Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, melon stew. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Melon stew is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Melon stew is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have melon stew using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Melon stew:
- Take 240 g ground melon (wild melon seeds or pumpkin seeds)
- Prepare 400 ml meat stock
- Get 680 g (about 5 medium tomatoes)
- Make ready 3 fresh chili pepper
- Get 4 tbs ground crayfish
- Take 10 g chicken bouillon
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
- Take Handful dried bitter leaves (or spinach finely chopped)
- Take 4 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 500 ml water
- Make ready Millet flour or cornmeal (for serving)
Winter melon soup is reputed to be good for weight loss and anti-swelling. It is called 冬瓜 (dong gua) in mandarin and is a fairly big round fruit with dark green skin. It looks like a water melon but is actually a squash. Cut the beef into small cubes, Add in one chopped onion and one stock cube.
Instructions to make Melon stew:
- Pause the tomatoes and pepper in a blender until purée. Transfer to a pot on a stove top, cover and allow to cook until the water content is dried off.
- Heat up a pot, add oil,the cooked tomatoes and pepper mixture. Fry for about 5 minutes, add melon and continue frying for another 5 minutes, then add the crayfish and fry for 2 minutes.
- Add meat stock, water, chicken bouillon, 1/2 tsp salt, stir to combine and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to low and allow to simmer for 30minutes. Stir in dried bitter leaves (washed and cut into smaller sizes), cover and allow to simmer for additional 5 minutes. Serve with cornmeal or any choice of carb. Voila!
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