Recipe: Perfect Stir - Fry Bitter Cucumber and Shrimp in Black Bean

Stir - Fry Bitter Cucumber and Shrimp in Black Bean. Return shrimp to wok and stir-fry until heated through. Black bean sauce kicks stir-fried shrimp into the stratosphere in this quick and easy weeknight recipe. Try it on its own or over your favorite rice!

Stir fried bitter melon gives it a flavor that's nothing like the name suggests. In fact, I know you're going to love it. Bitter melon is a bit like if a cucumber and cantaloupe eloped. You can cook Stir - Fry Bitter Cucumber and Shrimp in Black Bean using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Stir - Fry Bitter Cucumber and Shrimp in Black Bean

1. You need 1 of bitter cucumbar.
2. Prepare of Shrimps (no skin).
3. It's 2 tablespoon of black beans.
4. You need 1 teaspoon of cornstarch.
5. Prepare 1 teaspoon of sugar.
6. You need 3 cloves of garlic (chopped).
7. Prepare To taste of chicken powder.
8. It's of Vegetable oil to fry.
9. It's To taste of Black peper.
10. It's To taste of salt.

If it's harvested before it ripens, then it's not as bitter. When it comes to cucumbers, most people would think of eating them raw or pickled. Did you know they are also delicious in a stir fry? Salting can help draw out some of that water making it more suitable for stir frying.

Stir - Fry Bitter Cucumber and Shrimp in Black Bean step by step

1. Clean and wash shrimp, cut it look like butterfly and then marinade with black peper, salt and cornstarch for 15 minutes.
2. Wash bitter cucumbar and cut into small and long pieces.
3. Boil bitter cucumbar in the boiling water with a bit salt for 3 or 4 minutes. take out from the pan and rinse with cold water.
4. Heat pan with little bit oil and fry shrimps till change the colour. Set aside..
5. Add 2 tbs of oil in the pan and fry garlic till fragrant. Put in black bean, stir for a while, add bitter cucumbar, shrimp and mix well. Add sugar and chicken powder in hot water. Taste it untill u get the best taste you want :) and ready to serve,, nom nom....

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