My Big and Healthy Lunch!

In general I love all vegetables.

One of the vegetables that is not available locally is 

Kangkung.  

Some people call it Asian Watercress,

or Morning Glory, or Vietnamese Spinach.

Or spelled it in a different way Kangkoong.

If I wish to have these Kangkungs more often means I have to drive up to AKK (DANSY) PTY LTD at Hunter Street, Newcastle which is about 1 hour away.
Or I can get it every Saturday (I think about 11am) from SUN SUPERMARKET at Green Hills, Maitland which is about 30 minutes away.

My husband LOVED these Kangkungs!

And Today I had late lunch, it was BIG and HEALTHY Lunch

with lots of Kangkung :D

Here are the recipes:

PAN FRIED TEMPE

1 block of Tempe / Indonesian Soy Bean Cake.

Cut to pieces, then pan fried, drained on paper towel.

STEAMED KANGKUNG

Chopped kangkung (I used almost from 1 whole bunch).

Wash thoroughly (I washed it at least 3 times)

Prepare enough water for steaming in the sauce pan.

Once the water is boiling, add kangkung in the steamer.

Steamed until kangkung is wilted, but not overcooked.

Drained any excess water and placed on a serving plate.

CRISPY GARLIC BABY PRAWNS

This is soooo Crispy, I could ate the heads too, JUST CRISP TO PERFECTION! :)

Ingredients:

+/- 100 gram baby prawns with shell and head intacts.

1 small clove of garlic, chopped finely.

1 tbsp of oil.

salt to taste.

Method:

Heat oil in a non-stick frying pan,

add baby prawns,

let it fry for a minute then add finely chopped garlic,

fry until the garlic is fragrant and crispy too,

stir lightly, then sprinkle with sea salt a little bit just to taste.

Strained and put on serving plate.

Save the oil for Fresh Tomato Sambal.

FRESH TOMATO SAMBAL

SAMBAL TOMAT SEGAR

Ingredients:

3 large tomatoes / 3 tomat besar

1/2 red paprika (bell pepper) / paprika merah

1 large red chili / 1 cabe merah besar

5 red bird-eye chilis / cabe rawit

1 small clove of garlic, finely chopped / 1 siung bawang putih kecil, cincang halus

5 tsp of baby prawns oil

1/4 tsp of roasted shrimp paste / 1/4 sdt terasi bakar

2 tbsp lemon juice / 2 sdm air perasan jeruk lemon

1 tsp flat of salt / 1 sdt rata garam

1/2 tsp of caster sugar / 1/2 sdt gula halus.

Method:

Place tomatoes, paprika, chilis, garlic in a food processor,

blend roughly, moved into a serving bowl.

Fry shrimp paste then crushed it with mortar and pestel, moved it into the same serving bowl.

Mix all ingredients together.

Add 1 tsp flat of salt.

Add 1/2 tsp of caster sugar.

Add lemon juice, mix all well.

Taste before serving.

Taruh tomat, paprika dan cabe di blender, blender kasar saja, kemudian pindahkan ke mangkuk saji. Terasi digoreng, haluskan dengan tumbukan, pindahkan ke mangkuk saji yang sama.  Campur adonan sampai rata.

Tambahkan garam, gula dan air perasan jeruk lemon.  Campur lagi, cicipi sebelum dihidangkan.

... thanks for looking :)  ....