The Reason Why Everyone Must Eat Bitter Gourd

         Bitter gourd a vegetable with bitter taste. A lot of people hate it because of its taste. A vegetable with lots of name to be called. Also known as bitter melon, bitter cucumber, balsam-pear, bitter apple, or bitter squash. In the Philippines it's called ampalaya, Visaya people called it paliya.

          Even though it has unpleasant taste it is loaded with vitamins and health benefits. Vitamin A, Vitamin C and iron are  its vitamin content.   It is used as tea to lower blood sugar or even made into capsule as alternative treatment for diabetes. But despite the evidence that it can manage blood sugar, it isn't approved medication for diabetes . The leaf of  bitter gourd also used in the Philippines as ingredients in Ginisang Monggo ( Monggo beans) which added a   bitter taste to the beans recipe and also added an overflowing vitamins to the cooked dish. A very useful and beneficial vegetable indeed.

       Bitter gourd is the star ingredients to the most famous and nutritious Filipino food Pakbet /Pinakbet. It is a mixture of vegetable dish like eggplant, squash,string beans, and bitter gourd. Also the most common way of cooking bitter gourd in the Philippines is sauteed with egg or ground pork. The simpliest recipe for bitter gourd is making it into salad. With just 5 simple ingredients.

Bitter Gourd Salad

Ingredients 

1 large bitter gourd 

1 piece medium tomato

Small onion

Vinegar

Salt or bagoong

Procedure 

*Slice bitter gourd  thinly.

*Squeeze it with salt. And wash with water this help to lessen the bitterness.

*Blanch the bitter gourd.

* Mix all the ingredients and it's done.