Simple Cooking Ideas

Do u know watermelon is a fruit that all parts are edible and taste good. The juicy red part is cut and eat straight away or blend into juice.The seeds can be dried and eaten as snacks or ‘kua chee’ in Chinese.  Some of you probably do not know that the watermelon skin  can be used for cooking.   Now, before you discard the watermelon skin next time , think about this.   Do you know that watermelon skin has detoxification and purifying properties?  Here is a simple recipe you can prepare making use of watermelon skin:

Ingredients:

200 gm watermelon skin,cut off the outer green part of skin, cut into 11/2 cm cubes
300 gm chicken breast meat, cut into 11/2 cm cubes
1 dried chilli
1 red chilli
1 green chilli
(all the chillies cut into 1 cm strips)
5 tablespoon oil
20 gm raw peanuts
1 tablespoon light soya sauce
1 tablespoon minced garlic and ginger
salt and pepper to taste
1 tablespoon cornflour and 1 tablespoon water to mix.

Method:

Marinate watermelon cubes with 2 tablespoon salt for one hour. Then blanche watermelon in
hot boiling water and set aside.

Marinate chicken meat with 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon cornflour and put aside.

Heat 3 tablespoon oil, fry the raw peanuts till crispy. Dish out and put in absorbent
paper to drain the oil. Discard the oil.

In a clean wok,add 2 tablespoon oil. When hot add in the chicken cubes and fry until
cooked.Gather the meat to the side of wok. Put in the garlic and ginger to fry. Add in
the chillies and the watermelon skin. Stir-fry for 3 minutes and drizzle in 3 tablespoon
watermelon juice. Add in light soya sauce, salt and pepper to taste. Thicken the gravy
cornflour mixture. Dish out and spread the crispy peanuts on top.

Serve hot with rice.