How to Eat Hami Melon? A Few Common Ways to Enjoy It
Hami melon is a type of excellent sweet melon variety, known as the "king of melons." It is not only delicious but also nutritious and highly valued for its medicinal properties. Besides being eaten fresh, it can also be made into dried melon, preserved melon, and melon juice, and it can also be used in dishes and soups. Let's take a look below at how to eat Hami melon!
Hami Melon Juice
[Ingredients] 200 grams of fresh Hami melon.
[Method] Peel and deseed the fresh Hami melon, then cut it into chunks. Put the cut Hami melon into a juicer and extract the Hami melon juice. Filter it through cheesecloth, then dilute it with warm water at a ratio of 1:2 and it is ready.
[Tips] Hami melon is nutritious and rich in vitamins and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron, but Hami melon is fairly sweet, so when giving it to a baby, be sure to add an appropriate amount of water to dilute it.
Hami Melon Jam
[Ingredients] 500 grams of Hami melon, 1 lemon, 120 grams of superfine sugar, 150 grams of maltose, 100 milliliters of water, 1/2 teaspoon of jelly powder
[Method] ① After peeling and deseeding the Hami melon, put it into a blender, add water, and blend together into a puree for later use. ② Wash the lemon, cut it in half, and squeeze the juice for later use. ③ Take a bowl, pour in the sugar and jelly powder, and mix them together evenly for later use. ④ Take a stainless steel pot, pour the Hami melon puree from step 1 into the pot, add the ingredients from step 3, and heat. After it comes to a boil, turn to low heat. ⑤ Add the maltose to the pot from step 4, and continue to simmer while stirring evenly from time to time. After cooking until the jam becomes thick, turn off the heat. ⑥ After the sauce from step 5 cools slightly, add the lemon juice from step 2 and stir together until even for later use. ⑦ Put the sauce from step 6 into a glass jar, seal the lid tightly, and let it cool. It can be stored in the refrigerator.
Hami Melon Yogurt
[Ingredients] Half a Hami melon, 3 cherries in syrup, an appropriate amount of yogurt
[Method] ① Use a round fruit scoop to scoop the Hami melon flesh into balls. ② Drizzle with yogurt and add garnishes. ③ A sweet bite, one after another.
Melon Sweet and Sour Shrimp Balls
[Ingredients] 100 grams of fresh shrimp meat, 200 grams of Hami melon, 50 grams of green pepper, 20 grams of white sugar, 15 grams of vinegar.
[Method] ① Remove the digestive tract from the shrimp meat, coat with flour, fry briefly in an oiled wok, then remove and set aside. ② Dice the Hami melon and green pepper and blanch them in water. ③ Put the sugar and vinegar into the wok and thicken the sauce, pour in the shrimp meat and diced vegetables and fruit, stir-fry, and plate it.
Hami Melon Milkshake
[Ingredients] Half a Hami melon, an appropriate amount of milk, an appropriate amount of condensed milk, an appropriate amount of vanilla ice cream, an appropriate amount of ice cubes
[Method] ① Prepare the Hami melon, milk, condensed milk, vanilla ice cream, and ice cubes. ② Peel the Hami melon and cut it into chunks. ③ Pour into a blender, add milk, and blend into juice. ④ Add the condensed milk and vanilla ice cream and blend evenly. ⑤ Crush the ice cubes into ice shards. ⑥ Crush the ice cubes into ice shards. ⑦ Pour the ice shards into the blender. ⑧ Blend evenly and it is ready. ⑨ After blending the Hami melon and milk, strain once coarsely, and the milkshake texture will be smoother.
Cold Tossed Hami Melon
[Ingredients] 100 grams of Hami melon, 250 grams of yogurt, a little mineral water.
[Method] Cut the Hami melon into small pieces, add a little mineral water and a little yogurt, and pour into a blender and blend for 30 seconds. Pour half a cup of yogurt into a cup first, then pour in the blended Hami melon juice, then add a little yogurt on the top layer, and it is ready to drink.
Stir-Fried Shrimp with Hami Melon
[Ingredients] 150 grams of Hami melon, 80 grams of fresh shrimp meat, 1 green pepper, 20 grams of carrot, 10 grams of ginger, 500 grams of peanut oil (30 grams actual consumption), 5 grams of salt, 1 gram of white sugar, an appropriate amount of wet starch.
[Method] ① Peel the Hami melon and dice it, wash the fresh shrimp meat, dice the green pepper, peel and dice the carrot, and slice the ginger into small pieces. ② Heat oil in the wok. When the oil temperature is 50°C, add the shrimp meat and soak until it is 90 percent cooked, then pour it out and set aside. ③ Leave the remaining oil in the wok, add the ginger slices, green pepper pieces, carrot dice, and Hami melon dice. ④ Stir-fry over medium heat until almost cooked, then add the shrimp meat, season with salt and white sugar, stir-fry thoroughly, thicken with wet starch, and plate it.
[Tips] This dish should not have flavor powder added, otherwise the taste of the dish will not be good. The oil temperature for soaking the shrimp meat should not be too high, otherwise the shrimp meat will not be smooth and tender.