Hey guys, thanks for watching! To see me grow some more cool fruits, check out this video here :) th-cam.com/video/1u1DbPL8wzo/w-d-xo.html Hope you're all doing well. -Kalem
Hope you're doing well too, Kalem! Thanks for sharing and posting all the cool facts about the Bitter Melon and the similarities other plants have with it! I love learning all these fascinating things plants can do🌱 🌍
I am located in southeast Texas and I grow bitter melon every summer. Once the ambient temperature is above 50 F at night the seeds can be sown directly into the soil. I soak the seeds at least 12 hours in water prior to sowing directly into the soil in a location with full sun. They germinate in about 5 days. They grow vigorously during the Texas summer.
I'm always so hyped when i see a new Upload of you Kalem! We all know that means quality time! Thank you for your effort and all the time you are spending to make those videos. ☀️🌴
I loved this so much, bitter melons (called karela in hindi) are something we had when I was growing up in India but I didn't like them as a kid! I love when I find them in beggie markets in NZ, my main way of cooking them is with lots of tomatoes and garlic, sauted untils it's soft and almost... caramelisted. Sometimes I'd add a bit of golden syrup or date syrup to add some sweetness to the dish
I grew to really like these bitter melons after adulthood because it reminded me of childhood. These go great with pre-stir fried beef which is added in to the cooked bitter melon w/ garlic & black beans. Make a light sauce at the end with water , soy sauce & corn starch to mix in all the flavors.
Two weeks ago I saw this fruit/vegetable (the green one) in an oriental supermarket and there was no sign or anything telling you what it was etc. Now I stumbled across your channel and this video in particular and know what it is. So I just wanted to say thank you😊 Greetings from Europe🌍
In a stir fry we generally add some jaggery to it and another optional addition can be roasted peanut powder. It compliments the bitterness well. Also you can cut it into circular discs and make crispy chips in a air fryer or oven.
One of my favorites. My kids like them too. Very good for you. We love them in any pork dish. I saute some pork with lots of garlic, onion and eggplant. I like to blanch the bittermelon in a separate pot of boiling water for about ten minutes or until tender. Drain the water, and add it to the pan of pork and eggplants. I’d even go as far as saying that this simple dish is my top 3 all time foods👍🏼😋😋 So ono with hot rice. Also the young shoots of the vines can be eaten also. Add to soups. Love them🙏🏼
If you can,please show us how you treat the pragues in yours trees. I have this problem and i'm losing so many trees because of them. Sending love from Brazil 💛💚
In my country we cook it with meat, chicken or beef. You season your meat very well, add a little oil in the pan and cook until the meat is tender and golden then cut the bitter melon just like you did (the same way with covering the melon with the salt for 15 to 25 minutes) then throw the melon over the cooked meat and lower the heat, cover the pot, and season it to taste. We eat it with rice or boiled provisions. It is tasty and it also clean your blood and kidneys.
we stir fry them with minced beef and eat it with roti ( bread ) it combines the sour and saltiness of beef with bitterness of melons, gives a very delicious taste
Some of the bitterness is in the peel, so peel them, then salt them in a strainer so the bitter juice falls below into a bowl for one hour. Then rinse off the salt and stir fry in oil with garlic, soy sauce, cayenne powder or hot pepper chips.... those flavorings mitigate some of the bitterness and it ends up tasty! I'm white, not Asian so I never ate this until a few years ago at age 65. And I normally do not like sour/bitter flavors but somehow I like this, ha. I grow the smoother, bigger, light green ones.
In south east Asia, we also use the young leaves for our vegetable soup. To lessen the bitterness when sauteed, we squeeze out the water by adding salt then rinse it after.
I very much prefer the chinese cultivar (longer smoother and lighter green) over the indian (kerala is shorter, darker and knobbier). My 2nd year growing bitter melon.
