Chinese Cooking on Vegetables

(No.001) Pickled Benincasa hispida
Ingredients:
1 B.hispida(1,500g),5g salt,10g hot soy sauce,35g vinegar ,25g sugar ,2g Chinese prickly-ash ,
2g shredded ginger ,2g orange peel
Method:
1.Peel B.hispida,take out the pulp and cut into cubes of 5cm long,2cm wide and thick.2.Put cubes in a big bowl,and blend with salt,prickly-ash,ginger and orange peel .After 30 minutes,scoop out ginger,orange peel and prickly-ash,and soak cubes in cold water for a minute.3.Wash the bowl ,put cubes back and blend with soy sauce,vinegar and sugar. Thus dish up.
Speciality:Tastes a little sweet,hot and sour.
Notes:The Benincasa hispida (wax gourd,winter melon)is native to China and India.

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