Continue our Cantonese cuisine series. I made a dish above,"Winter Minced in Soup with Yaozhu", and today I even talked about wax gourd.
"Winter melon" is the best summer vegetable. Winter melon can relieve heat, relieve swelling, and detoxify. It can also relieve dryness, cool down, quench thirst. It can also moisturize the lungs, promote fluid, and relieve swelling. It can also relieve alcohol and poison for friends who are addicted to alcohol. In short, winter melon has many benefits, haha!
Today, we will make another Cantonese dish with wax gourd as the main ingredient, called "Hundred Flowers and Preserved Melon".
The flowers in Cantonese cuisine are called "Baihuangjiao"."Baihuangjiao" is made by beating fresh shrimp meat, inkfish meat and appropriate amount of pig fat. I don't know how Cantonese chefs mix and make flowers when making flowers, but the formula ratio I use to make "flowers" myself is generally; 300 grams of fresh shrimp meat, 100 grams of inkfish meat, and 50 grams of pork fat. The preparation method is: first chop these raw materials into fine pieces, then repeatedly smash them into mud with the back of a knife. After smashing into mud, repeatedly beat them in the cooking basin. Beat, wait until it is strong, and start to season. Add salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper, Shaoxing wine and a little green onion and ginger juice into the "Baihua Glue", mix well and stir well and you can use.
There are just too many dishes that use "potamia" in Cantonese cuisine. For example, there are hundreds of flowers in young pigeons, white flowers in chicken, hundreds of flowers in duck square, hundreds of flowers in duck square, hundreds of flowers in mushroom, hundreds of flowers in fish maw, hundreds of flowers in abalone, hundreds of flowers in palm wings, hundreds of flowers in tofu, hundreds of flowers in melon rings, etc. There are a series of meat and vegetable dishes, and I have not counted them in detail. The methods are also divided into steaming rice, stewed rice, frying rice, etc. The one I made today is "Hundred Flowers Preserved Melon", which is white gourd, haha! The main practices are as follows;
Preserved melon with flowers
Recipe Recommendations
- salty and fresh
- grilled
- ten minutes
- simple
Steps for Preserved melon with flowers

1
Boil the water in the soup pot, and put the wax gourd pieces into the soup pot.
2
Remove the wax gourd when it is cooked for seven years, and then cool it with cold water.
3
Drain the wax gourd and brush it with appropriate amount of dry starch.
4
Squeeze the potash on the eight pieces of winter melon.
5
Dip your fingers in water and smooth out the potluck on the wax gourd.
6
Garnish with wolfberry slightly.
7
Bring the steamer water to a boil, and put the decorated wax gourd into the pan.
8
Cover the lid and steam over high heat for 5 minutes.
9
Remove from another pot and pour in the soup.
10
Bring the soup to a boil and add a few drops of Shaoxing wine.
11
Sprinkle with a little salt.
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Sprinkle with a little pepper.
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Finally, sprinkle with a little chicken powder.
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Mix the soup and thicken it with water starch.
15
After the sauce is gelatinized, sprinkle with appropriate amount of onion oil.
16
Remove the steamed winter melon.
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Put them neatly into the plate.
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Drizzle evenly with sauce.
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Serve while hot.Preserved melon with flowers Make Tips
Characteristics of this dish: beautiful color, refreshing and pleasant, delicious taste, moderately salty and fresh. Warm tips: 1. Winter melon must be boiled 80% before processing. Otherwise, during the steaming process, the winter melon will be very hard due to the short steaming time, and the potluck will grow old after steaming for a long time, and this dish will be a failure! 2. It is better to have half of the amount of potamia and half of the amount of white gourd. If the amount of potamia is too little, it will not be delicious. This Cantonese dish,"Hundred Flowers and Preserved Melons", is ready. It tastes very delicious. Because there is cuttlefish glue in it, it tastes like a spring tooth. It is much more delicious than shrimp meatballs, haha! For friends 'reference!