Velan's Cuisine Extraordinaire

[NOV]

Wow Karthik, I am impressed.

If you can get kailan, I will give you a very simple, yet delicious recipe.



First you would have to cut off the base and have individual stalk of leaves. No chopping required.
Then you boil water, add some salt and sugar. When water is boiling, immerse leaves in hot water. Remove quickly and then immerse in normal water.
Then immerse once more in the boiling water and then lay them on a serving plate. The idea is for the vegetable to be cooked but still crunchy.

For the sauce, fry a lot of garlic slices. Again do not burn them. Add long slices of red chilly. Add soy sauce and oyster sauce with some water. Since soy sauce is there, you do not have to add salt. Once its boiled, pour over the cooked kailan. Garnish with fried, crispy onions.

Serve immediately with white (preferably Thai) rice.



Unlike Indian cooking, asian cooking tends to use less condiments so that they do not overpower the taste of the original dish.