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You are here: Home / Archives for Recipes / Recipes by Cooking Style / Home-Style Recipes

Home-Style Recipes

Sticky Chinese Honey Pork Ribs (蜜汁排骨): This may well be the most succulent, melt-in-your-mouth, fall-off-the-bone pork ribs you have ever tasted. The secret lies in first braising the pork ribs for over an hour to tenderise the meat, and then grilling it at high heat briefly to achieve that sticky shiny glaze and smoky aroma!

Sticky Chinese Honey Pork Ribs (蜜汁排骨)

Singa the Lion

Chicken Karaage (Inspired by Singa the Lion)

Teriyaki Chicken Rice

Teriyaki Chicken Wings (Inspired by Changi Airport)

Pig's Trotters in Black Sweet Vinegar

Pig’s Trotter Vinegar (猪脚醋)

Chicken Curry: This chicken curry dish has been my family's favourite picnic meal since my children were young. Now they are grown up and have their own families. However this dish still brings us together and reminds us of those happy memories! This dish goes best with french loaf or steaming hot white rice, so be sure to cook extra rice to go with it!

Homestyle Chicken Curry (咖喱鸡)

Sambal Terasi in a blue patterned bowl with slices of lime

Sambal Terasi (Indonesian Shrimp Paste Sambal)

Portrait photo of Cantonese Cabbage and Mushroom Rice on a blue antique plate

Cantonese Cabbage Rice

Assam Braised Pork Belly: Tender melt-in-your mouth braised pork belly in a tart and slightly sweet assam (tamarind) sauce. Only needs 15 minutes active time and 3 key ingredients (plus common condiments you already have in your kitchen). An unfussy and simple homestyle dish but tastes oh so good!

Assam Braised Pork Belly

Thai Black Olive Fried Rice (Khao Phad Nahm Liap Dum): This savoury fried rice dish get its rich umami flavour from Chinese (Teochew) Salted Black Olives, making it an irresistible treat for the tastebuds!

Thai Black Olive Fried Rice ( Khao Phad Nahm Liap Dum)

Deep Fried Prawn Roll (Hei Zho): Hei Zho is a Teochew and Hokkien favourite dish served during the Chinese New Year. It is similar to Ngor Hiang except that it contains more prawn and is in the shape of beads, wherea Ngoh Hiang resembles sausage. 

Deep Fried Prawn Roll (Hei Zho)

Homemade Pineapple Tarts (凤梨挞 / 黄梨挞): These highly addictive pineapple tarts are made from scratch using homemade chunky spiced pineapple jam, which sit atop a tart pastry that is buttery and crumbly. One piece will not be enough!

Highly Addictive Homemade Pineapple Tarts (凤梨挞 / 黄梨挞)

Homemade Pineapple Jam (Pineapple Tart Filling): Nothing beats homemade pineapple jam where you can take ultimate control to get your preferred texture, sweetness level and spiced flavour. This recipe teaches you how to make your own pineapple jam from scratch using 5 ingredients: fresh ripened honey pineapples, sugar, cinnamon, cloves and star anise, and it is super duper delicious and very satisfying to make!

How to Make Spiced Pineapple Jam for Pineapple Tarts

Tom Yum Talay: An extremely popular Thai soup characterised by its distinctive sweet, spicy and hot flavour due to addition of fragrant spices and herbs indigenous to Southeast Asia. You can either cook it with seafood (Tom Yum Talay), prawns (Tom Yum Khoong), or chicken (Tum Yum Gai), and its a great dish to serve as an appetiser!

Seafood Tom Yum Soup (Tom Yum Talay)

Napa Cabbage / Wongbok Chicken Soup: This simple and healthy one-pot dish boasts rich umami flavours due to the addition of dried Chinese mushrooms, Chinese ham and preserved duck gizzards, and goes perfectly with just a bowl of steaming hot jasmine rice as a complete meal. 

Napa Cabbage (Wong Bok) Chicken Soup

Slow-cooked Mexican Beef Stew Recipe: Chunky beef tendon slow-cooked in a hearty tomato-based gravy for 4 hours until the meat is so tender and succulent that it almost melts in your mouth.

Home-style Mexican Rice with Slow-Cooked Beef Stew

Thai Pineapple Fried Rice: With a plethora of flavours and textures ranging from sweet, savoury, spicy, crunchy to fluffy, this one-pan crowd-pleaser rice recipe has it all! Made using fresh pineapple and served in a beautiful pineapple boat.

Thai Pineapple Fried Rice (Khao Phad Saparod)

Steamed Minced Pork in 4 Styles: Learn to cook this well-loved traditional home-cooked dish in 4 different styles with just one easy recipe! Your 'go-to' recipe to satisfy the different tastebuds in your family!

