Method one, mix honey with bitter melon.

Prepare ingredients:

Honey, bitter melon, white sesame seeds.

Production process: Method 2, stir-fried bitter melon. The dishes made by combining bitter melon with red pepper reduce the bitterness of bitter melon and have the spiciness of pepper. In addition, the combination of red and green is also a very good-looking way to eat.

Prepare ingredients:

Bitter melon, red pepper, salt, vinegar, sugar, garlic, ginger, vegetable oil.

Cooking steps: Method three, sweet and sour bitter melon.

Prepare ingredients:

Bitter melon, sugar, vinegar, salt, garlic, light soy sauce.

Cooking steps:

Ingredients

500g bitter melon

50g garlic

50g chili noodles

20g light soy sauce

10g sweet vinegar

5g sesame seeds

Method/step 1:

Slice the bitter melon and set aside.

Method/Step 2:

Add water to the pot, add a little salt, boil it and blanch the bitter melon to remove the bitterness on the surface. Boil the water for 5 minutes and then drain it into cold water. Drain the water and set aside.

Method/Step 3:

Prepare chili noodles and minced garlic, light soy sauce, and vinegar and set aside.

Method/Step 4:

Add oil to the pot, heat until the oil smokes.

Method/Step 5:

Stir the chili noodles and minced garlic evenly, pour in hot oil and fry until fragrant.

Method/Step 6:

Prepare the sauce. Then pour soy sauce and vinegar into the chili bowl and mix well.

Bitter melon is a cucurbitaceous plant and a rare household vegetable. However, due to its taste characteristics, we often cannot eat bitter melon. How much, and the nutrients in bitter melon are of great benefit to us, so how to make bitter melon so that it is delicious and not so bitter. How to remove the taste of bitter melon

The actual method It's very simple. There are several ways to achieve this. The first is to soak the bitter melon in salt water for a while in advance, which can effectively reduce the taste of the bitter melon. The second is to put the bitter melon in hot water. Blanching it can also effectively reduce the taste of bitter melon

The third method is to wrap the bitter melon in egg liquid. This method is the same as the bitter melon scrambled eggs, but first put the bitter melon in Stir-fry in the pot, and then use the stirred egg liquid to wrap the bitter melon, so that the taste of bitter melon can be reduced when eating. Home-made recipe for bitter melon: Fried egg with bitter melon

▼: Preparation materials

Bitter melon, eggs, salt, oil, pepper, chicken essence

▼: Preparation work

First cut the bitter melon in the middle, and then Remove the flesh from the bitter melon, and be careful to dig out the white plant film. Cut the remaining bitter melon into slices, then wash the bitter melon in water, and then pickle the bitter melon with salt. After a while

Crack the prepared eggs into an empty bowl, add a little pepper, and then use chopsticks to fully stir the egg whites. Be careful to stir clockwise when stirring< /p>

▼: Start working

Heat the pot and put in the oil. When the oil is 60% hot, pour in the stirred egg liquid. After the egg liquid in the pot is formed, put it in Crack the formed eggs, then transfer the eggs to a plate and set aside

Clean the pot, reheat the oil, and when the oil in the pot is 70% hot, pour in the sliced ??bitter melon slices. Start to stir-fry evenly, pour the scrambled eggs into the pot, add an appropriate amount of salt and chicken essence, then turn up the heat and stir-fry evenly. Precautions for bitter melon scrambled eggs

① During processing When cutting bitter melon, the white layer of plant film must be removed, otherwise it will become even more bitter. Also, when cutting bitter melon, try to cut it as thinly as possible, so that it tastes much more delicious< /p>

② When frying bitter melon, you don’t need to fry it for a long time, because the plant itself is an easy-to-cook food. You only need to stir-fry it over high heat for a few times, and it will be ready. If the frying time is a bit long, the taste of bitter melon will be stronger

Bitter melon, as its name suggests, tastes very bitter! So many people don't like it, secondly because of its appearance, wrapped in a green coat, a bit like a banana, but with bumps one after another, which is not particularly beautiful.

