Banchan (Korean Side Dishes)
A tasty assortment of easy to make cold and hot Korean style side dishes
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This Lotus Leaf Chicken Fried Rice is packed with earthy shiitake mushrooms, sweet Chinese sausage and savoury dried shrimp, all wrapped in fragrant lotus leaves and steamed until aromatic. The extra steaming step infuses the rice with a delicate tea-like flavour, making this a simple yet impressive dish.
Pan Fried Dumplings
Chinese Pork Potstickers are a classic dim sum favourite, known for their crisp golden base and juicy, tender filling. This Chinese Pork Potstickers recipe follows a traditional method, making the dough from scratch, hand rolling each wrapper and cooking the dumplings using the pan fry and steam technique that gives potstickers their signature texture.
Potstickers get their name from the way they crisp up on the base of the pan before being steamed through. The contrast between the crunchy underside and the soft, pleated top is what makes them so satisfying.
Singapore Style
Hainanese Chicken Rice is one of the most iconic dishes in Singapore’s hawker centres, originally brought by Hainanese immigrants and adapted into a national favourite. This Hainanese Chicken Rice recipe follows the classic Singapore style method, gently poaching a whole corn fed chicken in ginger and spring onion infused stock, then using that fragrant broth to cook fluffy, aromatic rice.
The magic of Hainanese Chicken Rice lies in precision. The chicken must never over boil. Instead it is simmered briefly, then left to sit in the hot stock to cook through gently. The rice is cooked in rendered chicken fat and stock for rich flavour, and the dish is served with vibrant chilli sauce and fragrant ginger and spring onion oil.
This Thai Basil Prawn Stir-Fry is a fast, flavour-packed Thai classic featuring juicy prawns stir-fried with garlic, bird's eye chillies and fragrant Thai sweet basil in a savoury, sweet and spicy sauce. Ready in minutes, it's perfect served with steamed jasmine rice.
This Taiwanese Sesame Oil Chicken Soup is a comforting, nourishing broth made with roasted chicken, ginger, spring onions and Taiwanese rice wine. Finished with black sesame oil, it's a warming soup that's traditionally enjoyed when you're feeling under the weather or simply in need of something restorative.
This classic Cantonese Watercress in Superior Broth is a light yet deeply savoury soup built around the rich umami of salted duck egg and preserved duck egg. Fresh watercress is gently wilted into an emulsified broth flavoured with ginger, garlic, fish sauce and white pepper before being served bubbling hot in a clay pot. Nourishing, comforting and packed with flavour, it's a traditional banquet-style vegetable dish.
Flash Fried Beef and Broccoli is a fast, high-heat stir fry where tender marinated beef is seared and combined with crisp broccoli in a tangy, slightly sweet tamarind-based sauce. Cooked in minutes, the dish delivers a perfect balance of texture, flavour and wok hei.