Steamed Minced Pork (蒸猪肉) with Dong Cai / Mei Cai / Water Chestnut / Salted Fish

Steamed Meatballs in Chilli Oil

30-minute Teriyaki Chicken Don: Instead of heading to a Japanese restaurant, why not make this easy Teriyaki chicken rice bowl at home? The homemade Teriyaki sauce uses just 3 ingredients and gives a beautiful glossy caramelised finish to the chicken thighs. Serve with a bowl of Japanese rice for a complete meal!

How to Make a Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl with Homemade Teriyaki

steamed tapioca cake coated in grated coconut on white plate with accompanying chinese tea cup and pot

Steamed Tapioca Cake (蒸木薯糕 / Kueh Ubi Kayu)

Pork Meatball Congee With Scallops: Don't you simply love the thick, creamy consistency of the congee served at top-notch Cantonese restaurants? Today I will teach you how to make this sweet and flavourful pork meatball congee at home, without the hours of simmering / slow cooking typically needed to achieve such a texture.

Pork Meatball Congee With Scallops: How to get the perfect congee texture

Crispy Chinese Money Bag Fritters: One of my childhood favourites, the distinctive money bag shape of these juicy golden meat dumpling fritters is deeply nostalgic of an era long past when Chinese people used to keep their money in little pouches like these!

Crispy Chinese Money Bag Fritters

Tender Steam-Grilled Stuffed Squid: The steam-grill method gives you the best of both worlds - the extra moisture and flavour infusion from steaming, and the smoky bbq flavours from grilling! This delicious squid dish is literally packed with surprises inside out!

Tender Steam-Grilled Stuffed Squid

Sticky Chinese BBQ Pork (Char Siew): This is Mum's Char Siew recipe with no MSG and no food colouring. Look how juicy and succulent the Char Siew is! My absolute favourite are the little sticky glazed bits with a slightly charred, smoky flavour. Simply heavenly...

Grilled Char Siew (Sticky Chinese Roast Pork)

Crispy Wonton with Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce

Wonton Noodle: Wonton-making can be a fun family activity that even young children (age 3 and up) will enjoy! Freeze up a batch for Wonton Noodle - they will come in real handy on those days when you need to whip up a fast, easy & healthy meal!

Wonton Noodles (Wanton Noodles/云吞面)

Kung Pao Chicken with Toasted Cashews: This Szechuan classic is well-loved around the world for its sweet, sour and sweat-inducing-spicy-but-oh-so-good mix of flavours! Pair it with oven-toasted heart-healthy cashews for that extra crunch in every bite. Super yummy!

Kung Pao Chicken (宫保鸡丁)

Egg Tofu with Nai Bai (Milk Cabbage) and Enoki Mushrooms: Here's another fun way to eat egg tofu. After frying the egg tofu until golden brown, pile on top of a bed of milk cabbage and top with delicious enoki mushrooms - all in just 30 minutes!

Egg Tofu with Nai Bai (Milk Cabbage)

Napa Cabbage (Wong Bok) with Dried Scallops: A light healthy dish of sweet cabbage and prized dried scallop braised in a umami-rich gravy made by first caramelising the natural sugars of the cabbage and then deglazing the wok with the essence of the dried scallops.

Braised Napa Cabbage (Wong Bok) with Dried Scallops

Crispy Egg Tofu with Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce: You can make this super delicious, easy finger food in 15 minutes with just 5 ingredients! The outcome: Crusty golden outside, silken smooth inside - So good, you can even eat it on its own!

Crispy Egg Tofu with Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce

Blue Ginger Fried Chicken Wings: These ultra juicy, flavour-packed chicken wings are marinated overnight in freshly extracted blue ginger juice, then fried to golden perfection. Top with cilantro, chilli flakes and Thai sweet chilli dressing, and serve piping hot!

Blue Ginger Fried Chicken Wings

Chilled Silken Tofu with Crispy Garlic on plate

Cold Silken Tofu Recipe with Crispy Garlic

Chap Chye (Braised Mixed Vegetables) come in many styles - Nyonya... Hokkien... Cantonese... each with their own unique flavours and favourite ingredients. Which style is your favourite?

