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Garlic Flavoured Kang Kong Rice Recipe

November 24, 2015 22 Comments

kang kong garlic rice recipe

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.

kang kong garlic rice recipe

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

kang kong flavoured rice recipe

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.

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  1. Trish

    September 7, 2011 at 10:37 am

    I just found your site, and I absolutely love it. Except now I am hungry.

    Reply
  2. Miri

    September 6, 2011 at 4:20 am

    Never heard of this, It must have a quite a distinctive taste for greens to be this flavourful!

    Reply
  3. Chandu

    September 5, 2011 at 4:33 am

    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?

    Reply
  4. Nags

    September 5, 2011 at 4:38 am

    sure. try spinach or methi

    Reply
  5. Kavi...

    September 4, 2011 at 7:42 am

    Yay! I love garlic! This is awesome! 🙂
    –
    Kavi, Edible Entertainment
    (www.myedibles.blogspot.com)

    Reply
  6. [email protected]

    September 4, 2011 at 3:58 am

    KanKun is one of my favourite greens and we stir-fry it.Check it out in my blog…

    Reply
  7. Spandana

    September 3, 2011 at 6:11 am

    Sounds interesting and looks very delicious.

    Reply
  8. RWCFoodie

    September 3, 2011 at 12:46 am

    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.

    Reply
  9. notyet100

    September 2, 2011 at 11:40 pm

    Rice looks so delicious

    Reply
  10. Sakshi

    September 2, 2011 at 10:16 pm

    Anything with loads of garlic gets my vote 🙂 Btw is this kang kong the fave food of King Kong? err excuse my PJ 🙂

    Reply
  11. Madhavi

    September 2, 2011 at 9:42 pm

    Kang Kond is new for me..and that rice bowl looks yummoo!!

    Reply
  12. Jayasri Ravi

    September 2, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    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

    Reply
  13. Usha

    September 2, 2011 at 3:17 pm

    Wow.. The bowl of rice is making me hungry! I never tasted kang kong.

    Reply
  14. Anonymous

    September 2, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    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.

    Reply
  15. jeyashrisuresh

    September 2, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    though i have seen this many times never attempted to buy.nice click

    Reply
  16. Priya

    September 2, 2011 at 10:40 am

    Rice looks super flavourful..

    Reply
  17. Zareena

    September 2, 2011 at 8:30 am

    Amazing pics Nags (as usual). Delicious rice dish with very less ingredients.

    Reply
  18. Happy Cook / Finla

    September 2, 2011 at 6:20 am

    Sounds indeed very flavourfull.

    Reply
  19. Hari Chandana

    September 2, 2011 at 4:17 am

    Sounds too good and tempting.. thanks for the recipe.. 🙂
    Indian Cuisine

    Reply
  20. Aarthi

    September 2, 2011 at 3:46 am

    This looks so yummy and good…Hope u had a great lunch

    Reply
  21. RAKS KITCHEN

    September 2, 2011 at 9:22 am

    New to me and sounds goood… 🙂

    Reply
  22. Sharmilee! :)

    September 2, 2011 at 4:46 am

    Easy n flavourful rice

    Reply

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