I usually like to eat winter melon. I feel that winter melon is a very simple ingredient in Shanghai. It is easy to do and easy to learn.

I prefer to make sweet and sour wax gourd, steamed wax gourd with lemon minced meat, wax gourd with fungus and coriander soup. Everything is simple and delicious, and you can master it once.

Let me share their practices below, hoping to help you!

Sweet and sour winter melon

Peel the melon first, then cut it into small pieces, and cut the onion into chopped green onion.

Prepare a bowl, pour some tomato sauce into the bowl, then pour some white vinegar and soy sauce, add salt and sugar and some chicken essence, pour some boiling water, and pour some sauce and stir well for later use.

Heat the oil in the pan, add the wax gourd pieces, stir-fry a few times, stir-fry the wax gourd pieces until the surface is slightly burnt, add the chopped green onion, stir-fry until fragrant, pour in the prepared sauce, stir-fry evenly, turn on high fire to collect the juice, and then put the soup away and put it on a plate.

Steamed melon with minced lemon meat

Cut the pork into minced meat, then put the minced meat into a bowl, add starch, salt, thirteen spices and monosodium glutamate, pour in a little soy sauce, oyster sauce and cooking wine, and stir well for later use.

Rub the lemon in salt water for a few times, soak it for a while, then clean it, cut it in half, cut half into thin slices, and set aside another slice.

Peel the melon, cut it into thin slices, then put the melon slices on the plate, then put the meat in, then squeeze some lemon juice and put some lemon slices on it.

Pour water into the steamer, heat the steamer to the upper atmosphere, put the plate into the steamer, steam it for 15 minutes, take it out after steaming, pour the steamed soup on the plate into the wok, pour some soy sauce and sesame oil, add some salt, boil the soup, then pour it into the plate and sprinkle with chopped green onion.

Coriander, fungus and winter melon soup

Soak the fungus in water, then pick the stem of the fungus and tear it into small flowers. Peel and slice wax gourd, and cut coriander into sections.

Pour water into the pot, add wax gourd and auricularia auricula, simmer for 10 minute, sprinkle some salt to taste, cook for another 5 minutes, and finally add coriander segments and cook for 1 minute.

Simple, nutritious and delicious soup of coriander, fungus and wax gourd is ready. You can try it.

If you encounter any problems or different practices in the production process, please leave a message in the comment area for discussion!