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…
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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…
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 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…
Thai Green chicken curry
Serves 2 | 10 mins cooking | 10 mins preparation This is probably the worlds most popular Thai dish and probably the one most people start with when first trying Thai food. Its ingredients are not exactly fixed and often found with chicken, pork and fish. The curry is not necessarily sweeter than other Thai…
Roast Pork Shoulder Porchetta
Serves 4 | 3hrs 30mins cooking | 25 mins preparation Traditionally in Italy, porchetta is a whole young pig filled with lots of fresh herbs and slow-roasted. As it’s unlikely we need to feed enough people to justify a whole piglet we can get a similar effect with boneless pork shoulder or belly pork. Ingredients…
Spaghetti Bolognese
Serves 26 | 3-4 hours cooking | 30 mins preparation There are lots of “Traditional Recipes” and arguments about what should and shouldn’t go into a Bolognese sauce but this is all rubbish. There is no traditional recipe, every grandmother had her own recipe, the only thing in common is long slow cooking and using…
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