The Oriental Cookbook

[...] BBQ pork is inspired by bun cha, the charcoal-grilled pork served with rice vermicelli and fresh herbs on the streets of Hanoi's Old Quarter, but is given a twist with marinade flavours from the [...]

[...] This is a typical Vietnamese salad - full of fresh herbs like coriander and mint. [...]

[...] A good-value, hearty supper in a bowl, lightened up with a dollop of yogurt and sprinkling of fresh herbs. [...]

[...] Special Fried Rice is a great way to use up leftovers! [...]

[...] Seared salmon with Singapore noodles. [...]

This is a typcially hot Thai curry, but if you don't like the heat, remoce the seeds and white ribs from inside the chillies before making the paste. [...]

Bring the fresh flavours of Thailand to your midweek meal with this easy soup. [...]

Perfect Friday night food, a warming low fat prawn curry ready in just 20 minutes. [...]

This soup is delicious as a light Main or even a starter to an Oriental meal. [...]

This is a spicy chicken soup with coconut milk used to add depth to the soup. A citrus flavour comes from Kaffir lime leaves and lemon grass. The spic [...]

[...] Cooking with virtue; fast, cheap and healthy vegetarian lentil curry, that's also low in fat and freezable. [...]

If green mango is impossible to find, supermarkets often have mangoes that are unintentionally rock hard and perfect for a salad like this. Papaya can [...]