – Fresh milk: 200ml; – Coconut milk: 160ml – Tools: Shape mold: square mold, rectangular mold, type to be frozen. Note: If you don’t like sweets, you can use unsweetened fresh milk or unsweetened yogurt. How to make banana butter cream Step 1: Prepare ingredients – Banana peeled and cut lengthwise into slices about 01 cm thick. – Peel avocado, remove seeds, cut into thin slices. – Small shredded coconut; – Crushed peanuts. – Put fresh milk, yogurt and coconut milk in a large bowl, stir the mixture. Step 2: Make ice cream – Put a layer of bananas on the bottom, followed by a layer of butter, then scoop the mixture into the banana and butter, add a layer of coconut and peanuts on top. – Layer the layers in such order until the ice cream box is full and the top layer is coconut and peanuts. – Leave the ice cream box in the refrigerator for 6-8 hours to be able to eat; Before eating, put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes and then cut it to enjoy. Delicious and nutritious watermelon ice cream BENEFITS CREAM Resources – 2 egg yolks – 60g in diameter – 200ml of milk; – 150ml fresh cream; – 1 pinch of salt – 5-7 sticky leaves (pineapple leaves); – 5 ml vanilla – 100g melon (peeled, seeded, cut into small pieces) How to make melon ice cream – Step 1: Chop pineapple leaves/sticky leaves into small pieces, put them in a blender with a little water and squeeze out the juice. – Step 2: Beat eggs with sugar thoroughly until it turns lemon yellow. – Step3: Pureed melon with fresh milk. – Step 4: Boil melon milk with pandan leaf juice, then pour slowly into the egg-sugar mixture, stirring while pouring. – Step 5: Put on the stove to simmer for about 2 minutes, while stirring quickly. Turn off the heat, add salt, vanilla and stir well. Let cool and then add fresh cream (beaten, not necessary). Place in the fridge for about 1-2 hours. Take it out and put it in the ice cream maker. Or if you do it manually, put it in the freezer, every time the ice cream is frozen, take it out and mix or grind 1 time (about 1 hour / time x 4 times). Or you can also make popsicles with the available molds. Ice cream nuggets COM CREAM Still the same ingredients as the melon cream above, but replace 100g of melon with 100g of fresh nuggets or 50g of dried nuggets. Dried nuggets soaked in warm water until soft. The nuggets are divided in half, 1/2 is mixed with milk in step 3. The remaining 1/2 leaves the seeds whole and put in the fresh cream in step 5. That’s the delicious nuggets. Wax coconut ice cream COCONUT CREAM Still the same ingredients as melon ice cream, but replacing 100g of melon with 120-150g of waxy coconut and not giving sticky leaves we get waxed coconut cream. The steps are still the same. Good luck!

Illustration Ms. Le Thu Thao, a seafood and seafood trader at Kim Lien market (Dong Da district), said that due to the hot weather, the demand for seafood and seafood, especially crabs, of housewives increased 2-3 times compared to that of housewives. last weekend. A survey at the traditional market system in the districts of Dong Da, Ba Dinh… shows that these days, the price of wild crabs has increased by 25,000 – 30,000 VND/kg, currently fluctuating at 180,000 – 230,000 VND/kg/kg. kg, farmed crabs are sold at cheaper prices from 160,000 to 170,000 VND/kg, cleaned and minced crabs are 250,000 – 300,000 VND/kg. Aquatic and seafood products also attract many buyers, currently farmed clams are sold at 20,000-25,000 VND/kg, mussels 12,000-15,000 VND/kg, freshwater fish such as tilapia, persimmon, driftwood, carp, and carp. … ranges from 60,000 – 130,000 VND/kg… this price remains the same as in previous days, there is no increase in price.
Green vegetables such as spinach, jute vegetables, water spinach… are chosen by many families in the summer. However, the supply of green vegetables is very abundant due to the harvest season, so the price is stable, currently ranging from 5,000 – 7,000 VND / bunch. Ms. Bui Thi Ha, a small vegetable trader at Khuong Thuong market (Dong Da district) said that there is no such thing as vegetable sellers taking advantage of hot weather to squeeze prices. If “screaming” customers go elsewhere to buy until about 9 – 10 o’clock withered vegetables, they are considered dead… Along with that, the consumption of fruits is also quite strong, fruit traders at Thanh Cong market ( Ba Dinh district) information, in hot weather, the consumption of watermelons and melons is 2 times higher than in the hot days before, and fruits such as oranges and grapefruit are selling very well. Consumption increased sharply but the selling price did not increase. Currently, watermelon is 15,000 -20,000 VND/kg, earthen oranges are 22,000 – 24,000 VND/kg, pomelos are 23,000 – 25,000 VND/kg, litchi is 20,000 – 22,000 VND/kg. “The reason why fruit prices do not increase is because the harvest is in progress and the people of the capital are joining hands with farmers in Bac Giang and Hai Duong provinces to consume fruit” – a small trader explained.

RESOURCES – Peanuts 200g – Sesame (sesame) 100g – Chao 50g – White granulated sugar: 2 tablespoons – Fish sauce (usually eaten); Soy sauce (vegetarian) – Chili powder (for spicy people) is enough to use – Garlic (usually eaten); Check (vegetarian) – Cooking oil: 3 tablespoons – Fresh lemon or cultured vinegar PREPARATION – Peanuts roasted until golden (half smashed), – Golden roasted sesame (mashed with half of the remaining peanuts) – Add hot oil, put crushed garlic / persimmon into the frying pan until fragrant (do not burn) let cool and use gradually. – Spice mixture including sugar, 1 teaspoon fish sauce/soy sauce, 1 tablespoon cooled boiled water, beat until creamy. – For chao (a meal of 4 people 10-15g), chili powder (if spicy), fish sauce/soy sauce, spice mixture, beat well with chopsticks, add beans and sesame paste, mix, and add water Boil and cool, beat a second time into a bowl of thick sauce. – Before using, add some crushed beans. Lightly salty add soy sauce or boiling water, squeeze a little lemon or vinegar so that when the dip is evenly adhered to the vegetables. HOW TO USE – Eat with salads, mixed raw vegetables, boiled/steamed and split with your fingers, cucumbers, melons eaten raw with little cinnamon or herbs, with a few slices of star fruit will be very delicious. do not mix just dot directly) – It’s great to eat without hot rice TIP YOU: make a paste, reserve pre-processed ingredients, just enough to use and eat right away. Have a good meals!

