Bitter melon is not simply a kind of fruit. From it, we can make many special dishes. It is not only a kind of food but also a kind of medicine that can help us reduce heat and also help with detoxification. However, until now, I am still not familiar with the strange taste of the bitter melon, which my grandmother used to use for cooking. She said that this kind of fruit has a lot of usage for health, especially when you eat it in summer.
Although my grandmother did make many delicious dishes from that bitter melon, I do not understand why I could not taste it. I just remember she used the fruit to heal the pimple and the heat rash on my skin.
In hot days, my grandmother used to slice the bitter melon, dry them and then put them in boiling water to use just like tea. She said that drinking it would help us reduce the heat and help to detoxify.
My grandmother used bitter melon to make various dishes for my family. Usually, she made the soup of bitter melon with chopped meat stuffing and bitter melon with eggs.
Actually, it is quite easy to make the soup of bitter melon with chopped meat stuffing. The ingredients to make these dishes are very simple and easy to find. Clean the bitter melons, cut a line along them, remove all their seeds and bowel, and then clean them again.
Next, chop the meat, soak the cloud-ear mushroom and field mushroom into water and cut them into thread. Also, soak the vermicelli made of cassava into water and cut them into small pieces. Finally, clean the green onion and cut them into small pieces as well.
Then, mix all these things and add some spices, then we will have the stuffing. Put it into the bitter melons that have already been removed their entire bowel. Then, lay all of them in a pot, pour water over and cook until they are soft and the soup is ready to use. Spoon the soup into a large bowl, then sprinkle pepper and green onion over.
The bitter melon with eggs is also a simple one. Prepare the bitter melon in the same way as we make the soup. Then, cut them into thin slide in the shape of semicircular.
After that, dry the green onion with a little oil and put all the bitter melon into the frying pan and overturn them steadily, add some spices so that it is pleasant to taste and finally put 1 or 2 eggs into the pan and continue to dry until the egg turns into yellow. In order to make the dish more fragrant, sprinkle some pepper over the dish after spoon them into a plate.
However, in spite of its good effect, the taste of bitter melon still makes many people not be able to eat it. Then, there is a small tip for you to choose the ones that are less bitter. You should choose ones that have a dark green color, slim and long.
These days, people have made various kinds of dish from this bitter melon, such as soup of bitter melon with cow meat, or with fresh shrimp, etc…Yet, the flavor of the dishes from bitter melon cooked by my mother is something that I can never forget.
