Soybean and Bitter Melon Soup

Overview

Bitter melon, soybean and minced meat soup has a bitter, sweet, clear and moist smell. It has the effects of clearing away heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying. It is a soup that is used to relieve summer heat in Chaoshan area. It is also commonly used among the people to treat summer heat, polydipsia, heat boils, excessive prickly heat, and conjunctivitis. Growing up, I often ate what my mother cooked. Now that I'm married, I often do it myself. Sometimes I just want to go home.

Tags

• soups
• bitter melon
• coriander
• soybeans
• minced meat
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Sprinkle the bitter melon with salt and marinate for more than half an hour.

   

2. 2 Wash the soybeans and put them into the pot to cook.

   

3. 3 Add salt and cornstarch to the minced meat and mix well.

   

4. 4 Did you see the bitter water coming out? Pour it out and wash it off.

   

5. 5 Cut into smaller pieces.

   

6. 6 Then put the mixed minced meat into the bitter gourd.

   

7. 7 Put the bitter melon stuffed with minced meat into the soybean soup that has been simmered for more than half an hour. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to simmer and continue to simmer.

   

8. 8 After simmering until the minced bitter melon meat is cooked, adjust the salt according to personal taste before taking it out of the pot, and then add coriander.

   

9. 9 A very appetizing soup. One who never gets tired of eating.