To Make
Place in this order: chicken, potatoes, onions, star anise, cinnamon stick, tamarind paste, massaman curry paste, palm sugar, fish sauce, kaffir lime leaves, lemon grass and coconut milk into a slow cooker.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/SCMC-2.jpg
Stir everything together and set the slow cooker to low for 6 hours or two hours on high and 2 hours on low. Give a good stir before serving.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/SCMC-4.jpg
Serve hot with steamed Jasmine rice and garnish with toasted peanuts, sliced chillies, fried shallots and cilantro.
Chicken
Thai Chicken Biryani (Kao Mok Gai)
To Prepare
Clean and pat dry chicken and cut into two sections each.
Pound garlic, coriander roots, ginger, salt and turmeric with a pestle and mortar until you get a paste. Mix together with the remaining ingredients.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/TCB-1.jpg
Marinade chicken for at least 2 hours or for best result, overnight.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/TCB-2.jpg
Prepare the mint sauce by blending all the ingredients together to get a smooth paste. Set aside.
Fry sliced shallots until golden brown. Drain and cool. Set aside.
To Make
Heat up a heavy bottom pan with shallot oil and butter.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/TCB-3.jpg
Roughly remove the marinade from chicken pieces and pan fry skin down first until golden brown. Flip over and cook until both sides of the chicken pieces are golden brown. Remove from the pan and set aside.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/TCB-5.jpg
To cook the spiced rice, scrape away some of the burnt bits from the pan then toss in diced onions and sauté until soft. Add in diced tomatoes and cook until they turn pulpy. Pour in washed rice and fried shallots. Stir to mix.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/TCB-8.jpg
Put in bay leaves, cinnamon sticks, cardamom pods, star anise, remaining of the chicken marinade paste and salt. Stir and cook for 2 mins. Pour in chicken stock and mix well. Let it come to a slight boil, reduce fire to low. Cover and let it simmer for 3-5 mins.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/TCB-10.jpg
Place chicken pieces on top of rice and cover. Continue to simmer for 25-30 mins.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/TCB-11.jpg
Remove chicken pieces and all the herbs.
Plate spiced rice on a plate and topped with chicken pieces. Garnish with cilantro and fried shallots.
Serve with mint sauce and sweet chilli sauce.
Japanese Mixed Rice in Rice Cooker (Takikomi Gohan)
To Prepare
Wash short grain rice and let it soak for 15-20 mins. Drain away soaking water and place rice inside rice cooker.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/JMR-2.png
Heat up some water in a saucepan and blanch konjac for 2-3 mins. Remove from saucepan and let it cool and julienne. Set aside.
In the same saucepan, blanch aburaage for 30 secs. Remove and let cool. Cut half length wise and cut into thin strips. Set aside.
To Make
Pour dashi into rice, add light soy sauce and mirin. Mix well.
Layer ingredients in this order: chicken pieces, mushrooms, konjac, mushrooms and aburaage. Do not mix them up.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/JMR-3-1.png
Cover and start cooking process.
Once done, let rice steam for 10 mins. Give it a good stir.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/JMR-4.png
Serve hot with some chopped spring onions.
Thai Glass Noodle Stir Fry (Pad Woon Sen)
To Make
Heat oil over medium-high heat and add chicken. Stir-fry for 2-3 minutes until almost cooked.
Add garlic and onion, then stir-fry for 1 minute.
Increase to high heat and add chilli, carrot, mushroom, lime leaves, and green peppercorn. Continue stirring for 1-2 minutes.
Add eggs, followed by bean noodles. Stir-fry for 2 minutes, then add all the seasoning ingredients.
Cook for another 2–3 minutes until the noodles are cooked through.
Add basil, long red chilli, and spring onion. Toss and stir for 30 seconds.
Indonesian Braised Chicken Stew in Sweet Soy Sauce (Semur Ayam)
To Make
Blend spice paste with a food processor. Set aside.
Heat up wok or a cast iron pot with cooking oil. Sauté spice paste together with lemongrass until fragrant.
Add in chicken and cook until chicken no longer pink.
