Peruk Kangsu

A Pennywort meal in Manipuri style

Appetizer

Non-Vegetarian

Herbs

Kanglei

Mixture

Peruk Kangsu

Sunday, April 23, 2023 By : KH MATHOU

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A Pennywort meal in Manipuri style

9 Ingredients
25 Mins
4 People

Peruk Kangsu is a dish made with boiled pennywort and soaked roasted pea. Pennywort is a perennial creeping plant found along marshes, ponds and wetlands. This herbaceous and frost-tender perennial plant belongs to the Apiaceae family and locally known as peruk in Manipuri language. It is widely found in Manipur and regarded as medicinal plant. It can be eaten raw as salad, boiled with other vegetables as champhut, as an ingredient in eromba as well as Kangsu. Kangsu literally means prepared dryly i.e. no gravy or no water added. It is almost similar with Singju - the only difference is that in kangsu the vegetables so used are cooked while in singju they are raw.

Peruk Kangsu

Preparation Time
15 minutes

Cook Time
10 minutes

Total Time
25 minutes

Servings
4 servings

Ingredients
9 ingredients

Directions
7 steps

Ingredients

Primary

	2 handful - Pennywort (peruk)
	1 cup - Soaked pea
	5-6 pieces - Red Chili
	as required - Salt
	1/2 cup chopped - Coriander leaves
	1 piece sliced - Spring Onion
	5-6 pieces - Ngari (fermented fish) Roasted or steamed
	2-3 thumb sized pieces - Dry / smoked fish burn slightly for the smell and taste
	1/2 cup chopped - Houttuynia cordata (Tokningkhok)

Directions

1 Prepare the Peruk
Trim the bad roots and leaves. Slice the onion
2 Cook
Boil the peruk in a close container with 3 glass of water for some minutes.
3
Take a pan and dry roast the soaked white peas, cool it down and pound or grind them coarsely.
4
After peruk is well cook, drain out the water. Let it cool down for 2 min and squeeze out water from it. Next, loosen up or fluff up the squeezed and de-moisturized peruk and keep aside.
5
Chop the peruk into smaller size in a bowl.
6 Mixture
In a large bowl or plate, make a paste of the steamed / roasted ngari, chilies, smoked fish and salt. Add the chopped peruk and mix well and lastly add the coarsely grounded peas and mix till well blended.
7
Garnish with chopped onions and other herbs (as you preferred) and serve as a side dish.