Purple stems local basil /Purple stems kemangi/selasih is different from Purple Basil. I love purple stems kemangi as ulam in laksa or as ulam cicah budu ,sambal belacan or tempoyak. Which ever available in my kitchen . or even basil in my tea.
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| Purple stem local basil grow every where in my back yard,especially during in raining season like now.The parent was given by my friend, I thought she gave the Purple Basil ( sister to Sweet Basil but with purple pigments). But to my surprised, mine in local basil /kemangi with purple stems. The taste is also different from Purple Basil, it has the daun selasih/kemangi taste.Alas, I thought I will be making purple pesto soon. So I bought Purple Basil seedlings, yes when they were young, the purple colour of their leaves are purplish, but since I planted them in the area which receives full sun light exposure, the leaves turn greenish like in pic below as they grow older,yeiks!! |
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| purple basil leaves turning greenish at some one else garden too !!! so I don't feel so bad anymore. |
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| Owh!! so many varieties of puple stem kemangi/basil!!!! mine is different from this one either! |
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| Green/Purple/green basil trive in some one else garden-- I do hope my purple basil turn like this too. |
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| plucked some young shoots of purple local basil and peria katak (a small bitter gourd) for my omelette filling |
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| use the young shoots and wrap them in omelette. (hmm..the young shoots of purple kemangi doesn't look purple at all :P) |
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| My breakfast this morning: Omelette with purple kemangi fillings and bitter gourd cicah tempoyak!!! DIVINE!!! |
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| The seeds for the parents of peria katak/peria jantung bought fromtanamsendiri.com |
http://www.tanamsendiri.com/2013/06/benih-untuk-dijual-peria-katak.html
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| Jom makan ulam cicah tempoyak :D |
Here is more info Holy Basil
http://rawedibleplants.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/holy-basil-ocimum-tenuiflorum.html
Oh wow macam dekat resort.
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