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How to make dried winter melon by yourself
First of all, we need to prepare winter melon when we make dried winter melon, we should be more strict in the selection of winter melon, because we have to dry it, if the quality of winter melon is not good, the quality of its drying is also not good, resulting in the taste is even worse. When we choose Dongguan to choose his surface is relatively intact, and its pulp is also very thick, and has not been infested with insects. Here is the most important point, we have to choose the mature winter melon, if the winter melon is not ripe brewed dry, its flavor will not eat a little winter melon flavor. After choosing a good winter melon, we have to start making.

First of all, we will be the surface of the winter melon for a cleaning, cleaning is completed, we have to remove the skin of the winter melon, remove, we will be inside the winter melon melon melon seeds are all deducted. Then after all the winter melon children are removed, we have to cut the winter melon into two halves, and then one by one cut into winter melon strips, and the length of each winter melon strip try to be a little more uniform, each winter melon strips, about seven centimeters, and the width of the two centimeters or so, and the thickness of it should be in one centimeter or so. Cut into winter melon strips after we also have to winter melon strips for a cleaning, because in the cut to avoid staining some other things, or smashing, so we have to use salt water again to carry out a cleaning after cleaning we have to use water again on the surface of her to carry out a rinse the main purpose of the rinse is to wash away the brine on him.

Then we have to put it in a basin and pour in some lime water for a hardening process. And this time the soaking time is longer about 1 day, we try to soak it on the same day and make it on the next day. After soaking the strips of winter melon for one night we have to do a cleaning of him. The main purpose of this clear is to wash away all the lime water on the surface of the melon strips. And we have to wash the time period, and to wash a little more often. Every hour or so to carry out a cleaning, and this cleaning process takes about five times.

After cleaning, this time our time probably also need a day or so, and then we will be in the third day when the winter melon strips and then placed in the pot for a steaming process. We will first clean the first day after the winter melon strips out of the refrigerator, and then placed in a pot of hot water, for steaming, and steaming time is about ten minutes. Our specific time to be determined according to his performance, mainly we in order to the winter melon strips composed of a transparent state, so if the winter melon strips are not transparent.

Then we continue to boil, we will finish boiling winter melon strips, from the pot inside out, and then a cleaning, and the cleaning process is also more difficult to wash every hour, and wash about eight times, and with the increase in the number of times, every time the time to use water for a soak. After all the above steps are done, we have to put the winter melon strips in the sugar solution for a soaking, after soaking in the sugar solution, we have to put in the pot for a cooking process.

After cooking, we have to put the melon ball in the sun, for a drying, after drying, this time our winter melon strips on the production of success.