Tip: you can speed germination by about 1 week by scoring the hard pericap of the seeds, or breaking off the tiny tip. Tip: Bitter melons are easy to clone ... I start a mother plant indoors, and once it gets about 2-3ft tall it starts putting out lateral creeper vines ... I let those reach 3 nodes long then cut & clone each one. Cuttings fully roots within 7-10 days with rooting enzyme and water.
Hello folks, this bitter melon is very edible if you know how to use it. Beside salting the melon, you can also sliced them and blanch them in boiling hot water with a spoonful of salt as well. This will lessen the bitterness, and you can use it however you please. We saute it with eggs, or hollow them and stuff them with seasoned meat and make it into soup. Get in touch with me for recipes or dehydrate slices into tea.
I eat them when I lost my appetite. yes they're bitter but any foods you eat after that taste good. but that also depend on how you prepare them, if you not used to how it taste you can expect nuisance for a half day😅
My Mom's trick: Boil chopped bitter gourd in water with little turmeric powder, raw sugar or jaggery, and tamarind (lemon juice). Boil for 3-5 minutes, discard water, and saute boiled bitter gourd pieces in little oil following sauteeing of finely chopped onions, salt, chilli powder, garnish with coriander powder and little raw sugar (jaggery or brown sugar). Very tasty with rice and tomato dal.
You can take a look at a Japanese dish called "goya chanpuru" - which is a bitter melon stir-fry. Pretty good, cos you can end up adding onions, scrambled eggs & shreded pork - and goes well on top of steamed rice
That was professional, informative and highly entertaining... In fact up to your usual standard. Its obvious from how well these are put together just how much effort goes into making these videos. Thanks for the great content and looking forward to the next one.
I found this interesting and fun. Thanks! I was introduced to the bitter melon (the Chinese variety) several years ago by both a Malaysian friend and a Taiwanese colleague. I love it! I usually stir fry the melon with oyster sauce and some onion. It's a great side dish to other Asian foods. Bitter melon is also good in scrambled eggs. I like bitter taste; much like Italian broccoli rabe. I grew it easily in Connecticut (USA) but now that I live in south Florida (USA) it's even easier and it really thrives in our sandy, alkaline "soil" (like beach sand, truly). I have long followed your channel here and enjoy your informative and entertaining production. Thanks, mate!
Im building my house and next to my house there is an overgrown plot of land, i literally can't stop this weird cucumber plant to grow around the steel rebar of my house columns. Its crazy how fast it grows back.
Kind of off topic but also central to your whole channel, I have a guava seedling thats probably 3 weeks old at this point. I know its just a plant but the long germination time and high humidity to start it kind of intimidated me at first but your channel really helped show me how much wasnt just possible but easily attainable. Thank you for sharing and inspiring me, i can't wait to eat my own freshly harvested guavas 😋
Hi, Bitter Gauard is very good for diabetes. I rub salt on these and leave it for few hours to take the extra bitterness out before cooking. You can also air fry them instead of stir frying.
I feel like you just squeezed out all the benefits of this vegetable. If you stir fry (without all the salt and squeezing of juice) with bean sprouts and tofu it’s delicious.
So interesting, and good to know they can be grown here in NZ! I enjoyed eating them in Okinawa, saw a few other people mention their dish goya champuru, it's a very nice way to eat bitter melon I found :) Another very interesting ingredient you can try in Okinawa is sea grapes!
Very interesting, love these and also managed to grow them last 2 years in the UK. I do find that almost all the recipes I am used to ( tasted growing up) have some intense flavours masking the bitterness to some extent. My absolute favourite is everything u had in your recipe plus sautéed onion and tomatoes. Start with oil onion garlic ginger ,add onion and when it’s brown add tomatoes . When the6 go soft add Bitter melon and cook till soft. Thank u for this amazing video.
