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

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Chinese winter melon soup is a traditional dish that features this mild tasting fruit. This recipe features shiitake mushrooms and ham. It is easy to add to this simple soup without altering the recipe's intention.

Chinese Winter Melon Soup with Rice 瓜粒湯飯 is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Chinese Winter Melon Soup with Rice 瓜粒湯飯 is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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

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

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.

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!

Winter melon soup is one of the most popular Chinese soups. 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. Try out our Winter Melon Pork Bone Soup 冬瓜豬骨湯 recipe (with our secret for intensifying flavor) and see if you're still wearing socks after your first luscious sip!

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