Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Bittergourd joining Garden to Table

a ripe bitter gourd

seeds are coated with red flesh

the red flesh surrounding the seeds 
must be the best shade of red I ever seen.
( I collected five good seeds from this fruit)

The seeds are saved for next planting, the bottom half goes to the blender with carrots and orange for a unique colourful fruit juice. The top half is used for a simple fried bitter gourd (goreng peria). Ingredients include, onions, dry chili, and tempeh.  (Tempeh or tempe in Indonesian, is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form. 

bangchik

16 comments:

  1. looks scrumptious, didn't know you could fry it though, now I must looks up a recipe.

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  2. Bangchik, the coloring of the fruit is beautiful. You have introduced me to a new fruit. Thank you.

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  3. Lama tak melawat kebun Bangchik, saya ingin mengucapkan Selamat Hari Raya pada Bangchik Kakdah sekeluarga.

    I love fried bitter gourd and I will try adding a little bitter gourd as fruit juice. I am sure it offers a lot of benefits even though it is bitter.

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  4. What a 'colourful 2 in 1' harvest! I have never tried bitter gourd in juices before, must try this out!

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  5. Interesting recipe! Nice Gourd and garden. Thanks for stopping by my blog and visiting mine. Have a great week!

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  6. Strange as it seems, bittergourd seed taste sweet (those red fleshy parts)

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  7. I don't like bitter gourd but my husband love them, the bitter the better to him!

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  8. I love juice of bittergourd with apple ;-) Fried peria is good when having banana rice. yum yum.

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  9. fried bitter gourd taste good!
    I find that seeds saved from mother plant are more resistant to pest and enviroment. May be the mother have genetically informed and make the babies prepare for the surrounding!

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  10. We have to wait maybe another 4 months to eat bittergourd. More bittergourd fruit to harvest during raya Bangchik? Have a safe balik kampung journey!

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  11. Is bitter gourd the same as bitter melon?

    I have eaten bitter melon before, and honestly, I couldn't really take it. But it's a beautiful plant nonetheless.

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  12. We usu cook stuffed bitter gourd here in N.India after peeling the flesh, we usu apply a coat of salt(to reduce its bitterness) and then let it dry out in the sun for a few hrs. Later it is washed, stuffed, tied with a thread n then shallow fried.
    Have never seen them ripe to such an extent. The red colour is catchy.

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  13. We use to have bitter gourd soup. It cools our body.

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  14. What a beautiful vibrant bitter gourd you have there!! I love bitter gourd too. Recently learnt how to cook them with egg and prawns. It's yummy and simple to prepare. Bitter gourd is also good to consume during the current hot spell. It helps to cool down the body.

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  15. I can see how bitter gourd may appeal to people, but I think it might be an acquired taste! I think I have the potential to like it, but need to work on it...

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