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Winter Melon and Job's Tears Duck Soup

Winter Melon and Job's Tears Duck Soup

A classic Cantonese duck soup with winter melon and barley, soaked then slow-cooked with tangerine peel and ginger, the skin-on melon lending cooling freshness.

Instructions

  1. 1
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    Prepare the materials.

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    Rinse the coix seeds and soak them in water for 2 hours.

  3. 3
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    Put the duck meat and lean meat into cold water in a pot and blanch them.

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    After boiling, remove the duck pieces and lean meat, and rinse off the foam.

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    Cut the winter melon into large pieces; (leaving the skin on the winter melon helps cool the body).

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    Add enough water to the soup pot, put in the duck pieces and lean meat, bring to a boil, and skim off the foam.

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    Add the other ingredients—Job's tears, ginger slices, dried tangerine peel, and winter melon—into the pot, bring to a boil, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 1.5 hours.

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    Finally, add salt to taste, and the delicious soup is ready to drink~

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Ingredients

Main Ingredients

  • Duck
    1/2 piece
  • Lean meat
    80 g
  • Winter melon
    500 g
  • Coix seed
    60 g
  • Ginger
    3 slice
  • dried tangerine peel
    1 small piece

Seasonings

  • Salt
    to taste