Burmese Bitter Gourd Salad
Ingredients
1 tender bitter gourd
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon finely chopped garlic
1 teaspoon finely chopped ginger
lime juice to taste
Directions
Wash the bitter gourd, then slice it as thinly as possible, sprinkle with salt and mix well. Leave for 30 minutes, then rinse under cold water and squeeze dry.
Put it into a bowl with the garlic and ginger and squeeze all together to mix well. Add lime juice and mix again. Serve as an accompaniment to rice and curry.
Recipe excerpted from Encyclopedia of Asian Food by Charmaine Solomon (Periplus Editions, 1998)