In the hot summer, we generally have seasonal vegetables: cucumbers, tomatoes, luffa, winter melon, cowpeas, etc. These vegetables are very nutritious. In fact, bitter melon is also a rare and delicious dish, and it is a leader in the melon world! I advise you to eat more, as its small body contains a lot of nutritional value. The source of the bitter taste

Many people know that bitter melon is extremely bitter, but they do not know the source of this bitter taste.

Bitter melon, cucumbers and pumpkins belong to the Cucurbitaceae family, but the other two are not bitter, because only melons and wild cucumber juice enzymes act at the same time, melons will taste bitter, while cucumbers, Pumpkin contains melonite alone, so there is no bitter taste.

The bitter taste of bitter melon has evolved over thousands of years to protect it from biological damage and enable it to survive better. On the other hand, bitter melon is not bitter, but we are accustomed to eating green bitter melon, which is the young bitter melon. The kind of bitter melon with golden yellow appearance and blood-red seeds inside is the mature bitter melon. It tastes soft and tender and has a sweet taste.

If you cook with mature bitter melon, the problem of bitter taste will be solved. However, its taste is too soft and rotten, which is not in line with today's people's eating habits. Therefore, we should use green bitter melon as the standard. Here are a few tips to remove it. The method of bitterness. Tips for removing bitterness

1. Soak in salt water. Cut the bitter melon into thin slices, put it in water, then add salt and soak it for about 10 minutes to remove the bitter taste.

2. Add garlic. When frying bitter gourd, add garlic and stir-fry until fragrant. This is a good way to cover up the bitterness with its aroma!

3. Blanch. Just before cooking, put the bitter melon in hot water. The high temperature will soften the bitter melon and remove most of the bitter taste.

4. Add sugar. The enemy of bitter is sweet. Adding sugar to neutralize the bitter taste is a great trick.

5. Scrape the melon pulp. The bitter taste mainly comes from the white pulp inside the wall of bitter melon. Try to remove it as cleanly as possible to minimize the bitter taste. In addition to the above methods, stir-frying bitter melon with certain ingredients can also reduce its bitter taste.

Method 1: Cold Bitter Melon

Prepare ingredients: one bitter melon, garlic, small peppers, salt, vinegar, chili oil, coriander, chives, etc.

Step one: Cut the bitter melon into shreds and set aside. After boiling the water, add an appropriate amount of edible salt and a little vegetable oil. Blanch for 30 seconds, drain and drain.

The purpose of adding salt is to remove the bitterness while maintaining the crisp taste of bitter melon. The purpose of adding oil is to make the bitter melon bright and not discolor.

Step 2: Soak the blanched bitter melon shreds in cold boiled water. When the temperature drops, remove and control the water.

Step 3: Add sesame oil, salt, vinegar, sugar, red oil, coriander, garlic, coriander, stir together and serve.

Method 2: Stir-fried shredded pork with bitter melon

Prepare ingredients: bitter melon, shredded pork, green pepper, red pepper, salt, chives, ginger, etc.

Step 1: Wash the bitter melon, green pepper, chives, and ginger and cut them into small pieces.

Step 2: Boil a pot of water. After the water boils, pour in the shredded bitter melon, cook for half a minute, and pick up the shredded bitter melon.

Step 3: Pour an appropriate amount of oil into the pot. When the oil heats up, add ginger and shredded pork and stir-fry until the color of the meat becomes lighter and no longer bright red.

Step 4: Pour the bitter gourd shreds into the pot, add chives, green pepper shreds, red pepper shreds, salt and other seasonings, and stir-fry for one minute.

Step 5: Finally add the seasonings, stir-fry over high heat and it’s ready to serve!

Method three: egg and bitter gourd shreds

Prepare ingredients: 2-3 eggs, bitter gourd, chives, small red pepper, seasonings, salt, etc.

Step one: Put the bitter melon into salt water until it boils, then pick it up and wash it once with cold water.

