Tasty recipe of bitter melon stir fry with pork and egg! Bitter melon has a lot of health benefits.

"beer" "Wasabi" "bitter melon"

They are big 3 who we have terrible impression on at first bite.

If you don't have interests on them now, (Except beer, maybe.) keep on trying Wasabi and bitter melon ! One day you will be able to feel their attractive flavor!

So this article will show you how to make bitter melon stir fry with pork and egg. This recipe originated in Okinawa prefecture in Japan. Umami of pork and bitterness of bitter melon matches grately!!

And also bitter melon has several benefits for health. Let's check them out!

CONTENTS

Instructions of recipe of bitter melon stir fry with pork and egg

Prepare of Tofu and bitter melons (remove edible / bitter parts) and porks

To remove water inside of Tofu, rap them with cooking paper and push gently with some weight for 1hour.( It's ok if you push them with hands and don't take that much time.) Break them into bite sizes with hands.

Next, cut off bitter melon's edges, remove seeds and cotton. And cut bitter melon into 5mm width. Then mix them with 【A】seasonings in mixing bowl. Keep them for 5〜10minutes. ( This is the way to remove edible parts/ bitter parts of bitter melon! Bitter melon's bitterness has several good effects on health, but it is not easy to eat them as they are.)

When water comes out of bitter melons, get rig of it. Bitterness get outside with water.

Then cut boneless pork ribs into 3〜4cm width, and put salt and pepper on boneless pork ribs.

Cook Tofu and bitter melons and porks with frying pan

First, put oil into frying pan and turn fire middle, and put Tofu into frying pan. Cook them until they get golden in color with both surfaces.

And get them outside for a moment.

Clean up frying pan's surface, and put 1 teaspoon of sesame oil into frying pan . Then put bitter melons (Remove bitter water but don't wash bitter melons.) , and cook them with weak middle fire. When bitter melons turn into clear and be cooked 80%, put them outside.

Tendon

You're almost finished!

Clean up frying pan again, and put boneless pork ribs. Cook them both faces.( Turn them over.) When boneless pork ribs get cooked, put Tofu and bitter melons . (Remove water which oozes out from Tofu.) Then cook them in middle fire. Don't forget flavor them with salt and pepper.

Coat them with egg

Put beaten egg all over Tofu, bitter melons, and boneless pork ribs. Keep them stable for 10seconds, then mix them up.(to coat ingredients with egg well.)

Finally, put soy source along with frying pan's rim and mix it with ingredients.

Done!!!!!

Even if you remove bitterness, you would feel this plate a little bit bitter. But after try this few times, you will feel attractive taste!!

Ingredients

Bitter melon stir fry with pork and egg /scale 2people

・1/2 of biter melon

・150g of Tobu(Momen)

・100g of boneless pork ribs

・1 egg

・oil (as needed)

・1 teaspoon of sesame oil

・【A】1/2 of teaspoon of salt

・【A】2 teaspoons of sugar

・2 teaspoons of soy sauce

Benefits of bitter melon for health

Anticancer effect

Several research results have represented that bitter melon has Anticancer effect.

(1)BG-4 which is contained in bitter melon let colorectal cancer cells die. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27628414/#)

(2)TCD which is contained in bitter melon prevent breast cancer cells increasing. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26926586/#)

(3)Pressed juice of bitter melon help Anticancer drug for pancreas cancer and increase medical effect. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25672620/#)

Lower the level of sugar in the blood

Bitterness of bitter melon lowers the level of sugar in the blood. Momordicin and Charantin which contained in bitter parts of bitter melon make the level of sugar in the blood stable, and decreases cholesterol. So that's why bitter melon is known for prevention for diabetes.

So bitterness of bitter melon delivers bitter punch on illness!!

Bitter melon : originated in Okinawa prefecture

(NHK放送史: https://www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/search/special/detail/?d=asadra025)

"Chanpurū" , this is a dialect in Okinawa prefecture. And recipe which shared by this article is called "gōyā (bitter melon) Chanpurū". Chanpurū means "mixed up". Gōyā (bitter melon) Chanpurū = stir fry Which is jumbled together bitter melon and something or anything

By the way it has been said that people in Okinawa lives for long life. 67.99 of people per hundred thousand people has lived for over 100years at 2014.※1 (But average life span of people in Okinawa at 2015 is not so remarkable one. ※2)

According to dissection reports of patients in Okinawa prefecture in 1980, they didn't have much calcification of coronary artery and aorta. And pathologists were surprised at youth of their blood vessels.※3

To feel living in Okinawa prefecture, I recommend "ちゅらさん” the TV drama about growth of the girl who lives in Okinawa.

Of course cultivation of bitter melon is popular, but cultivation of melon in Miyakojima city which has over level 14 of sugar content or big ball mango are also popular.