To Cook
Heat a wok over high heat. Add vegetable oil and wait until it turns hot.
Add chopped garlic and chillies, and stir fry for 1 min.
Add morning glory, salted soybean, oyster sauce, and sugar. Stir fry for about 2-3 mins over high heat.
When the morning glory is cooked, turn off the heat and transfer the dish to serving plate. Serve.
Vegetables
Chicken Soup with Pickled Lime (Gai Tom Manow Dong)
To Cook
Boil 4 cups of water in a pot. Add chicken wings, salt, black pepper and grinded garlic and then stir.
When the chicken wings are cooked, add the chopped winter melon.
When the winter melons are cooked, add the pickled lime and ¼ cup of pickled lime juice. Stir well.
Wait until the soup boils, add fish sauce and 1 tsp of sugar, and stir.
Add coriander and remove the pot from heat.
Transfer the soup into the serving bowl and serve. Serve the soup with cooked jasmine rice or as an accompaniment.
Thai Chicken Coconut Soup (Tom Kha Gai)
To Cook
Bring the water to boil with medium heat, add galangal, lemongrass, Valcom Premium Coconut Milk, bird’s eye chillies, Squid Brand Fish Sauce, sugar, lime juice, Valcom Kaffir Lime Leaves and coriander roots, bring to the boil.
Add chicken and mushroom and cook on high heat. Once boiled, reduce heat to simmer.
Cook for a further 5-7 mins or until chicken is cooked.
Remove from heat and garnish with coriander.
Singapore Dry Wonton Noodles
To Cook
Place wontons in boiling anchovy stock. When wontons are almost cooked, add the baby choy sum and cook for another 1-2 mins. Transfer to serving bowls and serve with noodles.
To Serve
In a serving plate, add the sauce ingredients and noodles, toss and mix well. Place some choy sum, char siu and deep-fried wontons (optional) around the noodles, garnish with spring onions. Serve with wonton soup and sliced green chilli.
Dough Flake Soup with Potatoes (Gamja Sujebi)
To Prep
In a small bowl, mix all sauce ingredients together and set aside.
In a large bowl, add the flour and water, stir to combine. Knead to form a ball and seal in a plastic bag. Place in the fridge for 1 hr.
To Cook
In a stock pot, add the stock ingredients and bring to boil. Lower the heat to simmer 5-7 mins. Strain to discard the anchovies.
Bring the soup to boil again and add in the garlic and potato. Cook for 3 mins, then add zucchini and cook for 2-3 mins.
Get the dough and rip it all into flat, bite-sized pieces, adding to the stock as you go. Cook the dough pieces for 5-7 mins, or until the edges are slightly translucent and the pieces starting to float.
Place in the spring onion and egg without stirring and add salt to taste. Serve hot with seasoned soy sauce.
Chinese Noodle topped with Crispy Spicy Preserved Radish Sauce
To Cook
In a pot of boiling water, blanch the noodles slightly to reheat and remove excess oil. Remove and drain well. Place on serving plate.
Blanch the bok choy until cooked, drain well and arrange on serving plate.
Pour the crispy spicy preserved radish sauce over the noodles, serve.
Avocado Nigiri
To Make
Prepare the rice and the avocado as instructed. For the avocado, slowly peel off the skin and then use the lemon juice to prevent the flesh from browning before slicing in to thin strips.
To form the sushi, roll a small amount of the rice in to small roll. Place a couple slices of the avocado on to the top of the rice and then wrap with a strip of the seaweed. Wet the ends of the seaweed to help them to stick together.
Kimchi Fried Rice (Kimchi Bokkeumbap)
To Cook
Place a wok over medium high heat and allow to preheat. Then, add in cooking oil and swirl the oil around to coat the wok. Throw in garlic and give a quick stir. Add luncheon meat and stir fry until lightly browned. Put in kimchi and stir fry until almost cooked. Add in mushrooms and stir to combine. Bring the heat down to medium low.
Mix in rice and kimchi juice. If you do not have sufficient kimchi juice from the container, mix 2½ tbsp kimchi juice with 1 tbsp gochujang paste or soy sauce instead. Stir well to combine thoroughly. Then, add in sesame oil and continue to stir well to combine.
