HaoChi 好吃Winter Melon & Coix Seed Pork Bone Soup
冬瓜薏米排骨汤
Winter Melon & Coix Seed Pork Bone Soup — a Hunan Chinese recipe, ready in about 105 minutes. Step-by-step instructions with photos.
Total time: 105 min Yield: 4 servings Cuisine: Hunan Category: Chinese home cooking Healthy & LightChinese Pork Summer Refreshing
Ingredients
- pork neck bones (with marrow)
- dried coix seed (yi mi)
- winter melon
- scallion greens
Instructions
- Rinse pork bones and blanch as in lotus root soup: cold water, boil, skim foam 3 minutes, rinse well.
- In clean pot, combine bones, toasted coix seed, and 2 L cold water. Bring to gentle simmer and cook covered on low heat for 60 minutes.
- Add winter melon cubes. Simmer uncovered on medium-low heat for 25 minutes until melon is translucent and tender but intact.
- Skim any surface oil. Season only with fine sea salt—never soy sauce or wine, to preserve the soup’s light, cooling nature.
- Ladle hot soup into bowls. Garnish generously with scallion greens just before serving.
