Pelecing kangkung - Water spinach with mung sprouts
Cooking time: 15 min. / 5 min.Difficulty: easy
This traditional light vegetarian dish you will find nearly everywhere on Indonesian island Lombok. It is a great combination of flavors of fresh coconut and hot sambal, perfect for summer days.
Process
Use just young parts of water spinach stalks - about 20 cm long. Remove tips of leaves. Remove mung sprouts skins if any. Put sprouts and spinach into pot with salt water, bring to a boil and cook 3-5 minutes. Let it cool down. Then tear spinach on tiny strings and grate coconut.
For sambal crush chilies, garlic and shallots together in a mortar or in a blender. Then add chopped tomato and crush too. Salt to taste and add lime juice.
Serve cold. Sprouts mixed with spinach. Covered with fresh grated coconut and topped with sambal. Everyone mixes it all together on his plate and eat by hands ;)
Serve with rice.
To buy Indonesian mortar cobek US, To buy a coconut scraper US, UK, Europe
Video recipe
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Ingredients
For 4 portions:
- 1 package mung sprouts
- 1 package water spinach
- 1 fresh coconut
- 10-20 red chilli peppers
- 5 red shallots
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 tomato
- juice from 1 lime
- salt to taste
Side dish:
Authentic tools needed:
- rice cooker
- Indonesian mortar cobek
- coconut scraper