Claypot Chicken and Mushroom Rice
Easy and tasty Claypot Chicken and Mushroom Rice recipe- a Hong Kong favourite. You can cook this in a normal pot too. Try it here
Tea smoked duck with a spiced plum sauce
It’s the party season and if you are doing a party at home, kick off the party with a delicious zing with some tasty anapés. Here, I have made a very simple Tea Smoked Duck with a Spiced Plum Sauce canapé served on some Chinese soup spoons. Smoking food at home is not as hard…
Hunan: Aubergine with Minced Pork stir fry
I have been waiting for this book for ages since I heard that it was being written. If you have never been to the Hunan Restaurant in Pimlico, you need to add that to the London Restaurant bucket list. I had a really memorable meal there and can happily say that it was one of…
Malaysian Sambal Prawns and British asparagus stir fry
In Malaysia we love strong flavours and the Malay Sambal Tumis is one of the most versatile sauces as it can be used in so many dishes. The most common and popular use of Sambal Tumis is in Nasi Lemak, a Malaysian streetfood breakfast sold by ladies who set up stalls on pavements and street…
Gingko, Barley, Bean Curd – Chinese Dessert
In Chinese cuisine, we don’t really have that many gooey puddings and at the end of banquets, a sweet soup is usually served with something of a different texture like red bean or louts seed paste pancakes or little buns. At weddings, they would usually serve a version of either a red bean soup or…
Chicken Rice Chilli Sauce
The most important part of any Hainanese Chicken Rice dish is the chilli sauce that goes with it. The bottled chilli sauces just don’t work. Every single Malaysian dish has it’s own chilli condiment and the wrong chilli sauce just enhances the dish and the wrong one just ruins it. This is a very simple…
Medicinal Cookery – Anti Inflammatory Curry
Also at the Natural and Organic Prodcuts Show, Dale Pinnock was demonstrating a couple of dishes from his DVD. The first was a tasty Thia inspired Red lentil soup and the other was called an Anti Inflammatory Curry, which was basically a sweet potato curry. The soup was delicious but I thought the curry was…