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Asian recipes

Caramel chicken

15 minutes

Chicken recipes

“No-cook” soya-poached chicken

5 minutes

Easter recipes

Date and honey spiced butter

10 minutes

Blueberry jam

50 minutes

Warm pudding

Our take on Donna Hay’s sticky date pudding

2 hours

Christmas recipes

Rack of pork with poached peaches

1 hour

Beetroot recipes

Spiced roast beetroot and plums

30 minutes

Braai recipes

Sweet-and-sour pork

20 minutes

Asian recipes

Dan-dan chicken with braised peanuts and turnip pickle

30 minutes

Hot drink

DIY chai

10 minutes

Beans recipes

Bean curry

1 hour

Bean curry

Serves 4

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cooking Time 1 hour

Ingredients

250 g dried sugar beans
6 T oil
1 cinnamon stick
1 star anise
1 bay leaf
1⁄2 t fennel seeds
1 onion, chopped
1 sprig curry leaves
1 sprig thyme
1 T garlic-and-ginger paste
1 t turmeric
2 T curry powder
1 tomato, chopped
2 potatoes, quartered
Coriander or curry leaves, to garnish

Method

Boil the sugar beans until tender, then set aside. Do not drain them.

Heat the oil in a saucepan, then add the spices. Cook until the seeds pop.

Add the onion, curry leaves, thyme, ginger and garlic and stir until the onion is cooked. Add the turmeric, curry powder and tomato.

Stir, then add the potatoes and cook until tender (add water if necessary).

Add the beans and their cooking water and boil for 15 minutes. Garnish with coriander or curry leaves to serve.

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Caramel chicken

“No-cook” soya-poached chicken

Date and honey spiced butter

Blueberry jam

Our take on Donna Hay’s sticky date pudding

Rack of pork with poached peaches

Spiced roast beetroot and plums

Sweet-and-sour pork

Dan-dan chicken with braised peanuts and turnip pickle

DIY chai

Bean curry

Bean curry

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