I'm from Vietnam, and I absolutely adore bittermelon. There are two types that I know, the normal one and the "forest" one. The latter is much much bitter, and it's also my favourite. Stir-fried bittermelon with beaten eggs Bittermelon stuffed pork soup Fridged raw bittermelon with shredded pork Are all go for dish, experiement them if you will. They are all super delicious 😁 Edit: Your type in the video is what we call forest bittermelon
Hi, do u have a video on how to prune a young kiwi? I have bought 3 last year which were already 1 year old ( only 2 of them kiwis made it through the winter ) and now 1 of the 2 has grown alot! And I'm wondering should I prune or not? 🙂
@@TheKiwiGrower The kiwi actually wrapped itself around a metal pole I placed for support 😅I did not expect that, I thought it would grow in a straight line like a vine but I was mistaken haha 🙂
Those look really interesting. Really want to try them now. But i suppose you need so scrape deeper into the inner. Like getting all the white stuff out? Imagining them with some Onion added to the Garlic and chilli for a rounder taste. Thanks for sharing!
The are my favorite if cooked right. The best way to salt treat the half moons is to leave them salted for a few hours and then repeat the process making sure to squeeze them dry. Then after frying them add a good amount of chopped tomatoes and fry the mixture until tomatoes become a paste and bitter melons start to get a little golden brown. Best enjoyed on a sandwich or with a flatbread. You can also cook this recipe with minced meat in it,
Thank you !!! Your this crop of Indian bitter melons are beautiful ! Indeed, bitter melon incites different extreme opinions about it - either love it or hate it. I know indigenous Asians who hate it and westerners who love it. It is almost an acquired taste. It is great in curry - soupy or stew-like or dry, Thai or Indian, coconut-milk-based or tomato-and-masala, etc.; Chinese cook it in soup, stir fry with different fermented pastes, summer cold salad, etc.; Japanese love it in a very famous Okinawa dish of sauté with egg and Spam (!); etc.. Try them! Bitter melon is weird - indeed - and fun and great.
One recipe I suggest. Slit the bitter gourd to make it like a pouch, fill pickle spices in it then knot thin threads to it. Fry till it become almost black. It really tastes good.
Hi Kalem, Than you so much for the amazing and educational videos over the years! 🙂Haven't seen any new videos the past few months, hope you have some great content to share. Hope you and everyone else there are well.
🇹🇹 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 🇹🇹 we call that carillie... You can stir fry it but what we do is cut it up nice and thin and salt it and put it out in the sun to dry a bit so that the bitterness can be reduced before cooking .. it can be cooked with some salted fish or any meat of choice ...
Always learning so much from you. Bitter melons are one of my fav veggies. I normally slice them and soak them with salt to get some of the bitterness out. The dark green ones are really bitter. Squeeze the extra liquid out and wash the slices out and squeeze some more. Leave to dry overnight to dry it out in open air. Salute in onions, garlic and pepper and lots of tomatoes. Salute really well. The green ones might need some water added to steam them well. Eat with rice. It takes time to get used to eating it but after a while you will like it. And in the Caribbean we put small tiny shrimp in it and fry it up. It's even more delicious that way. Never had it when it turned yellow.
Karela /bitter gaurd is our family favourite vegetable ...my parents were shocked when they realised we their kids love it .most of the kid hate because of its bitter taste ....but we love it
This was great! I wound up with some this year, didn't do anything special beyond the initial soil amendments and they are very happy. I clicked on this because you discuss the ripe fruit. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for a very detailed video. Growing up in Guyana, SouthAmerica this plant was staple in most gardens because our parents used the leaves to make bitters to detox us children at the start of every school year, and we hated it, but as an adult it is one of my favorites to prepare with salted fish.
Eat this quite a lot hated it as kid. Didn't know u can eat the ripen seed like that tho. Next time will try it. FYI for the next time u try it, put oil in the pan and give some black cumin and put the bitter melon just like u did and for spice use green chili. fry it well. try it with regular white rice. That how we eat it. test pretty good.
These guys are a serious invasive species around here, southeastern Brazil! If you want to have them in your garden, you do nothing. Sooner or later a bird will bring some seeds and, oh my, are they fast growers!