Add in potatoes, ABC Sweet Soy Sauce (kecap manis), salt, sugar, pepper and ground nutmeg. Stir to coat and cook for 3 mins.
Add water and let it simmer over low heat for 20 mins covered. Remove lid, and continue to cook uncovered for 5 mins.
Garnish with fried shallots.
Japanese Chicken Nanban with Tartar Sauce
To Prepare
Place eggs in a small saucepan and cover with water. Bring water to boil and turn heat to low and simmer for 6 min.
Once done, quickly transfer eggs into a bowl filled with cold water and ice. Let eggs soak for 10 mins. Peel off the shells and chop eggs into coarse bits.
To prepare the tartar sauce, place chopped eggs, chopped celery, lemon zest, lemon juice, mayonnaise and salt in a mixing bowl. Mix everything well.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Copy-of-CN-1-1.jpg
Add in chopped spring onions and give it a stir. Set aside.
Mix all the nanban sauce ingredients together and heat it up in a small frying pan until sugar has melted and sauce bubbles. Set aside to cool.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Copy-of-CN-6-1.jpg
To Make
Fill a small frying pan with oil up to half the pan and heat it up to 170°C.
Season both sides of the chicken thighs with some salt and black pepper. Coat them with flour and shake away any excess.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Copy-of-CN-2-1.jpg
Beat egg in a bowl, coat floured chicken thighs with the beaten egg.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Copy-of-CN-3-1.jpg
Fry chicken for 4-5 mins on each side. Drain excess oil on cooling rack.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Copy-of-CN-4-1.jpg
Increase oil temperature to 185°C and fry the chicken a second time for 2-3 mins or until golden. Drain excess oil on cooling rack.
Before serving, coat both sides of the chicken in nanban sauce.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Copy-of-CN-7-1.jpg
To serve, place chicken on a dish and scoop a few dollops of the tartar sauce over the chicken and serve with lettuce and cherry tomato on the side.
Wasabi Teriyaki Chicken Don
To Make
Mix all the marinade ingredients together in a mixing bowl and marinade chicken thighs for 30 mins to 2 hours.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-WTC-1-1.jpg
Heat frying pan with 1 tsp of oil and fry chicken skin side first for 5 mins on medium heat. Flip over and cook until cooked.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-WTC-3-1.jpg
Sear the white parts of spring onions on a clean pan with ½ tsp oil.
Serve wasabi teriyaki chicken sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds on a bed of steaming short grain rice with seared spring onions, boiled carrot flower and a dollop of S&B Wasabi paste.
Chicken Karaage with Wasabi Sauce
To Make
Cut chicken thighs to 2.5cm cubes.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-CK-1-1.jpg
In a bowl, marinate chicken thighs with the marinade ingredients. Set aside for 15 mins.
Coat every piece first with all purpose flour and then potato starch and set aside.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-CK-3-1.jpg
Heat up a pot of oil to 175°C and deep fry chicken pieces until lightly golden in batches. Drain excess oil on wire rack.
Once all chicken pieces have been fried, remove all the bits and pieces from the oil with a fine strainer.
Increase oil temperature to 185°C and fry the chicken pieces again for another 2-3 mins until golden brown. Cool on wire rack.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-CK-7-1.jpg
Mix wasabi sauce ingredients together.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-CK-8-1.jpg
Heat up frying pan and cook the wasabi sauce until it starts bubbling. Toss in the fried chicken pieces and stir to coat.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-CK-10-1.jpg
Serve warm.
Indonesian Smashed Fried Chicken (Ayam Penyet)
To Prep
Toast cumin, fennel and coriander seeds under low fire.
Place toasted herbs together with the marinade ingredients except sugar and salt into food processor and blitz until you get a smooth paste.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-AP-1-1.jpg
Heat up 500ml water in a heavy bottom pot. Once it comes to a boil, toss in kaffir lime leaves, bay leaves and the blended herbs.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-AP-2-1.jpg
Let it come to a boil and place the chicken marylands in together with sugar and salt. Cook for 20 mins. Remove and set aside to cool.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-AP-5-1.jpg
To Fry
Strain out 250ml stock and mix with the rest of the batter ingredients together.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-AP-10-1.jpg
Heat enough oil in a large pot to 180C and coat tofu triangles with batter and fried until golden. Set aside.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-AP-11-1.jpg
Coat chicken with batter and fried until both sides slightly golden. Remove and set aside.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-AP-12-1.jpg
To make the kremes (crunchy bits made with batter), spoon remaining batter and sprinkle into hot oil. Strain and place onto paper towels to absorb excess oil.
