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Congee days and ramen nights

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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.

Chinese broccoli-wrapped mackerel in coconut milk

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 …

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Ginger chili pork with spinach and baby corn

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.

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Balinese beef strips (daging masak bali)

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.

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General Tso's tofu

General Tso’s tofu

A meatless variant of the popular Chinese-American General Tso’s chicken, General Tso’s tofu is a great appetizer or meatless main course.

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Chicken in creamy white wine 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.

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Lemon pepper chicken rice bowl

Lemon pepper chicken

Ginger ale-battered fried chicken fillets tossed lemon pepper sauce. This lemon pepper chicken is cooked like Chinese lemon chicken but cayenne, dill and thyme add more …

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Cheese-topped broiled salmon served with tomato sauce

Easy cheesy broiled salmon

Looking for a recipe for a quick and easy dish that looks and tastes like it was cooked in a professional kitchen? Look no farther because you just found it.

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