Cut even thinner. Stir fry with onion, garlic and chillies. Don't cover pan as that keeps the bitterness. Cook ooen pan. Serve with rice. I also add turneric gives colour abd more flavour and health benefits. People who hae diabetic they make it into juice and drink it raw.
I live in Japan, and bitter melon is popular in summer here. There is a dish from Okinawa called goya champuru which has tofu, egg and bitter melon, and I make that fairly often. But my favorite way to eat it is thinly sliced on pizza. I think the bitter flavor goes well with cheese and tomato. I'm just about to try growing it on my apartment balcony for the first time. It may be too windy, but it's worth a try.
In Jamaica we have a plant similar to this one called Cerasee. The fruits and leaves look the same. Only difference is that the ones here, their fruits are smaller. We use the plant here as a medicinal herb to make tea.
One of my favourite vegetable. Cook with onions. Fry the onions until golden brown, and then add garlic, tumeric, chilly. the sweetness of the caramelised onion counter balances the bitterness.
kinda over riped when you pick them for stir fry, we slice them horizontally, remove most of the white parts, and slice them slightly tilted, this would give them better texture, and toss them in boiling water for 30 secs, to rinse away most of the bitterness, and stir fry with fragrants， ferment soy（douchi 豆豉）and beef， it's my to-go dish to make in summer when they usually harvested.
Hey guys, thanks for watching! To see me grow some more cool fruits, check out this video here :) th-cam.com/video/1u1DbPL8wzo/w-d-xo.html
Hope you're all doing well.
-Kalem
Hope you're doing well too, Kalem! Thanks for sharing and posting all the cool facts about the Bitter Melon and the similarities other plants have with it! I love learning all these fascinating things plants can do🌱 🌍
The nightmare of my life, I hate eating it but my brother likes it
Do you know kiwanos? I had a few plants and these grew so incredibly fast in Belgium
S great to see you on tictok too, been following you since before you got all buff 😂
Please do QnA video
You have to be the most organized person ever to keep track of all your growing from seed projects that take months and years.
He is a npc I don't think he is real. Bro was the first chatgpt
I am located in southeast Texas and I grow bitter melon every summer. Once the ambient temperature is above 50 F at night the seeds can be sown directly into the soil. I soak the seeds at least 12 hours in water prior to sowing directly into the soil in a location with full sun. They germinate in about 5 days. They grow vigorously during the Texas summer.
I'm always so hyped when i see a new Upload of you Kalem! We all know that means quality time! Thank you for your effort and all the time you are spending to make those videos. ☀️🌴
I loved this so much, bitter melons (called karela in hindi) are something we had when I was growing up in India but I didn't like them as a kid! I love when I find them in beggie markets in NZ, my main way of cooking them is with lots of tomatoes and garlic, sauted untils it's soft and almost... caramelisted. Sometimes I'd add a bit of golden syrup or date syrup to add some sweetness to the dish
I grew to really like these bitter melons after adulthood because it reminded me of childhood. These go great with pre-stir fried beef which is added in to the cooked bitter melon w/ garlic & black beans. Make a light sauce at the end with water , soy sauce & corn starch to mix in all the flavors.
Two weeks ago I saw this fruit/vegetable (the green one) in an oriental supermarket and there was no sign or anything telling you what it was etc.
Now I stumbled across your channel and this video in particular and know what it is. So I just wanted to say thank you😊
Greetings from Europe🌍
In a stir fry we generally add some jaggery to it and another optional addition can be roasted peanut powder. It compliments the bitterness well. Also you can cut it into circular discs and make crispy chips in a air fryer or oven.
Thanks for the inspiring content!
Thanks so much for the support Amy, I really appreciate it! :)
I love bittermelon. I eat the leaves too.
One of my favorites. My kids like them too. Very good for you. We love them in any pork dish. I saute some pork with lots of garlic, onion and eggplant. I like to blanch the bittermelon in a separate pot of boiling water for about ten minutes or until tender. Drain the water, and add it to the pan of pork and eggplants. I’d even go as far as saying that this simple dish is my top 3 all time foods👍🏼😋😋 So ono with hot rice.
