Tag: Asian Sides
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Easy Asian Smashed Cucumber Salad with Garlic
I first fell in love with this smashed cucumber salad at ShanDong MaMa an eatery in Melbourne, famous for its dumplings and home-style, Northern Chinese cuisine. The first time I ate this salad I went home and googled recipes for smashed cucumber salad, because I absolutely had to recreate it at home. There were a…
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Korean Rice Bowls: Mung Bean Sprout Salad Recipe
Continuing with my love of Korean side dishes or banchan, is this simple mung bean sprout side. Apart from being an essential part of the Korean rice bowl – Bimbimbap, this recipe uses an entire packet of bean sprouts, so it solves the problem of having half a pack of bean sprouts rotting away in…
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Crunchy Chinese Celery Salad with Spicy Chilli Crisp
We don’t celebrate celery enough. How many times have you bought half a bunch of celery because you couldn’t work out to with the rest of the bunch. This salad solves that problem for you: it tastes sensational, uses five large stalks of celery, but it also keeps excellently in the fridge for a few…
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Refreshing Cucumber, Mirin and Sesame Salad Recipe
I have Mike McEnearney’s book Kitchen By Mike on a long borrow from my sister while her house is being demolished and a new one built. Despite the fact there’s quite a lot of meat-based recipes, I’m getting quite a lot out of it because the salads are just so good, and salads are my…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 