The BEST Pineapple Chicken Soup with Bitter Gourd recipe ever!
The most authentic Taiwanese flavor, you will LOVE this.
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
4
servings20
minutes30
minutesIngredients
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.
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