If in previous years, Australian mango exports with large fruits usually cost 40,000 – 50,000 VND/kg, this year this mango has dropped dramatically but the purchasing power is still slow. As noted by a VOV reporter, at the Southern Wholesale Market, Hanoi, each kilogram of Australian mangoes currently costs from 10 to 15 thousand VND. The giant mango variety weighs a pound, even the fruit is up to nearly 2kg, sweet, fragrant, thick mango flesh, dark color looks very eye-catching. Ms. Hoa – a small trader specializing in selling fruit at the Southern Wholesale Market (Hanoi) shared that every year Australian mango exports should be priced. This year, due to the influence of the disease, mangoes are in season and delicious, but the price is very cheap. The buying power at the market is also not as strong as every year. Australian mango fruit is large, round, red when ripe. There are types of purple pink, when ripe, the intestines are yellow, the taste is sweet and cool. Due to competition with many other fruits in season such as plums, pineapples, melons, and watermelons, Australian mango consumption is slow. Therefore, Australian mango growers and traders are forced to reduce prices sharply to sell out quickly. In previous years, this large, beautiful and fragrant mango was very popular with foreign consumers, but due to the Covid-19 epidemic causing difficulties for export, domestic mango consumption was slow, so the price fell unprecedentedly. In addition to the red and ripe Australian mango, there are also large mango varieties with thick flesh and pink skin that look very eye-catching on the market. The price of this giant mango is also super cheap, only from 10 to 15 thousand VND/kg.

Illustration Ms. Tran Minh Mai, owner of a grocery store on Pham Ngoc Thach Street (Dong Da District), said that if the first days of May, the store only consumes about 2 boxes of green tea, about 25-30 bottles of 500ml rice milk. … but in the past 10 days, the amount of goods consumed has doubled, tripled. In fact, due to hot weather, beverage products such as sugarcane juice, coconut, fruit juice, etc. are very attractive. Ms. Thanh Thuy selling sugarcane juice on Dang Van Ngu street (Dong Da district) shared, sugarcane juice sells for 10,000 VND/cup, every day I can only sell 30-40 cups, but the last hot days, the number of customers 3 to 4 times higher than normal. “Due to the re-emergence of the Covid-19 epidemic, people buying takeout or buying online by the liter increased sharply. On average, every day, the store sells hundreds of liters of sugarcane juice to the market for 25,000 VND / liter, buying from 4 liters or more costs 20,000 VND / liter, minus the cost, the profit is about 500,000 – 700,000 VND / day. Information bar. Not only sugarcane juice, coconut fruit is also “sold out”. Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh, owner of a wholesale and retail coconut fruit shop on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street, said that every day her family sells hundreds of green Siamese coconuts in Ben Tre, the wholesale price is about 22,000 – 23,000 VND/fruit. retail 25,000 – 26,000 VND/fruit; Coconut shelled wholesale price up to 24,000 – 25,000 VND / fruit, retail 28,000-30,000 VND / fruit. Mr. Nguyen Huu Thanh, owner of a dealer of Siamese coconut in Long Bien market said: “On average, the shop sells from 1,500 to 2,000 coconuts every day, mainly for refreshment shops and wholesalers to suburban districts. . The hotter it gets, the more coconuts run, and there are times when supply doesn’t meet demand.” Along with familiar drinks, this year’s market recorded the appearance of many new types of bottled soft drinks of natural origin, with cool, heat-clearing, detoxifying properties… such as pineapple juice, plum, melon. .. Or herbal drinks with cool properties, cooling in the hot season such as: Artichoke cotton, seaweed, chrysanthemum flower, flute dew, ginseng dew, arhat fruit…
Besides, at supermarkets, there are many promotional programs to welcome summer to stimulate consumer demand. Discount programs on soft drinks, fruits, and products with preferential prices for drinks have been responded to by many consumers. Typically, from now until May 30, Vinmart supermarket organizes a promotion program “Wonderland” to reduce the price of thousands of items, of which 350ml Oolong tea is reduced from 40,500 VND/lot of 6 bottles to 27,000 VND. ; Taiwanese milk tea reduced from 25,000 VND / 580ml bottle, to 21,300 VND; Vietcoco Organic fresh pineapple juice reduced price to 13,900 VND/box of 330ml (listed price 18,500 VND)… MM Mega Market supermarket system also organizes promotions and discounts for many items, including soft drinks such as: : C2 green tea, Coca Cola, Pepsi, 7Up soft drinks, Twister orange juice with discount from 10 – 12%.

“Growing trees on the terrace is not simple, requires the grower to have patience and hard work. Fortunately, I am a farmer’s son. Since the age of 10, I have been gardening and farming, so I know quite a lot. knowledge of cultivation”, Ms. Nga shared. When starting to plant trees on the terrace, Ms. Nga had to tinker with the planting method herself. Previously, she saw a friend planting trees, often using bananas buried in the ground for good plants, because bananas contain a lot of potassium. At that time, she thought why not grind bananas, mix with eggs, incubate flowers and then fertilize the plants. “I have been successful with the organic method of growing plants, using “waste” as manure. Now, no tree can make it difficult for me”, Ms. Nga shared. Thanks to the application of the above method, now, Ms. Nga’s orchard is green all year round, and the fruit is sometimes hanging on the branches. In addition to using eggs, milk, bananas, soybeans, etc. to make compost, she also uses fish protein, rice bran, cow manure mixed with soapy solution, composting for plants, helping plants avoid pests. bug. Ms. Nga also uses micro-organisms, tricodema, smoked rice husks, peanut shells, and oil cakes for growing plants. For fertilizing, it must depend on each type of tree, each stage is suitable, so that the fruit tree is always full of branches. On the terrace, Ms. Nga has been growing red flesh dragon fruit for more than a year. The tree has now begun to flower. The guava tree is laden with branches thanks to the organic fertilizer made by Ms. Nga. Ripe fruit is crunchy and sweet. Since her two children went to study abroad, there are only husband and wife in the house, so for the most part, Ms. Nga grows many fruit trees. The fruit tree is laden with branches. Ms. Nga said that not everyone succeeds in planting trees on the terrace. For her, in addition to using the right planting method, she also has to have a real love for trees. Every day, when she is free, she goes to the terrace to monitor and pay attention to every corner of the tree to see if they are attacked by worms or aphids. On the days when she went home to sell goods, it was 12 o’clock at night, she still went to the garden to visit each tree and check each leaf. Nga and her husband like to eat twisted Kale, moringa, and Korean radish, so they always grow them in the garden. At the end of this litter, she nursed her own trees to replace the old litter. Juicy melon. Kale has been planted by Ms. Nga for more than two years, the tree is always fat, the leaves are green. American fig tree. Nga shared, all the trees in the terrace garden, after harvesting, will be pruned and removed all the old leaves so that the tree can grow new branches. Recently, Ms. Nga often shares photos of her garden and planting techniques on online associations and groups. Many people come to ask for the secret, Ms. Nga is always enthusiastic to guide. Tu Anh Photo: Character provided