In a separate pan, heat up some oil and fry eggs sunny side up style.
Transfer kimchi fried rice to individual plates and top with fried egg. Garnish with sesame seeds, spring onions and strips of roasted seaweed.
Curry Udon
To Make Dashi Stock
Mix water and bonito powder in a pot, bring to boil and set aside.
To Make Curry
Heat oil in a pot, sauté onion until soft, then add the carrots and potatoes. Stir for 2-3 mins, add the pork and cook until almost done.
Pour in dashi stock and bring to boil, then lower the heat to medium and simmer for 5 mins. Turn off the heat.
Add the curry roux blocks through a strainer and break with spoon to melt the curry roux completely.
Cook the curry over medium heat, stirring to avoid getting burnt. Turn off the heat after 10 mins or until vegetables are cooked through and soft. Add soy sauce and salt to taste.
To Serve
In a serving bowl, place udon noodles and ladle curry with pork and vegetables over the noodles. Garnish with spring onions and sesame seeds. Serve hot.
Green Curry Grilled Beef (Nur Yang Kab Sauce Gang Kheaw Waan)
To Prep
Combine fish sauce and ground black pepper in a small bowl.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Thai-Harder-article-Lets-Make-Green-Curry-Grilled-Beef_01-Ground-Pepper.jpg
Pour over on both sides of the steak and make sure it is well coated. Set aside to marinate for about 5 mins.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Thai-Harder-article-Lets-Make-Green-Curry-Grilled-Beef_02-Lather-Fish-Sauce.jpg
To Cook
Heat a barbecue hotplate or chargrill pan on medium-high heat. Cook marinated beef for 2-3 mins per side until lightly charred or tender (or cooked according to preference), then allow to rest.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Thai-Harder-article-Lets-Make-Green-Curry-Grilled-Beef_03-Grill-Steak.jpg
Heat oil over medium heat in a frying pan, stir-fry green curry paste, carrot and green beans for 2 mins.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Thai-Harder-article-Lets-Make-Green-Curry-Grilled-Beef_04-Stir-Fry-1.jpg
Add coconut milk, water, sugar and fish sauce and bring to a boil. Once boiled, reduce to a simmer for 3 mins.https://asianinspirations.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Thai-Harder-article-Lets-Make-Green-Curry-Grilled-Beef_05-Add-Coconut-Milk.jpg
Add Thai basil leaves and stir through. Pour sauce over beef to serve.
Sweet and Spicy Shrimp Eggplant Curry
To Cook
Quarter the egg plants lengthwise and cut into 6cm batons. Rub eggplants with ¼ teaspoon of salt. Pan-fry the eggplants with 3 tbsp of oil until all sides are brown. Remove from pan and drain.
Saute the shrimps with 1 tbsp of oil until half cooked. Set aside.
Saute onion and garlic with rest of oil until fragrant. Add curry powder and chili and stir evenly.
Add coconut milk and water then bring to boil. Heat until oil separates.
Add ABC Sweet Soy Sauce, kaffir lime leaves and salt to taste.
Add fried eggplants. Cook over low heat until flavors are absorbed. Add prawns and cook through. Remove from heat and serve.
Vietnamese Bread Roll (Banh Mi) with Crispy Roast Pork
To Prep
Combine the water, rice vinegar, sugar, and salt and stir until they have all dissolved.
Place the daikon and carrots in to a resealable jar and pour over the pickling liquid before sealing the jar and storing in a fridge for at least 1 hour.
For the pork belly, score the skin side of the pork belly at 1 cm intervals before seasoning with salt.
To Cook
Preheat an oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
Place the pork belly in to the oven and roast for 45 minutes or until the skin has turned golden and the meat has cooked through.
Remove the pork belly from the oven and let rest before slicing in to thin bite-sized pieces.
To Serve
Cut the baguettes lengthwise and spread some of the mayonnaise on to the bread before adding the pork belly, pickled vegetables and cucumbers slices.
Top with coriander, spring onions and slices of chilli.