bitter melon has a very bitter taste. Only places i've seen it available is Chinatown grocery stores; Chinese people regard it as a health food in various ways, helps prevent diabetes, cancer etc and good as a treatment for aids.
Yes many of the crumbly ones that drop crumbs for a bit till their eaten or end up or down on the floor or your table and maybe back on your plate...:(
Too bad my wife won't eat dandelion greens. We could grow them. She also won't eat purslane as she considers it a weed. It's a great salad green and slightly bitter. We get it in our flower bed every year but she pulls them out. It does spread very rapidly and steals water from the flowers.
It's a weed here too. I knew it was popular among herbalists as a home remedy. But I didn't know until now that it can be used as a salad ingredient. From now on, I'll be cultivating it. Just found out that it's very high in Omega-3 and antioxidants. That makes it an aid in preventing heart disease and cancer. :)
PS - I don't handle bitter flavours too well either - but I find I can make them palatable by adding other flavours and aromas. It the bitterness is counteracted with the right amount of salty, sweet, or spicey-hot and diluted with milder flavours, I find I can enjoy it quite a bit.
For salads, a vinaigrette sauce and add some non-bitter leaves such as web-lettuce or English spinach. In curries - kale goes really well in a saag paneer. Cooking bitter leaves reduces the bitterness. I use about 50% leaves in a pesto made with basil, parsley and garlic chives; yummy on pasta.
This post was edited by inky at December 18, 2019 12:17 PM MST
We only buy 80/90% dark chocolate....it's not sweet and sickly or mixed with other disgusting chemicals.... We don't buy anything which says it has artifisial sweetners in them....only natural things should go into making food... We don't buy thing with palm oil in ,because if the damaged its doing to wild life with the distraction of the rain forests where the normal trees are cut to plant the palm trees... Its also making countless thousands of tribes homeless when their villages are destroyed to plant more trees...
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