Golden Pigeon with Winter Melon
600 g Winter melon 12 Chinese ham slices (0.5 cm -thick) 2 Young pigeons (approx 500 g -each or a 1-kg chicken) 4 Ginger root slices 4 Shallots (white parts)
Ingredients
- 600g winter melon
- 12chinese ham slices (0.5 cm
- 4shallots (white parts)
- 1/8cup dark soy sauce
- 11/2 ts salt
- 1/4tsp sugar
- 4cup stock
- 11/2 tb cornstarch (mixed well with
Directions
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600 g Winter melon 12 Chinese ham slices (0.5 cm -thick) 2 Young pigeons (approx 500 g -each or a 1-kg chicken) 4 Ginger root slices 4 Shall
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If you can't get winter melon, watermelon will work
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Winter melon is white, very mild tasting and a tad denser than watermelon
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I think you could get away using something like Honeydew too
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Have fun! Chef: Yip Kwai-sing Thirty-year-old Hong Kong-born Mr
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Yip has spent half his life in Cantonese restaurant kitchens
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He is best known for his fai choy chicken speciality and shark's fin dishes
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As the leader of a South Villa Restaurant team in one of the Display Classes, he won also a Culinary Award Bronze Medal