The Sunday market is bustling with people, the alleys are bustling with people buying and selling; After the epidemics, both sellers and buyers had protective masks, but trading was still busy. The market is bustling with all kinds of nuances, all kinds of dishes, vegetables and melons rolling around suddenly remember the dish of pickles, a dish to change meals for a hot day with too much meat and fish. Pickled melon is a type of melon from any countryside market; poor house food. Indeed, pickles can be mixed with many dishes, tired of fish meat or want to change the taste every day. Roasted peanut pickle is the best dish, I bet with you in the tray of rice to treat the Quang people, having a plate of melon mixed with peanuts is considered the staple of the meal, like the sour chayote in the Northern rice tray. so. Pickled melon choose medium, firm fruit, washed, split in half, peeled off the soft seeds; Thinly slice, squeeze out all the water. To squeeze out the water thoroughly, take a towel and put the melon in to squeeze, the melon will be very dry and delicious. Roasted and pounded crispy beans until fragrant; pound chili fish sauce, garlic, mix with a little bit of flexible sugar; Fry peanut oil with garlic and mix everything into the melon. That ginger-colored yellow melon plate will be very eye-catching in the tray of rice, and then the sour, crunchy taste when chewing vegetables will be the most attractive, so it is not exaggerated for me to say the dish of the meal. Then the same melon cut in half and drained the intestines, thickly sliced ​​and braised with copper fish, it’s delicious, people will enjoy the soft, fragrant and fatty pieces of melon in the mouth; Braised fish with melon, the melon dish will be eaten first, so it can also be called braised fish melon. The land of Quang has many shops that make the restaurant’s name only because it has fish braised with melon. The pickle dish is simple, easy to make, easy to prepare, but the taste is unforgettable, sour, and crunchy. People from faraway Quang countries remember pickles like Koreans remember kimchi. That pickle dish I’ve treated you many times has been praised every time; Not only do you know that the plate of melon always runs out before other dishes on the table.

According to Ms. Thu, Australian mangoes are grown a lot by households in Khanh Hoa. If last year, this time the price of Australian mango was always at 40,000-50,000 VND/kg, this year, the price of this mango dropped sharply to only 10,000 VND/kg. “Last year, affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, the price of Australian mangoes was still 20,000 VND/kg, the smaller ones were 15,000 VND/kg. But this year, the usual large size for export to China can only sell at 10,000 VND / kg, “said Ms. Thu. Australian mango fruit is large, round, red when ripe This small trader shared that the reason why the price of Australian mangoes fell so sharply was due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic. Because it cannot be exported, it must be consumed in the domestic market. Due to competition with many other mangoes, there are many delicious fruits in the right season such as plums, pineapples, melons, and watermelons, so consumption is slow. Therefore, Australian mango growers are forced to reduce prices sharply to sell quickly. “My uncle’s family grows mangoes in Cam Lam, Khanh Hoa and is very worried because Australian mangoes have never dropped in price as dramatically as they do now. In previous years, this large, beautiful and fragrant mango was very popular with consumers in China, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong… But since the epidemic, it could not be exported. The consumption of mango juice is slow in the domestic market, so the price has dropped unprecedentedly. However, mango growers still have to sell and get any money or that,” Thu said. Currently, the Covid-19 epidemic is still complicated in many localities, so even though Australian mangoes this year have both been in good season and depreciated. When sold in Hanoi market, Australian mangoes are only 10,000-11,000 VND/kg but still empty. “Australian mango is usually harvested from the end of April to June every year. The large size is good for export, the average weight is about 7-8 ounces / fruit, before selling 50,000 VND / kg, now it is only 129,000 VND / set of 10 kg and 199,000 VND / set of 20 kg. The Australian mangoes we sell are all new, so customers who buy them can let them ripen gradually,” said Thu. This small trader also tips how to choose delicious Australian mangoes. “When choosing Australian mangoes, you should choose large and round mangoes like peaches, with red streaks on the skin. This red streak only appears when the Australian mango begins to age. When they are young, the skin is still green like other common mango varieties. The older the mango is, the more red it is.” Just ordered 10kg of Australian mango, Ms. Tran Thanh Nga in Thanh Xuan, Hanoi constantly praised: “I just ordered yesterday on facebook, today it was delivered to my house. 10 Australian mangoes, each one is like 10, very even and big. A fruit must be from 8 ounces to more than 1 kilogram. Mangoes have beautiful colors, small seeds and fragrant. When eating, it is very sweet, ripe and supple, and the mango flesh is firm. My two kids love to eat. Therefore, I just let the mango ripen normally. When squeezing the mango, it feels a bit soft and has an even yellow color, so I put it in the refrigerator to eat it for half a month. According to Ms. Nga, Australian mangoes can be eaten directly or made into mango smoothies which are also very mouth-watering, both delicious and nutritious. Sharing about the unprecedented low price of Australian mangoes during the main season, Ms. Nga commented: “Previously, this type of mango that was exported to foreign countries was twice or triple the price of other mangoes. The selling price at fruit shops is usually stable at 50,000 VND/kg. But this year, I bought this mango for only 10,000 VND/kg. From now until the end of the season, I will order a few more times to support Australian mango growers.”

