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Gingered Cantaloupe or Honeydew Melons
 
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Gingered Cantaloupe or Honeydew Melons Recipe gently cooks fruit in mixture of crystallized ginger, fresh ginger, rice wine, sugar, salt and cinnamon stick, reduces mixture to a syrup to pour over then seasons with white pepper and lemon juice.


INGREDIENTS
1 large or 2 small cantaloupe or honeydew melons, barely ripe
2 tablespoons minced crystallized ginger
2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger
1/2 cup rice wine
Pinch sugar
Pinch salt
Half a cinnamon stick
White pepper
Lemon juice


DIRECTIONS
1: Cut melons into fan shapes as pictured.
 
2: In a small saucepan combine 1 tablespoon crystallized ginger, the fresh ginger, rice wine, sugar, salt, and cinnamon stick. Bring to a simmer. Add melon fans and simmer slowly for 1 to 2 minutes, depending on ripeness. (Less ripe melons will need to cook the longest.) Remove from heat and allow melons to cool in liquid.
 
3: Remove melons and strain liquid through a fine sieve. In a small saucepan over high heat, reduce liquid until syrupy. Pour over melons. To serve, season melons with a grinding of white pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice. Garnish with remaining crystallized ginger.
 
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