It needs no sides, but many of use love those saucy Chinese sides like Manchurian or a chilli gravy when we eat out. So if you plan for a special weekend meal, then try this out with my Veg Manchurian or chilli paneer. About Fried Rice Fried rice is an Asian dish made by stir frying cooked rice in a wok with vegetables, soya sauce and sometimes with meat & eggs as well....
A great, fresh Vietnamese noodle recipe Winter in Sydney swings from being warm enough to run around in shorts and play with your dog at the beach, and cold enough to wear ugg boots and maybe, just maybe, turn on the heater. So the food I make ranges from hearty winter stews to fresh summer salads. I grill outdoors all year round, I make soups in summer and salads in winter....
All cookbook action around these parts!! Back in October 2021, I made the decision to put a pause on posting new recipes on this website to allow myself “just a couple of months” to focus on writing my first cookbook. I really expected (and declared as such!) to be back to my usual routine of sharing 3 new recipes a week by December. Then in December, I declared I’d be back in February....
Lobster Recipes Rounding off a crazy year, Australian grocery stores have been selling lobsters at steeply discounted prices in the weeks leading up to Christmas due to trade tensions with China. (Read more below.) If you’ve been lucky enough to pick one up, here are 6 Lobster recipes that really make the most of them. All easy – and you’re likely to have everything to make at least one of these, if not two or three!...
Just a great pork chop marinade You know when something hits the pan and it smells so great than even if it’s the first time you’ve made that recipe, you know it’s going to be a winner? This is one of those. 🙂 Plus, the added bonus is that there is a very good chance that all the ingredients are already in your pantry. Checklist: soy sauce brown sugar mustard garlic pepper Worcestershire Sauce (I never spell that right first go!...
This Apple Milkshake like many other shakes on the blog, is something I make when my kids look out for ways to skip their fruit. Many times I make vegan smoothies with different fruit combinations which they absolutely love. Pineapple Banana smoothie, Orange Banana smoothie & Apple Orange smoothie are some of them. In fact these fruit smoothies with nothing else added to them digest faster just under 30 mins & I believe the nutrients are absorbed better/faster by our body this way....
Economical and hearty, there’s no better way to see out the colder months. Let it simmer away slowly on the stove or oven, speed things up using your pressure cooker, or set and forget with your slow cooker. Mop your bowl clean with Irish Soda Bread, a quick rustic no-yeast bread, or this incredible easy crusty Artisan bread! Beef Stew The Queen of Brown Food strikes again. Back to back brown foods, possibly the two MOST brown foods in the world – a curry on Friday, and now a Beef Stew recipe today....
However this one does in no way taste like the egg toast but it is made similar to the egg toast replacing egg with besan. We do eat eggs often but during the festive season we are on a vegetarian diet for few months. This besan bread toast recipe comes very handy for me during those days. Besan bread toast is usually made with halved bread slices. But it is good to toast the whole slices if you have a large family....
This is a reader-favourite recipe included by popular demand in my debut cookbook “Dinner”! Carnitas Is there anything better in this world than pork slowly cooked until it’s crazy juicy and fall apart tender, then crisped to golden perfection? Yes. When it’s inside a taco. 😂 Carnitas is one of my specialities. I make this recipe often – for everyday purposes, a freezer standby and for taco-bar gatherings with friends!...
My recipe will teach you how to make great tasting chicken lollipops that are crispy on the outside and juicy & tender inside. I also cover the steps to make that finger-licking good hot and sweet Schezwan sauce into which the lollipops are drenched. Chicken Lollipop Chicken lollipop is a popular Indo-Chinese appetizer where a frenched chicken drumette is marinated and then batter fried or baked until crisp. These are then either seasoned and tossed in a sweet and spicy sauce or simply served with a favorite sauce or dip....