Resources: 150g pork belly, 1 melon, 2 dried chili peppers, 2g minced garlic, 5g cooking wine, 2g pepper, a little soy sauce, salt, cooking oil. Making: – Washed and sliced ​​meat, peeled and beveled melon. – Put cooking oil in a hot pan, add garlic and dried chili to stir-fry until fragrant, then add the meat to the island. – When the meat is hunted, add soy sauce and pepper to the island to absorb the seasoning. – Pour the melon into the island, add salt and stir-fry until the melon is cooked. Stir-fried melon with octopus Resources: 250g octopus, 1 loofah, 1 dried red pepper, 3 garlic cloves, green onion, a little salt, 1 teaspoon soy sauce, vegetable oil. Making: – Garlic peeled, sliced. Sliced ​​green onions and red peppers. Peel the melon, then cut it into sticks about 6cm long. Octopus cleaned, cut into medium pieces, boiled in boiling water for about 2 minutes. The boiling water will help the octopus not to release a lot of water when stir-frying. – Heat a pan with a little oil, heat oil for garlic and chili to fry until fragrant. When the garlic is fragrant, add the octopus and 1 teaspoon of soy sauce to the pan, stir for about 1 minute. – Next, add melon and a little salt to the pan. Stir well to infuse seasoning. Because the octopus itself already has a salty taste, care should be taken so that the dish is not too salty. If you find it a bit dry in the pan, you can add a little water to make it easier to cook. When the melon is almost cooked, put the sliced ​​scallions into the pan. Stir until the melon is cooked, then turn off the heat. Melon soup with shrimp Resources: – 200 grams of fresh shrimp – 1 young melon – 1 handful of onions and cilantro – Condiments include: 1 teaspoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of seasoning, half a teaspoon of monosodium glutamate, half a teaspoon of salt, half a teaspoon of pepper, and 2 tablespoons of cooking oil. Making: Step 1: Prepare ingredients – Fresh shrimp after buying, you cut off the antennae, peel off the shell, then cut along the spine and remove the black thread, then wash it. – After buying melon, peel it off, cut off the stem and wash it briefly with water. – Cut the melon in half and then cut it into slices to eat. – Green onions and cilantro are removed from the base, washed and cut into small pieces. Step 2: proceed to cook soup – Prepare a pot, then start the fire, wait for the pot to be hot, then add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil, then add the chopped onion head and saute it. – When the onion head turns yellow, add the shrimp and stir-fry until fragrant, wait until the shrimp is hunted and fragrant, then put in a pot of 1.2 – 1.5 liters of water and cover with a lid and bring to a boil. – It should be noted that you should let the water boil longer than usual so that the shrimp can be sweet, next you use the patch to remove the foam in the pot of water. – Season with ½ teaspoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of seasoning, ½ teaspoon of salt and a little of the main noodles. Use a patch to stir well and add the melon. – Boil the soup for about 3 minutes to make the melon soft and then turn off the heat. The melon will ripen very quickly, so you need to be careful not to boil it for too long because it will make the melon unappetizing. – Finally, you pour the shrimp soup into a large bowl, garnish with some cilantro and green onions with some pepper and enjoy the dish. Stir-fried melon with hearts Resources: – 4 melons – 1 pig heart – 4 crushed dried onions – Spices: fish sauce, seasoning powder, main noodles, Chinese flavor, fresh onion. Steps: First, you take the pig’s heart and wash it, cut the heart into 2 and wash it with diluted salt water to remove the bad smell and wash the blood. Place the cleaned heart in a basket to drain. Next, cut into bite-sized pieces, paying attention to thin slices. After that, you marinate the heart with a little fish sauce, main noodles, seasoning powder for 20 minutes so that the heart absorbs the spices, which will make the heart stronger. Watermelon peeled, washed, cut off the two ends, halved and cut diagonally to taste, should not be too thin to avoid when stir-fry the melon becomes mushy. Onions and coriander are picked up roots, washed. Put the pan on the stove and add the oil, when the oil is heated, add 1/2 of the prepared red onions to the pan. When the purple onion is fragrant, add the heart and stir quickly, stir well. Then you put the heart on a plate. You clean the pan, dry it, then heat the pan and add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil. When the cooking oil is hot, fry the remaining onions. Then, stir-fry the melon. Stir-fry until the melon is ripe, then you put all the heart in to taste the seasoning, add fresh onions, the smell of the island, and then turn off the stove. Finally, put the sautéed melon on a plate, put a little smell of ship on the surface to decorate. The sweetness of the melon in harmony with the rich crispy taste of the pig’s heart will make a delicious and nutritious dish for your family. Xiao Bao (Synthetic) Photo: Collectibles

If cutting melon is an “art”, then those who hold knives are “artisans”. There are not good results, but the results are full of surprises, on the contrary, although many people have to spend a large amount of money, they receive “bitter” endings. Recently, a girl excitedly showed off a “super terrible” watermelon, weighing up to 10kg, just bought at the market and filmed a clip of watermelon for everyone to see. Not to mention the quality, but the “huge” weight of this melon is enough to make the viewer pay attention to the monitor screen. On the surface, the melon looks fresh, round, and with such weight, many people speculate that this melon will be very delicious. And when the girl opened it, everyone was amazed because as expected, this watermelon has a thin skin, a red flesh, and tastes sweet. This girl’s husband must also praise “that’s not wrong”. However, besides the comments that the girl praised her “cool hands” in choosing fruit, what made netizens “crazy” was that instead of using a suitable knife, the girl used a very small, nutritious knife. The “super-giant” melon never finished, causing many netizens to sigh: “Just watching, but also annoyed”. Moreover, the knife is too short, making the slice of melon not straight, looking unsightly. After being booed by netizens, the girl posted another video to show off her results. Even so, the girl’s melon chopping still made many people “angry”. “Having money to buy such a big melon, but not buying a nice knife but chopping fruit. Looking at the knife, I feel tired,” commented Nam Anh. “Looking at the delicious melon, but the knife is always messy. Actually, cutting watermelon and jackfruit is a subject that makes me feel the most annoyed every time I watch TikTok,” said Nga Nguyen. Watermelon is a cool, juicy summer fruit that is loved by many people. Currently on the market, watermelon is being sold for about 10,000-12,000 VND/kg. Choosing a good watermelon is not an easy task. There are fruits that look very beautiful, but inside, people are disappointed. Therefore, when choosing melons, you need to pay attention to the following things: – Melon navel: The bottom circle of the melon is the melon navel. If the belly button is large, it means that this melon has a thick skin and lower sweetness. The small melon umbilicus is a thinner, sweeter fruit. – Lines: With naturally ripe fruits, the ridges will be very clear. Conversely, if the veins have a messy texture, the melon is not old enough. – Melon stalks: Old melons have dried stalks, wilted and bent. If the stalk is green and straight, it means that the melon was picked early, not too ripe. – The bottom is yellow: The bottom of the melon is the place in contact with the ground, so it is often yellow. If it is dark yellow or orange yellow, not white, it means that the melon is good and old.

Her family’s terrace covers an area of ​​100 square meters. In addition to planting 30 tomato plants for fruit continuously, Ms. Loan also grows cucumbers, melons, melon, bitter melon, vegetables and some fruit trees. Tools to plant Ms. Loan’s trees are old water tanks, foam barrels, old pots bought from the bottle yard. To keep the terrace clean and not heavy, Ms. Loan uses 20% of the cultivated land and 80% of the substrate (coir, ash, rice husks, manure, and waste) to grow trees. Ms. Loan started planting 30 tomato plants since September 2020. Trees are always fruitful. Sometimes, Ms. Loan harvested 40-50kg of tomatoes. She had to bring it to her friends and relatives if she could not eat it all. “After I harvested the ripe fruit, I applied fertilizer to the stump, 10 days after the fruit was ripe, I continued to harvest,” Ms. Loan said. She also planted strawberry trees on the terrace. Currently, the tree is ripe fruit. According to Ms. Loan, to have a green garden with high productivity requires gardeners to be experienced, diligent to explore and have a love for trees. In addition, growers must visit the tree every day to see if the plant is sick, has root rot or stem rot. “Caring for trees is like taking care of children. One day I did not visit, the tree was sick, ”said the woman from Vinh Long. Loan’s son is helping his mother to harvest ripe tomatoes. Melon trees and melon fruit. Loan said that to grow these fruit trees, it takes a lot of care and requires growers to have the techniques and characteristics of the tree. Her secret to growing a lush, fruit-bearing garden on her terrace is to use organic fertilizers and insecticides made by herself. As for insect repellent, Ms. Loan is made from waterpipe tobacco soaked with alcohol, incubated for 5-7 days and then watered for the plants. As for fertilizers, she uses soybean residue, spoiled bananas, eggshell, and kitchen waste to make compost. Using these types of waste as compost not only helps to provide enough nutrients for the plant, but also helps the tree produce more fruit, beautiful color, succulent, sweet. The next step in this woman’s rooftop gardening is to treat the soil before planting. “Treating the soil to get rid of germs is already 50% successful in gardening,” she said. Her soil treatment process is to mix soil, coir, ash, rice husks, manure … with powdered lime, eggshell, chicken manure, and dried soil, then plant trees. The grower must also provide the plant with sufficient water at all times. In addition, the gardener must apply fertilizer at the right stage of plant development, otherwise it will harm the plant. Watch more video: Hanoi is so beautiful in the rice flower season, the red color dispels her cold Tu Anh Photo: Character provided

