Quinoa is a great alternative to rice, if you're looking for something simple and different. This recipe could be easily varied with herbs and spices.
Good fish tastes best with a minimum of fuss, so with just some flour and a little oil you can have a main course. Fresh (or fresh-frozen) halibut truely deserves to be described as "buttery."
Poached Salmon With Ginger Butter Sauce
Poached Salmon With Ginger Butter Sauce
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Poaching salmon highlights the delicate soft texture of this often overdone fish. Soy sauce, ginger and a few red pepper flakes gently complement its rich natural flavor.
Jasmine rice is naturally fragrant, so it's delicious without any fuss at all. But you can dress it up with a teaspoon of butter, a few drops of olive oil, or some fresh lime juice added to the water while cooking. This staple grain goes so well with almost any cuisine, from Indian to American barbecue.
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Soybeans With Yogurt And Basil
Soybeans With Yogurt And Basil
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This recipe is adapted from Kylie Kwong's Simple Chinese Cooking. A whole chicken is poached in a liquid flavored with ginger, garlic, star anise, cinnamon and orange zest. Then the chicken is cut into serving pieces and broiled to crisp the skin.
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These Taiwanese Ji Juan are not exactly Lor Bak (Malaysian five-spice pork rolls), but the principle is basically the same -- protein (meat) wrapped with bean curd skin and deep-fried to perfection.
Read more about this recipe at Rasa Malaysia.