Step 2: Crack the eggs, add a little water to the eggs (this will make the fried eggs more tender), and mix evenly. Pour cooking oil into the pot, add diced red pepper, then pour in the egg liquid and stir-fry for 30 seconds.

Step 3: Pour in shredded bitter gourd, add chives, stir-fry together for 2-3 minutes, add seasonings, stir-fry for another 1 minute, and then serve.

The above is how I usually cook bitter melon. It does not taste bitter, but delicious.

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Originally, in order to solve the bitter taste of bitter melon, we first wanted to understand it more thoroughly, and then Good symptomatic solution. It turns out that there are various interpretations about the origin of this bitter taste. The names of the ingredients that are responsible for this bitter taste include: quinine, bitters, wild cucumber juice enzyme, melon, and momordrin. Wait a lot.

The more commonly accepted theory is that it is the synergistic action of bitter melon and wild cucumber enzymes that causes the bitter taste of bitter melon. Melon is a plant from the Cucurbitaceae family. We also know that many plants under the Cucurbitaceae family contain triterpene derivatives, such as watermelon, which is not edible but can be used as a pesticide.

However, being addicted to the "sea of ??bitterness", I suddenly realized that there is no need for me to dig into the bottom of it stupidly. Our purpose is to destroy and remove the bitterness as much as possible, but we do not have to understand it, so We have summarized the following method of cooking bitter melon, which can basically remove most of the bitter taste. Eliminate

According to our past experience of eating bitter melon and everyone’s experience, almost most of the source of its bitter taste is the internal melon pulp and the white film attached to the melon flesh. This situation is just like that of peppers. Most of the spiciness comes from the internal "white gluten", so as long as we remove this part first, we can greatly reduce the bitter taste of bitter melon.

However, compared to the generally recommended method of digging and scraping with a spoon, we recommend not just cutting the bitter melon in half, but cutting it into at least four parts, so that you can directly use a knife to cut the bitter melon. Completely remove the melon pulp and white film from the melon flesh. Because if you use scraping and digging methods, first of all, it is not easy to get it clean thoroughly. Secondly, during this process, it is inevitable that the pulp and white membrane of the melon will be squeezed, and the bitter substances may be squeezed out, further " "Contamination" to the parts we want to eat, just like fish meat will be bitter if the fish gall is broken. So just use a knife to remove it and it will be over, but you must be careful not to cut your hands during this process. Salted and blanched bitter melons

There are some bitter substances left inside the flesh of the bitter melon after being removed. However, according to many of our past experiences, there are some undesirable things in vegetables such as: oxalic acid. , tannic acid and the like cannot escape the "combination punch" of salting and blanching. Although the bitterness in bitter melon is stronger, it is still somewhat effective.

If it is fried or cold bitter melon, we recommend slicing it as thinly as possible, so that the contact area between the ingredients and salt and boiling water is larger, and the effect of naturally removing the bitterness is better. However, at the same time, some of the more sensitive nutrients in bitter gourd will also be lost. This is something that cannot be helped. If you want to obtain the nutrients in an ingredient, you must at least let people eat it and absorb it. Everything must be given. lose.

After all, we humans are not professional herbivores. Many things must be cooked and eaten to be more fully digested and absorbed. If they cannot be digested and absorbed, there is no point in eating them with the nutrients intact.

The salting time is about 7 or 8 minutes. The osmotic pressure will force the plants to lose some water, and with the water, the bitter substances will flow out. The high temperature of boiling water will also deactivate some substances and further reduce the bitterness. The blanching time is only 30 seconds, and then immediately cool down the bitter melon with supercooled water, so that the taste and color can be preserved. Cooking

There are many choices in cooking, because after basically being processed in the above way, bitter melon will only have a little bitter taste at most. This level of taste is actually its remaining characteristics, even If this bit of bitterness is gone, bitter melon will not be much different from zucchini or cucumber. In view of the fact that it is hot summer now, everyone may not be able to eat hot dishes, but the more common salty and fresh flavors or the sour and spicy cold dishes are not distinctive enough. Let’s share an alternative cool and delicious way to eat bitter melon. This was originally My wife learned how to make it, so it’s very simple and quite delicious.

