Recipe: Double Boil Winter Melon Dessert (冬瓜)

This is a cooling and nourishing for the lungs (in TCM terms - traditional Chinese Medicine) dessert and good to take when you have cough or having green phlegm. Otherwise, it can also be taken as a dessert for cooling the system anytime.



Ingredients

1. 1 round winter melon ,(not those huge Chinese winter melon, but use those round ones about a size of a volley ball)

2. Water

3. Rock Sugar (as the “rock” size vary, approximate to about 5 tablespoon of sugar combined)



Method

1. Wash the outside of melon.

2. Using a sharp knife, cut off the top end (the end with the stalk) with a nice clean cut, and the piece that was cut out is about 5 cm at the thickest point (center), and it looks like a “cover” of about 10-15 cm diameter. We need this to cover the melon during steaming.

3. Using a spoon, scoop out the seeds of the melon from the cut end and hence leaving a hollow center in the melon.

4. Put in the rock sugar, and water to fill up the hollow.

5. Cover with the “cover” that was cut out in step 2 so that it is back to a round melon. Secure with tooth picks.

6. Using a metal bowl as a base to hold the melon upright without spilling its content.

7. Steam the whole melon in medium heat for 1 ½ to 2 hours.

8. When done, open up the “cover” and scoop out the water and using spoon scoop out the flesh (should be very soft now) and serve in a bowl.

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