Bitter gourd tastes bitter and sweet. Mature pulp and aril are mainly used as vegetables. Momordica charantia will be processed into a health drink when it comes into the market in summer, which can be drunk all year round. There are bitter gourd honey juice drinks, summer drinks, instant health drinks, health drinks made of bitter gourd and pumpkin or garlic and kumquat, and balsam pear tea. As long as the bitterness is eliminated, more people will get used to drinking it. Bitter gourd pickle is a pickled product made of low concentration salt and fresh bitter gourd. It is made of bitter gourd preserves, candied bitter gourd preserves and white sugar.

Bitter gourd can relieve the heat in your heart. The best way to eat bitter gourd is cold salad. Cold salad can well retain the vitamins contained in bitter gourd. If stir-frying is used, these vitamins will be lost in the process of stir-frying, and the content of oil after stir-frying is relatively high, so people will consume more oil after eating, which can not play a role in reducing fire.

Eating bitter gourd regularly can enhance the vitality of cortex and make skin tender and healthy. Pouring fresh bitter gourd juice or decoction is a good tonic therapy for liver fire, epigastric pain and damp-heat dysentery; Fresh bitter gourd is mashed and externally applied to treat carbuncle and furuncle; Children are prone to prickly heat in summer. Slice the bitter gourd and try to wipe the prickly heat, which can be cured as soon as possible. Bitter gourd can dissipate heat and relieve summer heat by boiling water or cooking food.

Bitter gourd formula

Bitter gourd mixed with spicy meat

Ingredients: bitter gourd, lean meat and red pepper.

Exercise:

1. Slice bitter gourd, lean meat and pepper for later use.

2. Rub the bitter gourd slices with raw salt until most of the water is discharged from the hot oil, fry them and put them on the plate for later use.

3. Stir-fry the lean meat and pepper in the pot.

4. Stir-fried Chili lean meat is put into the bitter gourd in the dish.

Shrimp with bitter gourd

Ingredients: 750g bitter gourd, 500g shrimp, proper amount of flour and starch, egg 1 piece, a little garlic cloves.

Seasoning: half a teaspoon pepper and monosodium glutamate, 1 teaspoon salt and sesame oil.

1. Cut the bitter gourd into pieces to remove the pulp, put it in water to remove the bitterness, and then drain the water; Put shrimp in a bowl, add eggs, flour, water starch and salt, mix well, stuff into bitter gourd segments, and seal both ends with water starch.

2. Burn the oil to 60% heat, saute garlic cloves and remove bitter gourd. Take out the bitter gourd after the surface is fried and discolored, put it in a bowl vertically, sprinkle with garlic juice and steam it in a cage.

3. Put the oil into another pot and heat it to 70%. Boil the steamed bitter gourd juice in a pot, add monosodium glutamate and water starch to thicken, pour the juice into a bitter gourd dish, sprinkle with pepper and drizzle with sesame oil.

Fried bitter gourd with vegetables

Ingredients: 2 bitter melons and appropriate amount of red pepper.

Seasoning: 1 teaspoon salt and monosodium glutamate, 5 teaspoons sugar and a little sesame oil.

Practice: 1. Firstly, the balsam pear is washed, longitudinally split in two to form two semi-cylindrical shapes, and the semi-cut balsam pear is buckled on the chopping block and cut into pieces; Shred red pepper.

2. Heat the oil in a wok, put the shredded pepper into the wok and stir fry, and add bitter gourd to stir fry quickly. At the same time, add salt and sugar, stir-fry for about 1 min, add monosodium glutamate, stir-fry for half a minute, turn off the heat and sprinkle a little sesame oil.

Bitter gourd can clear away heat and reduce fire, but many people can't get used to its unique bitter taste, especially when frying bitter gourd. If it is not handled well, the bitterness will be very strong, which will affect the taste and appetite. In fact, as long as you sprinkle some salt on the cut bitter gourd, marinate it for a while and filter it with clear water, it will soon be less bitter.

Braised fish with bitter gourd

Ingredients: 2 fresh fish, 1 bitter gourd, 2 pieces of ginger and 1 onion.

Seasoning: A: 1 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp oyster sauce, a little white pepper, 1 tbsp sugar and 1 tbsp cooking wine.

B: Half a tablespoon of lobster sauce and 1 teaspoon of salt.

Practice: 1. Cut bitter gourd into sections, blanch for 2 minutes and remove; Cut the onion into pieces for use.

2. Dry the fresh fish, put a little salt on it and fry it in two tablespoons of oil for seven minutes.

3. Saute ginger slices and lobster sauce in 2 tbsp oil, add bitter gourd and stir-fry, then add seasoning A, add fish, stew for about 10 minutes, and finally add onion and cook slightly.

Bitter gourd chicken leg

Ingredients: 200g bitter gourd, 70g chicken leg, and 0/00g pineapple/kloc.

Seasoning: 1 teaspoon salt.

Practice: 1. Wash bitter gourd, remove the film and seeds, and then cut into pieces; Wash the chicken legs, blanch them in boiling water, and take them out for later use.

2. Put bitter gourd and chicken leg together in the pot, add appropriate amount of water and pineapple, cook until cooked, and add salt to taste.