MEAT STUFFED BITTER MELON SOUP

Bitter melon has high vitamin C in vegetable, help protect the membrane, good for veins, increase the resistance system. Besides, bitter melon is cool, help febrifuge, good for eyes, detox. In the hot summer weather, bitter melon soup would be a perfect dish for your family’s meal.

Bitter melon has the highest vitamin C among vegetables.

Ingredients:

Original recipe makes 2 servings

-         Bitter melon: 300g

-         The meat for filling: 200g lean pork, mushroom, black fungus, dry onion, green onion, garlic, cilantro.

-         Spice: Salt, seasoning powder, pepper.

PREP 20mins

COOK 30mins

READY 50mins

Preparation:

-         Cut the bitter melon into 4, take out the seed and stuff inside, clean and drain.

-         Finely chop or blend the meat, soak the black fungus, mushroom until soft and get bigger, clean and roughly chop. Finely chop dry onion, garlic.

-         Marinate meat with seasoning powder, salt, pepper, mushroom, black fungus, dry onion, garlic, and cilantro.

-         Stuff the marinated meat into the bitter melon.

Stuff the marinated meat into the bitter melon.

Direction:

-         Have a pot of water on heat, boil, drop bitter melon in, low down the heat, take out the bubble on the surface, season with spices to taste. When the bitter melon is soft, take it out the heat, place it in a bowl, garnish with some cilantro and green onion.

 

Delicious attractive bitter melon soup

Tips:

You should pick the big bitter melon with the spine blossom enough.

If you have pork paste, mix it with meat, the filling will be sweet and stickier and easy to stuff.

For the bitter melon to be green, after add the bitter melon in, you should open the lid and wait until the soup boil, do not cover with lid!

Hope you would succeed!

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