Description
A home-style soup where Taiwanese white bitter melon cut into tubes is tightly stuffed with seasoned minced pork and simmered soft in anchovy or bonito broth.
Restaurants serving Stuffed Bitter Melon Soup
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Recipe
Ingredients
- White bitter melon
- Minced pork
- Scallions
- Dried anchovies(or Bonito flakes)
- Ginger
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- [Meat Filling] Knead minced pork with minced scallions, soy sauce, sesame oil, white pepper, and a little potato starch until sticky.
- Cut Taiwan's specialty 'White Bitter Melon (Baiyu Kugua)' into 3-4cm thick rings.
- Use a spoon handle to cleanly hollow out the seeds and 'white pith' in the center, making tubes.
- Pack the meat filling tightly into the melon holes without gaps (Kugua Feng Rou).
- Boil dashi in a pot with water, dried anchovies (or bonito flakes), and sliced ginger.
- Arrange the stuffed melons in the pot, simmer on low for
- mins to
- hr until the melon cuts easily with chopsticks.
- Season with salt and a little soy sauce to finish.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Bitter melon bitterness and anchovy dashi
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Japanese green bitter melon (parboil recommended due to high bitterness)
Pairing
White Rice or Jiachang Mian(home-style noodles)
Trivia
[For Families] 'Feng' is a Chinese cooking method of stuffing ingredients. The white bitter melon's slight bitterness brilliantly neutralizes pork fat, giving deep richness to the whole soup. Famous as Hakka cuisine, very popular as Taiwanese bento sides or soup.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Split the stuffed bitter melon in half on a spoon, put it in your mouth with the meat-juice-dissolved soup, and enjoy the gradient of bitterness and umami!
Allergen
Pork, Soy, Wheat