Recipe: Tasty Melon and bitter leaf soup

Melon and bitter leaf soup. This is my Culinary Cooking at home (Homemade food), today I want to show you about Khmer Cooking food recipes in Asian. Bitter Melon leaves is the best. This is one of my favorite soups, Bitter leaves can also be made with Ogbono, Okra or added to other soups.

Growing up Kim loved it and ate bitter melon soup (canh khổ qua) and stir fries routinely while I, on the other hand, despised it's bitterness so mom rarely made it. But over the years I've come to love it. Bitter Leaf soup is a robust West African soup, predominant in countries like Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana. You can cook Melon and bitter leaf soup using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Melon and bitter leaf soup

1. Prepare 3 cups of melon.
2. You need 1 bunch of bitter leaf (washed).
3. Prepare 1 cup of palm oil.
4. Prepare 1 of cooking spoon fresh pepper (blended).
5. Prepare 1 of big onion.
6. Prepare 2 of dried mackerel.
7. It's 2 cups of periwinkle.
8. It's 1 tsp of salt.
9. It's 1 of knor cubes.
10. Prepare 1 tin of tomatoes.
11. You need 1 of kilo chicken.
12. You need 1 of cooking spoon blended crayfish.

This dish is neither a soup nor sauce, but something in between - a slightly soupy vegetable that is served to accompany starchy food like fufu. Bitter melon leaves grow on herbaceous vine and attached to vine with long and thin stems. Tender ones are bright green to light green and are pliable as well as soft. This soup is loaded bitter melon rings that are filled to the brim with seasoned ground pork.

Melon and bitter leaf soup instructions

1. Wash, season chicken with pepper, onion, knor cubes, and salt to taste. Set aside.
2. Heat pot over medium heat, add palm oil, allow to bleach. Then add onion and tin tomatoes (stir constantly)... Allow to cook for 1 minute. Then add pepper, crayfish, knor and stir..
3. Add melon and stir until thickens, then add water to your taste.. Allow to cook for 3-5 minutes..
4. Add fish, periwinkles, and chicken, stir. Taste for salt and pepper then adjust to taste..
5. Put off the stove, then add bitter leaf and stir. Cover pot for 3minutes so the heat softens the bitter leaf. Serve with any swallow of choice!.

A Vietnamese-style pork and bitter melon recipe my friend Minh-ai N. taught me to make. It's a homey dish popular in Vietnamese and Chinese cuisine. Melon soup is a soup prepared with melon as a primary ingredient. Melons such as bitter melon, cantaloupe, crenshaw melon, honeydew (casaba melon) and winter melon may be used, among others. Some melon soups are prepared with whole pieces of melon, and others use puréed melon.