Spee chrout.
( Mustard green pickle. )

Crisp homemade sweet and sour mustard green pickle *spee chrout* is delicious. *Spee chrout* to Khmer is like Kim Chi to Korean. Some people prefers very hot also, with a lot chili pepper except we don’t use garlic. We use *spee chrout* for soup, stir-fry, appetizer *mahope sar*, but most of the times, we eat spee chrout as salad along with rice , with fried or grilled fish *trey chien kor ang*, with fish or meat caramelized dish *trey kor sach kho*, and for take along to picnic. Authentic spee chrout recipe we save water from rinsing rice to boiled the mustard green.
• Ingredients :
  • 6 Cups water from rinses rice(option) or 6 cups water
  • 2 lb Fresh mustard green, cleaned and chopped an inch in length
  • 2 Cups water
  • ½ Tablepoon salt
  • 1 Tablespoon sugar
  • 4 Chopped hot chili pepper or to your taste(option)
• Procedures :
  Boil 6 cups water( or water that saved from rinsing rice) in a large pot. When water bubbling, add mustard green to boiling water, stirs a couple times then immediately pours mustard green into a colander to drained.
  Spreads mustard green on a tray or basket to let it dry out for at least 8 hours.
  Put 2 cups water with salt and sugar in a small sauce-pan, cook and stirs till sugar dissolved, removed from the heat and set a side to cool off.
  Put mustard green and chili pepper in a jar or container.
  Pour prepared sugar-salt water over, presses down mustard green and closed the lid tight.
  If store in refrigerator it will take 2 weeks before it ready to eat.
  If not, store it in a cool place, it will be ready in three days.
  If you want to eat sooner, add a tablespoon white vinegar with prepared sugar-salt water, it will be ready in just a day.
  Rinsed under cold water before serve.