Chap Chye Recipe (Braised Mixed Vegetables)

Salted Egg, Century Egg and Pork Congee

Century Egg and Pork Congee (皮蛋瘦肉粥)

Papaya and Snow Fungus Dessert in a glass bowl

Papaya and Snow Fungus Sweet Soup (Tong Shui)

Braised Pork Buns (Kung Bak Pao)

Braised Pork Buns (Kung Bak Pao 扣肉包)

Soft and Chewy Gingerbread

Soft and Chewy Gingerbread

The Burning Kitchen | Sweet and Sour Pork (Ku Lu

Sweet and Sour Pork (Gu Lou Yok)

The Burning Kitchen | Lotus Root Sweet Soup with Figs

Lotus Root Sweet Soup With Figs and Honey Dates

Sliced Fish Mee Sua

Sliced Fish Mee Sua (Wheat Vermicelli)

Lotus Root Soup

Lotus Root with Pork Rib Soup (莲藕汤)

East-meets-West Pork and Prawn Macaroni: 

East-meets-West Pork and Prawn Macaroni

Black fungus chicken with wine on teal plate

Chicken in Chinese Wine with Black Fungus and Golden Needle

Black chicken soup in white bowl with chopped chilli with soy sauce in the background

Double Boiled Black Chicken Herbal Soup Recipe

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How to Fry Crispy Golden Shallots without Burning them

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Vegetarian Bee Hoon (Zai Mi Fen)

Teochew Steamed Chinese Pomfret – Version 2

Teochew Steamed Pomfret (Dao Chior)

Ultra Crispy Fried Pomfret on lettuce on white plate with chilli sauce at the side

How to Make Ultra Crispy Fried Pomfret

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Potato, Tomato and Carrot Soup (ABC Soup)

Hainanese Tang Hoon with Chives and Dried Cuttlefish Recipe

Homestyle Creamy Mushroom Soup: My favourite creamy mushroom soup recipe by far - creamy but not overwhelmingly so, not starchy, full of earthy mushroom flavour and a beautiful texture and mouthfeel!

Home-Style Creamy Mushroom Soup

Crispy Roast Chicken with Drip-Tray Vegetables

Crispy Roast Chicken with Drip-Tray Vegetables

Old Cucumber Soup in porcelain bowl with chopsticks at the side

Old Cucumber Soup Recipe(老黄瓜汤)

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Mini Omelette Pouches (Hor Pow Tan) Recipe

Salted Vegetable Duck Soup (咸菜鸭汤 or Kiam Chye Ark): This savoury Chinese soup cooked with salted mustard green and fresh whole duck is very popular during festive occasions and special gatherings - it is a must for my family every Chinese New Year!

Salted Vegetable Duck Soup (咸菜鸭汤 Kiam Chye Ark)

Peranakan Dry Mee Siam: This local favourite boasts a unique blend of sweet, sour, savoury, spicy and tangy flavours that is sure to tantalise your taste buds and keep you coming back for seconds!

Nonya-style Dry Mee Siam

How NOT to Cook Sago - 3 Common Mistakes People Make: Does your sago turn out more gluey or starchy that you like it to be? You may be making some of these mistakes!

How NOT to Cook Sago – 3 Common Mistakes People Make

Dim Sum Steamed Cabbage Roll with Minced Pork: If you love Dim Sum and are a bit of a health nut, you will love these adorable mini cabbage rolls masquerading as Dim Sum, giving a new interpretation to a nostalgic childhood food.

Steamed Cabbage Roll with Minced Meat

Ngoh Hiang cut into pieces on a white plate

Ngoh Hiang (五香 / Lor Bak)

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Stir-fried Beef with Bitter Gourd Recipe

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Yang Zhou Fried Rice (扬州炒饭)

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Prawn and Egg Fried Rice (虾仁蛋饭)

watercress pork rib soup in white bowl with chopsticks at the side

Chinese Watercress and Honey Date Soup (西洋菜汤) Recipe

Egg Mayo Toast Cups: quick and easy snack of egg mayo salad in toasted bread cups with ingredients you already have in your kitchen!

25-Minute Egg Mayo Toast Cups Recipe

Silken Smooth Chinese Steamed Egg with Minced Meat (Zheng Sui Tan 蒸水蛋): The secret to silken smooth steamed eggs revealed. Say goodbye to craters, dimples and pothole steamed eggs!

How to Prepare Silken Smooth Chinese Steamed Egg with Minced Meat

Plate of stir-fried hairy gourd with glass noodles

Stir-fried Hairy Gourd with Glass Noodles (毛瓜冬粉)

Ah Ma's Sweet Potato Leaves in Fermented Beancurd

Ah Ma Sweet Potato Leaves in Fermented Tofu Sauce

The Burning Kitchen | Loofah Prawn Omelette

Luffa Prawn Omelette

Sweet Corn Pork Rib Soup Recipe: Sweet corn pork rib soups belongs to the 煲汤 (Po Tong in Cantonese) class of soups, which are more elaborate and take more than 2.5 hours to simmer. Kids love this soup for its natural sweetness and beautiful colours!

Sweet Corn Pork Rib Soup

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