Skillfully Fried Five-spice Melon Seeds

Name: Skillfully Fried Five-spice Melon Seeds
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 500g Raw melon seeds; Some oil; Some Aniseed; Some Peppercorns; Some salt

by Qi's small kitchen

5.0 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

2h

Serving

2

My mother-in-law’s family will plant sunflower seeds in a garden every year, and every time this season, they will receive dozens of kilograms of melon seeds. Every time I go back to my mother-in-law’s house, I will bring back some melon seeds to eat. I have also made a heated version of five-spice melon seeds. I put the cooked melon seeds on the heating to dry them. This kind of melon seeds is only suitable for heating in winter, but the melon seeds are not so crispy and a bit hard. Later on the TV. Seeing this approach, I tried to do it myself. The steps are simple, but it takes a little longer. In the end, frying melon seeds is a very tiring job. I have to keep frying, so that my arms are sour, but the taste is really good, not worse than the ones sold outside. , You can try it if you are interested. "

Ingredients

500g Raw Melon Seeds
Some Oil
Some Aniseed
Some Peppercorns
Some Salt

Skillfully Fried Five-spice Melon Seeds

1. 500g raw melon seeds, pick out the insect eyes and throw away

Skillfully Fried Five-spice Melon Seeds recipe

2. Pour in water to clean

3. Pour in water and soak the seeds

4. Prepare aniseed and peppercorns, the ratio is 3:1. It is about 5 or 6 petals aniseed, a pinch of peppercorns

5. Put the peppercorns and aniseed in the pot and pour water, I put two bowls of water (a small bowl for normal meals)

6. Put in the right amount of salt

7. Boil the water

8. Put in the melon seeds and cook for half an hour on low heat, turning over with a spatula halfway to make the melon seeds cooked and delicious

9. About half an hour later, the water in the bottom of the pot has boiled dry, and the soup has been boiled into the seeds

10. Turn off the heat, cover and simmer for 2 hours

11. Two hours later, the seeds are filled

12. In another pot, pour a little bit of oil to prevent sticking

13. Low heat, pour melon seeds and stir continuously. This process is tiring and requires patience

14. Stir-fry until the seeds are completely dry, the sound is crisp, and the seeds are cooked. You can also taste whether the seeds are cooked

Tips:
The ratio of aniseed to peppercorns is 3:1

Fried melon seeds must be low fire, otherwise the melon seeds are fried on the outside but raw on the inside

Stir-frying melon seeds is very tiring, you have to stir-fry them until they are completely dry and the seeds are cooked.