Sarawakian Local Delights : Saute'ed Durian Flowers

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.