Home Cooking with Foodland: Bitter Melon and Pork with Black Beans and Chinese Chicken Salad

Join Chef Keoni in his home kitchen as he demonstrates how to make Bitter Melon and Pork with Black Beans and Chinese Chicken Salad.
Ingredients and Instructions (Serves 4):
Stir Fried Bitter Melon and Pork with Chinese Black Beans
Ingredients:
• 1 large bitter melon (about 9” long)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoon vegetable oil (for cooking)
• 6 thinly sliced ginger slices
• 1/2 pound ground pork
• 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon ground pepper
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1 tablespoon shoyu
• 2 tablespoons water or chicken stock
• 2 tablespoons dried fermented black beans, chopped
• 2-3 cloves garlic, chopped
• 2 teaspoons Chinese rice wine or dry sherry
Instructions:
1. Slice open the bitter melon lengthwise and scrape out the seeds and ribs with a large spoon; discard insides. Slice melon crosswise into ¼-inch thick slices.
2. Place slices in a bowl, sprinkle with salt, massage the salt into the melon. Set aside for 15 minutes. Before cooking, squeeze as much of the water out of the melon slices; no need to rinse.
3. Heat a large skillet over high heat. Add 2 tablespoons of oil to thinly coat the bottom of the skillet (add more if needed). When oil shimmers, add remaining 3 slices of ginger and sauté for about 30 seconds, then add the ground pork, spreading it out in a single layer.
4. Cook without stirring for 1-2 minutes, then stir and fry the pork for another 1-2 minutes. Remove cooked pork from skillet.
5. Combine the cornstarch, shoyu and stock and mix. Reserve.
6. Return skillet to heat and add remaining vegetable oil. Add the squeezed bitter melon and stir fry until the melon is soft about 1-2 minutes. Add back in the cooked ground pork. Add in the black beans and garlic and stir. Add in the sugar, pepper, rice wine to the skillet and stir. Thicken with the cornstarch and chicken stock mixture.
Chinese Chicken Salad
Ingredients:
• 1/2 head iceberg lettuce, shredded
• 2 stalks celery, finely sliced on a bias
• 1/2 carrot, julienned
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 2 cups shredded leftover huli chicken
• 1/4 cup green onions, sliced
• 2 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds
• 1 cucumber, cut in half, seeded and sliced on a bias
• Chinese parsley, as needed
• 1 cup fried wonton strips
• Shoyu Mustard, as needed
Instruction:
1. In a large mixing bowl, combine the lettuce, celery and carrots. Season with salt and sesame oil. Toss.
2. Place in a serving bowl or platter.
3. Neatly arrange chicken over the salad, garnish with green onions, sesame seeds, cucumber, Chinese parsley and wonton strips.
4. Serve with a mixture of Chinese mustard mixed with Shoyu on the side.
Note: Directions are meant as a general guide. Chef Keoni may improvise slightly during class.

[@MsBae415]

Wow!! I'm so glad I found your cooking channel. I love bitter melon and everything that you cooked. Your dishes looks amazing and healthy

[@vp3970]

Super food, I like it fixed this way. I like it in chicken and soup: in mung beans and pork. Mung beans and bitter melon are two super, super foods.

[@marymagness7467]

YUMMY!!!!! Mahalo for all of these wonderful dishes! ❤

[@galesmith9677]

love it!!! thank you!!

[@allisonhinds8384]

He's doing it

[@sherrymaymatsumoto8417]

Chef fyi we are Kaneohe from Kaneohe and love chinese food. when youre in the area stop by Kin Wah and have their chinese chicken salad. the dressing is so Ono. you going ask for extra...:) Love Your Show .

[@allisonhinds8384]

Let's cook please

[@silverspiker]

Great class! Mahalo.

[@klaytonrocks]

Uncle can we get an updated video on Oxtail soup? You guys put one out almost a decade ago and I was wondering if you guys had refined it.

[@armeyf]

I love bitter melon prepared right. I followed your instructions for dinner tonight. Something went wrong. The melon was so bitter I had to pick it all out of the dish. Maybe it was too mature. I'm not sure. I'll stick to eating it when someone else prepares it. I really enjoyed your video!

[@verondastewart2383]

Where can I buy this from what kind of store I'm in Austin Texas and I will love to get some let me know please thanks 😊😊

[@jafo808]

If you cook the melon longer it gets less biter and more tender. But it is called biter Mellon. Bitter is the flavor.

[@karenjones1000]

Too much talking

[@capdriving]

tjis is a great video /use lee kum kee as last resoer but use his black sauce use for pork ribbs baby back ribs the best

[@kasw3371]

Love the live element but cutting out to black screen with Sheryl’s name is annoying and takes away from what the chef is doing. (Its obvious the same person is asking the questions.)

[@alessandrapagliarani8600]

The "yellow and red bitter mellon" somebody is asking about is simply a very ripe bitter mellon ; when this gourd is left on the plant it eventually turns yellow and in the end it splits open revealing the seeds which are covered in a beautiful, shiny red membrane. Normally though, for cooking, it is picked at the immature, green stage. When ripe and yellow it is not so bitter anymore but I think (I am not sure) that it may have lost its medicinal properties.

[@Whisker2134]

Good explanation than you called chef.

[@alessandrapagliarani8600]

@@Whisker2134 Thank you!

[@helencheung2537]

For health, bitter's better. If it tastes sweet spit it out.

[@christineogino1533]

I’d like to grow bitter melon, where do I get the seeds or plant?

[@mint_tans]

Baker Creeks website.

[@helencheung2537]

The bitter melon has seeds in it.

[@newvillagefilms]

Yeah the LKK sauce isn't as pronounced. I cooked it with or without and I cannot tell the difference.

[@maryanndubrovin6809]

How to get on zoom?

[@lucykristensen7145]

The talking is too much. . Get to the point . You keep repeating bv youtself.

[@kyungson6703]

Too much talking