Winter Melon Soup Recipe

Winter melon (white gourd 冬瓜) is commonly used in Chinese home cooking. Even though the taste of winter melon itself is not sweet at all but a bit dull, many Chinese families like to use it as it helps to cleanse our body heat.

If winter melon is cooked with Chinese mushrooms and some meat, it absorbs all the flavours and tastes wonderful. Here’s a quick winter melon soup, very suitable in summers.  Many of my readers might have known that I am living down under. This photo was taken when I cooked the soup here in summer.

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