To reduce the bitter taste of bitter melon, women can refer to the tips below.
Bitter melon (also known as bitter melon) can be processed into many nutritious and healthy dishes. However, not everyone can eat this fruit because it has a very characteristic bitter taste.
To reduce the bitterness of suffering through, sisters immediately learn the following tips
Choose the right kind of bitter melon
Passion through forests: This type is mainly grown in mountainous forests; fruit small as palms or big toes, short, slightly rounded, with sharp, thick, dark green spines. This has a very bitter taste and is often used for medicinal purposes.
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Passion through the pass: This type has ruffled bark, thick, hunted thorns, dark color and bitter taste equal to bitterness through the forest. What is the typical bitter melon variety of Central Vietnam.
Ordinary suffering: This is the type you often see in markets and supermarkets. The bitter melon fruit is usually large, has large pods, is light green and light green. This is the least bitter. The larger the blooming thorns, the less bitter.
Remove the white intestine
The intestine of bitter melon is white, contains many bitter seeds. When preliminary processing, you need to scrape off the white pulp, the bitterness will be significantly reduced.
Soak in salt water
After removing the intestines, you can slice, cut, or leave the whole fruit, depending on the purpose of the dish. But before cooking, soak bitter melon in salt water for 20-30 minutes to reduce the bitter taste. After that, rinse it several times with clean water and go to processing.
Blanch through boiling water
To reduce the bitterness of bitter melon, you can also blanch them in boiling water before cooking. Place a pot of water on the stove, add a pinch of salt and bring to a boil. When the water is boiling, drop the bitter melon into a blanch for 2 minutes. These help to reduce the bitter taste but it also loses a part of the nutrition of bitter melon because it is dissolved in water and evaporated at high temperature.
Refrigerate
Cutting bitter melon pieces and then putting them in the refrigerator or soaking them with ice for 20-30 minutes can also help reduce bitterness.
Combine with other ingredients
To reduce bitter taste, combine bitter melon with other foods such as eggs, minced meat, shrimp … These ingredients will help the dish have more flavor and neutralize bitterness of bitter melon.
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