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Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, melon stew. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Melon stew is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Melon stew is something that I have loved my whole life.
Cooked more like a vegetable than a fruit, bitter melon is a common ingredient in Indian stews and curries, Japanese and Chinese stir-fries, sauteed Filipino dishes and fried snacks. Melon Stew is a little bit different from the regular melon with vegetable soup and also how to prepare melon stew it's not the same with egusi ijebu because is melon Stew we are going to be using frying process without adding water. Egusi is one of the popular west Africa soup, both young and old enjoyed this soup expecially when taken with swallow e.g Amala, Pounded yam, semo, Eba e.t.c We're Married!
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have melon stew using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Melon stew:
- Prepare 240 g ground melon (wild melon seeds or pumpkin seeds)
- Take 400 ml meat stock
- Get 680 g (about 5 medium tomatoes)
- Get 3 fresh chili pepper
- Prepare 4 tbs ground crayfish
- Get 10 g chicken bouillon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
- Make ready Handful dried bitter leaves (or spinach finely chopped)
- Get 4 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 500 ml water
- Make ready Millet flour or cornmeal (for serving)
Melon Stew is a little bit different from the regular melon with vegetable soup and also how to prepare melon stew it's not the same. Bitter Melon (also known as bitter gourd, bitter squash and balsam-pear) is a sour squash that is a great addition to stir fries and soups. Bitter melon is a sharp-tasting, funky looking fruit and a staple of many Asian cuisines. Bitter melon is in the gourd family, along with zucchini, cucumbers, pumpkins, and squash.
Steps to make Melon stew:
- Pause the tomatoes and pepper in a blender until purée. Transfer to a pot on a stove top, cover and allow to cook until the water content is dried off.
- Heat up a pot, add oil,the cooked tomatoes and pepper mixture. Fry for about 5 minutes, add melon and continue frying for another 5 minutes, then add the crayfish and fry for 2 minutes.
- Add meat stock, water, chicken bouillon, 1/2 tsp salt, stir to combine and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to low and allow to simmer for 30minutes. Stir in dried bitter leaves (washed and cut into smaller sizes), cover and allow to simmer for additional 5 minutes. Serve with cornmeal or any choice of carb. Voila!
It's easy to prep and takes to any number of delicious preparations like stir-fries, soups, and curries. Egusi (also known by variations including agusi, agushi) is the name for the fat- and protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous plants (squash, melon, gourd), which after being dried and ground are used as a major ingredient in West African cuisine. Authorities disagree whether the word is used more properly for the seeds of the colocynth, those of a particular large-seeded variety of the. Winter melon soup is reputed to be good for weight loss and anti-swelling. It is called 冬瓜 (dong gua) in mandarin and is a fairly big round fruit with dark green skin.
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