November 20, 2018

Sarawakian Local Delights : Saute'ed Durian Flowers

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Photo of Stir Fried Durian flowers with Sambal belacan by Edgar Ong with thanks.

When the durian tree flowers every one gets excited for two reasons. It heralds a good harvest in about 5 months' time and when the flowers start to drop their petals, food can be made from them! The flowers are edible.
Here is a recipe adapted from famous blogger Xiaofeng Huang. Malaysian Vegetarian Food Blog.

Ingredients :
a tablespoon or more of belacan
l tsp of pounded dried chillies
1 tsp curry powder
some lemon grass stalks, crushed
300 g clean durian flowers, blanched and rinsed
3 tbsp oil 
salt to taste




Stir fry method.

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