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Russian Cold Beetroot Soup Recipe for Holodnik, A Chilled Summer Soup. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

10 Most Popular Recipes of June 2021 – This Is What Our Readers Cooked in June

Our 10 most popular recipes of June 2021 on Grantourismo were a mix of new dishes including seasonal favourites – from warming winter dishes for our readers in the Southern Hemisphere to cold summer soups for our Northern Hemisphere visitors – however, this month we changed the rules when it came to our selection.

I know, I know, we’re only the second month into this monthly new series on our most popular recipes on Grantourismo, and we’re already fooling with the format – or rather the selection criteria. If you’re seeing this series for the first time, last month we decided that as our annual Christmas-New Year lists of top recipes was so popular, we’d publish a monthly round-up.

Some of our most popular recipes were published a whopping ten years ago for a series called The Dish, in which we shared recipes for the quintessential dishes of each of the places we settled into for two weeks at a time on the yearlong global grand tour that launched Grantourismo. They include everything from a classic Cape Town stew called tomato bredie to a cote de boeuf recipe which came courtesy of French chef Pierre Gagnaire when we met him in Paris.

As many of these recipes remain in our top ten recipes month after month, rather than risk the list becoming repetitive, we decided to exclude recipes that were on the previous month’s top ten list going forward. But before I reveal our 10 most popular recipes of June 2021, I have a favour to ask.

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Another option is to contribute to our epic Cambodian cuisine history and cookbook on Patreon or purchase something on Amazon, such as these James Beard award-winning cookbooks, cookbooks by Australian chefs, classic cookbooks for serious cooks, cookbooks for culinary travellers, travel books to inspire wanderlust, gifts for Asian food lovers, picnic lovers and travellers who love photography. Now let me share our 10 most popular recipes of June 2021.

Most Popular Recipes of June 2021 – Here’s What Our Readers Have Been Cooking

Here’s what our readers have been cooking this month – our 10 most popular recipes of June 2021.

MOST POPULAR RECIPES OF JUNE 2021 ON GRANTOURISMO

This Sriracha Sauce Recipe Makes the Best Homemade Thai Sriracha Sauce You’ll Taste

This authentic homemade Sriracha sauce recipe topped the list of our 10 most popular recipes of June 2021. This Thai Sriracha recipe makes the real deal – the Thai hot sauce that tastes just like it does in its place of origin, the coastal city of Sri Racha on Thailand’s eastern seaboard. This spicy sauce is far simpler to make than you might imagine and you can tailor it to suit your own taste. With so few ingredients, it’s the quality of the chillies that make this authentic homemade Sriracha sauce recipe so special. Using Thai chillies from Thailand or a similar variety – but not the chillies used in the world-famous American ‘rooster’ hot sauce – is your key to an authentic Thai Sriracha sauce. 

This Sriracha Sauce Recipe Makes the Best Homemade Thai Sriracha Sauce You’ll Taste

Homemade Condiments You May Never Buy From a Supermarket Again After Making These at Home

This compilation of homemade condiments was another of our 10 most popular recipes of June 2021. These homemade condiments are so delicious that once you make them at home you may never want to buy a bottled commercial sauce brand from a supermarket again. They include everything from Thai sweet chilli sauce to tonkatsu sauce. Making these has been a very satisfying diversion during the pandemic here in Cambodia’s Siem Reap. What our pandemic cooking experiments have confirmed is that homemade condiments not only taste better than supermarket brands but they are more affordable and healthier, as we know exactly what we’re putting in them and it’s all good.

Homemade Condiments You May Never Buy From a Supermarket Again After Making These at Home

Spicy Sichuan Inspired Sourdough Crackers Recipe Made With Starter Discard and Sichuan Peppers

Last year, while we were staying at home quarantine cooking and working our way through a long list of cooking projects, we published a whole series of sourdough starter discard recipes. This spicy Sichuan sourdough crackers recipe takes one of those, our popular sourdough starter discard crackers recipe, to another level – of heat! This spicy Sichuan sourdough crackers recipe made with sourdough starter discard and Sichuan peppers makes a cracker that’s delightfully hot and numbing and incredibly moreish. It was another one of our 10 most popular recipes of June 2021. Roughly shaped like a homemade corn chip, these crackers are perfect for eggplant dips such as mutabal and baba ghanouj, as well as hummus and muhammara, however, Terence created a delicious eggplant dip recipe inspired by the classic Sichuan braised fish-fragrant eggplant dish to go with these crackers.

