Summer is the harvest season for melons and fruits. Melon vegetables such as loofah, pumpkin, bitter gourd, and cucumber “occupy” the vegetable market. Many of these vegetables have a weight loss right-hand man. Among them, bitter gourd is very nutritious, and the content of vitamin C ranks first in melon vegetables, and the content of sugar and fat is very low, which is more suitable for obese people. Below, the editor recommends 5 bitter gourd dishes, so that you can enjoy delicious food and have a good body.
Recipe 1: Fried bitter gourd with shredded celery and pork
Material: 300 grams of bitter gourd, 100 grams of celery, 200 grams of shredded pork, soy sauce, minced green onion, minced ginger, salt, chicken powder, and water starch
Practice:
- Remove the stem of the bitter gourd, cut it into two pieces, remove the flesh and cut into shreds, wash the celery and cut into shreds.
- Heat up the wok, add oil and heat until it is 50% hot, add onion and ginger to fry until fragrant, add shredded pork, stir-fry until it changes color and just cooked, set aside for later use. 3. Heat the wok again, heat the oil, add celery and bitter gourd and stir-fry until cooked, add soy sauce and shredded pork, stir well, add in the juice of water starch and chicken powder to thicken.
Recipe 2: Green Bitter Gourd Soup
Ingredients: 150 grams of bitter gourd, 1 cucumber, half a lotus root, 2 dried plums, 2 bowls of soup, 1/4 spoon of salt, 1 spoon of lotus root starch, half a spoon of soy sauce, some pepper
Practice:
- Heat the soup and add some salt, pepper and soy sauce.
- Add some water to lotus root starch and stir well.
- After cleaning the bitter gourd and cucumber, cut it into small pieces. Do not remove the flesh of the cucumber and bitter gourd. After cutting, pour it into the juicer to squeeze it into juice, filter out the residue, then pour it into the soup, boil it for a while, and finally add it. A few prunes and chopped fenugreek will do.
Recipe 3: Bitter Gourd and Carrot Omelette
Material: half a bitter gourd, a carrot, two eggs, a small amount of chopped green onion, a little salt and cooking wine
Practice:
- Cut the bitter gourd in half, remove the flesh, cut into strips, then cut into small cubes, cut carrots into small cubes, and chop green onions.
- Beat the eggs, add diced bitter gourd, diced carrot, minced green onion, salt, and a little cooking wine.
- Put a little oil in the pot, turn the pot, so that the oil spreads the surface of the pot. Pour in the egg mixture, turn the pan to spread the egg mixture evenly on the pan; heat on low heat, turn over after the surface has solidified, and fry for another minute.
Recipe 4: bitter gourd mixed with kelp sprouts
Ingredients: 250g bitter gourd, 5g kelp sprouts, 1 tablespoon Japanese soy sauce, and a little pepper.
Practice:
- Soak the kelp sprouts to soften and drain; remove the seeds of the bitter gourd, slice it, add a little salt to wash it, and squeeze out the excess brine.
- Put bitter gourd and kelp sprouts in a bowl, add soy sauce, mix well, and sprinkle with chili powder.
Recipe 5: Frozen plum pickled bitter gourd
Material: plum, bitter gourd
Practice:
- Put an appropriate amount of plum into a pot, add a large bowl of water to a boil over high heat, and cook slowly over medium heat; cook until the water is reduced by more than half, turn to high heat to harvest a thick juice, and let it cool for later use.
- Cut the bitter gourd, dig out the seeds and white inner membrane, and slice the bitter gourd into small pieces of the textbook with an oblique knife.
- Put all the sliced bitter gourd slices into boiling water, blanch for 1-2 minutes, take out and let it cool.
- Drain the bitter gourd, mix it with the plum juice if cooled, and marinate in the refrigerator for 10-20 minutes.