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Mrs Chow Happy Farm
🚚 The Fastest Delivery Time : 2-day Delivery. In Tin Shui Wai and Tuen Mun Yuen Long districts, the fastest delivery possible is the next day, directly from the farm.
🐝 Supplier / Place Of Origin：Mrs Chow Happy Farm / Mong Tseng Wai, Tin Shui Wai
🔖 Certification： Not HKORC Certified
🌱 About the Producer / Supplier：
I am a happy farmer who wants everyone to eat healthy and happy organic vegetables without pesticides or chemical fertilizers 😊.
Because I have seen that the vegetables grown with pesticides are so beautiful, but if we eat them, there will be problems in our stomachs. So no matter how hard it is for me, I like the organic vegetables I grow myself. I feel safe eating them. I want others to do the same. It’s healthy, so I want to share it with people🙏🙏
🌱 Supplier Products：
🛍 Product Information：
Binomial Name：Benincasa hispida Cogn.
Chinese Name：冬瓜
Other Names：Winter Melon | Wax Gourd
Product Description：Sweet and light in taste, slightly cold in nature. It has the functions of diuretic water and phlegm, clearing away heat and detoxifying, removing irritability and quenching thirst. Chinese medicine believes that winter melon seeds have curative effect on lung carbuncle and intestinal carbuncle. Winter melon is rich in water, which can not only replenish water for the human body, but also bring diuretic effect, which helps to avoid the occurrence of edema; in addition, it gives people a feeling of fullness after eating, which has a certain effect on diet and weight control.
Native to China and East India, distributed in tropical Asia. China has begun to cultivate in the Qin and Han dynasties. It was introduced to Europe in the 16th century and to the Americas in the 19th century. Now it is cultivated all over the world, but China is still the most widely cultivated country, and it is famous for cultivation in Haizhu District, Baiyun District and Panyu City of Guangdong.
Variety：Winter melon is a creeping herbaceous plant, and its fruit is mainly eaten as a vegetable. The surface of immature winter melon fruit is hairy, so it is also called hairy melon. When the fruit matures, the skin forms a layer of waxy white frost, which is beneficial to its longevity. Winter melon leaves are nearly round, with 5-7 lobes or middle lobes, and bristles on both sides; the flowers are unisexual, monoecious, and yellow; the fruits are large, long cylindrical or nearly spherical, with hairy and white powder on the surface, and thick, white flesh; Seeds ovate, white. Typically weighing 10 to 20 kilograms.
This plant has two cultivated varieties: "small-fruited winter melon" and "large-fruited winter melon". The former matures early, with smaller, nearly round fruits, such as Beijing's "One String of Bells" and Taiwan's "Round Winter Melon"; the latter matures late, with large, long cylindrical fruits with waxy powder on the skin, such as Guangdong's "Green Skin Winter Melon" and Hunan's "pink-skinned winter melon".
In summer, you can find four types of winter melon: black skin, white skin, green skin and mini winter melon, each with different uses.
Supply Season：The main production period is from March to September every year. Winter melon can also be produced in winter, so it is called winter melon.
Storage Method：It can be stored for a long time in a cool and ventilated place, but the meat will shrink if kept for a long time.
Winter melon can generally be stored for twelve months.
#Should Be / Avoided：
Appropriate: Suitable for those who suffer from thirst and boredom, edema, beriberi, phlegm, freckles, rosacea, fish and crab poisoning, hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, cholecystitis, gallstones, whooping cough, obesity, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis , coronary heart disease, kidney disease, cancer patients.
Contraindications: People with spleen and kidney deficiency, weak stomach and easy diarrhea, chronic illness and diarrhea should not eat.
*Edible Compatibility：
Appropriate: 1. Winter melon and shrimp: The vitamin K contained in winter melon can promote the absorption of calcium from shrimp and promote the growth of bones; these two elements are also involved in human blood coagulation and prevent massive bleeding in the human body. 2. Winter melon and duck: The folic acid contained in winter melon and the duck meat rich in vitamin B12 are eaten together. Both are nutrients required for hematopoiesis, so they can prevent anemia. Avoid: 1. Winter melon and pig liver: The copper in pig liver will oxidize the vitamin C contained in winter melon, thus affecting its nutritional value.
Cooking Skills：The edible part is the melon fruit. After lightly rinsing with water, cut off the skin and pulp and you can cook and eat. If you want to achieve the effects of relieving heat, clearing heat, quenching thirst and diuresis, you should cook the soup with the skin and eat it.
