MIXED VEGES IN COCONUT MILK (Malaysian Style)

MIXED VEGES IN COCONUT MILK

Ingredients:
200 grms cabbage sliced
4 long beans cut into 1 ½ inches long
1 long purple brinjal cut into 2 inches in length
2 potatoes cut into lengths
2 tofu fried and cut into cubes
3 red fresh chillies sliced
1 big onion sliced
4 cups of thin milk from 1 coconut
1 cup thick milk from the coconut.
Salt to taste
2 tbs oil
Lime juice to taste

To Grind:
5 fresh red chillies + 3 bird’s eye chillies
5 shallots
3 garlic
3 serai or lemon grass
1 inch galangal
1 inch fresh tumeric

Method:
Heat oil in a wok, add in the ground paste.
Sauté well till there is a good aroma and oil separates.
Add in the onions, fresh chillies, potatoes, long beans
And brinjals. Add in the 4 cups of thin milk, cook for a minute.
Now add in the cabbage and tofu and salt.
When the veges are cooked add in the thick coconut milk.
Give one boil and remove. Add lime juice.

Note: normally this kuah is made during the festival
It is served with the cubed rice, along with chicken rending.
I have ommited fresh prawns, and also they add suhun, a type of noodles, soya sheets called fucuk and also preserved soya beans
Called tempe.