Entertaining
Curtis Stone’s barbecued fish tacos
This easy, versatile dish is perfect for a midweek meal or a fun gathering.
- < 30 mins
- Curtis Stone
Adam Liaw's Singapore-style barbecued chicken wings
Go to any hawker market around Singapore and you'll find these wings slowly grilling on the barbecue. With a bit of chilli sauce and an ice-cold beer, there's nothing better.
- < 30 mins
- Adam Liaw
Tomato, plum and coriander salad
The most important lesson I've learnt about tomatoes is to never refrigerate them: it robs them of all the aromas that produce flavour on your tongue and turns their flesh "mealy". The same applies to fresh plums. Instead, keep both on your bench top (under a mesh food cover, if needed) and make this salad the moment that they collide in ripe, juicy bliss.
- < 30 mins
- Danielle Alvarez
Adam Liaw's Spanish mackerel biryani
'Dum' biryani is a Hyderabadi style of biryani usually made with meat, slow-cooked on low heat, most often in a sealed vessel. This fish version is made 'pakki' style, where ingredients are cooked separately and layered for a short 'dum' process.
- 1-2 hrs
- Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's lime and ginger masala soda
Chaat masala is a sour spice mix very different from garam masala and is used for sprinkling onto a lot of casual, snacky dishes. It is available from Indian grocers or you can easily make your own.
- < 30 mins
- Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's mapo eggplant
The Japanese-Chinese dish of "mapo nasu" is a combination of two famous Sichuan dishes – mapo tofu and yu xiang eggplant.
- < 30 mins
- Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's chicken katsu tenderloins
In Japan, chicken katsu is made using skin-on chicken thighs, but tenderloins are perfect for kids.
- < 30 mins
- Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's Chinese almond chicken
Almond chicken is a North American Chinese dish found throughout the United States and Canada. It's chicken, almonds and few vegetables in a classic Chinese brown sauce.
- < 30 mins
- Adam Liaw
Pineapple and burnt caramel tarte tatin
Tarte tatin is one of those dishes that look impressive but takes minimal effort to pull together. I like to take the caramel to almost burnt, as the bitter edge of dark caramel helps to cut through the sweetness of the pineapple. Be extremely careful, though, as hot caramel can cause serious burns. A 30cm cast-iron pan is ideal. Otherwise, use an oven-proof frying pan or a round tart tin. With so few ingredients, using a quality all-butter puff pastry is key.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Rosheen Kaul
Strawberry, tomato and dragonfruit salad
In this salad, the combination of sweetish fruit and juicy tomatoes slicked with a bright lemongrass, chilli and lime dressing is absolutely sensational. Eaten on its own or with grilled chicken or fish, this zingy salad is a wonderful addition to the warm weather dinner rotation.
- < 30 mins
- Rosheen Kaul