Glazed White Jade (serves 4 to 6 people)
Material
One end of winter melon weighs 3 pounds (1800 grams)
1.5 liters of soup (the soup needs to be soaked in winter melon)
Making stuffing ingredients
Appropriate amount of fresh bamboo shoots
Appropriate amount of fresh mushrooms
Appropriate amount of scallops
Crab meat appropriate amount
Jinhua ham appropriate amount
Salted egg yolk appropriate amount
Chicken cubes appropriate amount
Roast duck meat cubes appropriate amount
Shrimp meat cubes appropriate amount
Shenggua appropriate amount
Appropriate amount of frog meat (the ingredients can be adjusted according to your preference, the total of all ingredients is about 6 taels, or 230 grams)
practice
Peel the winter melon, pick out the tendons, and puncture holes, put it into a deep container, pour in the soup, cover the winter melon, and simmer for 45 minutes.
Remove the winter melon and reserve the remaining juice for gravy.
While the winter melon is simmering, boil the fresh bamboo shoots, fresh mushrooms, Jinhua ham and shenggua in the fillings. Except for the crab meat, all the other fillings need to be oiled and set aside.
Place the dried onions in a wok, sauté the duck meat cubes until fragrant, add the oil fillings, then add the boiled water fillings, season to taste, add the crab meat and stir-fry quickly before taking it out of the wok.
Place the stuffing into the hollow part of the winter melon, then flip it over onto a plate (top side up).
The gravy is made from the remaining soup from the stewed winter melon, add an appropriate amount of thick chicken soup and heat it up, add a little cornstarch, mix well, and pour it on the winter melon to serve.
Tips
It is best to choose a winter melon that weighs 10 pounds. The flesh is thick enough but not too old. The top is thicker than the bottom, so it is most suitable for making this dish.
To make the winter melon loose in the mouth, you must peel the skin and pick out the tendons. For the best effect, fry the winter melon in a deep frying pan to remove the excess water before stewing it in soup.
It is recommended to use white oil (unused oil) to prevent the winter melon from inhaling odor.
For soup, the fragrant chicken and duck soup is best paired with the sweet winter melon.
Prick the winter melon before stewing it in soup to make it more flavorful.
After burying the gravy, sprinkle a little salted egg yolk to enhance the flavor.
For a simple homemade version, you can replace some of the fillings with boiling water, and if there is no soup, you can use commercially available ready-made chicken soup instead.
Notes：Although winter melon likes a warm and humid climate, it can also survive the winter. Winter melon can generally be stored for twelve months.
Dish：
Winter melon cup, winter melon soup with adzuki beans, winter melon with old duck, and winter melon with roasted pork belly.
Winter melon soup
🔸 Supplementary Information：
Vegetables with different seasons, chemical fertilizers and environmental protection. I can use grass, bad fruits and vegetables, coffee, tea, residue, and eggshells for fertilizer. Everyone wants everyone to be healthy and happy 人️
Pre -order once a week. The supply depends on the delivery situation, or it will be shipped separately.
🥗 Product Category (English)： Winter Melon
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🔅 Remark：
☘️ Preserve vegetables
1. Leafy vegetables and softer vegetables, if packaged, should be placed in the cold box in the original package;
2. Organic Vegetables are more prone to spoilage if they have water droplets. Put the vegetables in a ventilated place to dry or wipe off the water vapor, then wrap the vegetables in slightly damp newspaper and put them in a plastic bag before refrigerating. ;
3. Organic vegetables do not use preservatives or special treatments. Vegetables are generally stored for three to five days. Some vegetables will decompose enzymes, so they should be eaten as soon as possible.
☘️ How to wash vegetables
Special attention: The dishes, especially small flowers and broccoli, are best soaked in the water to remove residual pesticides (this is organic farm, but will have, but not chemical, except to Re-generative Farm). It is recommended to use our vegetables and vegetables environmentally friendly cleaner
Dish Drops for 3 to 5 minutes to eliminate residuals, sand and dust.
1. Wash vegetables before cooking to keep them fresh;
2. It is not advisable to soak the vegetables for too long, and they should be washed first and then cut to avoid the loss of vitamins;
3. Washing vegetables with dilute salt water or Dish Drop can easily remove vegetable insects;
4. Cut vegetables with a stainless steel knife to reduce vitamin loss;
5. Vegetable leaves contain a lot of nutrients, so you should avoid shredding, chopping or grinding the leaves;
6. Immediately after cutting, to avoid the loss of vitamins due to air oxidation.
