Last summer I decided to stop having chicken not completely but cut down as much as possible, I allowed myself to have a chicken dimsum/wantons that I made myself at home but other than that I mostly ate fish, lentils and vegetables. Summer in Sweden is awesome for vegetarians we get all kinds of greens and greens I like starting from hangam (mustard leaves), leibak kundo (purslane), amaranth, methi leaves and many other varieties of greens we eat in Manipur.
One of the most interesting greens I found was leibak kundo, a vegetable not commonly known to even fellow manipuris. My mother once made kangsoi with some nga ayaiba (smoked fish) and I still remembered the taste, from my days in The Hague I knew that it is available in Turkish vegetable stores but here I buy it from stoles owned by people from Arabic speaking background. One can even make kanghou with come potatoes and leibak kundo but kangsoi taste the best.
It is much easier to stick to a meat less diet in summer but I do need my daily does of fish and Sweden is Salmon heaven :) thanks to the neighbouring country Norge we get both farmed and wild caught salmons but also several varieties of sea food. I was anyways never a fan of meat and since the only meat I ate was chicken it was easy to give it up and for some weird reason whenever I used to cook chicken it used to taste horrible so I stopped cooking chicken long time back. My husband makes really yummy chicken but I normally eat just the gravy.
With summer on the way I plan to continue my meat less diet and some interesting recipes will be uploaded soon.
One of the most interesting greens I found was leibak kundo, a vegetable not commonly known to even fellow manipuris. My mother once made kangsoi with some nga ayaiba (smoked fish) and I still remembered the taste, from my days in The Hague I knew that it is available in Turkish vegetable stores but here I buy it from stoles owned by people from Arabic speaking background. One can even make kanghou with come potatoes and leibak kundo but kangsoi taste the best.
It is much easier to stick to a meat less diet in summer but I do need my daily does of fish and Sweden is Salmon heaven :) thanks to the neighbouring country Norge we get both farmed and wild caught salmons but also several varieties of sea food. I was anyways never a fan of meat and since the only meat I ate was chicken it was easy to give it up and for some weird reason whenever I used to cook chicken it used to taste horrible so I stopped cooking chicken long time back. My husband makes really yummy chicken but I normally eat just the gravy.
With summer on the way I plan to continue my meat less diet and some interesting recipes will be uploaded soon.
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| Purslane (Leibak kundo) |
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