Pineapple Chicken Soup with Bitter Gourd
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Pineapple Chicken Soup with Bitter Gourd

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Pineapple Chicken Soup with Bitter Gourd
Pineapple Chicken Soup with Bitter Gourd

Pineapple Chicken Soup with Bitter Gourd is a popular Taiwanese dish serves during summer as the soup has a cooling effect on the body.

Pineapple Chicken Soup with Bitter Gourd

Although the bitter gourd, as its name suggested is bitter, it complimented the sweet and a little tangy pineapple well in this soup. With the addition of the spicy bean paste, it helps to enhance the overall flavour of the entire pot of chicken soup 🍜

You can call this soup is “vision protection cuisine”.

Bitter melon got high levels of vitamin A , helps improve “eye health”, lower risk of macular degeneration and cataract formations.

Recent reports that pineapple can reduces symptoms of “eye floaters”.

Wolfberry is traditional Chinese medicine.

Also a ingredients of dish. It can improve eyesigh except for eye health, these three ingredients can lower cholesterol levels, and control diabetes.

Of course, it is delicious, the white bitter melon not that bitter than green one.

My whole family loves Pineapple Chicken Soup with Bitter Gourd, I hope you guys will like it too!

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Pineapple Chicken Soup with Bitter Gourd

Recipe by Daniel
Servings

4

servings
Prep time

20

minutes
Cooking time

30

minutes

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cube chicken stock

  • 180~200g bitter gourd

  • 100~130g honey pineapple chunks

  • 3 slices ginger

  • 300ml water

  • 2 tsp spicy bean paste

  • 2 tbsp rice wine

  • Salt and sugar to taste

Directions

  • Blanch chicken thighs in hot water for about 10 to 15 minutes.
  • Remove the seeds and pith from the bitter gourd. Cut into diagonal strips. Cut pineapple into thick chunks
  • Add washed chicken, bitter gourd, ginger, and water into a pot. Just let the water reaches about 3/4 of the ingredients’ height. In order not to dilute the soup, try not to add too much water in the beginning as the ingredients would drain out juice during cooking.
  • When the water starts to boil at about 10 to 15th minute, add in the spicy bean paste, rice wine, chicken stock, and finally the pineapple chunks.
  • Cover the lid and let the cooking process continue. Stir the ingredients twice or thrice to ensure even heating.
  • When the soup starts to boil again, add in the sugar and salt to taste.
  • stew for another half hour and serve with warm rice.
Pineapple Chicken Soup with Bitter Gourd
Pineapple Chicken Soup with Bitter Gourd

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