To Make Sambal
Heat up frying pan with 1 tbsp of oil and fry chillies, shallots, garlic and tomatoes for a min.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-AP-6-1.jpg
Add in toasted belacan and cook for 1 min. Remove from heat and transfer to food processor and blend into paste.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-AP-7-1.jpg
Transfer back into frying pan, add sugar and salt and cook until it thickens. Add lime juice once remove from heat. Set aside to cool.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copy-of-AP-8-1.jpg
Give the chicken a good smash with a pestle. Serve with steamed jasmine rice, cabbage, snake beans, tomato wedges, fried tofu and sambal.
Three Colour Rice Bowl (Sanshoku Don)
To Make
Mix all ingredients for scrambled eggs in a medium mixing bowl and beat until well combined.
Heat frying pan with some oil and cook scramble egg until egg is just cooked. Set aside.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/TCRB-1-1-1.jpg
Mix chicken mince with grated ginger. Using same frying pan heat up some oil and fry minced chicken breaking them up to smaller clumps.
Add in light soy sauce, sake, mirin and sugar and cook until the liquid is absorbed into the meat. Set aside.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/TCRB-2-2.jpg
Heat half a pot of water in a medium saucepan. Add salt and blanch spinach for 1 min.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/TCRB-3-1.jpg
Strain and place in a bowl. Mix in light soy sauce, sesame oil, toasted sesame seeds and a pinch of sugar. Set aside.
To Assemble
Scoop steamed rice onto bowl and level the surface.
Scoop half of the chicken mince, scrambled egg and spinach over the rice by arranging them into 3 sections.
Finish the plating with 1 tbsp of benishoga in the centre.
Fish Sauce Glazed Chicken Wings
To Make
In a bowl, mix fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar, honey, lime juice, vegetable oil, garlic, and black pepper.
Add the chicken wings to the marinade and let them sit for at least 15 minutes (or up to 2-3 hours).
Preheat the air fryer to 200°C. Remove wings from marinade and place in a single layer in the air fryer basket. Set the remaining marinade aside in a small saucepan.
Cook for 6-8 minutes, then turn wings over in the basket and cook for a further 6-8 minutes until wings are golden and crispy (cook wings in batches depending on size of air fryer).
Mix the dipping sauce ingredients in a small bowl until smooth. Set aside.
While wings are cooking, simmer the marinade on medium heat to reduce by one third or until thick and syrupy (about 6 minutes). Reduce heat if foaming over pot too
much. Remove from heat and the glaze will thicken as it cools.
Remove browned wings from the air fryer and baste with the glaze. Return to air fryer for a further 4-5 minutes. Remove from the oven and baste with any remaining glaze before serving.
.Serve chicken wings hot with fresh coriander leaves, lime and dipping sauce.
Thai Lemongrass Chicken
To Make
Using a mortar and pestle, pound the lemongrass until it forms stringy pieces. Place lemongrass into a bowl with the chicken pieces.
Place the garlic, coriander root and peppercorns into the mortar and pestle and pound until it forms a paste and the coriander root stems are stringy. Place into the bowl with the chicken.
Add oyster sauce, fish sauce, rice wine vinegar, sugar and corn flour to the chicken and massage into the chicken so it is evenly covered and the lemongrass pieces are not clumped together.
Heat oil in a saucepan to 165°C and cook the chicken in batches for 4–5 minutes until golden brown. If the lemongrass is cooking too quickly, remove from oil as soon as it turns golden. Place chicken onto a wire rack whilst cooking the remaining batches.
Transfer the chicken to a large bowl and add the sliced chillies, lime leaves and coriander leaves. Toss to combine and transfer to a plate for serving.