Also the young shoots of the vines can be eaten also. Add to soups. Love them🙏🏼
Very interesting video. We have a way smaller (cundeamor) version in Puerto Rico. I remember sucking on the sweet seeds of the ripe fruit as a child.
Being filipino, this is one of my favorite vegetables. I also like stirfrying it with eggs, tomatoes, ground meats or even canned tuna..
If you can,please show us how you treat the pragues in yours trees. I have this problem and i'm losing so many trees because of them. Sending love from Brazil 💛💚
They certainly looks fascinating.
I recommend making a popular vietnamese dish: Bitter melon soup. It's really good.
I live in Bangladesh and we call it korola here its bitter but yummy 😋.
Love to see a new video 😊😊😊
I usually cut it in cylindrical round and stuff them with ground pork or chicken and spices, cook them in chicken broth, yumm
I watch your videos just to hear that nice Kiwi accent😂.Love it☺️
In my country we cook it with meat, chicken or beef. You season your meat very well, add a little oil in the pan and cook until the meat is tender and golden then cut the bitter melon just like you did (the same way with covering the melon with the salt for 15 to 25 minutes) then throw the melon over the cooked meat and lower the heat, cover the pot, and season it to taste. We eat it with rice or boiled provisions. It is tasty and it also clean your blood and kidneys.
we stir fry them with minced beef and eat it with roti ( bread ) it combines the sour and saltiness of beef with bitterness of melons, gives a very delicious taste
Hello couple thing you can add after the veg is cooked to take away the bitterness lemon juice and little bit of suger/ stevia.
Very well put together.
They're called Bitter Cucumbers in Swedish. I have just gotten mine to sprout. It's a variety called 'Naja'
I love your videos. Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
Some of the bitterness is in the peel, so peel them, then salt them in a strainer so the bitter juice falls below into a bowl for one hour. Then rinse off the salt and stir fry in oil with garlic, soy sauce, cayenne powder or hot pepper chips.... those flavorings mitigate some of the bitterness and it ends up tasty! I'm white, not Asian so I never ate this until a few years ago at age 65. And I normally do not like sour/bitter flavors but somehow I like this, ha. I grow the smoother, bigger, light green ones.
In south east Asia, we also use the young leaves for our vegetable soup. To lessen the bitterness when sauteed, we squeeze out the water by adding salt then rinse it after.
Your video is excellent well explained about bitter melon what ratio you used seaweed please reply many thanks
i grew bitter melons and i live in nz
Ripe bitter melon is actually sweet and tastes pretty good
Thanks a lot - where are you in NZ?
Been awhile since your last upload. Everything good? Also, I bought some walking onions, keen to get some info if you know about them?
Well that is certainly something that I have not seen growing here in Vermont USA
Can you make it video as why the bitter Mellon leaves getting yellow😊
How many acres is your land?
AC/DC-Back In Black (Piano cover by Gamazda )😃👍
Do you ever see Ents?
Kalem, how are you doing bro?! Its been a minute.
You forgot to put a little bit sugar. For the bitternis..
I very much prefer the chinese cultivar (longer smoother and lighter green) over the indian (kerala is shorter, darker and knobbier).
My 2nd year growing bitter melon.
Tip: you can speed germination by about 1 week by scoring the hard pericap of the seeds, or breaking off the tiny tip.
Tip: Bitter melons are easy to clone ... I start a mother plant indoors, and once it gets about 2-3ft tall it starts putting out lateral creeper vines ... I let those reach 3 nodes long then cut & clone each one. Cuttings fully roots within 7-10 days with rooting enzyme and water.
That's vegetable here in India
Bitter gourd or karela in the local language
Salt and dry them
Its fire
That is a carilli boy
My god the cursed fruit lol. As a child I really didn't like eatting it as an adult still but I will eat it a bit more.
That is well known in Asia. Good to lower you blood sugar if you are diabetic.
The bract lets he pollinators rest.
