WINTER MELON TEA BENEFITS RECIPES

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.

Steps:

• Cut a winter melon into cubes; you will need about 1 kilogram of the fruit for a large batch.
• Place the cubed winter melon and 200 grams of brown sugar in a pot.
• Allow this to sit for an hour as liquid begins to form.
• Add 35 grams of rock sugar and bring the mixture to a boil.
• Cover and reduce heat, then simmer until the fruit becomes completely transparent (approx. 1.5 hours)
• Remove from heat, strain and press out as much liquid as possible. This is your concentrated syrup.
• To make a cup of tea, mix 1 part syrup and 3 parts water. Usually, it is had cold, so you can either refrigerate it or serve it with ice. You can add a tsp of lemon syrup to each cup of tea as an optional taste enhancer. 
• Store excess concentrate in a glass jar in the fridge.