Bitter melon contains a substance called cucurbitacin, so it tastes bitter. If cooked properly, the bitter taste of bitter melon can be turned into sweet.

The bitter methods are as follows:

1, clean up: the bitter melon cut open, go to the son, scrape the capsule on the layer of white film, the bitter taste to go most of the time.

2, water bleaching: the above cleaned up bitter melon, cut into strips, and then rinsed with cool water, wash while gently pinched with the hand, wash for a while and then wash the water, so repeated rinsing for three or four times, the bitter juice with the loss of water, so that the processed bitter melon fried, delicious flavor, slightly bitter.

3, blanching: clean up after the bitter melon, blanch a water before cooking, the bitter flavor will be greatly reduced.

4, mixed fried: the bitter melon and chili pepper fried together, can reduce the bitter taste.

5, salted: the cut melon slices sprinkled with salt marinade for a while, and then fried, can reduce the bitter taste, and the flavor of the bitter melon still exists.

PS: After the bitter melon to bitter, the flavor is greatly reduced. Perhaps it is the bitter flavor that attracts people's taste buds.