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• Water spinach - Morning glory - Kangkung

  Kangkung - water spinach belongs to greens with a hollow stem. It is used quite frequently in South East Asia cuisine, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia. The best are the young parts.

• Gado gado - Mung sprouts with peanut sauce

  In Lombok in Indonesia, they simply love cooking with mung sprouts and water spinach. Really, they are part of at least half of traditional Lombok specials. This time it is gado gado with peanut sauce. You can find so many flavors and recipes of peanut sauce all around Indonesia. The great thing about this one is, that it is very simple, fast, with just a few ingredients used and still soooo delicious :)

• Pelecing kangkung - Water spinach with mung sprouts

  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.

• Pumpkin with spinach Malay style

  Simple and tasty recipe I learned in a small restaurant above a fish market on Borneo. It is a great combination of a tender sweet pumpkin with fibrous spinach and spicy chilies.

• Stir fried water spinach - Tumis kangkung

  Fast and easy recipe with just a few ingredients. That`s this Indonesian recipe with water spinach, I learned from Mario from Jawa. If you are sorry, there are no chilies in the recipe, feel free to add as many as you like ;) Locals do both versions spicy and not spicy too.

• Tempeh tofu veggie curry - Santan sayur tempe

  This amazing Indonesian curry I learned in a street restaurant on Lombok island. Except for the very interesting cooking as usual, may be more interesting was watching the couple which owned the restaurant with a little shop. The woman managed to cook a few delicious dishes, get, carry and store all good from several suppliers and her husband was hanging around coloring his hair.....

• Water spinach stalks in a coconut sauce

  Fast, easy, with minimum of ingredients. Simply ideal recipe. Dish, I tried on a Thai local market. Pleasantly light for the hot days and not spicy either. Back home I tried it with young green beens and it was pretty good too.

• Water spinach with coconut

  Nice light and warm salad, where the spicy ingredients are balanced by tender fresh grated coconut. And like most of Sri Lankan dishes it is vegetarian and vegan too.