Fuzzy melons are awesome in taste and texture.
It also absorbs flavour so when you cook it with meats, it becomes very flavourful.
This is a very simple dish. The melon takes time to soften when cooking but length of time depends how soft you like the melons.
The melons are cooked as soon as it's translucent.
I personally like them a bit softer so I cook it a bit longer.
This is the base recipe for you to scale if you need to cook more.
Fuzzy Melon and Chicken
Makes 1 Plate Prep Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 10-20 mins
Ingredients
- 1 small fuzzy melon (just 1 of the melons in the picture on the left)
- 200g chicken
- 1/2 tsp soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- ~3/4 cup of water, use as necessary
- Optional handful of "Bean Thread Noodle", usually the bag says rice noodle but it's not vermicelli. Chinese character for it is 粉絲 and it's very different from vermicelli which is 米粉
Directions
- Cut the chicken into bite size pieces and add in the soy sauce and and sugar and mix.
- Use the blunt side of a small knife to scrape off the skin of the melon.
- Rinse the melon and cut into strips (refer to picture on the left). Cooking time will depend on how big you cut the melon.
- Add a bit of oil to a heated pot and add the garlic.
- Cook the chicken until 70% and then scoop out the chicken into the bowl or plate you will be serving with. Leave behind any liquid left from cooking the chicken. This will be flavour for the melon.
- Add the melon into the pot. Add a little bit of water and cover the pot to cook.
- Stir every so often and add more water as necessary to make sure you do not burn the pot or melon.
- Cook the melon until it's translucent. Can take anywhere from 10-20 minutes depending on how big you cut the pieces and how much water you're using.
- If you are cooking noodles, add the noodles when the melons are translucent. Add more water if necessary, really depends on what type of noodles you're using.
- Add the Meat as well to finish cooking. Cover and cook for about 5 minutes.
Done :)
Note: If you don't have 粉絲 on hand, you can always use potato starch noodle as well.
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