Seafood Bitter Melon Coconut Milk stew

Ingredients:

Broth:
5 cups Vegetable broth (home-made or already prepared)
Yellow pepper: Sliced
Carrots: Sliced
1-1.5 cans coconut milk
Yellow curry powder
Garlic
Grated fresh ginger
Garam Masala powder
Salt
Pepper

Additions to prepared broth:
Mussles
Calamari
Scallops
Shrimp (shelled, tail-on)
Clams
Peapods
Yellow Pepper: Sliced
Bitter Melon: Sliced

Jasmine Rice

Garnish:
Diced scallions
Shredded carrots
Flash-fried puffed rice noodles

Directions:

Mix broth ingredients together and simmer. Add spices to taste (start with 2 tblsp. Curry and 2 tsp. Garam Masala and add accordingly.) Salt and pepper to taste as well. Let simmer for 1 hour.

Add Bitter Melon, yellow pepper, and peapods and simmer 10 minutes. Add seafood and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes or until seafood is done. Time may differ depending on if fresh or frozen seafood is used.

Serve over steamed jasmine rice and garnish with flash-fried noodles, sliced scallions, and jullianned carrots.