Learn how to make bitter gourd – a specialty of the Central Highlands

Central Highlands cuisine is extremely rich, not only known for its delicious jar of Can wine, but also many dishes that only need to be eaten once and will be remembered forever. In which, special mention must be made of the bitter gourd dish. So what is special about this dish, how is the recipe? The answer will be shortly.

Bitter eggplant dish – a specialty of the Central Highlands

For : 4 people

Preparation : 15-20 minutes

Processing : 30-40 minutes

Ingredients for making bitter gourd

Ingredients for making bitter eggplant with standard Central Highlands flavor

• 500g bitter coffee
• 300g frog meat
• 200gr pork, 100gr perilla leaves, 1 garlic, 2 purple onions, 3 chili
• Seasoning: Cooking oil, fish sauce, seasoning, monosodium glutamate, salt

Tips to choose bitter tomatoes, fresh frog meat

To choose delicious bitter tomatoes, you should choose green tomatoes, not wormy, rotten, hard stalks, and make sure your hands are not soft or wilted .

When choosing to buy frogs, you should choose to buy copper frogs because the meat of copper frogs is firm and lean, while farmed frogs are usually fatter and fatter . Choose frogs that are big, yellow skin, bright eyes, white belly… still alive, so don’t buy frozen frogs.

However, if you can’t buy copper frogs, you can also buy farmed frogs for processing!

How to make bitter tomato soup

Step 1: Prepare ingredients

Preliminary preparation of ingredients to make bitter gourd

First, the bitter eggplant is cut off the stem, washed, then cut in half, soaked in salted water for about 10-15 minutes .

Note : You should soak bitter tomatoes in diluted white salt water to make them white, not dark and quickly run out of plastic.

Frog meat is washed with clean water, then squeezed with salt to remove the slime and fishy smell. Then you cut the frog into bite-sized pieces.

Wash the pork and cut it into pieces. With the onion, garlic, and chili, you will mince, and the perilla leaves are chopped.

Step 2: Fry the frog meat

Process materials

You put the pan on the stove, wait until the pan is hot, put the cooking oil in it, then add the frogs and fry them until golden brown on all sides . Frying the frog before putting it in will help the frog meat have a beautiful color and the important thing is that the frog meat will be tougher and more delicious .

Step 3: Um frog with bitter tomato

Um frog with bitter tomato

You put a pot on the stove, add 1 tablespoon of cooking oil to the pot, then add the minced garlic, chili and onions to the pan, then add the pork and stir-fry until the meat is firm.

Then put the frogs on the island, pour into the pot about 500ml of filtered water and boil until the water boils, seasoning to taste, including: 1 tablespoon of fish sauce, 1 tablespoon of seasoning , 1 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate.

After seasoning, you put the eggplant in um with the frog, um on low heat for about 20-25 minutes so that the eggplant, frog meat, and pork are soft, when the water is a bit dry, you put the perilla leaves on the island. turn off the stove.

Finished product

Hot bitter gourd with delicious bread

So the bitter gourd is finished, when you eat it, you will feel the bitter taste of the eggplant, but it is mixed with the sweet and fragrant taste of frog meat , making this dish more attractive and strange.

With just a few simple steps, you have an extremely delicious bitter gourd dish. On rainy and windy days, making this dish for the whole family to enjoy will ensure that your rice cooker will be empty in an instant. Good luck with this recipe!

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