Ampalaya

Hi! My mom would cover the ampalaya (bitter melon) with rock salt and leave it like that for about an hour. Afterwards, she will wash it and then cook it. It's not very bitter that way. My favorite recipe of ampalaya is when it is cooked with scrambled eggs. I wonder what your favorite dish is.

For ampalaya to be not so bitter, soak it in water with salt for sometime. This is what we do. i do not eat also if the ampalaya is very bitter. Our house help makes this with egg and sauteed beef and small shrimps with coconut milk. It really tastes good.

I don't really like amplaya because of the bitter taste... so my mother rarely cooks it... but i do eat the leaves... but only when it is added to mongo soup... because the slightly bitter taste of the leaves add a different kind of flavor to the mongo soup...

I can cook ampalaya without the bitter taste of it. I usually soak it in lukewarm water with a little salt then after a minute, I squeeze it. Then when I put it in the pan, I don't cover it and I don't stir it. I let it cook first before stirring it. This technique was taught to me by my late grandmother. HUGZ!

I cook ampalaya two ways. The first one is bitter and the other one is not. My husband would not want the bitterness to be out of the ampalaya. He wants it cooked as is and the more bitter, the better for him because he finds it even nutritious. I agree with him so we both eat the bitterness of ampalaya. Anyway with lots of tomatoes when cooked and scrambled egg in it, the taste gets better. However for my son he would not want the bitter taste so I have to cook his ampalaya separately. To remove the bitterness, after I've sliced them, I would put in a bowl of water with salt then after some few minutes I would wash them before cooking. And one more tip, the big ampalaya is not that bitter as the small ones with lots of wrinkles.

I cooked ampalaya or bitter gourd for my husband because its good for health. I cooked it but i just lessen the taste of bitterness. I cannot totally remove the bitter taste, i think i'm not just so good cooking it. I clean the bitter gourd and i will soak with water and salt for at least minutes. After that i will remove all the water and i will fry it with onion and garlic then i will put small amount of water then i will mix it with egg.

me too, I like ampalaya and the way my dad cook it. he taught me that before you cook amapalaya, you should wash it with hot water. some of us put salt right? but my dad said that the bitterness of it will lost, so instead of salt, wash it with hot water. but not too much.