Hello folks, this bitter melon is very edible if you know how to use it. Beside salting the melon, you can also sliced them and blanch them in boiling hot water with a spoonful of salt as well. This will lessen the bitterness, and you can use it however you please. We saute it with eggs, or hollow them and stuff them with seasoned meat and make it into soup. Get in touch with me for recipes or dehydrate slices into tea.
Kindly share your stuffed bitter melon with seasoned meat. TIA!
I use theses all the time in my salads. They are great for keeping your insulin levels down, Great for type two diabetics 🙂
Diabetics have a problem producing/absorbing insulin and typically need more than produced by their body.
In the Caribbean the leaves are often boiled and drunk to help with diabetes control and other wise
I eat them when I lost my appetite. yes they're bitter but any foods you eat after that taste good. but that also depend on how you prepare them, if you not used to how it taste you can expect nuisance for a half day😅
So true i make juice from it@@SuperSasky
and Neem leaves as well
My Mom's trick: Boil chopped bitter gourd in water with little turmeric powder, raw sugar or jaggery, and tamarind (lemon juice). Boil for 3-5 minutes, discard water, and saute boiled bitter gourd pieces in little oil following sauteeing of finely chopped onions, salt, chilli powder, garnish with coriander powder and little raw sugar (jaggery or brown sugar). Very tasty with rice and tomato dal.
This looks like Asosi in Haïti. The leaves are used in a tincture. Also infused with homemade moonshine to battle all sorts of ailments.
You can take a look at a Japanese dish called "goya chanpuru" - which is a bitter melon stir-fry. Pretty good, cos you can end up adding onions, scrambled eggs & shreded pork - and goes well on top of steamed rice
We have something similar everytime we go to my inlaws
If you can add some dashi and a mashed up salted egg in it, it's even better.
Filipinos have a similar dish!
That was professional, informative and highly entertaining... In fact up to your usual standard. Its obvious from how well these are put together just how much effort goes into making these videos. Thanks for the great content and looking forward to the next one.
Cheers Rodney!
I found this interesting and fun. Thanks! I was introduced to the bitter melon (the Chinese variety) several years ago by both a Malaysian friend and a Taiwanese colleague. I love it! I usually stir fry the melon with oyster sauce and some onion. It's a great side dish to other Asian foods. Bitter melon is also good in scrambled eggs. I like bitter taste; much like Italian broccoli rabe. I grew it easily in Connecticut (USA) but now that I live in south Florida (USA) it's even easier and it really thrives in our sandy, alkaline "soil" (like beach sand, truly). I have long followed your channel here and enjoy your informative and entertaining production. Thanks, mate!
Some of the best videos on the platform!
Im building my house and next to my house there is an overgrown plot of land, i literally can't stop this weird cucumber plant to grow around the steel rebar of my house columns. Its crazy how fast it grows back.
Kind of off topic but also central to your whole channel, I have a guava seedling thats probably 3 weeks old at this point. I know its just a plant but the long germination time and high humidity to start it kind of intimidated me at first but your channel really helped show me how much wasnt just possible but easily attainable. Thank you for sharing and inspiring me, i can't wait to eat my own freshly harvested guavas 😋
Thant's awesome, hope it keeps growing well! :)
Hi, Bitter Gauard is very good for diabetes. I rub salt on these and leave it for few hours to take the extra bitterness out before cooking. You can also air fry them instead of stir frying.
I feel like you just squeezed out all the benefits of this vegetable. If you stir fry (without all the salt and squeezing of juice) with bean sprouts and tofu it’s delicious.
So interesting, and good to know they can be grown here in NZ! I enjoyed eating them in Okinawa, saw a few other people mention their dish goya champuru, it's a very nice way to eat bitter melon I found :)
Another very interesting ingredient you can try in Okinawa is sea grapes!
Very interesting, love these and also managed to grow them last 2 years in the UK. I do find that almost all the recipes I am used to ( tasted growing up) have some intense flavours masking the bitterness to some extent.