Spicy Sichuan Inspired Sourdough Crackers Recipe Made With Starter Discard and Sichuan Peppers

Summery Greek Salad Bruschetta with Olive Sourdough Bread for a Slice of the Mediterranean

This Greek salad bruschetta made with olive sourdough bread takes us back to languid lunches eaten barefoot at a beachside taverna where a Greek salad was always the first dish ordered. Pile the classic salad ingredients atop toasted slices of homemade olive sourdough, heady with the aromas of olive oil, Kalamata olives and herbs, and you’ve got a snack you’ll want to eat in the sun after a swim. As soon as Terence pulled his first loaf of olive sourdough bread with rosemary, thyme and sweet red capsicum out of the oven, he said he wanted to take a slice and throw some feta cheese on it. It already had the aromas of a ‘Greek salad’, what the Greeks call a horiátiki or village salad, served from spring through to the end of summer when the ingredients are at their best. This was another of our 10 most popular recipes of June 2021.

Summery Greek Salad Bruschetta with Olive Sourdough Bread for a Slice of the Mediterranean

Scrambled Eggs with Sautéed Mushrooms on Sourdough Toast Recipe for Your Weekend Eggs

Our recipe for scrambled eggs with sautéed mushrooms on sourdough toast is the latest post in our decade-old series of Weekend Eggs dishes from around the world, however, it has quickly become another of our 10 most popular recipes of June 2021. Ideal for a late weekend breakfast cum lazy brunch dish, these smoky sautéed mushrooms atop perfectly moist scrambled eggs and crusty sourdough make for a very satisfying combination. If you haven’t dropped by in a while, recipes posted so far in our revived eggs series include soft scrambled eggs with Chinese pork and chives, Indian egg bhurji, Chinese marbled tea eggs, corn fritter breakfast burgers, Russian devilled eggs, Turkish çılbır and menemen, Calabria’s  ‘eggs in purgatory’ with ’nduja, the Thai omelette kai jiaw and son-in-law eggs, and Malaysia and Singapore’s half-boiled eggs with kaya jam and toast.

Scrambled Eggs with Sautéed Mushrooms on Sourdough Toast Recipe for Your Weekend Eggs

Our Best Cold Summer Soup Recipes Will Keep You Cool As A Cucumber All Summer Long

This compilation of our best cold soup recipes to keep you cool all summer was another of our 10 most popular recipes of June 2021. A chilled summer soup is brilliant on a scorching day and we’ve got everything in this soup round-up from a traditional chilled gazpacho recipe from Southern Spain and a mango gazpacho we first sampled on Mallorca to cold Russian soups such as okroshka, made with kefir, to a Cambodian ‘outside the pot’ soup, prepared in the bowl. Chilled soups are the absolute best in summer, especially when teamed with a light summer salad. Cold soups are usually a cinch to make, too, and who doesn’t love easy meals on hot evenings?

Our Best Cold Summer Soup Recipes Will Keep You Cool As A Cucumber All Summer Long

Cambodian Pork Meatballs Recipe for Wraps, Rolls, Soups, Salads and Sandwiches

Another one of our 10 most popular recipes of June 2021, this just-published Cambodian pork meatballs recipe makes a juicy little meatball that’s flavourful and fragrant from some of the quintessential Cambodian ingredients used in a Khmer kroeung or herb and spice paste: shallots, garlic, ginger, lemongrass, and kaffir lime. While equally delicious, it makes quite a different meatball to the grilled pork meatballs recipe we published last year. Both are perfect for wraps and rolls, soups, salads, and sandwiches, in the form of num pang, a baguette that is Cambodia’s version of Vietnamese banh mi. You can add them to the Cambodian rice porridge, borbor, or noodle soups such as Cambodia’s kuy teav.

