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Steamed Garlic Prawns with Mung Bean Threads

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To Prepare
In a bowl, combine all the seasoning sauce ingredients, mix well and set aside.
Soak mung bean threads with warm water.
Wash and drain prawns. Cut away the prawn’s antennas and legs.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SGP-1.jpg
To butterfly the prawn, use a kitchen shear to cut through the shell from behind the head all the way across the centre to the tail. Then using a sharp knife, slit across the flesh and slice all the way. Remove the black vein.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SGP-3.jpg

To Cook
Heat up frying pan with 1 tbsp of oil and sauté minced garlic and minced ginger for 2-3 mins or until fragrant.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SGP-4.jpg
Pour in seasoning sauce and fry for a min under medium heat and be careful to not burn the garlic.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SGP-5.jpg
Prepare steamer with water. Arrange soaked mung bean theards onto plate and place butterflied prawns on top.
Place ½ tsp scoop of garlic sauce mixture and chopped chilli onto prawns. Drizzle the remaining seasoning sauce over prawns and noodles.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SGP-7.jpg
Place plate into steamer and steam for 5-7 mins or until prawns are fully cooked.
Sprinkle chopped spring onions and coriander over prawns.
Heat up 2 tbsp of oil until it starts to smoke and drizzle over spring onions and cilantro. Serve immediately.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SGP-10.jpg

Thai Steamed Mussels

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To Make
Place mussels in a bowl filled with water. Leave them for 20-30 mins to let them open up and spit out any dirt or mud. Scrub the shells with a brush of any dirt and set aside.
Heat up a heavy bottom pot over medium heat and sauté garlic and red onion for 2-3 mins until onions are soft and slightly translucent.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TSM-1.jpg
Add in lemongrass and bird chillies and fry for 30 secs.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TSM-2.jpg
Pour in chicken stock. Toss in galangal, kaffir lime leaves and fish sauce. Bring it to a boil.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TSM-4.jpg
Gently add in the mussels and fry for a min. Cover for 2 mins. Stir in the cut chillies and turn mussels around to make sure all are opened up.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TSM-6.jpg
Continue to cook until all mussels have opened up. Add in lime juice.
Switch off fire and toss in Thai basil leaves and cook with residual heat.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TSM-7.jpg
Sprinkle chopped cilantro in before serving.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TSM-8.jpg

Vietnamese Mango Salad (Gỏi Xoài)

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To Make
Place pickling ingredients in a small bowl and let them sit for 15-20 mins, before draining out and leaving shallots and chilli.
Heat up a small frying pan with oil and sauté the chopped shallots and minced garlic for 2 mins.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MS-1.jpg
Remove and set aside but leave oil in the pan. Toss in the soaked dried shrimps and cook until they are slightly brown. Remove and set aside.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MS-2.jpg
Pour in fish sauce and sugar into the same pan and let it come to a boil.
Toss dried shrimps back into pan and cook until it caramelised. Set aside to let it cool slightly.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MS-3.jpg
Make the nuoc cham sauce by combining all ingredients together.
Place shredded mango, carrot, prawns, mints, crushed peanuts, the fried garlic and shallots, pickled shallots and chillies, caramelised dried shrimps in a large mixing bowl.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MS-5.jpg
Coat and mix in nuoc cham sauce until well combined. Serve immediately.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MS-6.jpg

Crispy Wasabi Prawn Sandwich (Wasabi Ebi Katsu Sando)

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To Prepare
Fill enough water to cover egg in a small sauce pan and bring it to a boil. Place egg in and let it simmer under medium heat for 9 mins. Let boiled egg sit for 10 mins, remove from saucepan and remove shell and let it cool.
Mash egg into fine crumbs. Add in all the tartar sauce ingredients and mix well. Set aside.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PKS-1-2.jpg
Heat up frying pan with oil and sauté onion until soften. Remove and set aside to cool.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PKS-2-1.jpg
Smash prawns with knife and give them a rough chop.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PKS-3.jpg
Place chopped prawns with sautéed onion, potato flour, salt, pepper and wasabi in a mixing bowl and mix them all until well incorporated.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PKS-5.jpg
Divide into 2 equal portions and flatten them into square patties.

To Make
Set up coating station of flour, beaten egg and panko. Coat prawn patties with flour then beaten egg follow by panko.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PKS-7.jpg
Heat up oil in a frying pan to 180°C and fry prawn patties one at a time until both sides turn golden brown. Drain oil and let them cool on cooling rack.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/PKS-8.jpg
Alternatively, bake coated prawn patties sprayed with some oil in the oven at 180°C for 25 mins or 15 mins in the air fryer. Turn them over mid way.
Place one prawn patty on a slice of bread, top with shredded cabbage and tartar sauce and cover with another slice of bread.

