How to Make Tasty Stir Fried Bitter Melon *Vegan

Stir Fried Bitter Melon *Vegan. This vegan, gluten free, sweet-n-sour, and spicy bitter melon stir-fry with coconut and garlic is to-die-for!! I have been waiting for long to share this recipe with you all. Last month I shared Bitter Melon Stir Fry with Potatoes.

I will teach you how to do it. It tastes a little bitter, but it is delicious also. Slice bitter melon in half horizontally, scoop out seeds, and slice. You can cook Stir Fried Bitter Melon *Vegan using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Stir Fried Bitter Melon *Vegan

1. Prepare 2 of bitter melon (light green bitter melon is less bitter).
2. Prepare 1 of tomato.
3. Prepare 1/2 of red onion or 5 shallots.
4. You need 3 of garlic cloves.
5. Prepare 2 of long red chili.
6. It's 4 of spicy chili (optional).
7. You need 1 tsp of salt.
8. You need 1 tsp of white sugar.
9. It's 1/2 tsp of pepper.
10. Prepare 1/2 cup of water.
11. Prepare 2 of bay leaves.
12. You need 2 of cms galangal.
13. You need 2 tbsp of cookong oil.

Drain and place in ice water bath until cool. Stir Fried Bitter Melon with Egg is a Asian dish that is mixed with bitter gourd/melon, onion, garlic, and scrambled egg. It is perfectly eaten with rice, and as a half Asian, rice is a very important carbohydrate in our life. When I was a kid, I always avoid eating food that has bitter melon.

Stir Fried Bitter Melon *Vegan step by step

1. Chop onion and garlics, slice bitted melon, tomato, chilies and galangal, put aside (you can soak sliced bitter melon im salt watef for 30 mnts to 1 hour to reduce the bitter taste..
2. Pre-heat a sauce pan, pour cooking oil, wait until its hot, cook onion and garlic, stir it well until the aroma comes out. Put chilies, bay leaves, galangal, and tomato in, stir it well. Sprinkle salt, sugar, and pepper, put bitter melon in, stir it until it mixes well. Pour some water in and wait until its cooked well. (When the bitter melon turns soft it means its cooked well) try the taste..
3. Enjoy it with bread or steamed rice..

You can tell by the name of it, it is bitter. This is not a quick stir fry like some of the more delicate vegetables. Stir to coat the melon with oil. If the melon seems dry, drizzle some more oil. The oil should never pool, but coat all the pieces.