How to make bitter melon baked eggs?

In our lives, there are many foods that taste bitter, such as the most common bitter melon, which is one of the most common vegetables in the vegetable market. Although the taste is somewhat unacceptable, the bitterness of bitter melon can be masked by other flavors through certain cooking techniques. What's more, from a health perspective, the nutritional value of bitter melon is really high. So, what is the method of making bitter melon baked eggs?

Bitter Melon Baked Egg

1. Slice the bitter gourd.

2. Boil water in a pot. Put the bitter gourd into the pot after the water boils. Take it out when the water boils again. (This way the bitterness will be less)

3. Rinse the bitter gourd with cold water and squeeze out the moisture.

4. Beat the eggs in a bowl. After beating the eggs until bubbles form, pour in the bitter gourd and add seasoning. I only added salt and ground pepper. Stir well.

5. After the oil pan is heated, shake the pan to get some oil around the edges. Put only a small part of the ingredients in step 4 into the pan and stir-fry quickly. When the eggs are solidified, take them out immediately. Pour the bitter gourd and eggs back into the bowl and mix them with the remaining raw eggs and bitter gourd. This will help them to take shape when baking later. This is the most critical step.

6. Pour the contents of the bowl in step 5 back into the pot again. This time, no oil is needed. Spread it out and bake it slowly over low heat.

7. When the eggs on the surface are almost solidified, turn it over and continue baking. When it is almost done, you can take it out of the pan.

Clearing away heat and detoxifying: Bitter melon can relieve the heat in your heart and eliminate toxins in your body. The best way to eat bitter melon is to eat it cold. Eating bitter melon cold can preserve the vitamins contained in it very well. If stir-frying is used, these vitamins will be lost in large quantities during the process, and the oil content after stir-frying is relatively high. People will ingest more fat after eating it, and it will not have the effect of cooling down and reducing heat.

Nourishing and rejuvenating the skin: Eating bitter melon regularly can enhance the vitality of the skin and make the skin delicate and healthy. Mashing fresh bitter melon into juice or boiling it into a soup is a good auxiliary food therapy for liver fire, red eyes, stomach pain, and damp-heat dysentery. Mashing fresh bitter melon and applying it externally can treat carbuncles and furuncles. Children are prone to prickly heat in summer, so cut bitter melon into slices and rub it on the prickly heat on your body to help it heal soon. Boiling bitter melon in water or cooking it as a delicacy can dissipate heat and relieve summer heat.

Lowering blood sugar: Clam meat and bitter melon soup is an excellent product for lowering blood sugar. The crude extract of bitter melon contains insulin-like substances and has a significant blood sugar-lowering effect. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bitter melon is sweet, bitter and cold in nature, and can clear away heat, relieve restlessness and quench thirst; clam meat is sweet, salty and cold, and can clear away heat, nourish yin, quench thirst and promote diuresis. The combination of the two can clear away heat and nourish yin, and is suitable for patients with diabetes who have stomach yin deficiency and heat.

Nourishing blood and liver: Bitter melon tastes bitter, is cold when raw, and warm when cooked. Eating it raw can clear away heat and reduce fire, relieve fever and relieve restlessness; eating it cooked can nourish blood and liver, moisten the spleen and tonify the kidneys, eliminate evil heat, relieve fatigue, clear the heart and improve eyesight, and replenish qi and strengthen yang. However, when eating bitter melon, you should also be careful not to damage the spleen and lung qi. Although the weather is hot in summer, people should not eat too much bitter food, and it is best to pair it with spicy food (such as chili, pepper, onion, garlic). This can avoid the bitterness entering the heart and help replenish the lung qi.