This time is the peak of harvest of melon, melon fields in Dien Chau are always bustling with people. If in previous years, watermelon yield and quality decreased due to pests, diseases, weather … this year, melon will grow better; People are happy to have a good season, although they are still on holiday, they are still eager to harvest. Photo: Nguyen Chau It is known that this year melon yield about 9 quintals / sao, higher than the previous years; Therefore, each household has an income of 10-12 million VND in this crop. This is not a small amount for the farmer at this time. Photo: Nguyen Chau According to observations, this year’s melon fruit is big, round, less pests and sweet, so it is favored by the market. The selling price in the field is 18,000 VND / kg, much higher than the previous crop. If people bring to retail, the price is even higher. Photo: Nguyen Chau Melon pears, after picking, are washed right in the field by people to clean the sandy soil layer, then packed in bags to enter for traders. Photo: Nguyen Chau Ms. Nguyen Thi Van, a trader who buys melon in Dien Ky commune (Dien Chau), said: “The timing of this year’s melon harvest coincides with a long holiday, so many restaurants and hotels contacted to place an order. Many families return to their hometown for the holiday season also come to the fields to buy large quantities of melons as gifts, so wherever they are picked, they can all be bought. ” Photo: Nguyen Chau This year the whole district of Dien Chau planted nearly 20 hectares of melon, concentrated in the communes of Dien Ky, Dien Hong … in which Dien Ky commune had the largest area. According to medicine, melon has relatively high levels of vitamins A, B, C and minerals that are good for health. Especially eating melon to beautify the skin, lose weight while enhancing memory, good for the heart, blood pressure … Photo: Nguyen Chau

This time is the peak of harvest of melon, melon fields in Dien Chau are always bustling with people. If in previous years, watermelon yield and quality decreased due to pests, diseases, weather … this year, melon will grow better; People are happy to have a good season, although they are still on holiday, they are still eager to harvest. Photo: Nguyen Chau It is known that this year melon yield about 9 quintals / sao, higher than the previous years; Therefore, each household has an income of 10-12 million VND in this crop. This is not a small amount for farmers at this time. Photo: Nguyen Chau According to observations, this year’s melon fruit is big, round, less pests and sweet, so it is favored by the market. The selling price in the field is 18,000 VND / kg, much higher than the previous crop. If people bring to retail, the price is even higher. Photo: Nguyen Chau Melon pears, after picking, are washed right in the field by people to clean the sandy soil layer, then packed in bags to enter for traders. Photo: Nguyen Chau Ms. Nguyen Thi Van, a trader who buys melon in Dien Ky commune (Dien Chau), said: “The timing of this year’s melon harvest coincides with a long holiday, so many restaurants and hotels contacted to place an order. Many families return to their hometown for the holiday season also come to the fields to buy large quantities of melons as gifts, so wherever they are picked, they can all be bought. ” Photo: Nguyen Chau This year the whole district of Dien Chau planted nearly 20 hectares of melon, concentrated in the communes of Dien Ky, Dien Hong … in which Dien Ky commune had the largest area. According to medicine, melon has relatively high levels of vitamins A, B, C and minerals that are good for health. Especially eating melon to beautify the skin, lose weight while enhancing memory, good for the heart, blood pressure … Photo: Nguyen Chau

