WINTER MELON DRINK RECIPE RECIPES

Steps:

• Wash the winter melon carefully and then remove the skins. Then cut the left part into small cubes. Throw them into a large pot.
• Spread brown sugar powder and give a big stir to mix them evenly. Set aside for around 1 hour until there is a thin layer of water in the bottle.
• Use high fire to bring everything in the pot to a boiling and then add rock sugar. (I would suggest adding the skins and seeds back in this step. But it is totally up to you) Slow down the fire to simmer for 1.5 hours to 2 hours based on your cooking ware until the winter melon is totally transparent. Turn off the fire and wait to cool down.
• Strain the juice out. And press the winter melon with heavily during the process to get as more juice as possible. Or you can use gauze to wrap the winter melon and squeeze the juice out.
• How to store: store in airtight container and refrigerate up to 2 weeks, as there is no preservatives in our homemade version.
• How to serve: add water three times more than the juice to make an easy winter melon tea whenever you want. Add some iced cubes will make it a perfect summer drink.

Steps:

• Assuming you were starting with a whole entire winter melon, we'd:
• We'll be dicing our fish fillets (we used tilapia), shrimp (deveined, de-shelled), crab or imitation crab, and yellow chives. These are all cut into about 1 cm pieces.
• Set the stove on high heat and start boiling water and chicken broth.
• Once the pot has come to a boil, we'll add our winter melon to the pot, stir, and cover. Let the winter melon cook for 5-7 minutes. Once it comes to a boil again, we can proceed to thicken our soup.
• Almost there! Like a true chef, my dad always tastes his dish in case he needs to adjust the flavor at all.