Unlike its name suggested, winter melon in Hong Kong is not only available in winter but also other seasons. Actually this dish is more popular during summer as it is light and healthly that appeals more to our appetite when the weather is hot and humid.
- Ingredients
- 200g winter melon
- 3 pcs dried dried black mushroom
- 3 pcs dried scallop
- 50g shelled shrimps
- 200g cooked rice
- Seasonings
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- a pinch of white pepper
Method
1) Dice shrimps, mushrooms, and water melon into similar size of cubes (~1/2 cm)
2) Rinse dried scallop and soak them in 1 cup of water for about one hour. Then briefly tear the scallops into strips and transfer them into a pot with the water retaining from soaking (this gives the soup a better taste) . Add another 1 cup of water together with shrimps, mushrooms and winter melon. Bring to boil.
3) Add the cooked rice, seasoning, again cook until boil.
Tip
May try to replace shrimps by fish fillets or even pork. If frozen type of shrimp or fish is used, suggest to marinade it with a pinch of salt and white pepper first. Don’t bother if you don’t find it convenient to cook rice, the soup is good enough to consume alone. Enjoy no matter which!
- Category: Mushroom and Fungus . Rice and Grain . Seafood . Shrimp . Vegetable .
- 6 comments
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Tks for dropping by at my old blog. Your new blog looks great, very neat and organised!
Thanks for the kind words food-4tots. Notice there are still some space on the right side of each page here? Actually, the layout has yet to be improved. Now top of my agenda is to add related posts for each recipe, to have a presentable link to my Twitter account. Let me start working on them in the next minute …
Hi, can i check the ingredients prepared in your recipes is for how many servings?
@js,
Thanks for asking. Serve 2 if each takes about a bowl of rice, but I believe you would need other side dishes to complete the meal. Feel free to advise me if you still have other questions.
Hey, how much water is needed for this serving size?
And thanks for posting such a simple, yet tasty recipe
@sally,
You are welcome.
We need two cups of water, one of which is reserved from soaking the dried scallops.
It is in step two but is not detailed under ingredients, I’m happy that you write to clarify.