Bitter melon before eating the best blanching water, blanching bitter melon time not more than 1 minute.
The reason why you need to blanch bitter melon before eating, it is because the bitter melon oxalic acid content is relatively high, per 100 grams of bitter melon contains 459 mg. These oxalic acid and the body's calcium combined to form calcium oxalate, the body is certainly harmful and not beneficial. If you blanch the bitter melon with boiling water, you can remove most of the oxalic acid in the bitter melon, but also will make the bitter melon bitter taste lower.
However, the bitter taste of bitter melon comes from the bitter melon it contains, the bitter melon has weight loss, lower blood sugar and other health effects, the main reason is that it is rich in bitter melon. Although blanching can remove the harmful oxalic acid, it will also make part of the valuable bitter melonin loss to the water, so that the health effects of bitter melon is also reduced.
2 The right way to blanch bitter melon1, first boil the pot of water to boiling boiling, and add a little salt and a few drops of cooking oil, and then only into the cut bitter melon blanching.
2, blanch bitter melon time is not more than 1 minute, and then immediately out of the bitter melon immersed in ice water to cool down quickly, the temperature fell to room temperature and then immediately out of the drain. Put in the water soaked for a long time, the same will lead to more loss of bitter melon elements.
3 What are the edible methods of bitter melon1, bitter melon scrambled eggs, this eating method is the most common home cooking. This dish is very easy to do, the economic cost is very small, both nutritious and hygienic, and yellow and green, pleasing to the eye, the flavor is also very clear mouth.
2, bitter melon beef. Bitter melon and beef practice a lot, I have eaten the most is the bitter melon fried beef, followed by also eaten bitter melon beef roll, but more like bitter melon fried beef. Bitter melon fried beef with a little bit of chili, the flavor is superb.
3, the flavor of this way of eating is not very bitter, called fried bitter melon. It is the bitter melon cut into a piece, and then hollowed out in the middle, filled with a good material of the meat, and then mounted to the plate is steamed. Personally, I feel that the flavor is a little sweeter than the first two.
4, the bitter melon in the middle of the flesh removed, and then it will be squeezed into juice, add milk, you can choose to drink directly raw, you can also choose to drink cooked, raw drink is definitely a good weight loss, it is a little bit difficult to taste, topped up on the drink.
5, in fact, the bitter melon can be eaten raw, and eat raw nutrition than cooked to eat a lot of good, will be sliced bitter melon, and then remove the middle of the flesh, it will be mixed with a thicker yogurt, you can eat, sweet and sour, bitter taste, very interesting.