Vietnamese
Rau Muong Luoc (Boiled Water Spinach with Its Broth)
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Rau Muong Luoc (Boiled Water Spinach with Its Broth) is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Trim the tough bottom ends of the water spinach and wash well.
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Bring the water to a boil with the salt and smashed garlic.
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Drop in the water spinach and boil just until wilted and tender, about 2 minutes.
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Lift the greens out with tongs or a strainer onto a serving plate, keeping the cooking water in the pot.
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Stir the tamarind paste and fish sauce into the reserved cooking water and taste, adjusting until pleasantly sour and salty.
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Serve the greens with a dipping saucer of soy or fish sauce on the side, and ladle the sharpened broth into bowls as the night's canh; this one dish carries both roles.
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Serve it with
A Vietnamese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Rau Muong Luoc (Boiled Water Spinach with Its Broth), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Rau Muong Luoc (Boiled Water Spinach with Its Broth) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Canh Rong Bien Dau Hu (An Chay Seaweed and Tofu Soup) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 40 kcal
- Protein
- 3 g
- Carbs
- 6 g
- Fat
- 0 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 610 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Rau Muong Luoc (Boiled Water Spinach with Its Broth) takes about 12 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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