MAHA Recipes - The Foodie Kitchen (Page 27)

Asian Recipes

Pad See Ew — Thai Wide Rice Noodles in Lard

Pad see ew is Thailand's popular flat rice noodle stir-fry — wide sen yai noodles with Chinese broccoli, egg, and dark soy sauce in a screaming hot wok. Cooked in lard for the wok hei that vegetable oil cannot produce.

Asian Recipes

Malaysian Beef Rendang in Coconut Oil — Dry Curry of Extraordinary Depth

Rendang is the Malaysian and Indonesian slow-cooked dry curry — beef simmered in coconut milk and a complex spice paste until the liquid evaporates and the meat fries in the residual coconut fat. Hours of cooking, days of flavour.

Asian Recipes

Miso Butter Noodles — Japanese Umami Pasta in Butter

Miso butter noodles are the 15-minute Japanese weeknight dish — ramen noodles or spaghetti tossed in a sauce of white miso, butter, and soy sauce with garlic and spring onion. Seed oil free, deeply umami.

Asian Recipes

Japanese Fried Rice in Butter — Teppanyaki Style

Japanese butter fried rice — yakimeshi — is teppanyaki restaurant cooking at home. Day-old rice, soy sauce, butter, and egg on a screaming hot cast iron pan. The butter is the signature flavour.

Mediterranean Recipes

Provençal Chicken — South of France Braise in Olive Oil

Poulet à la Provençale is French countryside cooking at its simplest — chicken pieces braised in olive oil with tomatoes, olives, capers, anchovies, and herbes de Provence. A 45-minute dinner of considerable elegance.

Mediterranean Recipes

Italian Ribollita — Tuscan Bread and Bean Soup in Olive Oil

Ribollita means 're-boiled' — a Tuscan peasant soup of cavolo nero, cannellini beans, and stale bread, cooked slowly in olive oil until thick enough to eat with a fork. One of Italy's greatest cold-weather dishes.

Mediterranean Recipes

Shakshuka — Eggs in Spiced Tomato Sauce in Olive Oil

Shakshuka is the North African and Levantine one-pan breakfast — eggs poached directly in a cumin and paprika spiced tomato sauce in olive oil. Ready in 25 minutes. Serve with crusty bread.

Mediterranean Recipes

Osso Buco — Milanese Braised Veal Shanks in Butter

Osso buco alla milanese is the Lombardy classic — cross-cut veal shanks braised in butter and white wine with a gremolata of lemon, garlic, and parsley. A 3-hour braise of extraordinary depth. No seed oils.

Mediterranean Recipes

Turkish Eggs — Çılbır in Brown Butter and Chilli

Çılbır is the Ottoman breakfast that has survived into the modern Turkish kitchen — poached eggs on thick garlic yoghurt with brown butter and Aleppo pepper. A 10-minute breakfast of extraordinary depth.

Mediterranean Recipes

Spanish Tortilla — Potato and Egg Omelette in Olive Oil

Spanish tortilla de patatas is a thick potato and egg omelette cooked slowly in generous olive oil until the potatoes are completely tender, then flipped into a golden disc. The olive oil is the dish.

Exotic Recipes

Georgian Khinkali — Spiced Meat Dumplings in Butter

Khinkali are Georgian soup dumplings — thick-wrapped bundles of spiced beef and pork with herbs and broth inside. Boiled and served with melted butter and black pepper. A dish of extraordinary satisfying simplicity.

Exotic Recipes

Kenyan Nyama Choma — East African Roasted Meat in Tallow

Nyama choma means 'roasted meat' in Swahili — the East African tradition of slow-roasting goat or beef over charcoal and serving it with kachumbari (tomato and onion salsa) and ugali. Basted in tallow.

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