I love a good short cut and one of my favourite standbys for quick meals are the pastes from Malaysian company Ayam (especially their nasi goreng paste and awesome satay sauce). I also love their creamy white coconut milk and coconut cream in handy 200ml tetrapaks.
Char-grilled Five-Spice Prawns Like Vietnamese Food? Join Chef Mark Jensen and me for a special Vietnamese Feast at Red Lantern! These char-grilled five-spice prawns are a great filling for bánh xèo (Vietnamese rice flour crêpes). They’re also delicious served simply with a platter of fresh herbs and leaves – such as perilla, Vietnamese mint, Thai […]
Coriander & Mint Sauce Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Indian cooking class inspired by Ajoy Joshi! This slightly spicy coriander & mint sauce is a riff on hari chutney, the traditional accompaniment to that colourful crunchy Indian street-side snack, chaat. My recipe is inspired by a sauce Ajoy Joshi serves at Nilgiri’s Indian […]
Kerala Style Prawns Like Kerala style prawns? You’ll love my online Indian cooking class inspired by Ajoy Joshi! In Kerala, on India’s south west coast, street carts called thattukada sell deep-fried chicken coated in a spicy marinade. At Nilgiri’s Indian Restaurant in Sydney, Ajoy Joshi bakes his ‘street cart chicken’ rather than frying it and […]
Prawn Laksa Lemak Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Singaporean cooking class! There are as many different versions of laksa as there are cooks, every Singaporean and Malaysian adds their own spin and there are distinct regional variations. Not all laksas contain coconut milk, but laksa lemak always does. Laksa lemak originated around the […]
Sticky Rice with Mango Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Thai cooking class inspired by David Thompson! I find any dish with sticky rice addictively comforting, especially a dessert. So I adore khao niao mamuang, Thai sticky rice with mango, one of Thailand’s most popular desserts. Glutinous rice (also called sticky rice) is the […]
Thai Fish Cakes Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Thai cooking class inspired by David Thompson! Thai fish cakes, tod man pla, have a distinctive springy texture, achieved by repeatedly ‘slapping’ the minced fish against the side of the bowl to develop the protein. Red fish works particularly well for Thai fish cakes as […]
Nasi Goreng Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Asian home cooking class inspired by Cheong Liew! Sometimes you want to spend all day in the kitchen cooking up a storm; and sometimes you just want a quick and easy meal using what’s on hand. Either way it has to taste great, right? For the […]
Satay Chicken Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Malaysian cooking class! Some of my favourite memories from trips to Malaysia and Indonesia are of eating satay chicken skewers from street stalls. I’ve tried all sorts of complicated recipes at home to recreate the flavour without success. Then I came across Ayam satay sauce – […]
