Winter Melon Pork Bone Soup 冬瓜豬骨湯
Do you realize just how good of a soup you can make at home with just a bit of pork bones? A soup so sweetly savoury that it'll knock your socks right off! Try out our Winter Melon Pork Bone Soup 冬瓜豬骨湯 recipe with our secret for intensifying flavor and see if you're still wearing socks after your first luscious sip!
- Prep time
- 3 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr 30 min
- Yield
- 10 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 4-5 big pork bones
- 3 liters water
- 3 half inch thick knobs ginger
- 1 1/2 inch thick sliced round winter melon
- 10 straw mushrooms
- 15 dried shrimp
- salt to taste
Instructions
- 1
Boil bones in water vigorously for 10 minutes. Remove bones to plate and strain stock a few times until quite clear.
- 2
Put bones, ginger and stock back in pot and boil vigorously another 20 minutes.
- 3
Slice off the rind of melon, remove center pulp and seeds and slice into 1/2 inch thick slices. Rinse dried shrimp. Wash straw mushrooms and slice into 1/8 inch thick slices.
- 4
Skim any foam off the top of soup. Add melons, mushrooms, and dried shrimp to soup. Simmer covered for 1 hour.
- 5
Add salt to taste. Remove bones to a plate. Skim any foam from top once more before pouring in soup dish.
- 6
Serve soup and bones hot with a dipping dish of soy sauce for the meat off the bones.