Roll-your-own Spring Rolls with the kids
This is a great recipe for keeping the little ones, and not-so-little ones busy and in the kitchen. You can prepare everything the day before and is a great idea if your little ones have friends round.
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Easy Salt and Pepper Chicken
This is a very simple and easy recipe to use to make the classic Salt and Pepper chicken. It is great served with rice or just as they are with some Wing Yip Sweet Chilli Sauce for dipping!
Pork Yuk Sung
This is a very traditional Chinese starter or side dish. Always a favourite when you go to a Chinese Buffet, but you can be very easily replicated at home.
Sticky Sausages
These are something just a bit different when you want to show off to your family and friends.
Beef Hor Fan
A combination of tender beef fillet cooked in oyster and soya sauces, ginger and spring onions served on a bed of lightly fried flat rice noodles. The delicious sauce in this dish is thickened with cornflour which coates and flavours the noodles. A Chinese kitchen tip of adding a little bicarbonate of soda to the … Continued
Soya Sauce Chicken
A sauce (sometimes known as a Master Sauce) is the result of cooking meat in an infusion of soya sauces, sugar and a selection of spices. This sauce can be uses to flavour many dishes, especially noodle dishes and vegetables. Here is a family recipe (many families hand the recipe down from generation to generation) … Continued
Bak Kut Teh
This soup, said to have been invented by the Hokkien Chinese, is a popular dish in Malaysia and Singapore. It is a hearty herbal soup made with pork ribs and eaten with plain boiled rice. Bak Kut Teh, if made with a herbal sachet mix, is a pungent and robust soup and is perhaps not … Continued
Chinese Almond Cookies
These cookies are served to guests at Chinese New Year or other auspicious occasions. Take care when splitting the almonds by inserting a sharp knife into the flat side of the almond and twisting. If preferred you can use store bought slivered almonds instead – just press a couple of slivers into the cookie. This … Continued
Beef and Broccoli in Oyster Sauce
The subtle combination of ginger, oyster sauce and broccoli has made this a family favourite. Do remember to blanch the broccoli first. Vegetarians may substitute beef with oyster or 57g dried Chinese mushrooms (soaked in hot water).
Chicken and Bamboo Shoots in Black Bean Sauce
Tinned bamboo shoots are available in whole pieces and sliced from most supermarkets. This recipe uses the ready sliced variety. Do soak bamboo shoots in water and drain thoroughly before use.