Serves 6-8 | 6½ – 7 hours cooking | 15 mins preparation | Overnight in fridge While we cook with the heart sometimes we have to use the head, or to be more precise a pigs head in this case. With crispy ears and meaty snout and cheeks a pigs head provides a variety of…
Author: Harlen Baker
Spicy Brazilian Coconut Chicken
Serves 4 | 40 mins cooking | 15 mins preparation Quick and easy to make, to make this can become a regular and delicious weekday dinner of chicken with a spicy, rich, creamy and fragrant broth. Ingredients 1tsp Cumin 1tsp Cayenne pepper 1tsp Turmeric 1tsp Ground coriander 1/2tsp Garlic powder 1tsp Salt 4 Chicken breasts…
Chicken Karage
Serves 2-3 | 15 mins Preperation | 8 mins Cooking | 30 mins Marinading | Chicken Karaage is a traditional Japanese fried chicken. Juicy and tender inside and very crispy outside. So quick and easy to make you’ll never order the greasy rubbish KFC again! Ingredients 500g Boneless chicken thighs 25g ginger – grated 1…
Chicken Adobo
Serves 2 | 30 mins cooking | 10 mins preparation Philippine adobo is a popular Filipino dish and cooking process in Philippine cuisine that involves meat, seafood, or vegetables marinated in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, bay leaves, and black peppercorns, which is browned in oil, and simmered in the marinade. The basic ingredients are the…
Coconut sticky rice with banana parcels
Serves 8 | 40 mins cooking | 15 mins preparation This is a quick and simple way to make coconut sticky rice in the rice cooker rather than the usual faffing around doing it the traditional way. You can use this base coconut sticky rice for many different deserts like this banana wrapped parcels or…
Crispy pork belly – using belly slices
Serves 2 | 40 mins cooking | 10 mins preparation Single large pieces of pork belly are not always available in the supermarket or they have already been smothered in some sort of sauce so for those times I compromise and use pork belly slices. the cooking process is largely the same for doing a…
Thai crispy omelette – Khai Jiao
Serves 1 | 5 mins cooking | 5 mins preparation There are several different styles of Thai omelette you can try, this one is probably the simplest and has lovely soft inner layers with crispy edges. Anyone Thai reading this is probably wondering why this needs to be posted as it is such a standard…
Thai Jungle Curry – Kaeng Pa
Serves 4 | 20 mins cooking | 15 mins preparation This is a recipe for the famous Thai Jungle Curry from the mountainous region of Chiang Mai. Traditionally made with whatever vegetables were found in the jungle and the meat or fish from the days hunt, though I am using chicken you can use the…
Chicken and Sweetcorn Soup
Serves 6-8 | 10-20 mins cooking | 5 mins preparation Always one of the essentials I order whenever in a Chinese restaurant or when ordering a Chinese takeaway now recreated at home. Ingredients 1 chicken breast – shredded 1 can creamed sweetcorn 1 can sweetcorn – optional 2 cloves garlic – crushed 1 inch ginger…
Mamon with cream cheese
Makes 12-16 | 25 mins cooking | 35 mins preparation Soft delicate fluffy mamon with a hint of cream cheese Ingredients 100g cream cheese 70g butter 1/2 cup milk 2tbsp sunflower oil 7 egg yolks 7 egg whites 1 cup flour 3/4tbsp baking powder 1 cup sugar 1/4tsp lemon juice Method Place the cream cheese,…
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