Winter Love

Overview

Winter Love is a dish in the TV series "The Chef". Judging from the name, it should be difficult to think of this dish. It is a combination of winter melon and shrimp. Looking at this dish, everyone uses fresh shrimps to boil and then places them on top of the stewed winter melon. It tastes good. However, if you can't buy fresh shrimps, the taste of boiled shrimps will be much inferior if you use refrigerated shrimps. In Cantonese cuisine, the most important thing about boiled ingredients is freshness, such as boiled shrimp, boiled cuttlefish, sea fish soaked in water, etc. So, how to make this dish with chilled shrimp? Since it is winter love, I personally feel that the flavors of the ingredients must be fully integrated, cooperate and complement each other, and a good dish will come out. This time I specially bought refrigerated seafood to try my own understanding of this dish.

Tags

• hot dishes
• home cooking
• old man
• winter recipes
• dinner
• banquet
• fresh soy sauce
• ginger and green onion
• peanut oil
• shrimp
• steamed fish with soy sauce
• stock
• water starch
• winter melon

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare shrimp, winter melon and other ingredients and Lee Kum Kee seasoning.

   

2. 2 Peel the shrimps, remove the shrimp lines, keep the shrimp heads and shells, peel and cut the winter melon into cubes, and slice the ginger.

   

3. 3 Heat the oil in the pan, sauté the ginger slices until fragrant, add the shrimp heads and shells into the pan and stir-fry for a while.

   

4. 4 After the aroma of the shrimp comes out, pour an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil, and simmer over high heat for a few minutes.

   

5. 5 Pour up the shrimp soup cooked with the shrimp shells and set aside. Prepare an appropriate amount of stock.

   

6. 6 Add an appropriate amount of peanut oil to the pan, heat it up, and fry the winter melon until both sides are slightly brown.

   

7. 7 Pour all the shrimp soup into the pot, add an appropriate amount of stock, bring to a boil, then simmer over medium-low heat for ten minutes.

   

8. 8 Add the shrimps into the pot and cook for about 1 minute, until cooked.

   

9. 9 After the shrimps are cooked, add an appropriate amount of Lee Kum Kee steamed fish soy sauce and Tiancheng Yiyi fresh soy sauce for seasoning.

   

10. 10 Finally, add an appropriate amount of water starch to thicken the sauce and serve it on a plate.

    

11. 11 Use shrimp brains and shells to stew the winter melon in soup, so that the winter melon can better absorb the flavor of the shrimp. The resulting winter melon is delicious, soft and glutinous, and very delicious. At the same time, boiling the chilled shrimp for a while and then seasoning it in the pot will make it more delicious than boiling it, and it can also remove the fishy smell.