This Russian buckwheat pancakes recipe makes blini with smoked salmon, dill, sour cream, and a ‘caviar’ of gherkin and radish. These are cocktail size blini that are perfect for snacking and entertaining, and while this is a savoury topping you could also spread these little pancakes with jam and cream. If you enjoyed the Russian ...
This Cambodian mee katang recipe makes a delicious Chinese-Cambodian dish of wok-fried wide rice noodles, browned by dark soy sauce, and stir-fried with marinated pork, crunchy carrots and Chinese broccoli, and scrambled eggs. Called ‘mee Kontang’ in Khmer, which means Cantonese noodles, but pronounced ‘mee Katang’, these charred noodles are a cinch to make and ...
Our best Russian pancakes recipe makes blini in the style of French crêpes if you’re looking for a quick and easy pancake recipe for Shrove Tuesday and Pancake Day tomorrow or for Maslenitsa or Pancake Week, Crepe Week or Butter Week, an Eastern Orthodox holiday joyously celebrated by Russians. This is the best Russian pancakes ...
Our 28 best Russian recipes make traditional Russian dishes just like my baboushka used to make. They include everything from the Russian dumplings called pelmeni and vareniki to hearty comforting soups such as borscht and shchi, for which you’ll find countless renditions all over Russia, Ukraine and former countries of the Soviet Union or USSR. ...
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 gravy 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. ...
Our best summer salad recipes for hot summer days – for picnics in the park, backyard barbecues, and lazy lunches at home – and sultry nights when you can’t be bothered going out, include everything from a healthy Thai green salad and a Cambodian papaya salad to a Russian garden salad and Mexican grilled corn ...
This easy Russian eggplant caviar recipe for ikra – also known as the ‘poor man’s caviar’ during the Soviet period – 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 ...