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Sunday, June 08, 2025Shawarma-spiced Roasted Chicken
Friday, June 06, 2025 |
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Chicken Shawarma is a popular Middle Eastern street food that's featuring meat layered and cooked on a vertical spit. In this recipe, I am simply using the bold, heady Levantine mix of spices to marinate the chicken and roast them in the oven. Bone-in, skin-on chicken quarters are my favourite, but you can use skinless and boneless chicken thighs, or as the original recipe suggested, a whole chicken, just adjust the cooking time. Serve them with warmed pittas, some salads and a yoghurt-tahini sauce if desired. This recipe needs at least 2 hour of marinating time, but it's preferable to do it overnight.
Romaine Hearts with Chunky Blue Cheese Vinaigrette
Wednesday, June 04, 2025An uber-simple salad, this is a spinoff of the classic iceberg wedge with blue cheese dressing. But instead of iceberg, I used romaine hearts. The classic creamy blue cheese dressing gets an upgrade with large crumbles of blue cheese tossed in a pungent vinaigrette. Add some crispy croutons and smoky bacon to the salad if you wish. I used Castello Danish blue, which contains animal rennet, so it is not suitable for vegetarians.
Chicken Vindaloo
Monday, June 02, 2025 |
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Vindaloo is a tongue tingling kinda spicy Indian curry and can be made with a variety of meats, such as pork, beef, mutton and chicken. You can easily control the degree of spiciness with using fewer chilli peppers. It was originally a Portuguese dish called “carne de vinha d’alhos„ meaning pork with wine and garlic. The dish was brought to Goa by the Portuguese sailors, who stored the meat in the wooden barrels with wine and garlic for long sea voyages and the wine would brine and preserve the meat. Serve with warmed naans or steamed rice for a simple yet satisfying meal. If you are a curry lover or spice enthusiasts, then don’t miss out on this one.
Salmon Skewers with Wasabi Mayo
Friday, May 30, 2025 |
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Easy, flavour-packed grilled salmon skewers with an Asian glaze with soya sauce, mirin, sake, ginger and xylitol (or sugar), are perfect for a light and refreshing summer meal. The salty, sweet, and umami-flavoured glaze contains only a handful of ingredients and also doubles as a sauce to pour over the top. They are naturally glutenfree, dairy free and low carbs. Serve them on a bed of beansprout salad or steamed rice or soba if carbs ain’t an issue for you.
Comté Chicken
Sunday, May 25, 2025This quick and flavourful chicken recipe is truly a crowd pleasers. For a richer flavour, bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs, drumsticks or whole legs are the perfect choice for the recipe. However, the real star of this dish is that creamy cheesy Comté sauce, which is enriched with double cream, and homemade chicken broth, and distinct Comté offers a rich, robust flavour and complex textures to boot. Serve with your favourite crusty bread or pasta to mop up the luscious sauce.
Comté cheese comes from the Jura mountains in France. Its deep nutty flavour with sweet and fruity undertone is the perfect balance to the richness of chicken and caramelized onions.
T-Bone Steak with Parmesan and Herb Dressing
Monday, May 19, 2025 |
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Juicy steak is seared to perfection and Parmesan herb dressing adds a depth of flavour that's out of this world. Double the dressing as it’s great for salads, served with bread or tossed through the pasta. Serve the steak alongside some tender asparagus or a mound of mashed potatoes if you ain’t on low carb diet. With just a few quality ingredients, this dish is sure to become a family favorite. Do not use olive oil to cook steak, as its smoke point is lower than that of tallow or ghee and it will smoke before reaching the desired cooking temperature.
Ethiopian Berbere Chicken
Saturday, May 17, 2025 |
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This Ethiopian berbere chicken packs a punchy flavour and makes the perfect weeknight meal with a simple salad - your kitchen will smell incredible while you're making this! I like to use bone in skin on chicken legs, but you can use chicken wings, boneless chicken thighs or chicken breast.
Berbere, a key ingredient in the cuisines of Ethiopia and Eritrea, is traditionally made from whole spices which are toasted and ground, but if you already have some ground spices, then use them instead.
Keto Salmon Kiev
Monday, May 12, 2025 |
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Oozing with a flavorful butter-herb mixture, this keto-friendly fish version of this classic is definitely a winner. Perfect for entertaining or any weekday meal that will keep you satiated and energised. Butter mixture can be prepared beforehand and stored in the fridge until needed. The only thing I might change next time is to use MORE butter for the filling. If you want a thicker crust, then do a double crumb. You could serve this salmon Kiev with anything your heart desires, but a light salad or some blanched beans or asparagus would keep things really nutritious and healthy.
Greek Yoghurt Chicken
Saturday, May 10, 2025 |
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This is one of the juiciest and tenderest chicken I have ever tasted. Greek yoghurt not only gives the meat a delicious flavour, but above all ensures that the meat is wonderfully tender and juicy! This is because the lactic acid in the yoghurt breaks down the protein structures and the meat remains tender and moist. To allow the marinade to work properly, you should leave the chicken thighs to marinate for at least 2 hours. It is even better to marinate the meat overnight, because the longer, the better the flavours penetrate the meat, and the chicken becomes more tender and the flavour becomes more intense. Salt draws moisture from the meat, making it dry, esp. if you plan to marinate them overnight. This is why the marinade remains unsalted and you can add the salt just before roasting.
Spiced Chicken with Nocellara Walnut Vinaigrette
Tuesday, May 06, 2025 |
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This simple spiced chicken is a super easy and scrumptious dinner made by roasting overnight-marinated bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs, then pairing with an earthy nocellara green olive walnut vinaigrette. Serve it with your desired sides, either rice, pasta, bread or just some roasted vegetables.
Grown in Castelvetrano, Sicily, Nocellara olives are picked young and cured in lightly salted brine, giving them their beautifuly bright green colour as well as their mild, buttery, meaty flavour.
Roast Chicken Thighs with Chocolate Mole
Friday, May 02, 2025 |
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Comforting, deeply savoury, and extremely delicious, this chicken smothered with a chocolate mole, aka mole negro, is made with layers of complex and bold flavours. The sauce is not only great for chicken, pork, also great to jazz up the root vegetables. And of course you can spoon the sauce over the beans too. Use different kinds of dried chillies if you have, otherwise, a single kind would work just fine.