Stir-Fried Greens with Belachan

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      25 min

Appears in
The Food of Malaysia: 62 Delicious Recipes from the Crossroads of Asia

By Wendy Hutton

Published 2022

  • About

Cekuk manis (Sauropus albicans), a shrub with edible leaves, grows wild throughout Southeast Asia. A vegetable grower in Lahad Datu, Sabah, discovered a method to make it grow quickly so that the stems are edible, earning it the name Sabah vegetable or Sabah asparagus. It has a flavour similar to kangkung (water spinach) which is a good substitute.