Stew with Winter Melon and Ground Pork

 

Stew with Winter Melon and Ground Pork

 

When it’s getting cold, stew becomes my favorite dish. It always make you feel better when you have warm food on table.

Ingredients:Stew with Winter Melon and Ground Pork

winter melon, ground pork, seasoning to taste.

Method:

1. Peel the winter melon, then cut it into half, clean inside and outside.

2. Chop winter melon into pieces.

3. Heat up skillet, add little cooking oil, cook ground pork until it’s not pink.

Stew with Winter Melon and Ground Pork          Stew with Winter Melon and Ground Pork          Stew with Winter Melon and Ground Pork

4. Add cooking wine, vinegar, soybean sauce, and little sugar into skillet, keep cooking until all the juice is gone.

You can add some ginger powder, too, if you like.Stew with Winter Melon and Ground Pork

5. Add winter melon chunk into skillet, stir fry for several minutes, then add water, bring to boil, simmer for 10 minutes, stir, then another 10 minutes, stir, then until winter melon chunk look clear.

Cooking time varies, depend on size of the winter melon chunk.

 

Stew with Winter Melon and Ground Pork

 

Winter Melon

 

Winter Melon

 

Winter Melon is one of the popular vegetables in China. It’s good to cook in soup, or cook with meat or shrimp.

Before you cook winter melon, you have to get rid of its hair first. Be really carefully when remove hair, your skin can be really itchy if you touch it.

Seeds need to be removed, too.

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Winter Melon showing in pictures is a mini winter melon. Most of them are huge, about same size of a big watermelon.

For more info., please check with wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_melon