My absolute favourite is everything u had in your recipe plus sautéed onion and tomatoes. Start with oil onion garlic ginger ,add onion and when it’s brown add tomatoes . When the6 go soft add Bitter melon and cook till soft.
Thank u for this amazing video.
I'm from Vietnam, and I absolutely adore bittermelon. There are two types that I know, the normal one and the "forest" one. The latter is much much bitter, and it's also my favourite.
Stir-fried bittermelon with beaten eggs
Bittermelon stuffed pork soup
Fridged raw bittermelon with shredded pork
Are all go for dish, experiement them if you will. They are all super delicious 😁
Edit: Your type in the video is what we call forest bittermelon
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Hi, do u have a video on how to prune a young kiwi? I have bought 3 last year which were already 1 year old ( only 2 of them kiwis made it through the winter ) and now 1 of the 2 has grown alot! And I'm wondering should I prune or not? 🙂
Hey, sorry I don't have a video on that yet, but feel free to thin it out a bit if its getting a bit wild and tangled
@@TheKiwiGrower The kiwi actually wrapped itself around a metal pole I placed for support 😅I did not expect that, I thought it would grow in a straight line like a vine but I was mistaken haha 🙂
pare, very common in indonesia. Usually paired with shrimp
Clicked on this cos I hate bitter melon and wanted to see if you enjoyed them lol. Really liked learning about the different plant bracts 👍
the sheep in the bamboo forest shot in the background was nice ❤️
Imagine growing up and always having it for dinner, def explains the reasoning behind my bitter personality now! 😂
Here in the Philippines,doctors advised to eat bitter gourd in every meal if you had diabetes😉💚🌱💚
My favorite fruits and vegetables I always plants and harvesting this and vegetables too
And thanks for sharing this great techniques to me ❤❤
I didn't even know they can go yellow. I only ever seen them green and never bothered to think whether they develop past that stage.
Those look really interesting. Really want to try them now. But i suppose you need so scrape deeper into the inner. Like getting all the white stuff out? Imagining them with some Onion added to the Garlic and chilli for a rounder taste. Thanks for sharing!
The are my favorite if cooked right. The best way to salt treat the half moons is to leave them salted for a few hours and then repeat the process making sure to squeeze them dry. Then after frying them add a good amount of chopped tomatoes and fry the mixture until tomatoes become a paste and bitter melons start to get a little golden brown. Best enjoyed on a sandwich or with a flatbread. You can also cook this recipe with minced meat in it,
Stir-fried Bitter Gourd with Egg very delicious
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Thank you !!! Your this crop of Indian bitter melons are beautiful ! Indeed, bitter melon incites different extreme opinions about it - either love it or hate it. I know indigenous Asians who hate it and westerners who love it. It is almost an acquired taste. It is great in curry - soupy or stew-like or dry, Thai or Indian, coconut-milk-based or tomato-and-masala, etc.; Chinese cook it in soup, stir fry with different fermented pastes, summer cold salad, etc.; Japanese love it in a very famous Okinawa dish of sauté with egg and Spam (!); etc.. Try them! Bitter melon is weird - indeed - and fun and great.
Coconut... for sure. As a kind of "counterweight" to the heavy sweetness of the coconut i can imagine this to taste great. Thanks.
Thanks that's great to know :)
@@TheKiwiGrower You are very welcome! Your videos are very fun and great!
One recipe I suggest. Slit the bitter gourd to make it like a pouch, fill pickle spices in it then knot thin threads to it. Fry till it become almost black. It really tastes good.
Thanks for the idea! :)
You can deep-fry the bitter melon and then cook with the salty egg York ! Super delicious ❤
ITS AWESOME BY ALL ASPECTS, BUT NEVER TO TRY WITH CURD,
Hi Kalem, Than you so much for the amazing and educational videos over the years! 🙂Haven't seen any new videos the past few months, hope you have some great content to share. Hope you and everyone else there are well.
