I made this a couple of months back to serve with the Banarasi Dum Aloo. When I posted a teaser of these dishes on my Facebook Page, a lot folks wanted to know what kang kong is. Its not easily available outside of Asia as far as I know but there’s this dish called Sambal Kang Kong that I fell in love with during my first few Singaporean Malay meals in Singapore. Sambal is not vegetarian since it contains anchovies (although vegetarian versions do exist, it’s not the real thing) and I haven’t seen kang kong being used in any way but steamed or stir fried and served with spicy sambal.
This could be because kang kong lacks any strong flavour of its own. Anyway, I was determined to try and vegetarian recipes with kang kong and knew it had to be paired with something that was spicy and had a strong flavour. Garlic seemed like a good choice in the flavour department.
Garlic Flavoured Kang Kong Rice Recipe
Ingredients:
1 small bunch of
kang kong, washed and roughly chopped
1 cup of
cooked Basmati rice
3 flakes of
garlic, minced
3-4 of
dry red chillies, torn into halves
1 tbsp of
oil
Salt to taste
How I Made It:
1. Heat a pan on low heat and add oil. When it warms up, add the minced garlic and fry for a minute. When the garlic turns fragrant, add the red chillies and fry again until they start to glisten and turn shiny.
2. Add the chopped kang kong with some salt and cook on medium flame until it gives it some water, and cooks in it. The leaves will begin to wilt and shrink – about 5-7 mins.
3. Add the cooked rice, mix well, heat through, and remove from fire.
Serves 2 : About 2-3 cups
In hindsight, adding some spicy sauce to the rice mix would have added a lot more punch to this, like maybe some Thai red curry paste, or a blend of green chillies+coriander leaves+mint leaves, etc.
Cooked this way, its a bit bland but went really well with the Banarasi Dum Aloo.
I just found your site, and I absolutely love it. Except now I am hungry.
Never heard of this, It must have a quite a distinctive taste for greens to be this flavourful!
hi Nags,
I'm not sure if I can Kang Kong here in Bangalore…
Do you this it can be replaced with any other leafy vegetable?
sure. try spinach or methi
Yay! I love garlic! This is awesome! 🙂
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Kavi, Edible Entertainment
(www.myedibles.blogspot.com)
KanKun is one of my favourite greens and we stir-fry it.Check it out in my blog…
Sounds interesting and looks very delicious.
Your photo looks like what we know as ong choy – so I Googled it and indeed, it is ong choy (to the Chinese/Cantonese! Interesting way to use this delicious vegetable.
Rice looks so delicious
Anything with loads of garlic gets my vote 🙂 Btw is this kang kong the fave food of King Kong? err excuse my PJ 🙂
Kang Kond is new for me..and that rice bowl looks yummoo!!
Thanks for this new info!, never heard of this, I have never seen this, so now I know what this is :), if I ever visit any Asian shop I know I can buy and make use of this!, Rice looks lovely
Wow.. The bowl of rice is making me hungry! I never tasted kang kong.
In looking for more information on kang kong I read that sweet potato shoots tips and leaves can be/are sometimes substituted. My local Asian Food market in NJ always has these. I also wondered about using a small bunch of methi for a bit more flavor.
though i have seen this many times never attempted to buy.nice click
Rice looks super flavourful..
Amazing pics Nags (as usual). Delicious rice dish with very less ingredients.
Sounds indeed very flavourfull.
Sounds too good and tempting.. thanks for the recipe.. 🙂
Indian Cuisine
This looks so yummy and good…Hope u had a great lunch
New to me and sounds goood… 🙂
Easy n flavourful rice