Stuffed bell pepper
Bell pepper stuffed with cooked rice, onion, garlic, paprika, mushrooms, cheese and parsley is drizzled with olive oil, baked and served in a shallow pool of homemade …
Main Courses
Our definition of a main course is a dish, usually protein-based, that provides the most bulk in a meal. It can be a stew, a chunky soup, a stir fry, roast meat, fried meat or grilled fish. This is Asia, so, rice is the default partner.
But there are instances — as in the case of one bowl meals — when the main course is the only course for lunch or dinner.
Braised pork in sweet soy sauce (tau yew bak)
Salty and sweet with a little heat, the key to making this dish successfully is to mind the ratio between the meat and the sauce during and at the end of cooking.
Chicken nanban with tartar sauce
Unlike most fried chicken recipes that start with marinating, chicken nanban fillets are marinated after frying. Strange? Maybe, but the result is delicious.
Chinese broccoli-wrapped mackerel in coconut milk
Wrapping whole fish in leaf before cooking it is a good way to seal in the juices. Braising leaf-wrapped fish in coconut milk gives it a sweet creaminess that's hard to …
Ginger chili pork with spinach and baby corn
Easy prep with a short cooking time, this delicious pork and vegetable dish has just the right amount of heat to make you reach out for more rice.
Balinese beef strips (daging masak Bali)
Stewing beef is cooked long and slow with ginger, garlic, shallots, shrimp paste, tamarind paste, chilies, palm sugar, kaffir lime leaves and soy sauce.
Chicken in creamy white wine sauce
If you have a hard to please mother-in-law, cook this dish, invite her over and watch with a smile as she struggles, and fails, to criticize anything.