Recipes

Chor Muang or Thai Steamed Dumpling is a refined royal Thai cuisine. It shows the uniqueness of Thai art and its tradition should be preserved. It can be enjoyed with a filling of pork, shrimp, or chicken stir-fried with coriander root, garlic and pepper.

I learnt how to make traditional financiers in Paris in 2008 and bought the moulds for them straight after the class. Here’s my version of a somewhat less traditional chocolate financier. They’re great to whip up for a sweet treat in the afternoon and are a sure crowd pleaser. If you have kids of any age, they will be happy for hours.

Anna and Jordan’s Imqaret (Maltese date biscuits).

This is the flavour of the outback; chunky beef, a smattering of veggies, and a taste of the old world ways of cooking.

Pork San Choy Boa from Alvin Quah

My favourite food from Korea. Kimchi is so popular in Korea there are kimchi museums and entire kimchi fridges. In the past, we would make enough kimchi in summer to last our very cold winters and it would be buried underground in pots. Now, leading tech companies, such as Samsung and LG have created the kimchi fridge.

Anyway, kimchi is really healthy and tasty side dish and the Koreans believe it is their intake of kimchi that saved them from the SARS virus outbreak years ago as there is a fair dose of garlic included.

This is a simple, hearty peasant dish that will warm your cockles!

Traditional gluten-free cheese bread from Brazil.

A homely dessert perfect with tea.

Slow cooked Mud crab curry from Sri Lanka.

In the Jamaican tradition of having a good, this dish is party food. Best served right away with a refreshing beverage. Have some napkins ready because you are about to get sticky fingers.

Prawns sauteed in butter, garlic, chilli. Flambe with Sambuca, dressed with ground espresso beans. Served with fresh bread.

A tangy spicy chutney anyone will love.

Pasulj is a special filling soup my mum makes. It is a traditional Serbian dish. There are a number of variations to the basic theme, so feel free to add other vegetables not mentioned in the recipe.

Cucumber salad to accompany other cooked meat dishes or baked potatoes in summer.

This is a quick and delicious vegan recipe. I usually make this when I have very limited time – it is usually prepared and cooked in less than 30 minutes.

Cambodia’s staple dish is one of a kind. Its delicate and complex spiced flavour is so memorable.

This is one of the most popular desserts in Cambodia. The locals enjoy this refreshing dessert after their lunch or in the evening. This dessert is commonly found at street stalls around Phnom Penh. Cambodians also consume the green mung bean dessert as a way to beat the heat.

Delicious, spicy, ginger prawns!

This recipe is based on one from Tudor times and the buns are not as airy and fluffy as most commercially available buns. If you don’t like crystallised peel use diced dried apricot or sultanas. It is a mildly spiced mixture and if you like your buns spicy you could add an extra half teaspoon each of mixed spice and cinnamon.

This mixture makes 12. I usually double it, as the buns are delicious toasted if they become a little stale.

A thoroughly Aussie dish!