How to cook bitter melon soup without bitterness, delicious and cool

Bitter gourd soup (also known as bitter melon soup) is a delicious, refreshing dish with many health benefits such as weight loss, visual enhancement and skin beautification . According to the concept of southerners, when eating this soup, all the “sufferings” of the old year will “pass” away, so this dish often appears on the rice tray on Tet holiday.

Process
35 minutes Prepare
20 Minutes For
3-4 people

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Ingredients for stuffed bitter melon soup

• 200g minced pork
• 150g raw ham

• 4 bitter melons
• Green onion, chili, garlic, black fungus, coriander, red onion
• Fish sauce, seasoning, salt, pepper, cooking oil

Ingredients to cook bitter melon soup stuffed with meat

How to make bitter melon soup stuffed with meat

Step 1Process materials

The bitter melon leaves the whole fruit, then slit a left middle line along the length, remove all the intestines and wash and drain.

Mushrooms: Wash and finely chop. Green onions: Use the chopped onion, leave the leaves intact . Coriander and chili: Wash and cut into pieces. Red onion and garlic, peeled, minced.

Process materials

Good tip : To prepare bitter melon without bitterness , you can apply the following tips:
– Be sure to scrape off the white intestine because this is the part that makes bitter melon taste the most bitter.
After cutting the bitter melon in half, you should soak it in ice cold water , until the ice melts, then take it out and further prepare it to help the bitter gourd less bitter.
– If you don’t have time, you can wash bitter melon thoroughly under cold water 3-4 times to reduce the bitter taste.
– You can also boil the bitter gourd before cooking so that the bitter melon is not bitter.

Step 2Mix the meat filling

Put the black fungus and green onion root into the ground pork, raw ham, season with 1 tablespoon of fish sauce, 1 teaspoon of seasoning powder, a little pepper, 1 tablespoon of cooking oil and mix well, so mix well. Mix until you feel the bacon is really smooth.

Mix the meat filling

Good tip: The more you mix and knead, the better the meat will be.

Step 3Stuffed meat in bitter melon

You take a pot of water, boil the bitter melon, take it out and let it dry. Should be very cleverly stuffed and moderately filled so that the left mouth part of bitter melon does not open too much.

Stuffed meat in bitter melon

Then use scallions with the stalks intact , lightly dip them in warm water to soften the onion leaves, tie the bitter melon horizontally to make it beautiful and keep the stuffed meat inside.

Step 4Cook soup

Bring about 1.5 liters of filtered water to a boil in a pot along with 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of seasoning seeds and 1 tablespoon of fish sauce .

Cook soup

After the water boils, you put the bitter melon in the pot and cook for about 20 minutes . After 20 minutes, use a small chopstick to pierce the bitter melon and see that they are soft. Add spices, coriander, pepper and turn off the stove.

Note: Do not add bitter melon until the water is boiling. Because that will make the color of bitter melon not beautiful and bitter.

Step 5Finished product

When setting out a tray of rice, you should use scissors or a knife to cut circles so that you can eat them. Should be served with soy sauce, chili sauce is the best.

Use scissors or a knife to cut the bitter melon into circles

Enjoy

Bitter gourd soup with rich broth and delicious chewy meat from pork and cat mushrooms, bitter melon is soft and moderately bitter , eaten with white rice is hard to resist.

Delicious bitter melon soup

Tips for cooking bitter melon soup

– Do not use sugar to season bitter melon soup, because it will make the water and bitter melon part more bitter.

– Should choose very young bitter gourd, because if you choose old fruit, it will be bitter.

See more : 12 delicious dishes on Southern New Year’s Day that cannot be missed on the Southern New Year’s Day tray

How to preserve stuffed bitter melon?

How to preserve stuffed bitter melon?

Avoid seasoning the soup with fish sauce, instead, use table salt to avoid the situation that the soup is quickly sour and cannot be preserved for a long time.

Do not close the lid when the soup has just finished cooking because it will make the soup easily sour and stale.

Eat the right amount of soup and use it all, avoid pouring the excess soup back into the soup pot.

Limit the situation that the soup is stale , so reheat the soup twice a day.

With your ingenuity and meticulousness, after only 40 minutes, you can prepare delicious and nutritious bitter melon soup for the whole family during Tet. Please share with us if you have a delicious cooking secret!

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