Name: Winter Melon Soup
Yield: Serves 4–5
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: Winter melon 500 g (1 lb 1½ oz), skinned, deseeded and cut into 3-cm (1-in) cubes; Ginger 1 thin slice; Water 2.5 litres (80 fl oz / 10 cups); Salt to taste; Pork ribs 300 g (11 oz); Ground white pepper to taste; Chicken carcass bones 500 g (1 lb 1½ oz); Chinese ham 75 g (2⅔ oz), cut into slivers

Preparation info

Serves
4–5

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chinese Heritage Cooking

By Christopher Tan and Amy Van

Published 2018

About

Aromatics like garlic and spring onion (scallion) are not used in this soup, to allow the gentle, mellow flavours of the stock and melon to shine through. If you are unable to obtain Chinese dry-cured ham, which can be tricky to find sometimes, Spanish serrano ham or Italian parma ham make acceptable substitutes.