Instructions on how to make delicious and simple bitter gourd salad at home

Prepare
10 Minutes Processing
15 Minutes For
3-4 people

Bitter gourd salad is a delicious and extremely attractive dish. Learn how to make delicious crispy bitter gourd salad at home with lassho.edu.vn!

Ingredients for bitter gourd salad

• 200g bitter melon
• 200g shrimp
• 30g onion
• 30g carrots
• 20g mint leaves
• Lemon, chili
• Seasoning: Salt, fish sauce, sugar, vinegar

Ingredients for bitter gourd salad

Good tip
Tips for choosing to buy bitter melon
– Choose bitter melon with moderate size, large head, wide veins, peel surface with many small veins, the bitter taste is not harsh, easier to eat.
– Do not buy bitter melon with small head, green color, large fruit, shiny skin because this is bitter melon sprayed with stimulants, often bitter taste, harder to eat.

Tips for choosing to buy fresh shrimp
– Choose fresh shrimp, still jumping, the shrimp legs are still attached to the body, straight or slightly curved.
– Do not choose shrimp that are dead, slimy, bent into a round shape and have a strange smell.

Tips for choosing to buy carrots
– Choose tubers with smooth skin, straight shape, bright orange color and hard, firm hand, will taste better.
– Do not buy tubers that are too large, bruised, soft and distorted in shape because these carrots are no longer fresh, low in nutrients, and do not taste good.

Tips for choosing to buy onions
– Choose onions with yellow skin, white inner intestines, dry water, lumpy skin, long stalks, many roots and not succulent, this is Vietnamese onion, eating better.
– Do not buy onions with dark red color, greenish white flesh, smooth, eye-catching skin, short stalks, no roots because this is a Chinese onion.

How to make bitter gourd salad

Step 1Preliminary processing of bitter melon

First, you cut the bitter melon in half, remove the seeds , cut into thin pieces, just eat, then mix with 1/2 teaspoon of salt and wash.

Then, you put bitter melon in a bowl, add 500ml ice water, soak for about 15 minutes . After soaking, take out the bitter melon and drain the water.

Preliminary processing of bitter melon

Step 2Prepare other ingredients

You peel, cut the onion into thin pieces and soak in a bowl of ice water for 3-5 minutes to remove the pungent onion. Then you peel, wash and grate the carrots.

Next, you wash 20g of mint leaves, chop and chop 5g of chili. Next, you wash, peel, remove the shrimp and bring the shrimp to boil.

Preliminary processing of shrimp, carrots, onions, peppers

Step 3Make onion and carrot salad

You put in a bowl 30g thinly sliced onion, 30g grated carrot, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon vinegar , stir well.

Make onion and carrot salad

Step 4Make fish sauce

You take another bowl, put in 1 tablespoon fish sauce, 3 tablespoons vinegar, 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 tablespoon sugar, 5g minced chili, stir well.

Make fish sauce

Step 5Mix bitter gourd salad

First, you put in the bowl of bitter melon prepared in step 1; 200g boiled shrimp, peeled; Add the onion and carrot salad in step 2 and fish sauce in step 3 , add 20g of mint leaves to make the salad more fragrant, mix well.

Finally, you can put it on a plate to enjoy.

The process of mixing bitter gourd salad

Finished product

Bitter gourd salad is an attractive dish with a great combination of ingredients. You can feel the crisp, fresh taste of bitter melon, the sweet and sour taste of the salad and the aroma of mint leaves, onion and the natural sweetness of shrimp.

Very attractive bitter gourd salad

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