Easy To Follow Recipes
Chap Chye is braised mixed vegetables soaked in a gravy flavoured with fermented bean paste (tau cheo). The main ingredient for this Peranakan dish is cabbage and I’ve chosen white cabbage for its hardiness. To learn how to make this Nyonya dish, please click on the image below to view my video tutorial. If you … Read more
Fish maw (dried fish bladder) is an excellent source of collagen. It is usually served in soup together with prawn/pork meatballs, cabbage and carrots during festivities like Chinese New Year and weddings. For this recipe, only the “Saute” function is used to cook this dish with my Instant Pot Duo Plus, an Electric Pressure Multi-Use … Read more
Itek tim (Kiam Chye Ark) is a Traditional Peranakan Style Duck Soup cooked with duck (ark), salted mustard green (kiam chye), tomatoes and salted plums. It is usually cooked over the stove for about 90 minutes. However with my Instant Pot , it takes only 15 minutes of pressure cooking time and 10 minutes at … Read more
Nyonya Chap Chye is braised mixed vegetables soaked in a gravy flavoured with fermented bean paste (tau cheo). The main ingredient for this Peranakan dish is cabbage and I’ve chosen white cabbage for its hardiness. The great thing about cooking this dish with my Instant Pot Duo Plus, an Electric Pressure Multi-Use Programmable Cooker, is … Read more
Satay Babi Sum Chan is a classic Peranakan (Nyonya) pork belly dish. Despite its name, it is completely different from skewered and grilled Malay satay – there are no skewers and no peanuts. Instead, it features succulent pork belly slowly simmered in a rich, heavily spiced coconut gravy. The Meat: The term Sum Chan (or … Read more
I’m sharing my recipe for Nyonya Babi Pongteh, a classic Peranakan soul food known for its tender pork belly and rich, savoury sauce. While I’m using an Instant Pot to speed up the process, you can achieve the exact same results in any traditional stovetop pressure cooker – the cooking time remains the same! This … Read more