Wu Lo Gwa Joeng

Name: Wu Lo Gwa Joeng
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 mature wu lo gwa; Meat, cooked and thinly sliced: chicken, pork, ham, dried duck, etc.; Meat, cooked and thinly sliced: chicken, pork, ham, dried duck, etc.; Meat, cooked and thinly sliced: chicken, pork, ham, dried duck, etc.; Meat, cooked and thinly sliced: chicken, pork, ham, dried duck, etc.; Meat, cooked and thinly sliced: chicken, pork, ham, dried duck, etc.; Winter mushrooms, soaked, whole or sliced; Straw mushrooms; Bamboo shoots; Spring onions; Lotus seeds (leen jee); Lotus seeds (leen jee); Shrimp, fresh or dried, soaked (ha mai); Chicken stock or water; Chicken stock or water

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Cook’s Guide to Chinese Vegetables

By Martha Dahlen

Published 1992

About

Ingredients

1 mature wu lo gwa

Asia
China
Side dish
Gluten-free

Method

Procedure: Slice gourd open at the neck between the bulges. Scoop out seeds and spongy flesh of the central cavity, leaving at least 1 inch (or as much as possible) of melon towards the outside.

Place melon on supporting dish inside the pot; the rim of the dish must not cut into the melon or the latter will collapse as it softens during cooking. Put ingredients into melon with st