Clam and Winter Melon Soup

Name: Clam and Winter Melon Soup
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 200g Flower clam; 200g Winter melon; 5g sesame oil; 3g salt; 1 Chives; 10ml Cooking Wine; 2g Wolfberry; 4 slices ginger; Some water

by Fatty Mushroom

4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

10m

Serving

3

In dry weather, the focus of the diet is to nourish Yin and moisturize dryness. Clam is a good ingredient in this season. Clams should be eaten after spitting in sand and fully cooked. But it should not be cooked for a long time. Long-term cooking will not only lose nutrients, but also taste bad. The clams are rich in umami flavor, so there is no need to add MSG when cooking, and it is not advisable to add more salt to avoid losing the umami flavor. (Clamshells and other shellfish are cold in nature, so people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more.) The salty and fresh clam and winter melon soup is made with the original soup of boiled clams. No extra seasoning except salt is needed. The taste is delicious, try it.

Ingredients

200g Flower Clam
200g Winter Melon
5g Sesame Oil
3g Salt
1 Chives
10ml Cooking Wine
2g Wolfberry
4 slices Ginger
Some Water

Clam and Winter Melon Soup

1. Keep the clams in water with sea salt for several hours and spit sand (you don’t need the clean clams). Rinse the clams before eating. Brush the surface of the shells with a toothbrush and drain the water.

2. White gourd, sac and peeled, cut into small pieces

3. Boil a little water, add green onion, ginger, cooking wine, and clams after boiling

4. Place the clams in a bowl after opening

5. Put clear water in the pot, boil, add the wolfberry and winter melon

6. When the winter melon becomes soft, pour in the clams and soup (leave the bottom of the bowl with sediment)

7. Simmer on low heat for about 5 minutes to remove impurities and bubbles floating on the surface, and add appropriate amount of salt

8. Turn off the heat, drizzle a little sesame oil, and sprinkle with chopped green onion.

Tips:
Regarding the washing of clams, Ah Mushroom shared that there are two kinds of clams in the shell stall that Agu frequents. One is the clams that the boss directly soaks in the water and spit out the mud. This type of clams is suitable Buy it and eat it as soon as possible. When cooking, you also need to put a little more salt; the other is the clams that the boss has not processed, and you need to go home and spit out the sand yourself. For this kind of clams, you need to rinse them when you go home. Put a little sea salt provided by the boss in the basin and keep them for several hours. Before eating, change to clean water, keep them for a while, and then brush them clean with a toothbrush. On the surface of the shells, when cooking, there is basically no need to put any salt, because the water that the clams eat before is salty. This is the case with the shell stalls that Agu frequently visits. You can refer to it.