WINTER MELON SWEET RECIPES

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.

Steps:

• Mix winter melon with brown sugar in a soup pot. Set aside for about 1 hour, until some liquid has formed.
• Add rock sugar and mix. Place the pot on the stovetop, turn on the heat, and bring to a boil. Cover the pot, reduce the heat to a simmer, and cook for about 2 hours until the winter melon is completely transparent.
• Turn off the heat. Pass the pot content over a strainer. Strain and press as much liquid through the strainer. The strained liquid is the winter melon tea syrup.
• To serve, make tea with 1 part concentrated winter melon syrup and 3 parts water. Add some ice cubes, and stir everything together.
• Serve cold and enjoy.