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Easy Teriyaki Chicken Bowl

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To Cook
Add all the sauce ingredients into a bowl and mix well.
Add olive oil to frying pan over a medium heat and cook the chicken until they are golden on both sides.
Reduce heat, add the sauce to the frying pan and stir until the sauce has evenly glazed the chicken.
Serve with rice, lettuce, tomato and boiled egg.

Boiled eggs
Return the egg to room temperature.
Any small cracks or holes in eggs before boiling make shells easier to peel.
Boil water in a pot, put egg on a spoon and gently put in hot water.
Boil for 6-10 minutes (depends on your preference), take it out and immediately put in cold water.
Peel the shell after the eggs cool.

Chicken Noodle Soup (Soto Ayam)

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To Cook
In a large pot, pour in the water and add the chicken cutlets, lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves and salt. Bring to a boil.
Skim off any foam, reduce heat to a simmer, cover and cook for 45 mins. Skim any excess foam as needed.
Wash the eggs and place into the stock for the final 10 mins of cooking to hard boil. Remove, peel and set aside.
Prepare the spice paste while the chicken in simmering by crushing together the ingredients in a mortar and pestle or food processor into a paste.
Remove the chicken and pour the stock into a jug or bowl. Set aside.
Pull away the skin and bone, leaving big chunks of meat. Set aside.
In the same pot that the chicken was cooking in, add peanut oil and gently fry the spice paste on medium heat for 5 mins.
Place the rice vermicelli into a bowl and cover with cold water for 15 mins. Drain and set aside.
Return the chicken stock to the pot, pour in the can of TCC Coconut Milk. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer and cook for a further 10 mins. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Divide the rice vermicelli and the chicken between 4 bowls. Ladle over the soup.
Garnish with the bean sprouts, hard boiled eggs, fried shallots, fresh coriander and wedges of lime. Serve with Yeo’s Sambal Oeleck. You can either eat it as is, or with fluffy white rice.

Chicken Red Curry

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To Cook
Heat up cooking oil in a pan on high and add half a jar of Valcom Red Curry Paste. Keep stirring for 2 mins until fragrant.
Add one can of coconut milk and mix in with the paste.
Once hot, add the chicken thighs and let simmer for 5 mins.
Add the other can of coconut milk.
Get the broccoli and beans and add to the mix. Let it simmer under a lid for another 5 mins, or until the chicken is cooked.
When ready, remove from heat and serve on top of rice. Add sugar snaps, chilli, lime, coriander and fried shallots to garnish.

Braised Beef Spare Ribs

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To Cook
Heat oil in a large saucepan over high heat. Cook beef, in batches for 3-5 mins until brown. Transfer to a plate.
Reduce heat to medium-high. Add garlic and cook for a few seconds then add the onion. Saute for 1 minute. Add chilli flakes and cook for 15 seconds. Add the carrots and celery, cook, stirring for 1 minute. Return beef to the pan and stir. Add just enough water to cover the beef. Bring to a boil. Scoop and remove any scum. Reduce heat to low. Add hoisin, oyster sauce, soy sauce, kecap manis, tomato paste and fish sauce. Simmer and stir occasionally for 1 hour or until the beef is tender and liquid has reduced and thickened. Remove and discard the star anise and cinnamon.
Add the potatoes and cook for further 15 mins or until the potatoes are tender. Check the seasoning.
Transfer beef to a serving bowl. Serve with cooked jasmine rice.

Cantonese Stir-fry Chicken

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To Cook
Heat oil in a wok on high heat, add chicken and stir-fry until cooked through for 3-4 mins.
Add vegetables and sauce to pan and stir-fry until sauce thickens for 1-2 mins.
Garnish with sesame seeds, green onions and serve with steamed jasmine rice.