Plus, an opportunity to join me for a very special, one-off dinner – see below for details! Australian cookbook tour 2022 I won’t lie. I’m a little nervous. Some of these event spaces are big. Some I’ll be cooking live at. Some I’ll be doing alone, with no Dozer by my side to clutch onto as my life raft. But also, I’m excited! Looking forward to meeting you in real life, to chat about our favourite ways to roast chicken, reveal our secret foods-of-shame and agree how bread-n-butter counts as one food item in the Deserted Island game (if you say it really fast)....
Cooker Cake If you are new to baking without an Oven, you may wonder why bake in a pressure cooker? Well, it’s for a simple reason that aluminum cookers have a heavy base or bottom which helps in even distribution of heat. So they are very good for baking and can yield extremely good cakes, muffins and cookies. If you do not have a pressure cooker, simply use a heavy bottom pan, kadai or pot, preferably made of aluminum....
Serve this for elegant pre dinner drinks, to ring in the New Year or an evening in with the girls! Cosmopolitan Cocktails I love Cosmos for how easy they are to drink – and how I always feel like I’m channeling the New-York-Gal within as I daintily sip away! Truthfully though, I live in the Northern Beach of Sydney. I spend my days in flip flops, denim shorts and comfortable tees, a whirlwind of activity between the kitchen, shooting area and my computer....
I received an email from a reader asking me to share my chicken noodle soup. It might be in the middle of summer here in Sydney but the weather is swinging from heat waves to winter-like from day to day, so it was certainly no hardship to move from the barbecued Miso Marinated Side of Salmon I shared last Friday to this soup! OK, maybe “winter-like” is a slight exaggeration....
In this post I have shared 2 ways to make egg salad. The first one uses mayonnaise and the second one is made without mayo but uses lots of fresh chopped veggies. Mayonnaise is the main ingredient that gives a creamy and silky texture to the egg salad. However if you do not prefer it, you can use the substitutes which I have mentioned below. Alternately use the second recipe....
Caramelising onions calls for patience, but it’s worth it. You’ll be rewarded with deeply golden, intensely sweet onions that forms an incredible flavour base for this French Onion Soup. For an effortless option, see how to caramelise onions in a slow cooker! THE ICONIC FRENCH ONION SOUP! French Onion Soup is probably one of the most epic soups in this whole wide world. And yet, the soup itself is made with very few core ingredients: butter, onions, flour and stock/broth....
Pesarattu and Allam pachadi are a popular breakfast combo made in most telugu speaking homes. Allam pachadi is a traditional ginger pickle made with ginger, tamarind, jaggery & red chili powder. Making allam pachadi is a slightly tedious work so this instant ginger chutney or allam chutney is favored by many. This ginger chutney is good to consume during the monsoon and winters as it keeps the body warm. Update: I have updated with post with a new recipe of mango ginger chutney....
UPDATE: Give-away now finished! congratulations Stephanie Turnbull from Yatala, QLD, Australia and Lisa Honoshofsky from Ohio, USA! Both winners have been contacted by email to claim their prizes. I love doing giveaways! And today, TWO readers have a chance to win my most used kitchen tool – a handcrafted Japanese Chef’s knife. The exact knife I use every day – read more about it here! It’s sitting here in my house, brought all the way back from a little boutique knife shop in Tokyo....
These dishes turn out to be the most flavorful, delicious & healthy with a loaded greens. This green paste is used to make tikkas, kababs, stir fry dishes, pulao & biryani recipes. In this post I have shared how to make green chicken. You can also use the same recipe to make hariyali chicken tikkas or one pot green chicken rice. I have shared the tips below. This recipe is quite simple and takes less than 30 minutes....
Use for Eggs Benedict and steamed asparagus, and it’s also particularly spectacular with crustaceans such as lobster, crab, prawns/shrimp and scallops. Hollandaise Sauce This classic sauce is regarded as one of the most technically challenging in the French cooking repertoire. Traditionally made with just a whisk and bowl set over a double boiler, it takes a good 10 to 15 minutes of vigorous whisking. If the heat is too high you end up with scrambled eggs....
