Fresh, fast, light and super tasty, Healthy Asian Lettuce Wraps are made for summer living. The secret is in the sauce, packed with garlic, ginger and deep umami flavour, it's a low-carb meal in under 30 minutes! Mix It Up…
A deep umamai flavour, with notes of caramel, a hint of bitterness and an underlying sweetness - Black Garlic is a lingering layer of flavours that will have you head over heals for the dark side. The Food Gypsy kitchen…
The secret to beautiful Asian Spring Rolls is the art of the perfect roll. These are a rice paper version; bright, fresh and packed with flavor, the deep fried variety features the same rolling technique with a different wrapper. Once you have this down you're a spring-rolling machine.
With Chinese New Year just around the corner, it was time for a family outing to the local T&T Supermarket for authentic Asian ingredients and an infusion of new ideas for the Gypsy Kitchen. Decked out in it's new year finery, with colorful lanterns hanging overhead, T & T…
Sometimes it’s the simplest things that strike a cord. Like this pretty little Thai Sweet Chili Chicken. Didn’t intend to post because two ingredients; “chicken” and “jar o’ sauce” does not a “recipe” make, but it's a solid thecnique for the grill and using it, you'll get beautiful results every time.
Cold rice vermicelli salad with bright fresh veg, dressed in a lime, rice wine vinaigrette, (totally delish) chicken satay, finished with peanut sauce. Authenticity and intensity. Eat goooooood.
Fried Rice is typical vegetarian food in Thailand - packed with crisp vegetables, a hint of pineapple a dash of chili and topped with a fried egg. The yoke then spills into the rice making it creamy and rich, on top of all of that tangy, tasty, spicy rice.
Enoki Phở - in a chanterelle enriched, clear vegetable broth. Delicate, Asian, light.
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