Stuffed Winter Melon with Ham

Name: Stuffed Winter Melon with Ham (Huo t’ui tung kua chia)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 pound winter melon; 2 oz. Chinese ham; ½ pound ground pork; 2 tablespoons scallion and ginger juice; ½ tablespoon chicken grease; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 tablespoons scallion and ginger juice; ½ teaspoon salt; ⅔ cup soup stock; 2 teaspoon cornstarch; ¼ teaspoon black pepper; 1 teaspoon wine; 1 teaspoon sesame oil

Huo t’ui tung kua chia

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

2 pound winter melon
½ pound ground pork
2 oz.

Asia
Taiwan
Main course
Gluten-free
Winter

Method

Peel the green skin and seem out the seeds from the winter melon. Cut into 1 inch wide by 1-½ inch long by ⅓ inch thick. (The shape should be like a hot dog bun).
Mix the ground pork with the scallion and ginger juice, salt, wine, cornstarch, sesame oil, and black pepper. Stir it in one direction until the pork mixture is very sticky.
Cut the ham into