Resources: – 3 – 4 bitter melon fruits, about 500g or depending on the size, you should choose short fruits, big thorns so that when cooking will be less bitter. – 300gr of lean pork tenderloin – 100gr of mushrooms – 500gr of bone with meat – 100gr green onion, cilantro – 1 chicken egg – 3 capsicum – Spices: seasoning seeds, sugar, monosodium glutamate, pepper, salt, dried onion, garlic, chili set Making: Step 1: Preliminary processing of the ingredients – The bones are washed with salt water to reduce fishy, ​​pour in a pot to simmer with boiling water for about 3 minutes to remove any dirt, pour out and rinse with water. – Cut the bones and bake 1.5 liters of broth for about 4-5 hours, in the process of tunneling, remember to remove all the bubbles to make the water clear. – Bitter melon (bitter melon) washed, cut 2 ends, use a knife to cut 1 line in the middle about 1/2 of the left, hook out the inner intestines to remove. – Dried onion and garlic, peeled, minced. The mushrooms clean, cut off the tail, chopped or shredded. – Chicken eggs beat the whites. – Lean tenderloin, finely sliced ​​and marinated with 1 teaspoon minced garlic onion, 2 teaspoons seasoning seeds, 1/2 teaspoon of MSG, 1/2 teaspoon of pepper for 15 minutes to infuse spices. – Mix the meat with the mushrooms and continue to mince, then mix well with the egg whites to make the meat more delicious. – Clean scallions, cilantro, take a few green onion leaves to about cm in length, the rest pureed. – Chili fruit, seeded, long sliced, put in a cup of pure fish sauce to eat with bitter melon soup. Step 2: How to cook bitter soup through stuffing with meat is not bitter – Cut the bitter melon fruit in half, use a sharp knife to cut it again to clean the intestines and then stuff the mixture of meat, mushrooms and eggs. If the leftover filling is left over, you can roll the pellets and put them in the soup while the broth boils. – Use a few long onion leaves to lightly dip in boiling water and tie it to the bitter melon just stuffed beautifully. – Heat the pot on the stove, fry 2 tablespoons of cooking oil with 1 teaspoon of minced garlic and onion and a little chili powder for the dish to have a beautiful color. – For the prepared broth, add 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of seasoning seeds, 1 teaspoon of MSG to taste. – When the broth is boiling, you put the bitter melon in the stew with low heat, continue to remove the foam from the top to make the broth clearer and sweeter. – When the bitterness is stuffed evenly cooked (can be tried by using a toothpick to pierce the bitter melon fruit and it is easy to see that the dish is already cooked), taste the spices to taste, absolutely do not season with water. fish sauce because fish sauce will make the soup sour. Step 3: Complete and enjoy – Scoop the soup into a bowl, sprinkle green onions, cilantro and 1/2 teaspoon of pepper on top and you’re done. The dish is ready to enjoy. – The bitter melon soup stuffed with meat has a sweet taste to taste, cooked evenly, with the meat stuffed with taste, deliciously mixed with the characteristic delicious taste of bitter melon is very attractive. This dish enjoyed with hot rice and a bowl of pure fish sauce will be very attractive. Deep fried bitter melon Resources: – Bitter melon: 2 fruits
Chicken eggs: 2 fruits
– Tapioca flour, fried flour
– Spices: fish sauce, salt, cooking oil Making: – Bitter melon: washed, then cut into small slices to taste, gut. For delicious crispy bitter melon and no more bitter taste, right after you have finished preparing the bitter melon, soak it in cold ice for 5-10 minutes. – Chicken eggs: beat in a bowl, add a little salt and fish sauce and stir well. – Tapioca and fried flour for you to put in 2 different bowls.
– Dip the bitter melon and roll it over the eggs.
– Continue rolling through the flour mixture so that the dough sticks evenly on the bitter melon.
Do the same until all of the ingredients are gone. – Put cooking oil in a hot pan.
– Drop each piece of bitter melon in a pan, roll and fry until golden brown evenly.
– After ripe, crispy bitter melon, take out a plate that already has oil absorbent paper. After the frying is finished, at this point you will enjoy the food only. Bitter melon stir-fried with beef Resources: – Bitter melon: 1 fruit
– Beef: 300g
– Carrots: 1 medium bulb
– Fermented black beans, garlic
– Spices: salt, sugar, pepper, sesame oil, cornstarch, cooking oil Making: Step 1: Preliminary processing of raw materials – Bitter melon: wash, split the fruit vertically to remove all the intestines inside. Then cut into small and thin pieces to taste. Note: in order not to get bitter, when cut, you should soak it in ice water with a little salt.
– Beef: washed, sliced ​​thin.
– Carrots: peel, wash, if you like you can prune flowers and then cut into pieces to taste.
– Garlic: peeled, crushed and chopped.
– Fermented black beans: soak in water for 15-20 minutes and then let dry, chop into small pieces. Step 2: Marinate the beef – After preparing all the ingredients, put the beef in a large bowl.
– Add salt, sugar, cornstarch, cooking oil in a moderate amount. Mix all of these ingredients together and let it sit for about 10 minutes to allow the beef to soak in the spices. Step 3: Make bitter melon stir-fry with beef – Put a little cooking oil in the pan, heat it up. Put the seasoned beef on the stir fry, quickly until the beef is pale, you shovel the beef onto the plate. – For a little more cooking oil, for garlic and black beans to not fragrant gold. – Add bitter melon and carrot to stir-fry. Just stir fry for about 3 minutes to soften the vegetables, then pour the previously cooked beef and stir-fry. – Stir fry until all ingredients are cooked, then season them again, add a little pepper to make the dish have an attractive spicy taste. Bitter melon fried with eggs Resources: – 2 – 3 bitter melon fruit – 1 – 2 chicken eggs – Spices: fish sauce, salt, cooking oil, pepper … Making: Step 1: Preliminary processing of bitter melon – Bitter melon bought from the market and brought back and washed, soaked in salt water to remove all bacteria and then remove the intestines. Bring pieces of bitter melon to taste. Should be sliced ​​to make the dish more attractive. Step 2: How to fry bitter melon with eggs – Next, you whisk the eggs with a little sugar and fish sauce. – Put a clean pan on the stove to heat and add some cooking oil. Wait for the oil to boil, add the chopped dry onion to the non-gold. Add the bitter melon and stir-fry, add a little spice to taste. – When the bitter melon is nearly ripe, you add the beaten eggs to the island evenly. The eggs will stick around the bitter melon. Step 3: Complete – Try again and season to taste. Take out the dish on a plate and sprinkle with green onion and pepper to make it attractive. – The bitter melon dish fried with eggs will taste better when eaten with white rice while still hot. Tieu Bao (Synthetic) Photo: Collectibles

Currently, melon is in bloom, on average, each pole brings income to people in Nghi Huong about 15-20 million VND. Photo: Thanh Phuc On the 3-hectare field of Dien Bien (Nghi Huong ward, Cua Lo town), people are busy, rushing to harvest melons in time to bring them to the market. This is a traditional melon variety, sticking with the people of Nghi Huong for 30 years. Nghi Huong watermelon has an oblong shape, when ripe, the skin is cracked, the flesh of the melon is smooth and fragrant, very “popular” with consumers. This year, the weather is favorable, melons are in good season and good value. After being harvested, melons are bought by traders at the field for 12,000 VND / kg or according to the fruit from 10,000 – 30,000 VND / fruit (depending on size). Compared to every year, each fruit increases on average from 3,000 to 5,000 VND / fruit. On average, each pole of melon gives an income of 18-20 million VND, excluding expenses, and a net profit of 10 million VND, 7 times higher than that of rice cultivation. Melons are purchased by traders from the field with high prices. Photo: Thanh Phuc Ms. Hoang Thi Hong, a melon farmer in Dien Bien, said: “Melon is a local variety, plant it by itself, takes little care of it, does not have to control pests and diseases and has a short growth time, only 1, 5 months (melon) and 2.5 months (main season melon) for harvest. Each year, 2 melon crops are planted, the main crop is planted from February to early April for harvest; The fruit season starts from May to the end of June for harvest. Compared with rice and maize, melon has many times higher economic value ”. Dien Bien block has 200 households working in agriculture, about 120 households growing melon. For the past two years, the area of ​​the Nghi Huong people of melon has been narrowed down due to the land acquisition for the construction of the coastal road. Previously, the entire ward had 10 hectares to grow melon, but now it is reduced to 4 hectares. From the economic efficiency of melon plant brings and wants to preserve and develop local melon varieties, in the near future, Nghi Huong ward is planning to develop melon growing area on rice land. Cantaloupe Nghi Huong, Nghi Thach is a local traditional melon, which is especially delicious and different from new varieties of melon in other provinces. Photo: Thanh Phuc In Nghi Thach commune (Nghi Loc), there are about 10 hectares of melon, mainly concentrated in the villages: Xuan Lac, Xuan Hoa, Xuan Tien, Xuan Thinh and Trung Khanh. According to melon growers, melon has the advantage of not having to buy seeds and materials such as nitrogen, phosphorus or plant protection drugs. This plant only likes manure. Low cost while high resale price, so growers are profitable. Mr. Nguyen Tho Khang, a farmer who grows melon in Xuan Thinh hamlet, said: “This year, the heat comes early, the melon is consumed strongly. After harvesting, someone buys them right at the field. Many households sell to customers across the road along National Highway 46 to Cua Lo; import for beverage bars and retail in Vinh city markets with higher prices. My family harvests 40-50kg of melons every day, earning about 1 million VND “. Melon is present at local markets in Vinh city, is a cool fruit on summer days that many people choose. Photo: Thanh Phuc Currently, melon is in full bloom, every day on Nghi Huong melon fields, traders from all over Nghi Thach pour in to buy. People also actively connect with beverage shops to find a stable outlet for melon. Therefore, when harvested, melons are sold out. Only about 1 week to end the main melon crop, continue to do soil, sowing for the melon crop. Melon is a delicious fruit – nutritious – cheap – cool, both refreshing, good heat, and cures many diseases such as: Cure acne and pigmentation, smooth skin, cure insomnia, cough anhydrous, constipation … When buying, choose a thin shell, heavy-handed. The delicious and safe melons on the skin still have a thin layer of undercoat, emitting a pleasant aroma. If the melon is chemically soaked, both the undercoat and the scent will be lost.

