{"id":239,"date":"2015-02-04T12:16:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T12:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/?p=239"},"modified":"2015-02-20T19:40:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T19:40:51","slug":"water-spinach-and-sweet-potato-lemak-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/water-spinach-and-sweet-potato-lemak-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Spinach and Sweet Potato Lemak Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/water-spinach-and-sweet-potato-lemak.jpg\" alt=\"Water Spinach and Sweet Potato Lemak Recipe\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/water-spinach-and-sweet-potato-lemak.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/water-spinach-and-sweet-potato-lemak-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rarely found outside the Nonya home, this is an unusual dish in that it is one of the very few spicy dishes to feature sweet potato. A root vegetable associated with the region&#8217;s hungry postwar years, it has now gained respect as a good carbohydrate that also has a distinctive sweetness without being cloying. With the water spinach and rich, coconut milk-based sauce, it makes a very satisfying main course.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/span> (Serves 4)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>225 g\/8 oz water spinach (kangkung)<\/li>\n<li>150 g\/5 oz sweet potato<\/li>\n<li>45 ml\/3 tablespoons vegetable or peanut (groundnut) oil<\/li>\n<li>400 ml\/14 fl oz coconut milk<\/li>\n<li>5 ml\/1 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<li>5 ml\/1 teaspoon sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>For the spice paste:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 candlenuts<\/li>\n<li>8 shallots<\/li>\n<li>15 g\/\u00bd oz fresh turmeric, chopped<\/li>\n<li>15 g\/\u00bd oz shrimp paste<\/li>\n<li>15 ml\/1 tablespoon dried shrimps, soaked until soft<\/li>\n<li>3 garlic cloves, chopped<\/li>\n<li>5 red chilies, chopped<\/li>\n<li>Steam rice, to serve<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Method:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wash the water spinach well. Slice the stalks thinly and tear off the leaves in small bunches. Peel the sweet potato and cut into chunks, wash and dry.<\/p>\n<p>Grind together all the ingredients for the spice paste. Heat the oil in a wok or heavy pan and fry the ground spices for 3 minutes, until fragrant.<\/p>\n<p>Add the coconut milk, water spinach and the sweet potatoes. Then bring to the boil and add the salt and sugar.<\/p>\n<p>Cook for 10-15 minutes until the sweet potato is soft. Water spinach cooks very quickly but is unique in that it never becomes mushy the long simmering. Serve with rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely found outside the Nonya home, this is an unusual dish in that it is one of the very few spicy dishes to feature sweet potato. A root vegetable associated with the region&#8217;s hungry postwar years, it has now gained respect as a good carbohydrate that also has a distinctive sweetness without being cloying. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,4,104,103],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes","tag-lemak","tag-recipe","tag-sweet-potato","tag-water-spinach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}