Sambal Kangkong (Water Spinach Inwards Chilli Paste)
Kamis, 19 Oktober 2017
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Sambal kangkong is a vegetable dish that fifty-fifty vegetable haters love. Kangkong, a light-green leafy veggie amongst hollow stems, is stir-fried amongst sambal over extreme high heat. Best eaten pipage hot, skillful sambal kangkong is crunchy, spicy in addition to smoky.
Did you lot know there's a connectedness betwixt kangkong in addition to the God of Fortune, aka 财神爷?
I'm guessing you lot don't, thus here's the story:
3,000 years ago, Red People's Republic of China was ruled past times an emperor who knew diddly squat almost everything. As amongst all useless emperors, he had a wicked concubine. She was called 妲己.
One day, 妲己 pretended to endure sick in addition to said she needed to consume 比干's pump to endure cured.
比干 was the skillful guy. He was trying to fix the useless emperor on the correct path, thus the concubine – genuinely a "fox spirit" inward human shape – wanted to kill him.
Fortunately for 比干, i of his colleagues cast a spell on him thus that he could alive later his pump was dug out. There were, however, conditions: upon losing his heart, 比干 had to exit the metropolis on a galloping Equus caballus till he was at to the lowest degree 2,000 miles away, without looking back.
The bad tidings was, the evil concubine/fox heard almost the spell. She gave chase, later transforming herself into an one-time adult woman selling kangkong.
"Kangkong! Kangkong!" the concubine/fox/old woman shouted . . .
Oops, sorry, she didn't talk Malay. It should endure "空心菜! 空心菜!"
Note: Kangkong is a type of spinach. It has stems that are hollow inward the middle, thus Chinese telephone vociferation upwards it 空心菜, which agency hollow/heartless vegetable.
Upon hearing the one-time woman's cries, 比干 turned around to enquire her what 空心菜 was. As he did, he cruel from his Equus caballus in addition to died because the spell was broken.
What's all this got to produce amongst the God of (Good) Fortune? Well, the stupid guy who couldn't follow elementary instructions was deified equally said god later he died.
Why?
Because he was heartless, thus he couldn't favour anyone in addition to would ever endure fair. That, I suppose, outweighed his inability to focus in addition to non larn distracted!
The telephone substitution to skillful stir-fried kangkong is a really hot wok. If likewise much is cooked inward i go, the wok wouldn't endure hot enough. Hence, this recipe is for 250 g kangkong, which is exclusively 150 g or thus later trimming the roots. That's plenty for ii portions. If you lot require to brand more, I advise stir-frying the sambal inward i go, in addition to then the kangkong inward batches.
INGREDIENTS
INSTRUCTIONS
INGREDIENTS
- 250 g kangkong (water spinach)
- 3 dried chillies – soak inward warm H2O till soft (about 1 hour), drain, discard water
- 1 tbsp dried prawns – soak inward 1 tbsp H2O till soft (about ½ hour)
- 1 cerise chilli
- 2 bird's oculus chilli
- 3 shallots
- 1 clove garlic
- ½ tsp belachan – toast till fragrant
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp sugar
INSTRUCTIONS
- Trim in addition to discard roots of kangkong. Wash, in addition to then suspension thicker stems past times pressing amongst fingers. Chop into 8-cm (3-inch) pieces. Set aside to drain.
- Wash, cutis in addition to roughly chop sambal ingredients equally appropriate. Drain dried prawns, setting aside the water. Blend or pound everything into a fine paste. Have a sense of savour in addition to add together to a greater extent than chillies if you lot like.
- In a really hot wok, stir-fry sambal inward vegetable crude oil over high estrus till fragrant. Add common salt in addition to sugar. Stir through. Taste in addition to if necessary conform seasoning. Add kangkong in addition to stir-fry till only wilted, thirty seconds or so, drizzling amongst the H2O for soaking dried prawns towards the end. Taste in i trial to a greater extent than in addition to conform seasoning if necessary.
- Plate in addition to serve immediately.