Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Mario Batali Plecing kangkung

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, plecing kangkung. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Plecing kangkung is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Plecing kangkung is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook plecing kangkung using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Plecing kangkung:

1. Prepare for the coconut topping
2. Take 2 long red chilies, roughly chopped
3. Take Pinch salt
4. Make ready 1 tsp coconut oil
5. Get 1 palm sized piece of fresh coconut
6. Prepare for the broccoli
7. Make ready 500 g Chinese broccoli (gai lan), washed, trimmed and cut into 5 cm lengths
8. Get for the dressing
9. Prepare 2-5 bird's eye chilies (depending on your heat tolerance)
10. Take 1 kaffir lime leaf, torn
11. Prepare 1/2 tsp shrimp paste or dried anchovies
12. Get 6 cherry tomatoes, halved and deseeded
13. Get pinch salt
14. Take 1 tsp brown sugar
15. Prepare 1 lime, halved
16. Prepare small handful of roasted peanuts
17. Prepare for garnishing
18. Make ready 1 tbsp fried garlic
19. Make ready 1 long red chilli finely sliced on the diagonal
20. Make ready Cheeks of lime, to serve

Steps to make Plecing kangkung:

1. 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.
2. Grill the coconut over an open flame until charred. Set aside the chilli-coconut paste and the charred coconut until needed.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Grate the charred coconut finely. Mix with the pounded chilli with coconut oil that has been set aside.
6. 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.
7. Serve topped with the chilli coconut mixture, garnished with fried garlic, sliced red chilli, and cheeks of lime.

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