Chirashi Sushi

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To Prepare
For the sushi rice, wash rice until water runs clear and drain. Place rice in rice cooker with water and soak for 30 mins. If cooking rice on stove top, bring water to a boil under high heat. Once water starts bubbling, turn to low heat and cook rice for 13 mins. Switch off fire and let it sit for 15 mins.
In a small sauce pan, heat up rice vinegar, sugar and salt until sugar dissolves. Set aside to cool.
Scoop cooked rice out onto a large flat plate and mix with vinegar mixture.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CHI-4.jpg
Spread rice out to let it cool to room temperature.

To Make Filling
Heat up frying pan with oil and sauté mushrooms for 3 mins.
Add in shredded carrot and soaking water. Cook for 3 mins and add light soy sauce.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CHI-3.jpg
Once the sauce dries up, dish up and set aside to cool.

To Make Egg Omelette (Kinshi Tamago)
Beat eggs with salt, mirin and water. Go through a fine sieve to trap impurities.
Heat up small frying pan with a little oil. Use a paper towel to absorb up the oil.
Pour one ladle of beaten egg and swirl around the pan under low heat and let it cook. Flip over and cook the other side. Set aside to cool and continue the same process with balance egg mixture.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CHI-1.jpg
Once cooled, roll all omelette up and slice thinly.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CHI-2.jpg

To Make Pickled Lotus Roots in Amazu Dressing
In a small saucepan, heat up vinegar, sugar and salt until sugar dissolves and set aside to cool.
Pour vinegar mixture over sliced lotus roots and let it soak for 2-3 hours or overnight.

To Assemble Chirashi Sushi
Mix cooled sushi rice with mushroom and carrot filling. Sprinkle in toasted sesame seeds and mix well.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CHI-5.jpg
Transfer mixed rice into a medium bowl.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CHI-6.jpg
Firstly, layer with the egg omelette (Kinshi Tamago).https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CHI-7.jpg
Then add the pickled lotus roots, blanched prawns and fresh salmon cubes.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CHI-8.jpg
Lastly, place cut blanched snow peas and tobiko in between prawns and salmon. Add a dollop of wasabi on top.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CHI-9.jpg

Indonesian Fried Noodles (Mie Goreng)

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To Make
Heat up a wok with oil on medium heat. Fry sliced red shallots for 5-6 mins on low heat until light golden brown.
Once golden brown, remove shallots from wok with a soup skimmer and spread it on some paper towel to soak up the excess oil.
Remove some oil from the wok to leave about 2 tbsp. Add in garlic and sauté for 1 min. Then, toss in the prawns and sauté the prawns until they are about half cooked.
Toss in the shredded cabbage and stir for about 2 mins until the cabbage has softened. Once softened, add in the noodles.
Mix all sauce ingredients together and pour in the sauce. Stir to coat noodles evenly for around 2 mins.
Lastly, add in the bean sprouts and stir through.
Serve and garnish with sliced chillies, chopped spring onions, limes and ABC Original Chilli Sauce.

Thai Shrimp Cake (Tod Mun Goong)

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To Make
In a small frying pan, fry red curry paste with coconut milk under medium heat until it turns into a thick paste. Set aside to cool.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/TSC-1.jpg
In a small sauce pan, cook all the dipping sauce ingredients until it starts to boil. Simmer for 2 mins and set aside to cool.
With a food processor, blitz shrimps and egg until it turns into a sticky paste.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/TSC-3.jpg
Transfer to a mixing bowl and add in kaffir lime leaves, snake beans, fish sauce, sugar and red curry paste. Mix them until they are well incorporated.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/TSC-4-1.jpg
Using a spoon, scoop up the shrimp mixture and roll it into a ball. Drop the ball into bowl filled with panko and coat the shrimp ball. Set aside and repeat with remaining shrimp mixture.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/TSC-5.jpg
Heat oil over medium heat in a sauce pan until it reaches 180°C. Deep fry shrimp balls for 3-4 mins or until golden brown in batches. Strain oil and cool.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/TSC-7.jpg
Serves with dipping sauce and crushed peanuts.

