Bitter Melon Pickles
Posted by Ariel | Filed under Japanese, VEGETARIAN/ VEGAN, melon
bitter melon pickles
bitter melon
Have you ever tried this vegetable?
This is Bitter melon. As you see from name, it taste bitter but it is extremely helpful in curbing diabetes mellitus or commonly known as blood sugar.
Bitter melon is rich in calcium, iron, beta-carotene, and vitamins B and C.
When you feel sick because of summer heat, this vegetable help you to give energy.
Here is the recipe.
ingredients
- 1 better melon
- A
- 1 cube garlic sliced
- 100 ml soy sauce (or my all purpose soy sauce)
- 100 ml Mirin or rice wine
- 3-5 tablespoon sugar
recipe
| 1. |  bitter melon 2 |
| 2. |  bitter melon3 |
| 3. | cook them in boiling water about 1-2 min and strain. |
| 4. | Make sauce: in the sauce pan, combine all ingredients A, bring them to just shy of boiling (to mix with sugar). remove from heat |
| 5. | soak bitter melon in the sauce about 30 min |
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July 11th, 2010 at 11:52 am
Good read, thanks. Often searching out for unusual and wonderful stuff to read
July 12th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Fantastic blog. Keep on rockin, Diabete Diabete