Bitter Melon with Black Bean Sauce

See the title of this post? Those are the 2 ingredients you would need to make this dish. The most labor intensive part of this recipe is the prepping of the bitter melon. You would need to scrap out the spongy filling and the seeds with a spoon and slice the melon into thin slices.

Bitter Melon with Black Bean Sauce

- 1 large bitter melon sliced
- 1 and a half tbsp of black bean sauce

Heat up about 2 tbsp of oil in a wok. Throw in bitter melon and stir fry for about 2 minutes. Add in black bean sauce and mix it into the melon. Add half a cup of water and braise mixture for about 5 minutes. Bitter melon should be tender but not completely limp.

If you want to make this into a one dish meal, you can add some ground pork into this dish.  I would cook the ground pork 1st before adding the bitter melon and adding some chilli sauce would kick things up a notch!