Cambodian Steamed Fish Curry (Amok Trey)

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To Make
Prepare banana leaf cups by softening banana leaves over medium fire. Start by folding one side and secured with toothpicks. Fold on the opposite side and secured until you have completed 4 sides.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/TA-4a.jpg
Fill banana leaf cups with spinach. Set aside.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/TA-5-1.jpg
With a pestle and mortar or a food processor, prepare spice paste (kroeung) by pounding garlic, shallot, lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime leaves and turmeric together into a paste.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/TA-6-2.jpg
Mix in brown sugar, salt, chilli paste and shrimp paste till well incorporated.
Heat up wok with cooking oil and sauté kroeung for 4-5 mins. Set aside for 5 mins to cool down.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/TA-7-1.jpg
Cut fish fillet into 3cm cubes. Mix kroeung with coconut milk, sugar, egg and fish sauce. Add in fish cubes and mix them well.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/TA-10-1.jpg
Scoop fish mixture into banana cups and steam for 18 mins.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/TA-11.jpg
Spoon 1 tablespoon coconut milk on to fish mixture, sprinkle with some kaffir lime leaves and bird eye chilli. Cover and steam for another 2 mins.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/TA-12-1.jpg

Sesame Citrus Salmon Skewers

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To Make
In a bowl, add the zest of the skin and juice of 1/2 lime and 1/2 orange.
Add into the bowl the green chilli, dash of white pepper and sugar, fish sauce and soy sauce and Yeo’s Sesame Oil.
In a large bowl, marinate the cubed salmon with the marinade sauce for about 5-10 minutes at room temperature.
Thread around 4-5 salmon pieces on a single skewer. Grill salmon skewers on medium high heat for about 2-3 mins on each side.
Garnish salmon skewers with the toasted black and white sesame seeds.

Prawn and Snow Pea Stir Fry

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To Make
Marinate shrimps with marinade ingredients and set aside for 10 mins.
Meanwhile, heat up a saucepan of water to a boil, add ½ tsp salt and ½ tsp oil and blanch snow peas and carrot for 1 min, lift up and set aside.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SPP-1.jpg
Switch off fire and toss in the mushrooms and blanch for 30 secs. Remove and set aside.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SPP-2.jpg
Heat up wok with 2 tbsp cooking oil and do a quick fry of marinated shrimps till 70% cook around 2-3 mins. Remove and set aside.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SPP-3.jpg
In the same wok, add 1 tbsp cooking oil and sauté ginger, garlic and spring onions on medium heat for 1-2 mins.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SPP-4.jpg
Toss in snow peas, carrots and mushrooms. Stir for 1 min.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SPP-5.jpg
Add in the half-cooked shrimps and continue to stir for 2-3 mins.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SPP-6-1.jpg
Mix all sauce ingredients together and pour over the shrimps and vegetables. Stir for 1 min and splash in a little bit of Shaoxing wine and sesame oil. Serve hot.

Prawn Tempura Soba Salad

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To Make
Make 3 to 4 horizontal shallow slits along the underside of each prawn. Turn the shrimp over. Press down firmly on the shrimp.
In a bowl, add ½ cup tempura batter mix with prawn and mix thoroughly.
In a separate bowl, mix remaining tempura batter mix with water to make dipping batter.
In a medium pot, heat 3cm of oil to 180°C.
Add shrimp into dipping batter. Pick up shrimp by the tail and let excess drop off for 1-2 seconds.
Hold shrimp by tail in slowly place in hot oil, holding it for a few seconds, before fully dropping it in. Fry for about 2 mins or until golden brown and cooked. Continue frying prawns in batches.
To make dressing, mix Kewpie Japanese Dressing Sesame Soy and Kewpie Mayonnaise Wasabi Flavour.
Plate soba noodles on serving dish, garnish with pea sprouts and serve with shrimp tempura and dressing alongside.

Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls

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To Prepare Rice Paper Rolls
In a pan with oil, fry tofu for a few minutes on both side until golden brown.
Meanwhile in a small bowl, combine all the dipping sauce ingredients together. Mix until the sugar is dissolved. Taste and adjust seasoning to your preference.
Place noodles in boiling water for about 3 mins. Loosen up noodles with tongs. Drain well and set aside.
Place warm water in a large bowl and stir through the coconut milk. Dip the rice paper in warm water and remove immediately. Place rice paper on a clean chopping board or plate.
Layer the tofu and prawns, lettuce, cucumber, herbs, carrot, cucumber and vermicelli at the end of the rice paper closest to you, bring the end of rice paper over ingredients, then fold the two sides of the rice paper into the middle to enclose the fillings and roll up the rice paper roll tightly.
Serve rice paper rolls with dipping sauce and crushed peanuts.