Vegetarian StarMeatless Monday Recipe–Bryant Terry Jidan Koon Afro-Asian Jung (Video)

Meatless Monday Recipe–Bryant Terry Jidan Koon Afro-Asian Jung (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on September 6th, 2010 in Couples, Food & Drink, Meatless Monday Recipe, Recipes, Videos.

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Bryant Terry Jidan Koon. Credit: Bridan-Kerry.com

Eco, vegan chef and author Bryant Terry is now officially unavailable in the line of single, vegan men who can cook to save the Earth and satisfy an appetite. Terry married Jidan Koon this weekend at the couple’s home in Oakland, California.

The couple loves to cook, combining foods from both African and Asian cultures, and for their engagement party, Terry and Koon created Afro-Asian Jung, a soul-food twist to a traditional Asian tamale-like food “jung,” that wraps a plant-based filling inside bamboo leaves.

“While glutinous or sweet rice is traditionally used to give jung its trademark stickiness, we used three kinds of rice to add color, texture and depth of flavor,” writes the couple at Hyphen Magazine. “For additional filling, we used peanuts (a staple of African and African American cooking as well as a symbol of long life for Chinese), black-eyed peas (a symbol of good luck for African Americans), and shiitake mushrooms (a symbol of longevity in Japan and China).

“When making Afro-Asian Jung, we set out to illuminate the shared past of Asians and African Americans who fought side by side in the social justice movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and to honor our great-grandfathers who toiled as agricultural laborers to build this country’s wealth.”

Detailed instructions of the Afro-Asian Jung can be found at Hyphen Magazine. A video showing the couple demonstrating cooking the dish can be viewed below.