Enjoy this rich and delicious meal with a nice bottle of
Deep Fried Pigeon with Melon
Makes 12 Servings
Ingredients:
600 g Winter melon or Water Mellon or Honeydew Mellon
12 Chinese ham slices (thin slices)
2 Young pigeons (approx 500 g-each)
4 Ginger root slices
4 Shallots (white parts)
Cooking Oil
For the Marinade:
½ Cup Light Soy Sauce
1/8 Cup Dark Soy Sauce
Stewing Seasonings:
1 tea spoon Oyster Sauce
1 ½ tea spoon Salt
¼ tea spoon Sugar
4 cups chicken stock
Sauce:
1 cup Chicken Stock
1 ½ table spoon Cornstarch mixed with 2 table spoon water
Optional Garnish:
Parsley
Directions:
- Mix marinade and coat pigeon
- Let it sit for 2 or 3 minutes
- Remove skin from melon and cut into 12 slices (5 cms wide, 3 cms long, 2cms thick).
- Make slit on sideways on long side of each piece and insert 1 slice ham inside slice.
- Deep-fry pigeons over a medium flame until golden
- Heat wok and add 1 table spoon oil
- When wok is very hot stir-fry ginger and shallots- 1 minute
- Add stewing seasoning ingredients and pigeons
- Cover and braise over a slow flame for 20 to 25 minutes.
- Remove the pigeons
- Keep one cup of pigeon braising stock for sauce later
- Double remaining braising stock liquid volume by adding water and immerse melon slices
- Cook for 5 minutes then turn off heat.
- Cover wok, leave melon slices for 5 more minutes (not for too long so that the melons do not lose their shape through direct cooking)
- Mix sauce ingredients with reserved cup of pigeon braising stock and heat
- For serving: Cut pigeons into pieces and arrange across serving dish
- Place 6 overlapping melon slices on each side of pigeons
- Pour sauce over and garnish with parsley
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Yangjiu.com’s recommendation for pairing:
Food: Perhaps one of the great cognac and food pairings is with Soft Custard. The rich and buttery texture and flavor of this dessert stands as a perfect combination with
Stove Top Soft Custard Recipe
Ready in: 30-60 minutes
Serving for 4
Ingredients:
2 Cups whole milk
4 eggs (beaten)
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon vanilla
cinnamon as desired
*** Optional Garnish: ***
Fresh berries: blueberries, raspberries
Whipped cream
Extra sugar and cinnamon
Directions:
- Heat milk and sugar in heavy duty sauceoan over medium low heat
- Stir constantly until milk comes close to a boil
- Slowly pour eggs in stirring until the mixture becomes thickened.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla
- Sprinkle with cinnamon
- Chill well before serving
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