Banchan (Korean Side Dishes)
A tasty assortment of easy to make cold and hot Korean style side dishes
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Indian Chilli Paneer is one of the most popular vegetarian dishes in Indian Chinese cuisine, combining crispy paneer with a sweet, salty and spicy stir fry sauce. This Indian Chilli Paneer recipe uses high heat cooking to toast the paneer first, giving it golden edges before coating it in a glossy chilli sauce with onions and peppers.
Chilli Paneer is commonly found in Indian restaurants and street food stalls, where Chinese style sauces are blended with Indian spice and heat. The key is balancing sweetness from ketchup, saltiness from soy and heat from fresh chillies to create that signature jammy coating.
Delicious Singapore Chilli Crab is one of Singapore’s most famous seafood dishes, known for its vibrant red, sweet and spicy sauce that clings to fresh crab. This Delicious Singapore Chilli Crab recipe builds flavour slowly by stewing onion, ginger and chilli before caramelising sweet chilli, palm sugar and shrimp paste into a rich base. The crab is then gently steamed in the sauce and finished with ribbons of egg for that signature glossy texture.
This Thai Massaman Curry is a rich, mildly spiced curry made with a homemade curry paste, tender chicken, potatoes and creamy coconut milk. Balanced with tamarind, palm sugar and fish sauce, it's a comforting Thai classic full of warming spices and fragrant flavour.
These Chinese Sweet & Sour Meatballs feature juicy pork meatballs flavoured with ginger, garlic and Chinese five-spice, double-fried until crisp before being tossed with peppers, onion and pineapple in a glossy sweet and sour sauce. Strawberry jam gives the sauce its vibrant colour and fruity sweetness, creating a homemade version of a classic Chinese takeaway favourite.
Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken, or Yan Su Ji, is a famous night market snack made from marinated chicken thigh, coated in starch and deep fried twice for an ultra-crispy finish. Tossed with a fragrant pepper salt and served with crispy fried basil, it’s savoury, aromatic and irresistibly crunchy.
Yasai Yaki Udon is a quick Japanese-inspired stir-fry featuring chewy udon noodles tossed with crisp vegetables in a savoury, slightly sweet sauce. Fresh udon noodles are briefly soaked to separate them before being stir-fried with garlic, spring onions, carrots, peppers, pak choi and shiitake mushrooms. Finished with a rich mushroom stir-fry sauce, soy sauces and mirin, it's a simple vegetarian meal that's perfect for busy weeknights.
Spicy BBQ Gochujang Chicken Wings are smoky, sticky and deeply savoury, cooked slowly over charcoal and finished with a glossy Korean style glaze. This Spicy BBQ Gochujang Chicken Wings recipe balances sweet honey, salty soy and punchy gochujang with a touch of rice vinegar for brightness.
Traditionally Korean wings are deep fried before being coated in sauce, but this version embraces live fire cooking. By cooking the wings indirectly over charcoal first, then basting at the end, you get crisp skin, juicy meat and a lacquered spicy finish.