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Malaysian Food Archive
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Hainanese Chicken & Rice
Posted on July 1, 2010 | 3 CommentsTweetI love this dish! It’s so damn tasty and so damn simple. This Malaysian treat looks a lot more difficult than it really is. If I’m feeling virtuous it’s the choice I make at one of my favourite Malaysian restaurants which is awkwardly positioned right next door to the gym. If I don’t fall prey to either a Laksa or a fabulous Roti Canai then this is the dish I always choose. I made it at home for the second time tonight and I must say, my version was pretty much the same as I get at the restaurant. Spot on! The condiments are essential with this – I used shop bought sambal together with a spring onion and ginger relish, which is easy to make and almost stole the show.
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Malaysian Prawn Laksa
Posted on April 30, 2010 | 4 CommentsTweetI think Laksa has to be among my favourite foods. An amazing coconut noodle soup from Malaysia/Indonesia. Filled with intense tastes – a real revolution of flavour. There are few places in and around Sydney that claim to serve the best, each slightly different than the last. My personal favourite must be Jimmy’s secret recipe in the city centre. The spicy, creamy soup just goes on and on, which isn’t a bad thing – I could eat it all day. The only thing I do is make sure I wear something black when I eat it. It tends to splash me (and everyone within 3 metres) with the vibrant orange sauce. The recipe may seem a little daunting, but it’s pretty easy to follow. You can make the soup in advance and just drop in the prawns last minute. It’s THAT easy! This recipe will serve 3-4 people. This is South East Asian perfection.
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Malaysian Pork Fried Rice
Posted on September 3, 2009 | 1 CommentTweetThere’s something so amazing about a fried egg sitting on top of some delicious Asian rice. Today, for whatever reason I was craving a fried egg. The meal I created around the egg. A delicious flavoursome and slightly spiced dish which is a perfect use for leftover rice of which I have a freezer full of. It’s very simple too which is always a bonus.
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Nyonya Salmon Curry
Posted on November 26, 2008 | 1 CommentTweet After a few days in Singapore on my return from the winter in the UK I sampled some delicious local food. I ate an amazing fish head curry which was cooked in a traditional Nyonya sauce. Nyonya food takes its influences from Chinese Malay cuisine but with a real south east Asian twist. While this curry was delicious, I decided to recreate it at home using salmon instead of a fish head. It’s a little more appealing to most people’s palette. Be sure to use the garnish of tomatoes, spring onions and coriander for this curry. It REALLY makes a difference.
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Palembang Chicken Curry
Posted on November 5, 2008 | 1 CommentTweet I’m off on holiday for a few weeks – I shall be passing through delightful Singapore for a few days. While the place itself isn’t the most memorable of destinations, the food IS! A mixture of the regions delights and takes its influences from Chinese, Malay, Thai and in this case Sumatran food. It’s amongst my favourite styles of cuisine. There’s something so gratifying in their curries and spiced up salads, to their elaborate soups and laksas. It’s a diverse food which is never dull. I’m really looking forward to gorging myself on it. I made this as both a delicious curry and as a test to see how my cooking stands up to the real thing. I shall let you know. See you in a few weeks.
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Beef Rendang
Posted on August 27, 2008 | No CommentsTweet I have another recipe for rendang here which I’d made with lamb but on looking at it again I just found it quite fussy. I ate an amazing rendang at a restaurant last night. A Betawi restaurant – Betawi being an ethnic cuisine from Indonesia – and it was absolutely amazing. It looked less complicated than the last one I’d made so I hunted out a simpler recipe and gave it a try. I must say, even for such a seemingly complex dish, less is definitely more. Less hassle, more taste. Very easy.
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Malaysian Pork Kapitan
Posted on July 31, 2008 | No CommentsTweet This is an alternative recipe for one of my favourite Malaysian curries. I would normally eat it with chicken, but pork works equally well so you choose. The vivid colour is so appealing – and the taste is so utterly delicious that I just can’t stop my urge to pile my bowl in a disgraceful heap of meat and sauce.
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Malaysian Spicy Squid
Posted on June 9, 2008 | No CommentsTweet I do love a bit of squid, so when I happened upon this recipe in one of my many South East Asian cook books I had to make it. Malaysian food is up there as one of my favourite styles of cuisine. I eat it at least once a week. This is pretty healthy by Malaysian standards, giving me the excuse I need to eat it more often!
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Singapore Crispy Chicken
Posted on January 31, 2008 | No CommentsTweet • Share on Facebook • Add to Del.icio.us • Digg It! I must admit, I am a bit partial to a bit of “Dirty Bird” (a nickname I use for KFC). It’s especially helpful with a hangover, and one of the only options when you’re dying on your feet – a grease fest extraordinaire. There is an Asian alternative however which packs flavour and avoids the traumatic queues in The Bird. Prepare and marinade the night before so all you need to do is dust the chicken and cook without leaving the house. You’ll thank me. You really will.
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Sambal Udang (Malaysian Prawn Curry)
Posted on December 1, 2007 | 2 CommentsTweet • Share on Facebook • Add to Del.icio.us • Digg It! I tried these at a local and not very clean Malaysian restaurant last week and they were so nice I decided to make them at home. The results were pretty much identical to the ones I had at the filthy floored restaurant, I even left my floor unswept all week in its honour.
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Chilli Sambal
Posted on November 27, 2007 | 2 CommentsTweet Share on Facebook This is an essential accompanyment with many East Asian cuisines. It’s a fiery little devil and should only be used in small quantities. But don’t be too afraid, it can really lift the simplest of dishes from a clear soup, to spring rolls, to a fried rice or noodle dish and EVERYTHING in between.
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Chicken Kapitan
Posted on November 9, 2007 | No CommentsTweet Share on Facebook This is another awesome Malaysian curry. It’s not as fiery as the others, but the addition of all that lemon grass makes it beautifully fragrant.
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Devil Chicken Curry
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Malaysian Beef Curry
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Malaysian Lamb Korma
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Nasi Goreng
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Malaysian Beef Satay with Chilli & Peanut Sauce
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Malaysian Chicken Curry
Posted on August 20, 2007 | 6 CommentsTweet I eat this curry at Jimmy’s Malaysian Diner in Sydney all the time. I always have to insist the pushy girl behind the counter to be less stingy with the sauce, not because she’s being particularly frugal, more the fact that it’s so delicious that I want as much as I can reasonably ask for. I recreated with a combination of careful observation of plate when I ate it last week and by checking out a few Malaysian recipes. The taste is very similar. As far as tastiness goes, it’s right up there with Burmese Chicken Curry, which is high praise indeed.
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Malaysian Eggplant Curry
Posted on July 9, 2007 | No CommentsTweet After a frenzied 45 minutes at the gigantic Flemington Fruit & Vegetable Markets Sydney, at the weekend. Our household was overrun with an array of vegetables. As usual we had gotten overwhelmed by the excitement of it all and forgotten that two people simply can’t eat the same as a family of 20. So, the dilemma of the day today was what can I do with a bag full of mini eggplants (which incidentally cost me only $2! Bargain.) The answer a lovely Sarawak curry using chillies and lemongrass. Which also part answered my question, what can I do with a bag of chillies and 10 lemon grass?. Delicious!
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