Cheap, good and nutritious Chinese soup

winter melon

The above is the winter melon. It is easily grown in our backyards and long time ago, my sister planted this melon in a tiny plot of land behind her semi-detached home. The melon grew really big and during one of the worst flood in Penang in the 70s, the poor melon floated in the flood and we didn’t get to eat it because it was too not ripen yet.

Now, you can buy a huge slice of the wintermelon for a mere RM2. It is enough to boil a huge pot of soup for the family. Winter melon is said to be cooling for the body. Since it doesn’t have any funny smell or weird taste and is rather bland, it is to make it into all kind of soups and seasoned to our taste.

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To prepare, just cut off the seeds and the spongy centre. Pare off the green skin and cut them into chunks.

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For my soup, I like to add some goji berries, red dates, pork ribs, garlics, carrot for the colour and sometimes, small pieces of dried squids.

Just add enough liquid for the family consumption as a more concentrated soup will be tastier. Boil all the ingredients for like an hour to maximum flavour. Season with salt and pepper.

winter melon soup

The winter melon will absorb the flavour of the soup ingredients and will make an excellent, home brewed, nutritious soup.

Posted by lilian on July 1st, 2008 under Recipe

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5 Responses to “Cheap, good and nutritious Chinese soup”

  1. Kenneth Says:
    July 2nd, 2008 at 11:18 am

    Sounds interesting, how sweet are wintermelons? and is the soup itself sweet?

  2. hyperX Says:
    July 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 am

    Wow… looks nice and tasty. Must be nutritious and good for health. ^^

  3. mrs b Says:
    July 3rd, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    costs abt RM4+ for the same piece in KL

  4. sko Says:
    July 4th, 2008 at 1:10 am

    This soup is not a “sweet” soup. Winter melon has no taste. The more pork bone or pork ribs that you put in, the better the soup taste. This soup is very desirable for a hot summer day.

  5. PenangTuaPui Says:
    July 9th, 2008 at 1:21 am

    my mum used to cook this for us, I miss my mum cooking.

    I will go back this weekend… emm…. perhaps I should cook this for my mum instead… hope she will like it.

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