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    • Appetizers
    • Salads
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    • Breakfast
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Recipes with vegetable / fruit

Ham and sausage fried rice

Ham and sausage fried rice

Salty Chinese ham joins sweet Japanese sausage in this bright and festive fried rice. A wonderful one bowl meal!
Cook time: 10 minutes minutes
Servings: 6 people

Beef (ox) tongue tacos with spicy mango salsa

Melt-in-the mouth slivers of beef tongue are lightly browned in butter, stuffed into corn tortillas and topped with sweet-spicy-tangy mango salsa.
Cook time: 10 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people
No-cook Thai-style mango chili sauce with fried chicken

No-cook Thai-style mango chili sauce

Puree ripe mangoes with chilies, ginger, shallot and cilantro, then stir in fish sauce and coconut milk to make a sweet-spicy dipping sauce for fried or grilled chicken, meat or seafood.
Cook time: 0 minutes minutes
Servings: 2 cups
Japanese cucumber salad

Japanese cucumber salad

Tangy, sweet and salty, cucumber can be the only solid ingredient in the salad. In this recipe, wakame is added to give the dish even better flavor.
Cook time: 0 minutes minutes
Servings: 3 people
Beef lo mein with mushrooms and broccoli

Chow mein with beef, mushrooms and broccoli

Ten minutes to prep and ten minutes to cook, this noodle dish is flavored with garlic, ginger, soy sauce, rice wine, oyster sauce, Chinese black vinegar and Japanese Worcestershire sauce.
Cook time: 10 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people
Creamy ham and veggies pasta

Creamy ham and veggies pasta

Got leftover ham from the holidays? Get creative and make this exceptionally luscious creamy one-dish meal. Cooks in ten minutes flat.
Cook time: 10 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people
Chicken sinigang

Chicken sinigang

Sinigang, the Filipino vegetable soup with sour broth, has mostly been associated with pork, fish and shrimp. But did you know that chicken sinigang is just as wonderful?
Cook time: 1 hour hour
Servings: 4 people
Oxtail kare-kare

Oxtail kare-kare

A special occasion dish in the Philippines, kare-kare is a stew of meat and vegetables in a peanut-based sauce. Traditionally, beef offal (organ meat) is the meat of choice. A medley of tripe, intestines, tail, face… We like oxtail.
Cook time: 9 hours hours
Servings: 4 people
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