Bittergourd joining Garden to Table

a ripe bitter gourd

seeds are coated with red flesh

the red flesh surrounding the seeds 
must be the best shade of red I ever seen.
( I collected five good seeds from this fruit)

The seeds are saved for next planting, the bottom half goes to the blender with carrots and orange for a unique colourful fruit juice. The top half is used for a simple fried bitter gourd (goreng peria). Ingredients include, onions, dry chili, and tempeh.  (Tempeh or tempe in Indonesian, is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form. 

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