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Brilio.net - Bitter melon is widely used as a medicinal ingredient for various diseases or processed into various dishes. When cooked, bitter melon is often processed into side dishes for rice, chips or fried foods, and so on. This food ingredient is believed to have many benefits for the body.
Reported from narayanahealth.org, bitter melon is known to have a lot of antioxidants that can prevent bacteria from attacking the body, clean toxins in the blood, prevent digestive problems, and others. However, many people avoid this food because of its strong bitter taste.
Although bitter, the bitter taste can be reduced. Generally, bitter melon is mixed with salt to reduce the bitter taste. In addition, there are still other spices that can also be used to reduce the bitter taste of bitter melon. This was explained by an Indian netizen through an upload on the YouTube account Health Queen Ravneet Bhalla.
This woman is known to actively share content about nutrition, cooking recipes, and cooking tricks in the kitchen through several videos on her YouTube account. Well, about bitter melon, according to her, besides salt, there is one more spice that can be used, namely turmeric powder.
The trick is, just sprinkle salt and turmeric on the pieces of bitter melon that have been cleaned and washed clean. Next, rub the bitter melon until the salt and turmeric are evenly distributed over the entire surface of the bitter melon. Then, if most people usually boil bitter melon to reduce its bitter taste, this trick does not require going through the boiling process at all, you know.
The bitter melon that has been rubbed with salt and turmeric is simply left for a few minutes. The owner of the YouTube account Health Queen Ravneet Bhalla explains, leave the bitter melon for approximately 30 to 60 minutes.
"Keep in sun if that is possible (Bitter melon can also be left to dry in the sun)," said YouTube Health Queen Ravneet Bhalla, quoted by BrilioFood on Tuesday (24/9).
photo: YouTube/Health Queen Ravneet Bhalla
After that, rinse the bitter melon using clean water, then squeeze it so that the sap content is gone. After investigation, the sap in the bitter melon is the source of its bitter taste. After squeezing until the sap is gone, rinse the bitter melon again, then the bitter melon is ready to be cooked into any dish according to taste.
photo: YouTube/Health Queen Ravneet Bhalla
So, this trick to reduce the bitterness of bitter melon is really simple, right? Because it doesn't need to be boiled at all?
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