SS Lucky Golden Pork-et

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To Cook
Marinate pork slices by combining salt, light soy sauce, sugar and sesame oil. Add in egg white and mix well.
Sprinkle potato starch on pork pieces and mix well.
Heat oil in a wok or large frying pan over medium-high heat.
Fry pork until golden brown. Transfer pork to a plate.
Stir-fry onion for 5 mins. Pour in Lee Kum Kee Sweet and Sour Chicken Sauce. Add pork and stir fry until pork is cooked through.
Garnish with spring onion.

Japanese Salmon Fried Rice

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To Cook
Pan fry salmon for 2 mins on each side or until it turns opaque.
Flake salmon with a fork to break it into pieces, set aside.
Heat a non-stick wok and add the cooking oil. Crack eggs in the wok and scramble them.
When the salmon is about 80% cooked, remove from wok and set aside.
Keep wok on medium high heat and add the sesame oil and spring onions.
Stir fry until nicely coated with oil.
Add rice and slightly increase the heat and cook for 2 minutes, stirring often.
When rice is coated with oil, add the salmon and continue stirring until the salmon is well mixed. Be gentle so that the salmon doesn’t break up too much.
Add the eggs and mix well.
Stir in soy sauce, salt, white pepper, and freshly ground black pepper and remove from heat.
Serve immediately.

Fragrant Oil Rice (Yau Fan)

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To Cook
Heat oil in a wok over medium heat.
Add in shallots and saute until lightly browned without burning them.
Add in uncooked rice that has been washed, and stir fry. Add salt and mix well, stirring constantly for 2-3 minutes.
Transfer the rice into the rice cooker to cook.
The yau fan (oil rice) is typically served with Malaysian Bak Kut Teh.

Thai Basil Fried Rice (Khao Pad Horapa)

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To Cook
Heat up some vegetable oil in a wok over high heat. Add the garlic and chilli and stir-fry until the garlic starts to color.
Add the chicken to the wok and stir-fry until the chicken is cooked.
Add the long beans and capsicum before quickly adding the oyster sauce, dark soy sauce, and light soy sauce.
Add the onions when the long beans and capsicum are almost cooked and stir fry until they begin to be translucent.
Add the rice to the wok and stir/toss until the rice and sauce are mixed well.
Finally, remove the wok from the stove and stir in the Thai basil leaves before transferring to a serving plate.

Steamed Rice Cake (Chwee Kueh)

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To make the Topping:
Heat up a ½ a cup of vegetable oil in a wok and fry the shallots until they begin to colour.
Squeeze out any excess moisture from the preserved radish and add to the wok. Cook for about 5 minutes.
Add the sugar, white pepper and soy sauce. Mix well and taste to make sure the topping is well seasoned.
Transfer to a bowl and allow to cool.

To make the Rice Cake:
Add all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl and stir well until combined.
Make sure there are no lumps in the flour mixture by straining through a sieve.
Cook the flour mixture in a pan over medium heat until it thickens. You can test if the mixture is thick enough by coating the back of a spoon and running your finger over. The mixture is thick enough if the line remains.
When it is ready, remove the mixture from the heat and pour into greased moulds or bowls.
Place the bowls into the steamer on medium heat for 20 minutes. Make sure the water is already boiling before placing the bowls into the steamer.
Once cooked, allow the rice cakes to cool completely before removing from the bowls.
Top with the radish topping and serve.

Soft Shell Crab Hand Roll

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To Prep
Add the sushi vinegar to the cooked sushi rice and gentle fold in to the rice until well incorporated.
Combine 125 g of tempura flour and ice water together in a mixing bowl and lightly stir them together. Don’t over mix as pockets of flour will make the batter airy. Pour the remaining 50 g of flour in to a separate bowl.

To Cook
Heat the oil to about 180°C, then dredge the crab halves one by one in the tempura flour, then into the batter and fry till golden brown. Let cool on paper towels to drain the excess oil.

To Make the Roll
Halve the seaweed sheets. Place sushi rice and then the lettuce, cucumber and half a crab onto one side of nori.
Fold the nearest corner of the nori over the filling and start to shape.
The hand roll should be shaped cone shaped to stop any rice from falling out.