Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Kang Kung Belacan

Kang kung also known as water spinach, is rich in iron, and good to alleviate anemia.  Kang kung is also rich in calcium, vitamin A & C.


Blanched kang kung in rich spicy sauce, is a delicious way of eating greens with rice or noodles. Same cooking method can be applied to other leafy vegetables such as Chinese spinach (Amaranth), choy sum and pak choy.

Serves 2-3
Ingredients
500g Kang kung washed and roughly chopped
2 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tbsp minced garlic and ginger
4 dry red chili thinly sliced
2 tsp corn flour mixed in 50ml cold water
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 onion chopped


Method


To make the sauce, heat oil in a large pan, sauté onion, garlic ginger for 2 minutes. Add soy sauce, red chili and corn flour, mix well for a 2 second and turn off hurt. Sauce should be creamy. Set them aside.


Boil water in a sauce pan, when water is boiling add 1 tsp salt, kang kung, leave for 2 seconds. Drain them using colander and wash with cold water.


Mix blanched kang kung with sauce, serve immediately. 


19 comments:

  1. those greens look amazing, I have never heard of them before, thanks for teaching me something!
    your flavorful sauce sounds perfect for those lovely greens, I can only imagine how delicious they were!
    Dennis

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  2. Tnx Chef, i'm delighted to get your appreciation. You can buy them in Asian stores and it's quiet easy to make. This dish is very popular in malaysian chinese cuisine. They also use another type of sauce called sambol, and serve it as Sambol Belacan.

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  3. I've never heard of kang kung, but I can imagine how healthy and delicious they are. The way you prepared it looks incredible, and colorful.
    Thanks for sharing!

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  4. kang kung belachan is my all time favourite! I always thought I'd need to find a special belachan sauce for this but it looks like I can throw it together pretty easy with your recipe! thank you :)

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  5. delicious and healthy green we sometimes put maldive fish or meat

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  6. Oh, this looks delicious! And good for you :) I wandered over from Foodbuzz... your blog is lovely!

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  7. Love kang kung belachan. your blog is lovely and we are trying to eat more vegetarian so will come in healthy.

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  8. Missed the Kang Kung back home, one big bunch only few RM not like here (NZ), one tiny bunch about 2-5 twigs $1 (considered offer else normal price $4 per kg!)

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  9. Tnx everyone for your comments.

    @meltingbutter - belacan sauce can be made in home. You may add shrimp paste to my recipe. Mine is a vegetarian version.

    @Yin, yes kang kung is widely available here, but u can try same method of cooking with other greens too.

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  10. Boy, I've never heard of kang kung, but it looks soo healthy. I gotta track it down.

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  11. here's the google image link for u.

    http://www.google.com.my/images?q=kang%20kung&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1024&bih=649

    this is how kang kung looks.

    u can buy them in Asian / oriental stores

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  12. This loos delicious! My son is reading over my shoulder and saying "ooooooh that looks sooo good"! It really does. Thanks for the recipe and the add on FoodBuzz - Megan

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  13. Hi, Ami. Thanks for the friend request on Food Buzz, which has led me to your wonderful and useful site!

    I like the looks of this enticing dish and wonder if I'd be able to find kang kung, next time I make it to Vancouver (probably an Asian supermarket).

    Thanks again,

    Dan

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  14. Hi Megan & Dan, Tnx for your encouraging comments. Yes you'd be able to find them in Asian supermarkets. I saw them widely available in Oceans Supermarket in Toronto, but not sure about Vancouver.

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  15. Hello,
    I never heard about kang kung before but I love the way you cooked it, I have to ask the owner of the Asian store near my house about it, maybe he can bring me some to try it out.
    thanks for the FoodBuzz add, I'm so lucky to have you as a friend

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  16. Tnx, hope get to try kangkung soon. Nice to meet u....

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  17. This looks very tasty! So nice to find your blog, thanks for the invite :)

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  18. This looks very tasty! So nice to find your blog, thanks for the invite :)

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  19. This loos delicious! My son is reading over my shoulder and saying "ooooooh that looks sooo good"! It really does. Thanks for the recipe and the add on FoodBuzz - Megan

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