Stir-fried Miding

I plant my own miding plant.  Yes, you hear me right !  I plant my own Stenochlaena palustris.  

It is a small plot, thus the harvest is not much.  Enough only for a small plate, hardly enough for 1 person.

The wild-veg is hard to come across in markets of Peninsular Malaysia, although they grow wild abundantly.

In Sarawak, miding is normally stir-fried with belacan ( prawn paste ) or dried anchovies.  Local Chinese prefers to stir it with ginger and rice wine.   

Miding

Miding is frond tips of Stenochlaena palustris, a fern of Blechnaceae family.  It is commonly found growing in freshwater peat swamps area.

The frond tips are used traditionally as vegetables, stirfried with prawn paste, anchovies or dried prawn.  Foochows in Sarawak like to stirfry it with some ginger and redwine.