This is our family favourite dish and I will cook this very often . My Piggies love bitter gourd or bitter melon which is a surprising thing for bitter gourd may not be a youngster's cup of tea so to say as it has a slightly bitterish aftertaste. They started to like eating this only after they entered their teens. Bitter gourd has a lot of nutrients and bitter gourd is often used in Chinese cooking for its bitter flavor, typically in stir-fries , soup and also as tea. My mom used to boil them as tea for me when I was a teenager, 16 to be precise...it is believe to purify our blood as at that time pimples were blooming all over my face :( but thanks to all those bitter gourd tea I drank during my teens that today I have a smoother complexion :p Seriously and today my Piggies were given the same treatment when they had pimples on their face. They love bitter gourd in stir fries but not as a tea.....but wanting to have a smoother complexion overcomes everything :)
