Thai chicken & prawn noodle salad is super healthy and so easy to make. Thai food is about balancing four main flavours, salt, spice, citrus and sweet, it just takes a bit of trial and error
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Tom yum soup
Hot and sour and sweet and salty – this is the Asian answer to chicken soup when your body needs to feel good about itself
This is a really easy Asian salad recipe that involves no cooking, apart from poaching a chicken breast and that’s hardly taxing! It’s great to have if you feel you’ve been overdoing rich and heavy foods as it is light, fresh and healthy.
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Vegetable fried rice
Serves 2 Cooking time 10 mins Ingredients 4 Spring onions, finely chopped 1 Clove garlic, finely chopped 2 tbsp Frozen peas 2 tbsp Sweetcorn Half a red pepper, finely chopped 2 Cups of cold cooked rice Salt and white pepper 1 tsp Soy sauce Groundnut oil for frying 2 Eggs, beaten Method: Heat a […]
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Chinese style beef stir fry
Serves 4 Cooking time 30 mins Ingredients 1kg beef fillet, sliced thinly across the grain 1 tbsp dark sweet soy (kecap manis see Cook’s tip) 1 tbsp cornflour 1 tbsp groundnut oil 8 cloves garlic, peeled 3cm piece root ginger, peeled and roughly chopped 2 onions, sliced 1 red chilli, chopped 1 tsp tamarind paste […]
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Chilli chicken ramen
Serves 2 Cooking time 30 mins Ingredients 2 Chicken breasts 250g Egg noodles 2 Whole cloves of garlic 3 cm Piece of pelled root ginger 1 Litre of good quality chicken stock 2 Pak choi, roughly chopped (Alternatively you could use any green vegetable such as chinese cabbage or baby spinach etc) 4 Spring onions, […]
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Nonya chicken curry
Serves 4 Cooking time 1 hour Ingredients 1 large onion, roughly chopped 4 cloves of garlic, chopped a thumb-sized piece ginger, chopped 2-3 tbsp groundnut oil 5 tsp nonya curry powder (see below) 400ml tin coconut milk 700g chicken breasts or thighs, cut into strips 2 sticks lemongrass, outer layers peeled off and bashed lightly […]
Serves 4 Cooking time 1 hour Ingredients 900g Chicken thighs (skinned, bone in) Marinade: 1 Large onion, chopped 3 Cloves garlic, chopped 3 tbsp Lime or lemon zest 3 Fresh red or green chillies, chopped 2 tsp Chopped ginger 1 tsp Turmeric 2 tsp Ground coriander 1 tsp Salt 1 tsp Black pepper 5 tbsp […]
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Chicken katsu curry
Serves 4 Cooking time 45 mins Ingredients 1 tbsp groundnut or vegetable oil 1 onion, peeled and chopped 5 whole garlic cloves, peeled 2 carrots, peeled and chopped 2 tbsp plain flour 1 tbsp medium curry powder 600ml chicken stock 2 tsp honey 1 tbsp soy sauce ½ tsp garam masala Salt and pepper 4 […]
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Onion bhajis
Serves 2 Cooking time 20 mins Ingredients 1 large onion, peeled, halved and thickly sliced spices – cayenne, turmeric, ground coriander, ground cumin, ground ginger salt 5 tbsp gram flour 1 heaped tsp tomato puree groundnut oil for deep-frying lemon wedges and Indian pickles to serve Method: Serves 2 as a starter or wee snack! […]