The market · Vegetables · Southeast Asia, East Asia
Water spinach
Kangkung or morning glory: hollow-stemmed greens with a grassy taste and crunchy stems, fried fast with garlic and shrimp paste across Southeast Asia.
grassy · crunchy stems · mild
What to do with it
JavanesePecelBlanched greens and sprouts under a hot peanut sauce scented with kencur and lime leaf, with rice and a crisp peanut cracker.No one here has made it yetMinahasanTinutuanA thick rice porridge full of pumpkin, sweet potato, cassava, corn and greens, with no meat, eaten with smoked fish and dabu-dabu.No one here has made it yet
Goes with
Knowing it
- Where to buy
- Southeast Asian and Chinese grocers. Use within a day or two; it wilts fast.
- Worth knowing
- Separate stems from leaves and add the stems first. Cook it hard and fast; it's done in a minute.
