Chinese Chicken Recipes - Chicken Stuffed Melon Recipe

Ingredients

• 350 g/2 oz chicken meat

• 6 water chestnuts

• 2 shelled scallops

• 4 slices ginger root

• 5 ml/1 tsp salt

• 15 ml/1 tbsp soy sauce

• 600 ml/2 1/2 cups chicken stock

• 8 small or 4 medium cantaloupe melons

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Method:

1. Finely chop the chicken, chestnuts, scallops and ginger and mix with the salt, soy sauce and stock.

2. Cut the tops off the melons and scoop out the seeds. Serrate the top edges. Fill the melons with the chicken mixture and stand on a rack in a steamer.

3. Steam over boiling water for 40 minutes until the chicken is cooked.