Bitter gourd is cool and bitter in nature, people who often cook and know the ingredients, listen to its trait description, will know that bitter gourd is a vegetable that clears heat and detoxifies the body. As the saying goes, everything in the world is born with each other. Nature is magical, summer growth of vegetables and fruits, most of the summer heat with the summer heat, in order to restrain the heat to bring people's discomfort. For example, the bitter melon and watermelon, they are both good heat relief.

Bitter melon is good, many people feel difficult to swallow, this is because the bitter melon contains melon leaf bitterness and wild cucumber juice enzyme, these two substances exist at the same time, it will produce a bitter taste. Melon leaf bittersweet in watermelon and pumpkin also exists, but due to the lack of interaction of wild cucumber juice enzyme, so, watermelon and pumpkin eating will not be bitter.

Want to eat bitter melon and afraid of bitter? In fact, appropriate to eat some "bitter" on the body is good. If you really can't eat it, there are ways to get rid of the bitterness of bitter melon.

Pick bitter melon, do not pick the old bitter melon, long old bitter melon bitter flavor is very heavy; bitter melon seeds and white flesh are bitter source, to deal with clean, especially the white flesh, you can take a small spoon to scrape clean; bitter melon slices, after a little salt pickling out of the water, pickled out of the water is very bitter, pour out do not, with water to the bitter melon slices and then cleaned two times before cooking, the bitter melon is basically not bitter. Although the bitter melon eating is not bitter, but it's heat-clearing effect will also be discounted.

As the saying goes, every place has its own unique way of eating. In Guangdong, especially in the Chaoshan area, making soup with bitter melon is a must-drink soup in summer. Fresh bitter gourd and rib chop, together with soybean and Chaoshan salted vegetables, after carefully boiled, the soup is fresh and slightly bitter, cool and fire, no matter it is adults or children, can pick up the bowl to drink, this bowl of soup, become the Chaoshan people to clear heat and calm the liver fire of the "immortal soup". The boldness of the Chaoshan people to drink bitter melon soup is something that people in the north cannot understand, and it is simply innate. In fact, children in Chaoshan drink bitter melon soup, it is the adults forced, over time, become a kind of inevitable and habit. The hot and humid weather in Chaoshan requires bitter melon soup to detoxify. In Chaoshan, in addition to bitter gourd soup, bitter gourd can also be stuffed with meat, that is a hard summer dish that everyone likes, and even many hot pots have to use bitter gourd as a base.

In the north, bitter melon is also many family table dishes, but bitter melon is not everyone can eat. And not to mention the bitter melon soup, the most common bitter melon scrambled eggs, bitter melon fried meat, bitter melon also have to be again and again to remove the source of bitterness. Even so, in the face of the table that plate of well-cooked bitter gourd, there is no Chaoshan people drink bitter gourd soup of boldness, can do not frown successive chopsticks has been very good, this is for adults, as for small children, can be swallowed bitter gourd, around the rare.