Cambodian Pork Meatballs Recipe for Wraps, Rolls, Soups, Salads and Sandwiches

These Spicy Thai Recipes Will Keep You Cool in Summer and Warm In Winter

This collection of spicy Thai recipes that will keep you cool in summer and warm in winter was another of our 10 most popular recipe posts of June 2021. This compilation of Thai food recipes includes everything from recipes for Thailand’s famous fiery relishes to a rich khao soi gai recipe for the creamy Chiang Mai curry noodle chicken soup and recipes for some of Thailand’s spiciest curries. While many of us enjoy eating spicy food in winter as it warms us up, as all hearty soups and good stews do, Southeast Asians love to eat spicy food when the weather is warm because the spice makes you sweat and perspiring keeps you cool. These spicy Thai recipes are guaranteed to keep you cool in summer if you’re in the northern hemisphere and warm in winter if you’re in the south.

These Spicy Thai Recipes Will Keep You Cool in Summer and Warm In Winter

Thai Miang Kham Recipe for The Bite Sized Wraps That Are Thailand in a Mouthful

This Thai miang kham recipe makes the bite-sized wraps that are Thailand in a mouthful, an explosion of quintessential Southeast Asian flavours – sour lime, zingy ginger, crunchy peanuts, crispy shallots, smoky roasted coconut, savoury dried prawns, a kick of chilli, and a sweet yet funky caramelised sauce – wrapped in a wild piper or wild betel leaf. Our easy recipe will make you the miang kham you can buy from a vendor at a local market, pre-packaged from a gourmet supermarket, or as an appetiser at a casual Thai restaurant. It won’t make the luxurious takes on miang kham topped with sweet lobster, salmon roe that bursts in your mouth, or even velvety foie gras, which you’ll find at fancy fine dining restaurants in Bangkok. Yet it was at a fancy Thai fine diner, David Thompson’s Darley Street Thai in Australia that we first sampled miang kham in the 1990s. This recipe is part of a random series on the dishes that inspired us eating out in Australia as young ‘foodies’. So far the series has included Terence’s take on Christine Manfield’s famous ‘eggplant sandwich’.

Thai Miang Kham Recipe for The Bite Sized Wraps That Are Thailand in a Mouthful

Best Korean Instant Ramen Noodles Recipe for Jazzing Up Nongshim Shin Ramyun

We published Terence’s best Korean instant ramen noodles recipe for jazzing up Nongshim Shin Ramyun last year when we first started staying at home and were eating a lot of instant ramen. These are the best instant ramen noodles as far as Terence is concerned. He likes the spicy soup seasoning of Nongshim’s Shin Ramyun, especially the Shin Black Noodle Soup, so what he does is add melt-in-your-mouth slices of char siu pork, crisp Chinese greens, blanched bean sprouts, a boiled egg, deep-fried shallots, and his heady homemade chilli oil. If you like Terence’s post, see my best instant ramen recipe and secret formula for upgrading instant ramen noodles. And if you’re not a fan of instant ramen, see this round-up of our favourite Southeast Asian noodle recipes.

Best Korean Instant Ramen Noodles Recipe – How to Jazz Up Nongshim Shin Ramyun

If you’ve made any of our 10 most popular recipes of June 2021 please leave a comment below as we’d love to know how they turned out for you.

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

Our recipes include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/seafood-recipes-for-christmas-eve-and-christmas-day-menus/
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Merry Christmas if you’re celebrating!! 

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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

You’ll find that recipe and many more Christmas recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/best-christmas-recipes/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

Merry Christmas!! X

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

Aside from the gesture and affordability of gifting homemade edibles, you’re minimising waste. You can use recycled jars or if buying new mason jars or clip-top Kilner jars, you know they’ll get repurposed.

No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/homemade-edible-christmas-gifts/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

Recipe collection here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio):
https://grantourismotravels.com/22-most-popular-egg-recipes-of-2022-from-weekend-eggs/

If you cook the recipe and enjoy it please let us know — we love to hear from you — either in the comments at the end of the recipe or share a pic with us here.

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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

If you’re looking for tips to visiting Angkor, Siem Reap and Cambodia, just ask us a question in the comments below or check Grantourismo as we’ve got loads of info on our site. Click through to the link in the bio and explore our Cambodia guide or search for ‘Angkor’. 

And please do let us know if you’re coming to Siem Reap. We’d love to see you here x

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

Recipe here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio): https://grantourismotravels.com/soy-ginger-chicken-recipe/

If you cook it and enjoy it please let us know — we love to hear from you — either here or in the comments at the end of the recipe on the site or share a pic with us x 

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

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