Bitter gourd is called a gentleman's dish.
The flesh of bitter gourd tastes sweet and bitter, and it is usually used as a vegetable, or it can be eaten after being stained with sugar. It is a very nutritious food. Bitter gourd is a very special vegetable, and its bitterness will not spread to other dishes cooked with bitter gourd, so it is called "gentleman's dish". In this hot summer, you might as well eat more bitter food and make bitter gourd a frequent visitor on the table. Bitter gourd contains protein, fat, carbohydrates and so on, which are higher in melon vegetables.
Especially, the content of vitamin C is as high as 84 mg per 1 g, which is about 5 times that of wax gourd, 14 times that of cucumber and 21 times that of pumpkin, ranking first among melons. In the Ming Dynasty, bitter gourd was widely planted in southern China.
Recommended method of fried bitter gourd with shrimp:
Material preparation: bitter gourd, prawn, edible oil, edible salt, potato starch, chicken essence, ginger slices, cooking wine, edible oil, purified water, pot, etc.
1. Remove the shell from the bought prawns, take out the shrimp line, wash it, and control the moisture.
2. Put the shrimps into a bowl, and put a proper amount of edible salt, ginger slices, cooking wine and potato starch into the bowl, mix them evenly with your hands and marinate for a while.
3. Wash the bought bitter gourd, cut it in half, remove the pulp and cut it into pieces.
4. Boil water in a pot, add a spoonful of edible salt and a few drops of cooking oil, and blanch the bitter gourd for one minute.
5. Prepare a clean bowl, put potato starch in the bowl, and add 15ml of purified water to prepare water starch.
6. Heat the oil in a pan. After the oil is hot, add the marinated shrimps and stir-fry until the shrimps change color.
7. Then pour the blanched bitter gourd into the pot, stir-fry it for a few times, add appropriate amount of edible salt and chicken essence to taste, and then add the freshly prepared water starch to thicken it, and then serve.
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