Bitter Melon with Pork. Simple and easy recipe for Steamed Bitter Melon With Pork. Hollow out the middle of the bitter melon. Cut into bite size pieces and stuffed with ground pork.
This stuffed bitter melon soup is a delicious Vietnamese "soup", stuffed with pork, mushroom, and mung bean noodles, simmered until the melon softens in a light chicken broth.
As a kid, my parents couldn't get me to eat this stuff, but I've really grown to love this dish.
This dish is typically a heck yes.
You can have Bitter Melon with Pork using 5 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Bitter Melon with Pork
- You need 1 pcs of bittermelon.
- You need Slices of pork.
- It's of Garlic, ginger shallots.
- You need of Oyster sauce.
- Prepare 1 of little cornflour.
In Indonesia, bitter melon is used in salads, stir-fried, cooked in coconut milk, or steamed. The Vietnamese stuff the melon with ground pork for use in steamed dishes or soup. Thai cooks combine powerful birds eye chilies with the melon, using generous splashes of fish sauce as well. Bitter melon is stuffed with a delicious mixture of minced pork, then pan-fried and simmered with a garlic and black bean sauce.
Bitter Melon with Pork instructions
- Wash bittermelon and slice, then mash with salt. To eliminate the bitter taste. Then wash and rinse..
- Marinate pork with soy sauce, white pepper and flour.
- Take a pan and stir fry garlic shallots and ginger until fragrant. Then add pork stir fry unti golden brown. Now, add the bitter gourd mix and add a little water.Add oyster sauce. Cover and let it simmer until bitter melon is half done..
Lean pork fillet and ground pork. What does a bitter melon look like? As a child, I shun bitter melon because it is bitter. As I become older, I grew to appreciate it. Bitter melon is very easy to identify.