🇹🇹 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 🇹🇹 we call that carillie... You can stir fry it but what we do is cut it up nice and thin and salt it and put it out in the sun to dry a bit so that the bitterness can be reduced before cooking .. it can be cooked with some salted fish or any meat of choice ...
those Chinese bitter melon looked like 110 year old lady💀
I wonder if I could use that structure for tomatoes?
Always learning so much from you. Bitter melons are one of my fav veggies. I normally slice them and soak them with salt to get some of the bitterness out. The dark green ones are really bitter. Squeeze the extra liquid out and wash the slices out and squeeze some more. Leave to dry overnight to dry it out in open air. Salute in onions, garlic and pepper and lots of tomatoes. Salute really well. The green ones might need some water added to steam them well. Eat with rice. It takes time to get used to eating it but after a while you will like it. And in the Caribbean we put small tiny shrimp in it and fry it up. It's even more delicious that way. Never had it when it turned yellow.
Thanks for the tips!
Literally stared growing these the day before you posted this vidio
Awesome, good luck with them!
Karela /bitter gaurd is our family favourite vegetable ...my parents were shocked when they realised we their kids love it .most of the kid hate because of its bitter taste ....but we love it
This was great! I wound up with some this year, didn't do anything special beyond the initial soil amendments and they are very happy. I clicked on this because you discuss the ripe fruit. Thanks for sharing!
Calaica.... childhood memories of the Honduran in my life 🥛
Thanks for a very detailed video. Growing up in Guyana, SouthAmerica this plant was staple in most gardens because our parents used the leaves to make bitters to detox us children at the start of every school year, and we hated it, but as an adult it is one of my favorites to prepare with salted fish.
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how you so handsome? 😒
Eat this quite a lot hated it as kid.
Didn't know u can eat the ripen seed like that tho. Next time will try it.
FYI for the next time u try it,
put oil in the pan and give some black cumin and put the bitter melon just like u did and for spice use green chili. fry it well. try it with regular white rice. That how we eat it.
test pretty good.
These guys are a serious invasive species around here, southeastern Brazil! If you want to have them in your garden, you do nothing. Sooner or later a bird will bring some seeds and, oh my, are they fast growers!
Goya Chanpuru: bitter melon / scrambled eggs / protein of choice / MSG. Breakfast of champions!
Cut even thinner. Stir fry with onion, garlic and chillies. Don't cover pan as that keeps the bitterness. Cook ooen pan. Serve with rice. I also add turneric gives colour abd more flavour and health benefits. People who hae diabetic they make it into juice and drink it raw.
I live in Japan, and bitter melon is popular in summer here. There is a dish from Okinawa called goya champuru which has tofu, egg and bitter melon, and I make that fairly often. But my favorite way to eat it is thinly sliced on pizza. I think the bitter flavor goes well with cheese and tomato. I'm just about to try growing it on my apartment balcony for the first time. It may be too windy, but it's worth a try.
In Jamaica we have a plant similar to this one called Cerasee. The fruits and leaves look the same. Only difference is that the ones here, their fruits are smaller. We use the plant here as a medicinal herb to make tea.
Its the same plant. There are a bunch of different varieties smaller bigger more warts less warts etc.
One of my favourite vegetable. Cook with onions. Fry the onions until golden brown, and then add garlic, tumeric, chilly. the sweetness of the caramelised onion counter balances the bitterness.
Hey! I was curious if you could try growing/eating Akebia Quintana, AKA Chocolate vine. Cheers from Hungary!
Sauté , season and scrambled eggs or pickle them n make it spicy 🌶️
It is known as Karela here and as a child I hated this vegetable more than anything else. But overtime you develop a taste for it.
kinda over riped when you pick them for stir fry, we slice them horizontally, remove most of the white parts, and slice them slightly tilted, this would give them better texture, and toss them in boiling water for 30 secs, to rinse away most of the bitterness, and stir fry with fragrants， ferment soy（douchi 豆豉）and beef， it's my to-go dish to make in summer when they usually harvested.