Stir-fried bitter melon

Overview

Normally cooking bitter melon does not remove the bitterness, but the bitter taste of bitter melon is still delicious. What I’m making today is stir-fried bitter melon, which needs less water, so I pickled it with salt beforehand to remove the water content of the bitter melon and at the same time remove the bitter taste of the bitter melon. Blanching bitter melon can also remove the bitter taste, but experts say that blanching bitter melon will lose a lot of vitamin C, which will reduce the anti-aging effect of bitter melon.

Tags

• hot dishes
• home cooking
• summer recipes
• beauty pepper
• bitter melon
• chicken essence
• dried chili pepper
• garlic
• onions
• pork belly
• sprouts
• sugar
• zanthoxylum bungeanum
• ginger
• salt
• soy sauce

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash the bitter melon, remove the seeds and flesh. Pay attention to remove the white film inside the bitter melon. Cut it into pieces as long and short as your little finger. Add half a spoonful of salt, mix well and marinate for five minutes. (Tips for removing the bitter taste of bitter melon: The white film inside the pulp of bitter melon has a strong bitter taste, so pay attention to remove it. Using salt to kill the juice of bitter melon can also remove the bitter taste. Although blanching can also remove the bitter taste of bitter melon, it will destroy its vitamin C.)

   

2. 2 Rinse the bitter melon in clean water and drain. Set aside.

   

3. 3 Wash and slice the pork belly, wash and cut the onions, ginger, garlic, and dried chili peppers, cut the bell peppers into shreds, and set aside the peppercorns and bean sprouts.

   

4. 4 Heat the pan with cold oil. When the oil is hot, pour in the bitter melon and stir-fry until tiger skin patterns appear on the surface of the bitter melon. Drain and set aside. (Tips: Stir-frying can remove the excess water from the bitter melon.)

   

5. 5 Leave the bottom oil in the pot. When the oil is hot, stir-fry the pork belly slices to release the fat and aroma.

   

6. 6 Add the dried chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns and stir-fry until fragrant, then add onion, ginger, garlic, and a little bean sprouts and stir-fry until fragrant.

   

7. 7 Add beauty pepper and stir-fry, add bitter melon and stir-fry, add soy sauce, sugar, appropriate amount of salt and chicken essence, stir-fry and set aside.