According to Ms. Nga – a small trader selling fruit at Quan Lau market (Vinh City – Nghe An), this year, the weather is quite hot early this year, so people buy many kinds of cooling fruits. The amount of melon this year, although new at the beginning of the season, is consumed quite strongly. In the early summer, business households here sell for 15,000 VND / 1kg, or sell by fruit. When in the main season, the price can be reduced from 10 -15,000 VND / 1kg. Compared to the previous year, although at the beginning of the season, the average price increased from 3,000 to 5,000 VND / fruit. However, due to the short season, fruit quality and each time of harvest, the price changes according to … The end of April is the start of the melon season and lasts only 1 to 2 months. These are fruits that are rich in nutrients, have a strange aroma, are refreshing, heat and refreshments are effective. Currently, farmers of Dien Bien block, Nghi Huong ward, Cua Lo town (Nghe An) are focusing on the field to harvest melon, excited for the good season and the good price. Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoa, a melon farmer in Dien Bien, said that melon is a traditional melon variety, sticking with the people of Nghi Huong for more than 30 years. Nghi Huong watermelon has an oblong shape, when ripe, the skin is cracked, the flesh of the melon is smooth and fragrant. This year, the weather is favorable, melons are in good season and good value. Melon here at the end of the season just need to choose the old ripe fruit, add the dried seeds, and preserve well that the next season can be planted. It is a pure local variety with little care, no pest control and short growing time, only 1.5 months (melon) and 2.5 months (main season melon) for harvesting. Each year, 2 melon crops are planted, the main crop is planted from February to early April for harvest; The fruit season starts from May to the end of June for harvest. Compared with rice, maize, melon has many times higher economic value. My family planted 1 sao of melon, except for the cost, it was about 9-10 million VND … people who planted melon this year were very excited, Ms. Hoa said. According to the experience of the farmers here, this is a traditional melon variety, so it tastes different from other regions. When ripe melons themselves crack soft, smooth flesh like sand, choose the best melon fruit with evenly cracked ends. Talking to PV, Ms. Hoang Thi Huyen – Chairman of the Farmers Association of Nghi Huong ward, said that Dien Bien block has 200 households working in agriculture, there are about 120 households growing melon. In recent years, the area of ​​growing melon of Nghi Huong people has been narrowed down due to land acquisition for construction of the coastal road. Before that, the whole ward had 10 ha of growing melon, but now it is reduced to 4ha. From the economic efficiency of melon plant brings and wants to preserve and develop local melon varieties, in the near future, Nghi Huong ward is planning to develop melon growing area on rice land. Melon is a crop rotated with wet rice, bringing high economic efficiency. In the near future, the ward will mobilize people to expand. The Association will coordinate with specialized agencies to open training courses on planting techniques, care, pest control and product consumption for farmers, for the stable development of melon trees, contributing to improving income for farmers. Local people… Ms. Huyen said more. Not only in the area of ​​Cua Lo town in Nghi Thach commune (Nghi Loc), farmers also planted 10 hectares of melon, concentrated mainly in the villages: Xuan Lac, Xuan Hoa, Xuan Tien, Xuan Thinh and Trung Khanh. The characteristics of this melon are yellow, green stripes, smooth or shiny, the flesh of the melon is yellow and smooth. Melon is in full bloom, every day on Nghi Huong melon fields, traders from all over Nghi Thach come to buy; People also actively connect with beverage shops to find a stable outlet for watermelon. Therefore, when harvested, melons are sold out. The selling price of melon is bought by traders at the field for 12,000 VND / kg or according to the fruit from 10 to 30,000 VND / fruit (depending on size). Compared with every year, each fruit increases on average from 3,000 to 5,000 VND / fruit. On average, each pickle pole yields 5 quintals, giving an income of 18-20 million dong, minus expenses and net profit of 10 million dong, 7 times higher than rice cultivation. Mr. Nguyen Van Nam, a farmer who grows melon in Xuan Tien hamlet, Nghi Thach (Nghi Loc), said: “After harvesting, people brought melon to customers across the road along National Highway 46 to Cua Lo; import for beverage bars and retail in Vinh city markets. This year, the heat comes early, so melon consumption is strong, the price is higher than every year, melon growers are very excited… ”. Cantaloupe, also known as cracked melon, melon is grown in many provinces of Nghe An, Ha Tinh and some northern provinces such as Vinh Phuc, Hoa Binh, Lang Son … This is a fruit that provides many nutrients for the muscle. can, effectively treat a number of diseases such as constipation, diuretics, sunstroke prevention, acne and pigmentation marks, smooth skin, treat insomnia, dry cough … According to the experience of farmers, when buying melon with a round shape, pick up the melon to feel firm and heavy, not soft. The stalk is new and not tarnished. Delicious melons are usually old melons, are heavy and firm with the aroma and cracks in the peel. Fresh melon is on the peel with a thin, fluffy undercoat, emitting a pleasant aroma. If the melon is young or pressed, ripe because the drug will have softness but not cracking, no characteristic aroma, no thin outer layer of undercoat …

The first Japanese melons of the Mono company in Putrajaya, Malaysia on April 8, 2021. Photo: Reuters

Accordingly, the trio of farmers at Mono Premium Melon in Malaysia have switched to a completely new farming method – regularly massaging freshly beaned melon with cloth or soft gloves and listening to classical music.

This is the “tama-fuki” method, which is said to increase flavor and have a growth-stimulating effect on Japanese greenhouse-grown fruit.

Seh Cheng Siang, director and co-founder of Mono company in Putrajaya city, said: “Every Japanese melon that you see on our farm is like a work of art”.

