Recipes

This colourful dish combines sweet and salty flavours and is perfect served over Jasmine or Basmati rice.

This budget friendly recipe allows you to enjoy sweet & sour chicken without the cost of take-out.

The flavourful sauce for this chicken dish is slightly sweet thanks to a hint of orange juice. This recipe is perfect served on a bed of steamed rice.

This unusual dish is an interesting fusion of Asian flavours with a creamy soup. It’s a delicious starter for a dinner party, but can just as easily be a light lunch.

The delicious mixture of spices for this tandoori chicken is worth keeping on hand all the time. Tandoor ovens in India go up to 800 degrees, but a similar effect can be achieved using a very hot oven.

This French-inspired recipe has more elegant flavour than you’d expect from a slow cooker dish. It’s a great entree to make for a dinner party, as using the slow cooker will free up lots of time.

This light, refreshing salad is full of flavour, thanks to a delicious Teriyaki marinade. Tart cranberries and a sweet raspberry vinaigrette provide mouthwatering contrast in this easy recipe.

Teriyaki is two-fold in its meaning; a Japanese dish consisting of fish or meat marinated in soy sauce and grilled AND a mixture of soy sauce, sake, ginger, and other flavourings, used in Japanese cooking as a marinade or glaze.

Kaeng Phet Pet Yaang is the feast dish reserved for very special Thai occasions - New Years, weddings, ordinations of monks and so on. Made with the classic roast duck it’s richer than I like, but substitute chicken and it’s still ultra creamy yet lighter and healthier. An amazing point of this recipe – it’s neither complicated nor time consuming, unlike many of my favourite Asian dishes and little slicing is called for. Let this be the star at your next special gathering and we guarantee it will be a new taste sensation for your guests and wow them as well.

Here is a simple and delicious stir-fry with Thai flare using packaged "broccoli slaw mix" of shredded broccoli, carrots and red cabbage. The chopping is done already so you can get dinner on the table more quickly!

Katie Taylor of Thornhill, Ontario, was inspired to create this recipe with chicken after making it with mussels. She serves this with jasmine or basmati rice, to which she adds grated lime rind, chopped peanuts, butter, salt and pepper. Kaffir lime leaves and lemongrass are available at Asian markets and some supermarkets.

This is a quick and easy soup that’s loaded with flavour. Such high-impact ingredients as coconut milk, peanut butter, and hot chili sauce mean that this soup doesn’t require a long simmer.

This bright-tasting curry takes advantage of floral citrus flavours for maximum impact. Lime and lemongrass combine with coconut milk to create a creamy, aromatic curry that’s delicious served on a bed of jasmine rice.

This quick curry uses sweet potatoes and coconut milk to balance the heat of red curry paste. Delicious served with fragrant jasmine rice, it is a fantastic dish that will soon become a permanent fixture in your weekly meal plan.

In Thailand, soup is served with a meal and not as a starter course as it usually is in Western meals. There are many, many versions of this simple Thai soup that often uses both leftover rice and chicken. This type of soup is also popular in Thailand for breakfast. Fresh mint or cilantro also go well in this soup.

This chicken burger was inspired by the flavours and ingredients in Greek salad. The more adventurous types can add black olives and green pepper. The red and white in the tomatoes, red onion, and feta cheese make this a colourful, patriotic Canada Day meal.

This prizewinning sandwich uses grilled chicken and a homemade barbeque sauce to create maximum flavour. Maple syrup adds a delicate sweetness that makes this savoury sandwich taste out of this world.

This delicious chowder is packed with healthy vegetables like potatoes, zucchini, and squash. Chipotle peppers add a sweet heat to this creamy chowder. This recipe is easy to freeze and double, so it’s a great recipe to have on hand for a busy winter day.

When you know those crunchy nuts on your fast-fix stir-fry have the power of reducing “bad” cholesterol and they’re calcium loaded – dinners appeal soars even more.

Sunny tropical flavour infuses these kabobs. Sweet potato and pineapple grill along with the tangy marinated chicken. This is a striking dish to serve at your next barbeque.