Chinese Winter Melon Soup with Rice 瓜粒湯飯
Chinese Winter Melon Soup with Rice 瓜粒湯飯

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How to make a simple winter melon soup that tastes delicious!! check out link below to videos on cooking techniques! Chinese winter melon soup is a traditional dish that features this mild tasting fruit. This recipe features shiitake mushrooms and ham.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chinese winter melon soup with rice 瓜粒湯飯 using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chinese Winter Melon Soup with Rice 瓜粒湯飯:
  1. Get 200 g minced pork
  2. Make ready 1 big slice of Thick Ham
  3. Make ready Half a bowl of chives
  4. Get handful dried shrimp
  5. Get 3-4 chinese mushroom
  6. Make ready Chicken Stock
  7. Make ready Chinese Jinhua Ham (optional)
  8. Get 1 big sliced winter melon

Slow cooked Chinese soups are known to be very nutritious. Winter melon is very nutritious according to traditional Chinese medicine beliefs. It is by nature used to help cool the body heat. Quick and easy Chinese winter melon soup recipe with lean pork and straw mushrooms for busy days.

Instructions to make Chinese Winter Melon Soup with Rice 瓜粒湯飯:
  1. These are the main ingredients. Rince and soak shrimp n mushroom until soft.
  2. Slice mushroom and cut ham in cubes. As the soaked mushroom, shrimp in water, save them as broth later on.
  3. Winter Melon remove skin and middle parts and cut in cubes. Can also cut in bigger chunks or big slice if lazy.
  4. Very little oil med-high heat and pan fry the jinhua ham (optional) if you have them. Throw in the mince and cook until 80% then throw in the cube hams. Cook ham until slightly golden brown without burning the minced.
  5. Throw in the mushroom broth together with shrimp n mushroom.
  6. Add Chicken broth/powder and Hot Water until it covers the ingredients and make it to a boil.
  7. When water is boiling throw in melon and cook until you see Winter Melon have this slightly clear colour around 5 - 8 mins
  8. Taste it. Add in more chicken broth or chicken powder if needed. Switch off stove and add chives. Pour into a bowl of Cooked White Rice(Hard/Overnight rice is the best option)! Done!

This healthy Chinese soup is tasty yet delicate. Winter melon has no flavor on its own but it will readily absorb the flavors of whatever liquid it is cooked in. To flavor the soup, I used ikan bilis. Winter Melon Soup (Tong Kua Tong) is a soothing and nutritious soup with cooling properties. Finding a small whole winter melon is not easy but I got lucky one time and was able to prepare this special Steamed Stuffed Winter Melon Soup for Chinese New Year.

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