Post by @PhoenixSerenity@beige.party

An overhead view of ingredients being prepared for stuffed bitter melon, featuring hollowed-out bitter melon chunks, a bowl of seasoned ground meat, and a bowl of soaked glass noodles on a wooden table next to a dark cutting board.

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Fubar

@fubar@freeradical.zone 24 hr. ago

@PhoenixSerenity I love bitter melon! Am sure it'll come out lovely. Enjoy!

Ms. Que Banh

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party 22 hr. ago

Stuffed bitter melon pieces simmering in a broth.

Fubar

@fubar@freeradical.zone 5 hr. ago

@PhoenixSerenity Ooh delicious <3

I have had it in a variety of ways but never like this. How exciting! I'll have to find somewhere where they do this one.

(I either fry mine with the seeds like my VBenagli friends taught me or I have it the common way in my neighbourhood, which is in classic Surinamese style, or I stuff them and stick them in the oven, so your way is entirely new to me!)

Ms. Que Banh

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party 4 hr. ago

@fubar You'll want to get the lighter green skinned, larger bitter melon variety & not the Indian darker & smaller bitter melons. Although you could use the Indian one if you can't find the ones we use in Chinese & Vietnamese cooking.

Try this recipe. It's very close to our family version.
https://www.hungryhuy.com/bitter-melon-soup-canh-kho-qua/

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Fubar

@fubar@freeradical.zone 3 hr. ago

@PhoenixSerenity The Surinamese ones are the ones I get on the market. The Indian ones are very hard to find here (though my friends and I will buy all of them whenever we see them 😂 )

I hope the translatey browser thing works for this recipe for stuffed sopropo (bitter melon)

https://surinamcooking.com/gevulde-sopropo/