Cold summer pasta with Bitter melon, Sour Plum & Tuna

Name: Cold summer pasta with Bitter melon, Sour Plum & Tuna
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 3 people
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 240 g pasta; 1 bitter melon; 1/2 onion; 2 cm Daikon Radish; 5 cm cucumber; 5 stems Cilantro; 3 sour plum; 1 tuna can; 4 TBSP oil olive; 3 TBSP mentsuyu; 1 sheet seaweed; 2 TBSP bonito flakes

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CA, USA

When you want to eat something light and cleansing, this is the perfect one😌

Naomi’s memo👩🏻‍🍳 @na0mi_memo

CA, USA

When you want to eat something light and cleansing, this is the perfect one😌

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Ingredients

30 minutes

3 people

240 gpasta
1bitter melon
1/2onion
2 cmDaikon Radish
5 cmcucumber
5stems Cilantro
3sour plum
1tuna can
4 TBSPoil olive
3 TBSPmentsuyu
1 sheetseaweed
2 TBSPbonito flakes

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Steps

30 minutes

1

In a large pot, high heat, boil salted water. Cook pasta. After that, put pasta in a cold water and let it cool.
2

Cut bitter melon. In a medium bowl put bitter melon and pinch salt and mix them together and give it massage. This way, the bitterness will get mild. Leave it for 5 minutes
3

In a medium pot, boil water and cook bitter melon for 5 minutes. (If you like to leave bitter flavor, you can only boil for 2 minutes). In a large bowl, rest the cooked bitter melon in ice cold water.
4

Slice onion and put it in hot water for 2 minutes to remove the bitterness. Put onion in the same ice cold water as the bitter melon is resting.
5

Cut daikon radish in tooth pick shape and soak in the cold water for 2 minutes.
6

Then put it in the same ice cold water.
7

Cut cucumbers into the same shape as the bitter melon.
8

Smash sour plum into paste.
9

In a small bowl, mix sour plum, tuna,olive oil and mentsuyu.
10

Drain vegetables with salad spinner and squeeze the water out from the vegetables.
11

In a large bowl, mix pasta and vegetables well and add the sauce.
12

Top with cilantro, seaweed and bonito flakes if you prefer.