Served With Rice
The food diary of a time-poor salaryman. Nutrition conscious, and meal prep friendly.
Category: Weeknight
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Pan Seared Chicken Thighs – a fancy dinner with frugal ingredients
Proper technique and equipment elevates simple chicken thighs into a devastatingly delicious dinner, with some savoury and shatteringly crispy skin.
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Candied walnuts (with a twist)
Walnuts occupy a special plate in my heart. Make walnuts with a sugary crunch even more exciting by introducing these variations.
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Mackerel Teriyaki Bowl – Fish With Flavour
Teriyaki is the one sauce to rule them all. Transform an otherwise mundane piece of fish into a sweet and sticky sensation to go with rice.
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Chicken Teriyaki Bowl – a master template with many variations
You know it, you love it. Sweet, sticky, savoury, and just the thing to have over a steaming bowl of rice. Of course it would also be good with noodles or on a salad, but hey, look at my name. Go to servedwithsalad.com if you want chicken teriyaki on greens.
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Gyudon – Weeknight Japanese Beef bowl
The true essence of the Japanese beef bowl is the sauce, infused with the flavour of lightly caramelised onions and the meaty goodness of thinly sliced beef, served over steaming rice.
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Pork Bulgogi Bowl – Korean inspired, meal prep friendly
Thinly sliced pork in a savoury gochujang-based sauce makes for a wonderful meal with rice.
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Hairy Cucumber with glass noodles and dried shrimp
Glass noodles are an excellent vehicle for delivering the savouriness of dried shrimp and the sweetness of hairy cucumber in this simple but satisfying dish.
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Szechuan Spicy Chicken – a Bold and Saucy Braise
Revel in the numbing spice of this Szechuan spicy flavour bomb. Chicken with rice will never be the same again.
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Pork and String Beans with Preserved Mustard Greens
A cheat code for savoury flavour: preserved mustard greens. An adapted stir fry with pork and string beans for making a week’s worth of lunch in under an hour, including clean up.
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
