This Tandoori Style Chicken is smoky, spiced and full of flavour, with a yoghurt-based marinade that tenderises the meat and creates a beautifully charred coating. Cooked without a tandoor, it still delivers that classic grilled finish.
Ginger and Garlic Tofu is a bold, crispy stir fry dish packed with aromatic flavour and satisfying crunch. Cubes of tofu are first coated in seasoned cornflour and deep fried until golden and crisp, then quickly tossed in a fragrant sauce with ginger, garlic and spring onions. This Ginger and Garlic Tofu delivers layers of flavour from savoury soy sauce, Shaoxing wine and chilli oil, balanced with the deep umami of mushroom stir fry sauce. The result is a spicy, garlicky and irresistibly crunchy tofu dish that works perfectly as a main or a share plate.
This Korean Beef Bulgogi is sweet, savoury and incredibly tender, featuring thinly sliced beef marinated in a fragrant blend of Asian pear, soy, garlic and sesame before being quickly seared with vegetables. Perfect served with steamed rice, bibimbap or wrapped in lettuce leaves.
These Thai-style mussels are a quick, aromatic dish cooked in a fragrant coconut sauce with lemongrass, galangal and herbs. The rich, creamy broth is balanced with fish sauce and palm sugar, creating a perfect harmony of sweet, savoury and fresh flavours.
This Szechuan Flash-Fried Cabbage is a simple rustic stir-fry of sweetheart cabbage, tomatoes and dried chillies tossed in a tangy soy and black vinegar sauce. Cooked over a high heat to keep the cabbage crisp, it's a quick and flavour-packed side dish that's perfect with steamed rice.
This Malaysian Chicken Curry is rich, aromatic and deeply comforting, layered with fragrant spices, coconut sweetness and tender chicken. Perfect served with coconut rice for a full nasi kandar experience.
This vegan Massaman Curry combines crispy hasselback potatoes with a rich, creamy coconut curry sauce infused with warming spices, tamarind and roasted peanuts. Inspired by traditional Thai Massaman curry, it's comforting, fragrant and packed with layers of flavour.
Quick and Easy Mongolian Beef is a bold, takeaway style stir fry known for its glossy caramelised sauce and tender chunks of beef. This Quick and Easy Mongolian Beef recipe follows a restaurant method of oil blanching the beef first to seal in juices, then finishing it in a bubbling soy and brown sugar glaze infused with ginger, garlic and spring onion.
Despite its name, Mongolian Beef is widely considered a Chinese American creation. The key to its success is balancing savoury light soy with rich brown sugar, allowing the sauce to reduce to a sticky coating that wraps around every piece of beef.
Takeaway-Style Vegetable Omelette with Glossy Gravy
Simple Chinese Egg Foo Young is a British-Chinese takeaway classic, known for its crispy edges, fluffy centre and savoury gravy poured generously over the top. This Simple Chinese Egg Foo Young recipe follows a lighter pan-fried method rather than deep frying, giving you the same golden exterior with better control over texture and oil.
Egg Foo Young is essentially a Chinese-style omelette that can include vegetables, meat or seafood. The key techniques are searing the vegetables first to prevent excess moisture, adding a cornflour paste to the egg for structure, and cooking over high heat before reducing slightly to finish. The result is crisp on the outside, soft and wispy in the centre, topped with a glossy sauce.
Warming Vietnamese Beef Stew is a deeply aromatic slow cooked dish packed with lemongrass, garlic, shallots and warming spices, gently simmered until the beef becomes melt in the mouth tender. This Warming Vietnamese Beef Stew recipe builds flavour from a fresh pounded paste, sears secondary cuts of beef for richness, then slowly braises with tomato and stock for hours until naturally thickened.
Known in Vietnam as a comforting cold weather stew, this dish reflects both French and Chinese influence, with five spice, star anise and cinnamon creating a beautifully fragrant broth. The key is slow cooking to allow the paste and spices to fully infuse the beef.
