Featured Recipe
Star Anise and Ginger Braised Chicken
Friday, June 27, 2025 |
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Star anise is used to give a licorice flavour to this succulent, aromatic braised chicken, ready in under an hour. If you don’t have it, use 1 teaspoon of anise seeds instead. You can prepare it with any cut of chicken, although I always prefer bone-in, skin-on chicken legs. Serve with a light cucumber salad, steamed rice or bao if desired. It makes for a delicious midweek meal everyone will rave about.
Roasted Chicken Thighs with Banana Curry Sauce
Monday, June 23, 2025 |
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Ripe banana can be used to make a creamy, fruity curry sauce that goes perfectly with roasted chicken or chicken schnitzel. Using fruit creates a deliciously thick sauce with a perfect balance of savoury and sweet. Mango is another excellent alternative and crème fraîche can also be replaced with Greek yoghurt or sour cream.
Chicken Satay
Thursday, June 19, 2025 |
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Bursting with warming flavours and aromas of spices like coriander, turmeric and chilli, satay is a popular street food across Southeast Asia countries. The meat (chicken, lamb, beef or pork) are marinated (preferably overnight), skewered, then grilled to perfectly charred and served with a rich peanut dipping sauce. You can use a mix of meat to make the satay. At home we even use tofu and fish. For the dipping sauce, I opt for the cashews. For this recipe you will need 18-20 skewers. If using wooden skewers, soak them in water for 20 minutes before using. For the extra crunch and kick, top with some roasted cashews and chilli rings.
Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken
Sunday, June 15, 2025 |
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The marinade, made with soya sauce, fish sauce, sambal, cilantro, lime and lemongrass, permeates the bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs to make them even more succulent, distinctive and delicious. If you want to use different cuts, make sure to adjust your cooking time accordingly. Serve them over rice, with pho or salad.
Shawarma-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.
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.
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.
Chicken with White Beans, Capers and Lemon
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 |
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Easy and perfectly juicy roasted chicken with tangy white beans combined with lemon and dill for a warming and hearty high protein dinner that the whole family will love. This is made with bone-in skin-on chicken thighs, but drumsticks would work just as great. While any white bean with or without mirepoix will do, I prefer cannellini, aka white kidney beans, to navy beans or pea beans.
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.