Recipe: Eating on a Dime Tsukune Winter Melon Soup

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Recipe: Eating on a Dime Tsukune Winter Melon Soup Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Tsukune Winter Melon Soup. Tsukune Winter Melon Soup step by step. Mix the ground chicken thigh with the "A" seasonings. Add the winter melon and the "B" seasoning ingredients.

It's also delicious with pork in place of the chicken.

It's also delicious with pork in place of the chicken.

I made at home the frozen chicken tsukune patties that I normally buy at a store.

You can have Tsukune Winter Melon Soup using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Tsukune Winter Melon Soup

  1. Prepare 1/4 of Winter melon.

  2. It’s 200 grams of Ground chicken thigh.

  3. It’s 8 of Kumquats (or eggs) (optional).

  4. You need 20 grams of Ginger.

  5. It’s of "A" seasonings.

  6. Prepare 2 grams of Salt.

  7. Prepare 5 grams of Katakuriko.

  8. Prepare 1 grams of White pepper.

  9. You need of "B" seasonings.

  10. You need 4 grams of Salt.

  11. It’s 1 tbsp of Cooking sake.

  12. Prepare of Toppings:.

  13. You need 1 of Ginger.

I had some ground chicken in my fridge and was thinking of making a winter melon soup with the meat, but a recent visit to an Izakaya had me thinking of making Tsukune meatballs instead.

Peel the winter melon and remove the seeds and fibrous insides.

Remove the sinews from the chicken tenders and cut into pieces about the same size as the winter melon.

We use ground chicken or pork and you can grill them or add them to a soup.

Tsukune Winter Melon Soup step by step

  1. Thickly cut the winter melon..

  2. Mix the ground chicken thigh with the "A" seasonings..

  3. Form Step 2 into round balls..

  4. Boil in 500 ml of water..

  5. Add the winter melon and the "B" seasoning ingredients. Its done when the winter melon is translucent..

Yakitori restaurants grill them on a stick.

I made pork tsukune this time..

Winter melon is most acclaimed as the ingredient in the Chinese soup known as tung qwa chung or dong gwa jong, or Winter Melon Pond.

This famous soup consists of a rich chicken broth that is cooked and served in the skin of the Winter melon.

The skin of the Winter melon is elaborately carved with motifs such as the mythical dragon and phoenix.