Mum’s Not Cooking: Favourite Singaporean Recipes for the Near Clueless or Plain Lazy

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Epigram Books, 2020 - Cooking

What do you do when you’re homesick for some Singapore food, but you can’t really cook, mum’s nowhere nearby, or there’s no hawker centre you can shuffle to in your shorts and flip-flops?


Cook some yourself!


Adopting the loving authority and voice of one who’s accustomed to creating friendly recipes for those who are simply clueless or just rather lazy about cooking, Denise Fletcher, a proud-born-and-bred Singaporean, devotes her culinary experience to creating a companionable book for all the Singapore food favourites that you and your friends or colleagues may crave. Recognising that you may not easily obtain ‘authentic’ ingredients if you’re based overseas where you are, Denise also suggests food substitutions to help you approximate that taste for home. Thumb through this book and search for a recipe that will comfort you!

 

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Contents

Section 1
15
Section 2
38
Section 3
49
Section 4
53
Section 5
57
Section 6
90
Section 7
108
Section 8
117
Section 9
120
Section 10
127
Copyright

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20 mins Achar ALMOND JELLY baking bee hoon bitter gourd Black Beans BLACK PEPPER boil Bubur Cha Cha butter char siew cheese chicken chilli paste Chinese CLOVES GARLIC coconut milk Combine Cook 15 mins cooker cool crisp cubes Curry delicious dish dough eggs evenly flavour flour fragrant fresh FRIED G ½ CUP GARNISH gently GINGER gochujang goreng green HALVED Heat the oil Heat the vegetable ingredients jelly LIGHT SOY SAUCE liquid meat MEDIUM Medium­sized minutes mixture ML ½ CUP moderately hot MUSHROOMS nasi lemak noodles oven PANDAN LEAVES Peanut PEELED PINCH pork porridge POWDER prawns Prep 10 mins Prep 15 recipe Rendang Sambal serve immediately sesame oil simmer slow cooker soup spicy spring onions stir Stir­fried tablespoons taste TBSP TBSP LIGHT TBSP PREPARED TBSP VEGETABLE OIL THINLY SLICED tofu TOMATO tray TSP SALT TSP SUGAR turn VEGETABLE OIL white rice

About the author (2020)

An enthusiastic cook and a gifted writer, Denise Fletcher has a certificate in food preparation from Shatec Institutes. Being of Eurasian heritage and a proud born-and-bred Singaporean, Denise has been a chef in SATS Catering. She was also the owner of a restaurant named Eurasian Delights, which served Eurasian and Singapore dishes. Denise began writing down her recipes in 2004.

Bibliographic information

TitleMum’s Not Cooking: Favourite Singaporean Recipes for the Near Clueless or Plain Lazy
AuthorDenise Fletcher
Translated byKuan Teck Harn
PublisherEpigram Books, 2020
ISBN981078001X, 9789810780012
Subjects ›  › 

Cooking / Methods / Quick & Easy
Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / Asian
Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / General
  
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