Bitter-Melon Braise Sauce

Name: Bitter-Melon Braise Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: about ¼ cup (50 ml)
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: about ½ pepper (5 g) Red Pepper; about ½ onion (5 g) Onion; about 1 clove (5 g) Garlic; 2 g Dried Tangerin; 3 g Black Beans; 2½ tsp (12 ml) Oyster Sauce; 6 g Chicken Bouill; 1 tsp sugar (6 g) Sugar; 1 tsp dark soy sauce (5 ml) Dark Soy

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Ming Court Kitchen recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Ming Court Kitchen.

BRAISING SAUCE · BITTER MELON OR OTHER VEGETABLES

In the published recipe, this is the braising sauce for braised bitter melon.

Ming Court's braise sauce for bitter melon.

On the jar

BITTER-MELON

Method: simmer
Yield: about ¼ cup
Ingredients: 9

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Oyster Sauce 12 mlDark Soy 5 ml

Ingredients

Red Pepperabout ½ pepper (5 g)
Onionabout ½ onion (5 g)
Garlicabout 1 clove (5 g)
Dried Tangerin2 g
Black Beans3 g
Oyster Sauce2½ tsp (12 ml)
Chicken Bouill6 g
Sugar1 tsp sugar (6 g)
Dark Soy1 tsp dark soy sauce (5 ml)

Method

Pour liquids to the printed fill-lines, bottom to top.
Add by count: ¾ RED PEPPER, ¾ ONION.
Cap the jar and shake until combined.
Pour into a cold pan and bring to a gentle simmer. The jar stays off the stove. Cool leftovers briefly before they go back in the glass, then refrigerate promptly.

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Provenance

Ming Court kitchen (明阁, Cordis Hongqiao). Cantonese. Cited awards include: Michelin 1* (Ming Court, Shanghai — continuous multi-year).

Adapted from a Ming Court kitchen (明阁, Cordis Hongqiao) recipe (Ming Court kitchen / The Paper 淘最厨房 (2020 card)).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

Yes, with one pan. Its liquids pour to the printed fill-lines and shake cold; the mix then goes into a pan to simmer. The jar itself never touches heat.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Ming Court kitchen / The Paper 淘最厨房 (2020 card) (published as “Bitter-Melon Braise Sauce”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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