——Sprite Bitter Melon——

Preparation materials: 1 bottle of Sprite, 1 bitter melon, 15 ml of honey, half a lemon, and 1 large bowl of cold boiled water.

Production steps:

To sum up, the bitter taste of bitter melon can be removed by removing the white flesh, pickling, and blanching, but the more thoroughly the bitter taste is removed, then this must be done At the same time, more nutrients are lost from bitter gourd. However, it is unrealistic to completely cover up the bitterness by just using the taste of other ingredients. Instead, it will cause an uncomfortable sense of conflict in the taste. The ancients called bitter melon a "gentleman's dish" because it has the property of "not spreading to others." The quality of "bitterness and other things" is praised as "the virtue of a gentleman". Therefore, it is understandable that some of this nutrition is lost. Who makes Balsam pear, a gentleman who endures hardship, have a tough character? For friends who are interested in food, healthy diet and food anecdotes, you can follow and like to support it, and share interesting and useful related content together in the future!

Stir-fried bitter gourd with black bean sauce and dace is a more Cantonese-style way of eating.

For the little owner, the most difficult part of this dish is opening the canned fish... If you have a can opener at home, you can use the can opener directly, which is labor-saving and safe.

I opened it directly with my hands. You need to be very careful when opening it, otherwise it is easy to cut your hands~

Regarding bitter melon, many people usually eat it It may feel too bitter, but you don’t have to worry about the bitter taste when eating today’s dish!

Bitter melon is first pickled with salt to remove part of the bitter taste.

In addition, the dace with black bean sauce needs to be soaked in oil to keep it fresh. The oil is mixed with the aroma of black bean sauce and dace fish, and when stir-fried with the bitter melon, it can well neutralize the bitterness of the bitter melon.

If you cook a plate, it is guaranteed that people who don’t like bitter melon will fall in love with it! If you don’t believe it, come and try it

> Ingredients List<

1 bitter melon/1 canned dace with black bean sauce

Appropriate amount of salt / 2 cloves of garlic / 15ml of oil / 3g of sugar

> Cooking steps<

1. Wash the bitter melon and cut it into two sections, cut it in half and dig out the middle The flesh.

2. Cut it into moderately thick slices, add a small amount of salt, and marinate for 15 minutes.

3. While the bitter melon is marinating, break up the garlic and mince it.

4. Open the can of dace with black bean sauce, take out the dace and tear it into large pieces and add a spoonful of black bean sauce for later use.

*Be careful not to cut your hands when opening canned fish~

5. When the pickling time of bitter melon is up, remove the water from the pickling Pour away, rinse off the salt, drain and set aside.

6. Heat 50% of the oil, turn to low heat, add chopped garlic and sauté until fragrant, add bitter melon and stir-fry until it changes color.

7. Add dace and black bean sauce and stir-fry for a while. Add appropriate amount of sugar and stir-fry evenly.

Crispy and crispy stir-fried bitter gourd with black bean sauce and dace is ready~

When stir-fried, it becomes fragrant Incredibly! After it came out of the pan, I couldn't wait to take a bite of the dace fish. It was crispy, soft, firm, and had the rich aroma of black bean sauce.

Moreover, the bone spurs of the fish are loosened, so there is no need to worry about the bones choking~

The bitter melon on the plate absorbs the fragrance of the dace and adds fresh fragrance The tempeh leaves only a slightly sweet and bitter aftertaste.

Although the combination is simple, the meaty aroma of canned food and the refreshing taste of bitter melon harmonize with each other, making this dish delicious.

Food accompaniments such as canned fish have always been considered a time-saving and energy-saving option.

But for me, it also carries the memory of my childhood, which is warm and friendly.

Think about it this way, no matter how bitter the bitter melon is, it can still taste sweet.