Served With Rice
The food diary of a time-poor salaryman. Nutrition conscious, and meal prep friendly.
Category: Chinese
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Low Carb Duck and Shiitake Lettuce Cups
A bit of inspiration and planning is all it takes to breathe new life into stale leftovers. This dinner punches above its weight class in flavour, while remaining light on the calories.
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Home style Hakka salt roasted chicken
Here’s a classic Cantonese chicken and rice recipe, adapted for the modern kitchen. Simply seasoned, no spills or frills.
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Chinese Duck, Shiitake and Winter Melon Soup
Winter melon makes a refreshing soup for the winter. Supercharge the flavour with shiitake mushrooms, and the bones and trimmings from roast duck.
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10 Beginner Tips for making Zongzi (Dragon Boat Festival)
These savoury dumplings are traditionally made in June to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. Here are tips, do’s and don’ts to improve your zongzi-making game.
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Simple 5-ingredient Napa Cabbage Soup
Here’s a quick vegetable broth, infused with the umami of dried shrimp. 5 ingredients only, including water and salt.
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Typhoon Shelter Cuttlefish – Attention Garlic Lovers!
Based on the famous Typhoon Shelter Crab of Hong Kong, here’s a more beginner friendly recipe that gives you a taste of history.
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Fantastic Glass Noodles and Garlic Butter Shrimp
Steaming fresh shrimp with garlic and butter imbues glass noodles with a wonderful, savoury flavour. A delightful weekend dinner.
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Pork and Potato Patties, and Epic Sweet Potatoes
Diced potatoes in meat patties are surprisingly good. Here’s a nostalgic recipe, together with a hack for roasting sweet potatoes plus a hack for roasting sweet potatoes until both juicy and caramelised.
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A Family Favourite Chicken Wing and Potato Stew
A hearty and filling Cantonese stew with the most saucy, savoury, chicken-y potatoes you’ll ever have this side of the equator.
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An Experimental Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry
Blanche your vegetables before you stir fry to improve texture and increase batch sizes. A technique akin to reverse searing steaks, or parboiling potatoes for fries.
My spirit animal is a dinosaur
I guess it would be an Oryzasaurus
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Beef Blanching Broccoli Cabbage Carrots Cast iron Cheese Chicken Dashi Date Night Dried shrimp Eggs Fish and seafood Fish sauce Garlic Ginger Glass noodles Gochujang Honey Lettuce Miso Napa cabbage Old Bay Onion Oven Pasta Peppers Pork Potatoes Salmon Sesame oil Shiitake mushrooms Shrimp Soup Sous Vide Spicy Steaming Stewing Stir fry String beans Sweet potatoes Teriyaki Tomatoes Yogurt Zucchini
