Wintermelon Soup

Here is wintermelon soup that is simple to prepare and quick to remove to the dinning table. This soup is cooling to the body and is just suitable on a hot sunny day.

Ingredients:

500 gm wintermelon, removed seeds and cut into cubes
100gm lean meat or chicken breast, cut into cubes
2 slices ginger
1 tin button mushrooms
1 tablespoon parsley and spring onion to garnish
salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Peel winter melon and dice. marinate meat salt and pepper and add a teaspoon of cornflour. Put a side for 30 minutes. Meanwhile open acan of Botton mushrooms. Pour 4 cups of water into a pot and bring to boil. Add meat , ginger, wintermelon and button mushrooms. Bring to boil and simmer for half an hour. Add salt and pepper to taste and a few dash of sesame oil. Serve on a soup bowl and garnish with parsley and spring onions.