Recipes From Cuisine: Asian
Vietnamese & Vegan Rice Vermicelli Salad
This salad is delightful, fresh and healthy! It can be a simple meal on it’s own or an accompaniment to another dish. The Vietnamese use fish sauce but for this vegan version we will use soy sauce instead. NB: you can replace some of the vegetables and use others, to ...
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Rice Vermicelli, Fresh Spinach and Roasted Peanuts
This Asian style recipe can be a meal on its own (vegan & vegetarian) or an accompaniment to any meat, poultry or fish dish. I use fresh spinach because it’s easier to mix with the vermicelli. The frozen spinach is too compact. N.B: Spinach can be replaced, for example, by ...
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Classic Sweet and Sour Chicken
I love Chinese food, and the sweet & sour dishes are amongst my preferred. It’s quick and easy to cook and suitable for a family or friends’ gathering. Serve it with white rice or Chinese egg or rice noodles and a side dish of Chinese style vegetables (check my choy-sum ...
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Bean Sprouts Salad
This Korean inspired salad is light, fresh, tasty, healthy and easy to make. It’s perfect as a side dish or a light summer lunch.
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Vietnamese Chicken and Rice Vermicelli Salad
This vietnamese salad is one of my preferred salads. It can be prepared with shredded cooked chicken (e.g. leftover roasted chicken) or, if you prefer, cooked prawns. This salad will be as good if it is only done with fresh vegetables that goes into it such as carrots, mange-tout, cabbage, ...
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Choy Sum – Chinese Vegetable Stir Fry
Choy sum is a green vegetable commonly used in Chinese cuisine together with other Brassicas such as bok choy (or pak choi) and napa cabbage. It is my favourite Chinese green! Brassica or cruciferous vegetables which include also broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, radish, cabbage and kale are packed with antioxidants, ...
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Grilled Honey Chili Pork Belly
This Chinese recipe is colourful, tasty and easy to cook! Chinese cuisine is one of my favourites and my husband, who lived few years in Hong Kong, loves it.
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Sticky chicken (Kung Pao)
This classic dish originated in the Szechuan Province but is found throughout China, with some variations. Kung Pao chicken is also a staple of westernised Chinese cuisine, served in most Chinese restaurants. It is spicy, sweet, savory and most of all, addictive! In my recipe, I have added some broccoli ...
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Easy Stir Fry Noodles and Vegetables
I usually cook this dish when I crave Asiatic taste or when I have vegetables that need to be cleared from my fridge before my next shopping. It is also an easy way to eat your “five-a-day”! This recipe is vegetarian but you can easily add to it some strips ...
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