If anyone has any good home recipes to share please post them here. My favourites is chicken rice and Singapore Laksa
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If anyone has any good home recipes to share please post them here. My favourites is chicken rice and Singapore Laksa
I shall reawken this thread.. for I am intrigued.
csgohan... we like typed stuff here.. people don't click links for food.. they wnat it bought too them.
get to work my fine fellow!
Douglas Chew used to have a series running. All of his stuff was great and i adapted a prawn curry from one of his. Unfortunately, it's almost as if the internet hasn't heard of him, and there's very little of use around.
Here are a couple of his vids that i've found:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unUI6TKBpzw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avySHUnaGsI&feature=plcp
Beyond him though, all i can recommend is this channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMalaysianRecipes
Many people have a tried some Malaysian food, possibly without realising. Very popular dishes are Nasi Goreng and Bami Goreng, which are as equivalently popular as Biryani and Chow-Mein.
If you've not tried either, i sincerely suggest you do. I won't post a recipe because there are so many but spot one you like on Google or by chance in a menu and give it a go.
Rendang beef curry.
Best.
Thing.
Ever.
Malaysia is fantastic - it's a huge blend of different cuisines :)
OK, you want a recipe ?
Here's my Thai chicken curry... for a greedy two people-
3 decent sized chicken breasts, chunked.
2 cans coconut milk.
some red peppers, green peppers, mushrooms, baby sweetcorn - whatever you like really.
4-5 cloves of garlic
a good sized chunk of fresh root ginger
1 stem of lemongrass if you can get it
3-4 lime leaves
and for the essential Hot/Salt/Sour/Sweet flavours -
Just the 1 scotch bonnet chilli, unless you are feeling brave.
4-5 shakes of Thai fish sauce (Nam Pla)
juice of 2 fresh limes
about 1 cubic inch of raw sugar such as Jaggery Noor (palm sugar), shred this
chopped fresh coriander leaf
Smash the garlic, ginger, chilli & lemongrass in a mortar and pestle, maybe add a little salt and black peppercorns to help the grinding. Add a little oil at the end to make a fine paste.
Prepare whatever veggies you have and fry till just taking colour then add the paste and fry for another minute or so. Add the two cans of coconut milk.
Add the rest of the ingredients except the coriander and simmer very gently till the chicken is poached and cooked through.
Finally, add the really good handfull of the fresh coriander leaf and serve with sticky rice or noodles.
Happy now Zakky ?? :)
I remember a few things about food in Singapore (actually remembered a few more since I started typing this)
1 - chilli sauce, every where has it and it comes in two types, red and dark red.
the red is made by just liquidizing whole red chillies, nothing else is added, the dark red is made by pickling the chillies in soya sauce first before liquidizing them.
2 - peppered crab, while there's chillies every where, I managed to freak out my brothers Singaporean in laws by tucking into this and going for 2nd's, it's crab cooked in a peppercorn sauce and they find it really hot but to me it's far less so than all the chilli.
3 - Fresh sugar cane juice, and fresh coconut juice, you get little stalls where they take fresh green sugar cane and drop it into an industrial juicing machine, the coconuts, they take a green coconut hack the top off with a machete and give it to you with a straw. there's very little flesh in a green coconut just liquid. (you can get both in the UK in cans but it's just not the same :( )
4 - not many people actually for themselves cook, there's loads of food squares, a load of outdoor seating and food stalls and kiosks around the sides.
5 - probably the mildest thing I ate was a KFC tower zinger burger, as a test I got one in the UK the day after I got back and the UK ones are more mild than the one I had in Singapore
There are also orange coconuts too which are more common in some parts of Asia - the orange ones I had tended to also have more flesh. Regarding you last point,you see it quite a lot in Asian cities,as the food is relatively affordable. Not so much,over here though!:(