Red Date Winter Melon Tea

Name: Red Date Winter Melon Tea
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: Some Red dates; 1000g Winter melon; 100g crystal sugar; 120g brown sugar

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4.9 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

2h

Serving

2

Winter melon tea is a drink made from winter melon and sugar as raw materials and cooked into soup for a long time. Winter melon tea has been drunk in Taiwan for a hundred years (together with sugar cane juice and grass tea, it is known as the three ancient ice drinks in Taiwan)
The glycolic acid contained in wax gourd can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugars into fat and play a role in weight loss. In addition, wax gourd is also rich in protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, iron, calcium, zinc and other elements. Promoting body fluids and quenching thirst, reducing inflammation and diuresis, eliminating edema, folic acid, niacin and other substances in wax gourd can also prevent fetal baby deformities and promote fetal baby's intellectual development. It is a green vegetable that is beneficial to the health of expectant mothers.
So this red date winter melon tea is a great beauty and health drink that pregnant women, childbirth, elderly people can drink even during confinement o~😇"

Ingredients

Red Date Winter Melon Tea

1. Materials ready

2. Wash the winter melon without peeling and cutting into pieces, add rock sugar, brown sugar, red dates, mix well and marinate for about half an hour

3. Look 👀! After half an hour, there was a lot of syrupy winter melon juice in the pot, so there is no need to add any water. Then turn on a low heat and simmer for 2 hours

4. I simmered it in an electric casserole for 2 hours on low heat and then heated it up for half an hour and boiled it, and there was nothing left.

5. Use a sieve to filter out the residue and pour the separated juice into an airtight jar

6. La la la 1 kilogram of winter melon is boiled out of this 550ml of super thick winter melon juice, the remaining residue can not be wasted is the essence. I used a food processor to make jam and keep it with toast for breakfast 😁😁😁 (Huo Huo Huo, I’m so virtuous~^_^)

7. Finished product. After cooling, it is concentrated sugar juice in the refrigerator, so it’s okay to keep it for a month or two, but it’s better to drink it as soon as possible~

8. The green and astringent taste of the finished winter melon is gone. There is only a faint jujube taste ~ sweet and light free to add~ it is a very sweet, refreshing, health-preserving and thirst-quenching drink! The ice is cool and delicious🙌🏻👏🏼👏🏼

9. The finished product is so hot, come and finish this cup and have another cup~ hahahaha 😂😂😂😂🙄🙄 can’t stop playing

10. Accessories👻 This is the mung bean paste made with a portion of the fruit puree, which is super delicious!

Tips:
1 Winter melon is best to choose white frost on the skin, the older the better! The older the smell, the more perfume it will be.
2 The ratio of sugar can be added arbitrarily. Anyway, when the cooking is thicker, add more water and less juice~
3 While simmering slowly, take a look at the doubling time. Everyone buys winter melon. The water content is different, so don’t paste the pot.
4 You can open your mind and cook a longan, winter melon tea, ginger slices, winter melon tea or something, which should also be good~