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10.5" CARBON STEEL WOK (12322002)

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    Warming Vietnamese Beef Stew

    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.

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    Thai Boat Noodle Soup (Kuay Teow Ruea)

    Thai Boat Noodle Soup is a deeply savoury street food classic from Thailand, featuring a rich, aromatic broth slowly simmered with beef or pork bones, galangal, lemongrass and spices before being seasoned with fermented soybeans and soy sauces. Served with tender beef, homemade pork meatballs, rice noodles and fresh vegetables, it's a comforting bowl full of layered umami flavours.

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    Chinese Sweet and Sour Chicken

    Chinese Sweet and Sour Chicken is one of the most popular takeaway dishes in the UK, known for its crispy battered chicken coated in a glossy red sauce with pineapple, peppers and onion. This Chinese Sweet and Sour Chicken recipe focuses on achieving a light, dry cornflour coating that fries up crisp rather than greasy, then finishing everything in a balanced sweet and tangy sauce.

    Traditional sweet and sour would have been a simple mix of sugar and vinegar, but the modern takeaway version uses ketchup for colour and body. The key is frying the chicken properly at high heat and tossing it quickly in the sauce so it stays crisp.

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    Amazing Pork Belly & Cola Stir Fry

    This Amazing Pork Belly & Cola Stir Fry Recipe transforms humble cola into a rich, savoury glaze packed with tomato paste, dark soy and mustard. The pork belly is first poached to tighten the fat and tenderise the meat, then sliced thin and seared until crisp before being caramelised in a sticky cola reduction.

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    Crispy Sweet & Sour Pork

    Crispy, crunchy, and downright delicious! Game-changing sweet and sour pork.
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    Indian Chilli Paneer

    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.

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    Minced Turkey Salad (Laab Gai Nuang)

    Learn how to make this minced turkey salad that has a Thai twist, with Saiphin Moore's recipe! The chilli powder does give this dish an incredible punch, and I think it’s definitely best when it is extra spicy, but you can reduce the quantity to suit your palate.
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    Thai Rice Salad (Khao Yum)

    This Thai Rice Salad (Khao Yum) is a vibrant and refreshing Southern Thai dish featuring naturally blue jasmine rice, crisp vegetables, grapefruit, toasted coconut and prawn floss, all brought together with a rich sweet, salty and tangy fermented fish dressing. It's colourful, aromatic and packed with contrasting textures.

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    How to Rescue Your Wok

    School of Wok Technique Guide

    If your wok has developed speckles of rust, do not throw it away. A carbon steel wok can almost always be rescued. Rust usually forms because the wok was not dried properly after washing. The good news is that rescuing a wok simply means re seasoning it correctly.

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    Japanese Chicken Katsu Curry

    Crispy Panko Chicken with Sweet & Savoury Curry Sauce

    Japanese Chicken Katsu Curry is a beloved comfort dish that combines crispy panko breaded chicken with a rich, mildly spiced curry sauce. This Japanese Chicken Katsu Curry recipe blends techniques from Indian, French and Japanese cooking traditions, creating a smooth roux based curry that is sweet, savoury and deeply satisfying.

    Katsu refers to the breadcrumbed and fried cutlet, while the curry sauce reflects Japan’s adaptation of Indian spices during the 19th century. The sauce is thickened with a light roux and balanced with soy, sugar and honey for that signature Japanese flavour profile.

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