Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cold summer pasta with bitter melon, sour plum & tuna. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
See recipes for Cold summer pasta with Bitter melon, Sour Plum & Tuna too. Hot summer easily irritable angry, so in the diet should eat Quhuo things. Summer is too hot, we are too lazy to enter the kitchen, fry cook, of course it is the preferred salad.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook cold summer pasta with bitter melon, sour plum & tuna using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cold summer pasta with Bitter melon, Sour Plum & Tuna:
- Make ready 240 g pasta
- Prepare 1 bitter melon
- Make ready 1/2 onion
- Prepare 2 cm Daikon Radish
- Take 5 cm cucumber
- Get 5 stems Cilantro
- Make ready 3 sour plum
- Prepare 1 tuna can
- Prepare 4 TBSP oil olive
- Make ready 3 TBSP mentsuyu
- Get 1 sheet seaweed
- Get 2 TBSP bonito flakes
The texture can be either crunchy or soft depending on how you prepare it. I personally love bitter melon nowadays but I really didn't like it until one point when my mother made me a dish called "stir-fry bitter melon with pork" and since then I've loved this weird looking and funny tasting vegetable. These summer pasta recipes are light and filled with tomatoes, fresh herbs, and other in-season vegetables.. Make the dough a day ahead, wrap in plastic, and keep chilled.
Steps to make Cold summer pasta with Bitter melon, Sour Plum & Tuna:
- In a large pot, high heat, boil salted water. Cook pasta. After that, put pasta in a cold water and let it cool.
- Cut bitter melon. In a medium bowl put bitter melon and pinch salt and mix them together and give it massage. This way, the bitterness will get mild. Leave it for 5 minutes
- In a medium pot, boil water and cook bitter melon for 5 minutes. (If you like to leave bitter flavor, you can only boil for 2 minutes). In a large bowl, rest the cooked bitter melon in ice cold water.
- Slice onion and put it in hot water for 2 minutes to remove the bitterness. Put onion in the same ice cold water as the bitter melon is resting.
- Cut daikon radish in tooth pick shape and soak in the cold water for 2 minutes.
- Then put it in the same ice cold water.
- Cut cucumbers into the same shape as the bitter melon.
- Smash sour plum into paste.
- In a small bowl, mix sour plum, tuna,olive oil and mentsuyu.
- Drain vegetables with salad spinner and squeeze the water out from the vegetables.
- In a large bowl, mix pasta and vegetables well and add the sauce.
- Top with cilantro, seaweed and bonito flakes if you prefer.
Some of our cold pasta salad recipes make full meals thanks to the inclusion of proteins like chicken or tuna, while others are prime time sides for seasonal entrees like juicy burgers and fall-off-the-bone ribs. Bitter Melon (also known as bitter gourd, bitter squash and balsam-pear) is a sour squash that is a great addition to stir fries and soups. Bitter melon, or bitter gourd, is not only known for its sharp flavor and distinct appearance but may also have positive effects on health. Think about adding several flavor elements, too, such as sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savory. Keep in mind that many pickled foods, some cheeses and meats can contribute salty flavors to your pasta salad.
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