This famous melon variety has been cultivated by a number of Japanese farmers over the last century in a special way to create melons that are prized for their equal taste and shape. Even in Japan, there are not many places to grow this specialty melon and the quantity is limited so they are only sold in high-end stores as luxury items.

However, after many attempts to cultivate high quality melon, the farmers were faced with the hot and humid tropical climate of Malaysia, a world far from more temperate conditions in Japan. .

The first melons of Mono company in Putrajaya, Malaysia on April 8, 2021. Photo: Reuters

Mr. Seh said: “We have to ensure optimal and accurate stages of nutrition, watering and fertilization, and have tested more than 10 types of melons of the same Japanese family, before when finding the best match ”.

Japanese melon (musk melon) features a perfectly rounded shape, with beautiful white veins emerging. The flesh of the melon is light green, fragrant and has a sugar level of over 14%, spreads evenly over the fruit, including near the stem.

After bringing melon seeds back from Japan, Malaysian farmers went to Japanese farms to learn about Malaysian farming methods and trials. They tried many times wrong to determine and find the optimal nutrient composition for melon plants.

And finally, after overcoming many obstacles, the first batch of 200 selected Mono melons was offered and sold out as soon as it was posted on the online store page.

Accordingly, the first Japanese melons produced in Malaysia were sold for 168 ringgit (40.70 USD) per fruit, about a third of the value of the native Japanese melon.

Elaine Chow, a customer, said: “It was great to know that our farmers were able to grow Japanese melon varieties in Malaysian soil.

To reduce the bitterness of suffering through, sisters immediately learn the following tips

Choose the right kind of bitter melon

Passion through forests: This type is mainly grown in mountainous forests; fruit small as palms or big toes, short, slightly rounded, with sharp, thick, dark green spines. This has a very bitter taste and is often used for medicinal purposes.

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Passion through the pass: This type has ruffled bark, thick, hunted thorns, dark color and bitter taste equal to bitterness through the forest. What is the typical bitter melon variety of Central Vietnam.

Ordinary suffering: This is the type you often see in markets and supermarkets. The bitter melon fruit is usually large, has large pods, is light green and light green. This is the least bitter. The larger the blooming thorns, the less bitter.

Remove the white intestine

The intestine of bitter melon is white, contains many bitter seeds. When preliminary processing, you need to scrape off the white pulp, the bitterness will be significantly reduced.

Soak in salt water

After removing the intestines, you can slice, cut, or leave the whole fruit, depending on the purpose of the dish. But before cooking, soak bitter melon in salt water for 20-30 minutes to reduce the bitter taste. After that, rinse it several times with clean water and go to processing.

Blanch through boiling water

To reduce the bitterness of bitter melon, you can also blanch them in boiling water before cooking. Place a pot of water on the stove, add a pinch of salt and bring to a boil. When the water is boiling, drop the bitter melon into a blanch for 2 minutes. These help to reduce the bitter taste but it also loses a part of the nutrition of bitter melon because it is dissolved in water and evaporated at high temperature.

Refrigerate

Cutting bitter melon pieces and then putting them in the refrigerator or soaking them with ice for 20-30 minutes can also help reduce bitterness.

Combine with other ingredients

To reduce bitter taste, combine bitter melon with other foods such as eggs, minced meat, shrimp … These ingredients will help the dish have more flavor and neutralize bitterness of bitter melon.

To have a delicious stir-fried melon, you must first choose fresh green melon fruit. Fruits with yellow or dark green peel are old melon. In addition, using your hand to press lightly, you can see soft crispy melon. Should not choose wilted fruit, when cooked, it will not be delicious.

To keep the fried melon in its beautiful green, after peeling, washing and slicing, you let the melon soak in dilute salt water for about 5 minutes.This step is very important to prevent the process of adding or blackening the fruit. . Therefore, when cooking, sisters should add this step. This is also a way to help remove water in the fruit.

In addition, when stir-frying, you should add a small white vinegar. Add vinegar to keep the melon green.

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How to make zucchini fried with garlic

Resources

• Melon: 1 fruit

• Dry garlic: 10gr

• Fish sauce, salt, seasoning powder, vinegar, cooking oil, cilantro

• Making:

• Melon peeled, sliced ​​to taste, soaked in salt water.

• Crushed garlic without aromatic oil, put melon in, season with spices to taste.

• Fry in high heat, stir quickly.

How to make fried melon and bean paste

Resources:

1 melon

2 strips of scum beans

10g dried shrimp

3 garlic cloves

4g of salt

15ml oyster oil

Cooking oil

Making:

• Take peeled, cut pieces to taste, cut bean paste to taste and soak in water to soften; washed and soaked shrimp; Peeled garlic, minced.

-Put a little oil into the pan. When the oil is hot, add the garlic to the fry. Add shrimp to the island until it is ripe.

• Add soft soaked bean scum into the island and pour the amount of water into the lid to boil. Then add a little salt, oyster oil to the island to absorb spices.

• Pour the melon into the island, cook for about 1 minute or until the melon is ripe.

• 1 kg of broccoli, choose fresh, freshly picked, hard, green leaves. Do not choose crushed vegetables because the salt is not delicious.

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-1 liter of cool boiled water, 20g sugar, 60g salt, 3 teaspoons of vinegar, scallion, onion, glass jar or jar.

Step 2: Preliminary processing

Leave the cabbage in the sun to wilt. Onions, cut onion leaves.

Mix spices in water. 1 liter of water, 3 teaspoons of salt and 1 teaspoon of sugar, stir well.

After drying in the sun, wash them thoroughly and then drain. Many people wash it first to dry it in the sun. But a special note is that when the sauerkraut salt, the vegetables must be really dry, they will not be film or spoiled.

The pickle jar should use a glass, saucepan, and porcelain jar and should also be washed and sterilized by boiling in boiling water (or rinsing with boiling water) and completely dry. The melon insert blister should be similarly dry.

Your hands must also be dry when you make melon, not to any water stick.

Step 3: How to salt melon

Put the vegetables in jars, jars, boxes and then put the onions on top.

Pour the mixed mixture into, use 2 bamboo sticks to press on the surface so that the melons do not break onto the water surface.

Place the jar of melon in a cool place. After 2 days it can be used.

Associate Professor Thinh also noted that housewives, the secret to keeping melons from getting sick, must be very clean.

Sauerkraut served with boiled meat, roast meat, fried fish or as ingredients for sour soup such as braised carp, pickled beef, or fried mixed rice … are all delicious.

If the melon has been pooped or fermented, it should not be eaten because at this time bacteria have developed and eaten, both have an appetite and accumulate, causing dangerous diseases.

With the delicious sauerkraut salt above, hopefully you will be able to make your own dishes, without having to buy from outside.

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