Soup - Winter melon soup recipe chinese
Winter melon soup with barley don't use thepeeled winter melon. Winter melon soup is a popular choice of Chinese soup during meals.
Winter Melon Soup

This winter melon soup recipe 冬瓜汤 is the adaptation of my mother's recipe, which she cooked for our family when I was young. I like the subtle flavor of winter melon and the aroma of dried shiitake mushrooms. This soup just hit the bullseye, and I missed it so much since I am no longer staying with her.
Provided by: KP Kwan
Total time: 40 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
Prep time: 20 minutes
Yields: 4 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Number of ingredients: 14
Provided by: KP Kwan
Total time: 40 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
Prep time: 20 minutes
Yields: 4 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Number of ingredients: 14
Ingredients:
- 6 cups of chicken broth
- 200g chicken, minced
- 1.5 tbsp wine (optional)
- 2 tbsp light soy sauce
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 900g winter melon (600g after removing the pith and skin)
- 1 tsp goji berries
- 5 dried red dates
- 6 medium-size Shitake dried mushrooms
- 2 tsp dried shrimps
- 3 slices ginger
- 1 small carrot, about 100g
- Salt and white pepper to taste
Nutrition:
- Calories: 243 calories
- Carbohydrate: 24 grams carbohydrates
- Cholesterol: 53 milligrams cholesterol
- Fat: 8 grams fat
- Fiber: 3 grams fiber
- Protein: 18 grams protein
- Saturated Fat: 3 grams saturated fat
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Sodium: 3303 milligrams sodium
- Sugar: 12 grams sugar
- Trans Fat: 0 grams trans fat
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 grams unsaturated fat
- Cut off the skin of the winter melon. Remove the pith and cut the winter melon into small cubes.
- Soak the goji berries and dried red dates with water. Cut the red dates to half and remove the seed.
- Soak the dried shiitake mushrooms in water until it is fully hydrated. Remove the stem and cut them into small dices.
- Keep the mushroom stock, added to the soup later.
- Soak the dried shrimps in water until rehydrated. Toast the dried shrimps with a small pan until it smells fragrance.
- Cut the carrot into small wedges.
- Marinate the chicken meat with salt, cornstarch, soy sauce, and wine.
- Prepare 6 cups of soup base by using one liter of chick stock. Bring it to a boil. (Refer to the text if you want to prepare from scratch)
- Add red dates and the mushrooms, followed by the winter melon, dried shrimps, and goji berries.
- Test the doneness of the winter melon after fifteen minutes.
- Once the winter melon has the right texture, add the minced meat.
- Season the soup with salt and ground white pepper., and serve.
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Chinese Winter Melon Soup (Chinese Soup Recipe)
Chinese Winter Melon Soup
will warm you up in the
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Winter Melon Soup

Winter melon soup is a popular choice of Chinese soup during meals. A pot of warm, delicious and nutritious slow-cooked winter melon soup brings forth lots of health benefits.
Provided by: Grace
Total time: 110 minutes
Cook time: 100 minutes
Prep time: 10 minutes
Yields: 2 servings
Cuisine: Malaysian,Singaporean
Number of ingredients: 9
Provided by: Grace
Total time: 110 minutes
Cook time: 100 minutes
Prep time: 10 minutes
Yields: 2 servings
Cuisine: Malaysian,Singaporean
Number of ingredients: 9
Ingredients:
- winter melon (fresh)
- carrot(s)
- 120 g pork
- 1 cm ginger
- 300 ml water
- 2.5 l water
- 1 tbsp goji berries
- 1 honey date(s)
- 5 red dates
Nutrition:
- Serving Size: 1 Servings
- Calories: 358 kcal
- Protein: 14 g
- Fat: 8 g
- Carbohydrate: 63 g
- Remove seeds and cut winter melon into cubes. Cut carrots into smaller pieces.
- Bring water to a rolling boil. Blanch pork in boiling water together with ginger slices. When water begins to boil again, remove pork.
- In a clean pot, add water and bring to boil. Add pork, goji berries, carrots, honey date and red dates. Lower heat and allow the soup to simmer for 70 minutes.
- Finally, add winter melon and allow soup to continue simmering for another 20 minutes.
Winter Melon Soup With Barley

Winter melon soup with barley don't use thepeeled winter melon. According to the opinion of Traditional Chinese Medicine,The winter melon that doesn't peel can descend fiery on our body. It willmake us pleasing really.
Provided by: QingH
Total time: 70 minutes
Cook time: 60 minutes
Prep time: 10 minutes
Yields: 2 servings
Cuisine: Chinese,Soup
Number of ingredients: 5
Provided by: QingH
Total time: 70 minutes
Cook time: 60 minutes
Prep time: 10 minutes
Yields: 2 servings
Cuisine: Chinese,Soup
Number of ingredients: 5
Ingredients:
- 6 slices of ginger
- 250 g winter melon (fresh)
- 50 g barley
- 300 g pork ribs (fresh)
- 1 teaspoon salt
Nutrition:
- Calories: 394 kcal
- Carbohydrate: 21 g
- Protein: 20 g
- Fat: 25 g
- Saturated Fat: 8 g
- Trans Fat: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 84 mg
- Sodium: 1251 mg
- Fiber: 4 g
- Sugar: 1 g
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- 1
- Firstly, we should prepare 6 slices of ginger for this soup. Then save them for later.
- 2
- Next, we should wash 250g fresh winter melon for this soup. Then cut it into small pieces.
- 3
- After that, we should fry barley. Add 50g barley into the pan. Use the middle fire to fry it to be closed golden yellow.
- 4
- Next, we should wash 300g fresh pork ribs.
- 5
- After that, we should blanch pork ribs. Firstly, add 3 slices of ginger, pork ribs into the pan. Add enough water to immerse it. Then use the big fire to boil it. After the water has boiled, blanch pork ribs for 3 minutes. Then use water to wash them. Then drain and save them for later.
- 6
- Now, we can start to cook winter melon soup with barley. Add 3 slices of ginger, pork ribs, barley into the pot. Then add about 1500ml water to immerse them. Use the big fire to heat them. After the water has boiled, use a small fire to cook them for 40 minutes. After 40 minutes, add winter melon into the pot and use a small fire to cook them for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, add 1 teaspoon salt into the pan. Stir them evenly. Then we got the delicious winter melon soup with barley.
Winter Melon Seafood Soup (冬瓜海鲜羹)

Learn how to make this unique spin on a classic Chinese comfort soup!
Provided by: Made With Lau
Total time: 50 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Prep time: 20 minutes
Yields: 4 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Number of ingredients: 18
Provided by: Made With Lau
Total time: 50 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Prep time: 20 minutes
Yields: 4 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Number of ingredients: 18
Ingredients:
- 1.5 lb winter melon
- 3 oz fish fillet
- 3 oz shrimp
- 1 oz yellow chives
- 4 oz imitation crab
- 3 egg whites
- 4 cups water
- 7 oz chicken broth
- 1 tsp salt
- 0.5 tsp sugar
- 0.5 tsp white pepper
- 0.5 tsp olive oil
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 5 tbsp cornstarch
- 4 tbsp water
- 0.5 tsp white pepper
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 0.5 tbsp water
How to cook:
- Prepare winter melon
- Assuming you were starting with a whole entire winter melon, we'd:
- Chop seafood & chives
- 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.
- Start boiling, create marinades & thickeners
- Set the stove on high heat and start boiling water and chicken broth.
- Cook the soup
- 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.
- Taste, plate, garnish
- Almost there! Like a true chef, my dad always tastes his dish in case he needs to adjust the flavor at all.