Review: Turnula for Malaysian Cooking
I tested the Turnula Kickstarter spatula for two weeks across Malaysian and everyday cooking. Here’s my honest take on where it works – and where it doesn’t.
How to Make Jackie M’s XXO Sauce
I remember when XO sauce started popping up in Chinatown menus as an option for your stir-fried Chinese dishes a couple of decades ago, and thinking it must refer to cognac. I eventually learned that it was in fact a condiment made with dried scallops, an ingredient that’s expensive enough that it would deter me…
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How to Make Sambal for Prawn Noodle Soup (Har Meen) (Low-Carb)
If you’ve followed my Live Asian Kitchen broadcasts for any length of time, you would know that the term sambal belacan” (shrimp paste sambal) covers a number of different chilli dips – there’s raw sambal belacan which consists of pounding chillies with toasted shrimp paste, some seasoning plus a dash of fresh lime juice…
How To Cook Eggplant & Dried Shrimp Sambal
This eggplant sambal dish is from the same broadcast as the fish with tom yum sauce (hour 2) but I thought I should split it into two posts so it’s easier for people to find the recipe. Eggplant Sambal INGREDIENTS: 1 large eggplant, cut into chunks 4 cloves garlic, minced 4 Tbsps dried shrimp,…
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How to Cook Nasi Goreng
This was the episode where I lost my sense of humour and banned someone on Twitch for griping about having a kid around when I’m cooking. As some of you would know, as far as this topic is concerned, I lost it awhile ago – sometime between giving up my restaurant and being booted from…
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How to Make Sambal Ikan Bilis
Sambal Ikan Bilis Recipe INGREDIENTS: 2 large brown onions 1 cup chillies or ½ cup chilli paste 1 Tbsp minced lemongrass 2 tsp belacan powder (shrimp paste) – optional 2 tsp chicken stock granules 5 Tbsp sugar 3 Tbsp tamarind concentrate (amount varies depending on type) 4 Tbsp oil 2 cups dried anchovies – rinse,…
How to Make Green Chilli Sauce and Sambal
Green Chilli and Garlic Sauce Recipe INGREDIENTS: 1 ½ cups green chillies, cut in chunks ¼ cup bird’s eye chillies (optional) ½ cup garlic cloves, peeled 1 ½ Tbsp salt 4 Tbsp water METHOD: Combine all ingredients in a blender. Blend on high speed to desired consistency. Store in clean jars. Chilli sauce will keep…
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How to Make Nasi Lemak – Part 1
Nasi lemak is the unofficial ‘national dish’ of Malaysia, and a popular breakfast item that you’ll find wrapped in banana leaf at street-side stalls. A number of side dishes and condiments go into this dish and they vary slightly depending on where you are, but at my restaurant I always served Nasi Lemak with coconut…
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How to Make Sambal for Kangkung Belacan
I’ve shown you in my previous YouTube videos how to make your own chilli paste and how to prepare dried shrimp. In this next segment, I’m going to show you how to use these two ingredients in one recipe. Sambal Recipe INGREDIENTS: ¼ cup oil (I’m using Carotino) 1 cup dried shrimp, soaked, drained and…
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Fish & Hunt Australia – Quick & Easy Sambal Baked Fish
I love eating Ikan Bakar (Malay Grilled Fish) when I’m in Malaysia – we tend to use whole fish there – and they’re often wrapped in banana leaves and cooked on a charcoal fire. One of the popular toppings used in ikan bakar is a sambal paste – and in this Fish and Hunt Australia…
