Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, plecing kangkung. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Plecing kangkung is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Plecing kangkung is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have plecing kangkung using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Plecing kangkung:
- Get for the coconut topping
- Get 2 long red chilies, roughly chopped
- Get Pinch salt
- Get 1 tsp coconut oil
- Prepare 1 palm sized piece of fresh coconut
- Prepare for the broccoli
- Make ready 500 g Chinese broccoli (gai lan), washed, trimmed and cut into 5 cm lengths
- Take for the dressing
- Get 2-5 bird's eye chilies (depending on your heat tolerance)
- Get 1 kaffir lime leaf, torn
- Make ready 1/2 tsp shrimp paste or dried anchovies
- Prepare 6 cherry tomatoes, halved and deseeded
- Prepare pinch salt
- Make ready 1 tsp brown sugar
- Take 1 lime, halved
- Take small handful of roasted peanuts
- Make ready for garnishing
- Take 1 tbsp fried garlic
- Prepare 1 long red chilli finely sliced on the diagonal
- Take Cheeks of lime, to serve
Instructions to make Plecing kangkung:
- Roughly chop the long red chilies and bash them to a paste in a mortar and pestle with a pinch of salt and a teaspoon or so of coconut oil.
- Grill the coconut over an open flame until charred. Set aside the chilli-coconut paste and the charred coconut until needed.
- Combine the bird’s eye chillies, lime leaf, shrimp paste, and cherry tomatoes with brown sugar and salt in a mortar and pestle, and grind to a paste. Mix in the juice of half a lime. It should be hot, sweet, sour and salty. Add a little more salt, sugar or lime juice to balance this out. If necessary you can add a little bit of water to the mixture to make a dressing consistency.
- Meanwhile, blanch the Gai Lan in boiling water for about 20 seconds. Once cooked, remove from the heat and plunge into iced water to stop the cooking process. Once cool remove and set aside.
- Grate the charred coconut finely. Mix with the pounded chilli with coconut oil that has been set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the gai lan into a large mixing bowl, add the dressing from the mortar and pestle along with the peanuts and use your fingers or a pair of tongs to mix thoroughly.
- Serve topped with the chilli coconut mixture, garnished with fried garlic, sliced red chilli, and cheeks of lime.
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