This easy chive and pork dumplings recipe makes the Cambodian-Chinese version of jiaozi, the delicious dumplings found right across China. In Cambodia, they are more rustic – no fancy pleating here – and packed with chives and a little ground pork mince. Dip them in either chilli oil or a do-it-yourself sauce of chilli, soy ...
This authentic nom banh chok recipe for Cambodia’s beloved Khmer Noodles makes nom banh chok samlor proher, a popular breakfast dish of freshly-made rice noodles doused in a yellow-green coconut-based fish curry that at its best is richer and creamier than other iterations of this dish. It’s garnished with fragrant herbs, seasonal vegetables, edible flowers, ...
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This chilled pea and mint soup recipe makes an easy no-cook cold summer soup – which can be eaten year-round if you turn up the heating. Fresh, fragrant and cooling thanks to the cucumber, mint and basil, this healthy vegetarian soup can be transformed into a vegan soup if you skip the sour cream. If ...
This is the best gazpacho recipe for an authentic Andalusian style gazpacho from southern Spain of the kind that you’ll find in cities such as Seville. This recipe results in a vibrant orange gazpacho that tastes like a garden salad in the form of a cold summer soup. And this chilled soup tastes even better ...
This Russian cold beetroot soup recipe makes holodnik (Холодник), ‘cold soup’, a chilled summer soup that is brilliant on a hot summer day. Sometimes called ‘summer borscht’ – that would actually be svekolnik (Свекольник) – it shares a key ingredient in beetroot and is a breeze to make. Serve with sour cream and fresh dill. ...
This easy Russian eggplant caviar recipe for ikra – which was known as 'poor man’s caviar’ in the USSR – makes a deliciously-rich version of this traditional Russian dip, spread or side dish that’s somewhere in between the ikra my baboushka made that was sumptuous and velvety and the ikra popularised during the Soviet era ...
This Russian potato salad recipe for Olivier Salad or ensalada Rusa makes a Russian salad dating to the 1860s, when it was invented at a celebrated Moscow restaurant. Served at family meals, especially at Russian Easter and Christmas, it’s a fantastic summer salad for barbecues and picnics and filling winter salad served as a side ...
This Russian okroshka soup recipe made with kefir (Окрошка с кефиром) makes a cold summer soup you can slurp any time of year. It’s winter where you are? Turn up the heating. Seasonable vegetables such as cucumber and radish can be substituted with whatever's available that's crisp and crunchy. This chilled soup is healthy and ...
This Russian cabbage soup recipe makes shchi (Щи), the most Russian of soups. If my baboushka wasn’t making borscht, she was cooking a big pot of shchi. Long eaten by nobles and peasants alike, the rich included meat in their shchi, while the poor made a vegetarian soup, shchi vegetarianskiye. Skip the sour cream (not ...
This Russian French toast recipe makes grenki (Гренки) just like my Russian grandmother and mother made. The Russian take on French toast, grenki is easy to make, with just a handful of ingredients. Eaten for breakfast, brunch or dessert, you can serve grenki sweet, with sugar, honey, golden or maple syrup, sour cream, fruit jam ...
This chicken Kiev recipe makes the retro Russian classic that was once cooked for Russia’s tsars, that was democratised during the Soviet Union, and popularised outside the USSR in the 1970s. An iconic Russian dish of chicken breasts stuffed with parsley butter, coated in egg and bread crumbs and fried, it was another dish on ...