Tasty Harvests: Cooking Water Spinach With Shrimps

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Water spinach / kangkong is an Asian Greens that is easy to combine with other ingredients for a delicious dish for the family.

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Water spinach is a vegetable that is fast to harvest and easy to grow in our area. Besides pak choy. We can even grow water spinach without any fertilizer at all.

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They are even sometimes called wild vegetables because they spread so easily and grow abundantly.

You can watch some of my videos about planting water spinach from start to harvest, on my YouTube channel.





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Coincidentally, this time, I will harvest water spinach / kangkong accompanied by a new cat who just came to my house. (It seems like he was thrown away by someone in my garden).

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I will cook water spinach this time for lunch, with shrimp ingredients. With simple seasoning but truly yummy since my husband approved of the taste.

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First, I harvested enough water spinach. Also, I harvested some red chilies to complete my cooking this time. You can use red bell peppers as a substitute for chilies.


I also harvested kaffir lime leaves and bay leaves. These two leaves are super herbs that make cooking smell heavenly good!

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THE INGREDIENTS

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  • 250 grams of shrimps
  • 2 bunches of water spinach

Seasoning

  • 5 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
  • 3 cloves of small red onion, finely chopped
  • red chilies
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 3 kaffir lime leaves
  • 2 tbsp of sweet soy sauce
  • 1/2 tsp of salt
  • 1/2 tsp of pepper
  • 1 /2 tsp of coriander powder
  • 1/2 - 1 cup of water



COOKING INSTRUCTIONS

STEP 1

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Clean the shrimps. To make the process of consuming this dish easier later, I removed the skin and heads of the shrimps.



STEP 2

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Cut the water spinach into pieces just using hands, not a knife to keep the nutrients from being damaged.



STEP 3

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Prepare the seasoning ingredients. Finely chop garlic and red onion, and also slice red chilies or red bell peppers.



STEP 4

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Preheat cooking oil, then add chopped garlic, chopped red onion, bay leaves, and kaffir lime leaves. Stir-fry until it becomes fragrant.


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After it becomes fragrant, add chilies, sweet soy sauces, salt, coriander powder, and pepper. Stir well.
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STEP 5

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Add water spinach pieces. Then, keep stirring for a while until the seasoning looks mixed with the water spinach.


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After that, add shrimps and water. You can use 1/2 cup of water or 1 cup of water according to your taste preference. My husband and I like soupy dishes, so I added 1 cup of water.


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Cook for 3 minutes to 5 minutes according to your taste. If you still want a crunchy texture of water spinach, use only 3 minutes.




SERVING

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Serve water spinach side dishes with rice, topped with sesame seeds! Oh, sooooo good! The key to authentic flavor comes from kaffir lime leaves and bay leaves. Combined with garlic and soy sauce! It's all perfect!

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In fact, I often use the same seasoning for different vegetables. Such as broccoli, and also pak choy. So, do you want to try my virtual restaurant? :) See you!

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Best Regards,
Anggrek Lestari


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Who is Anggrek Lestari?

Anggrek Lestari is an Indonesian fiction writer who has published two major books. Now She is a full-time content creator. She has a goal to share life, poem, and food content that makes others happy and can get inspiration.


Contact Person: authoranggreklestari@gmail.com
Discord: anggreklestari#3009


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Your garden full of my fav vegetables. you are really blessed!

oh, thank you my friend. 😊

Let me suggest to my mom that kind of planting water spinach. We also call it Kangkong hehe .
!LADY

yes your mom should plant kangkong 😊

Hi lady @anggreklestari
I love the ingredients in the recipe, and the way it is prepared.
I'm glad you used vegetables from your garden

Thank you my friend!

It's good to have our garden at home. You can make delicious and healthy meals in your own without buying at the market.

yes, my friend, really help me to get fresh ingredients

I'm not a fan of shrimps but the results are looking great ngl!

Yes, you can replace shrimps with something else. ❤️

Oh, haven't thought about that but it's a really good idea. Thanks!! ❤️

It is nice to harvest and make everyday's food from the garden fresh vegetables. Nice recipe. Good harvesting :)

Thank you, my friend. Day by day, I tried to make my garden produce better for my kitchen consume :)

Steam KangKong is enough for me. LOL,
I love that with rice or no rice! ^_^

yeah, you can also cook kangkong for steam or even just boil, served with sambal :)

I'm not a big fan of spinach, but I love shrimp and this dish is very well composed (and beautiful as well).

in fact, water spinach is really differnt from spinach. Just similar name. :)

The way you combine water spinach with shrimp and all those herbs sounds so flavorful. I'm curious what the taste it will be🥹

savory, and also a bit sweet. Umami taste :)

Seems tasty and it makes my mouth watering, sis.. congrats for such a perfect dish!

yes, sis that dish is really delicious with those herbs
thanks sis

That's great. You're welcome sis :)

That's the great experience could cook from our garden. In Japan have no Kangkong, Should I growing it self in my flat? I think your video is help!

when you have seeds, and the weather is hot then you can plant water spinach

What a lovely visit, it will undoubtedly be good company in the garden
Your vegetables look incredible, nothing better than fresh vegetables to prepare our lunch
I loved this recipe, the dish looks exquisite
Have a lovely day dear friend @anggreklestari

yes my friend, fresh vegetable is great!

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Winter spinach is really the best plus easy to cook vegetable 🥰

yes super easy to grow also cook

Your garden is like a produce section at grocery store but so much better. Now if you had a pond you could have all the ingredients, hehe.

Glad your husband approved I'm sure most would actually. It looks pretty tasty 😋

Having some herbs in my own garden is truly a treasure for me who loves cooking :)

Oh my goodness, what an amazing post! Please accept our little tip by way of reward for such a gorgeous contribution to the weekly challenge. Plentiful greens are such a great thing to grow and supplement our diets with tasty produce!


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Thank you so much for the support. In fact, I really happy to share my garden :)

What a lovely looking garden. Your decision to plan vegetables instead of flowers is awesome so that your family can consume fresh vegetables. I was amazed at how easy water spinach is to grow and care for

Since your garden in out in the open, how do you keep pests from eating the leaves? If they do come, how do you safely remove them without getting chemicals on your vegetables?

I love shrimp with veggies. Lovely post with easy instructions and not a ton of ingredients, but look flavorable.

Thanks for sharing. Take care and have a good start to your weekend.

I also plan to grow flowers to keep the ecosystem well but not as much as before because I focus on kitchen consumption for my family

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a great day

Lovely thought to consider the ecosystem and add flowers. Take care.

What a great meal, very good post and beautiful photos🥑🥑🥑, greetings from Buenos Aires