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Somerset Foodie recipes - let us inspire you...

Korean BBQ Chicken Wings

Korean BBQ Chicken Wings

Chicken wings are super tasty and really inexpensive here in the UK. In other parts of the world they are treated with reverence. In America they're buffalo wings; across Indonesian and in Vietnam they're street food snacks and in Portugal you'll find Piri Piri wings on every menu. 
Chinese Beef in Chilli Bean Sauce

Chinese Beef in Chilli Bean Sauce

This recipe is like a beef stew with the added benefit that it all comes together in less than 10 minutes (with about 20 minutes of prep).
Bang Bang Chicken Salad Recipe

Bang Bang Chicken Salad Recipe

Served in the street markets of the Sichuan province of China, Bang Bang Chicken is a chilled chicken dish served with a spicy dressing, perfect for warm summer evenings. Traditionally the raw chicken is tenderised by pounding it with a wooden mallet - hence it's quirky name.
Black Pepper Beef Recipe with noodles - Woh Hup - Ping Coombes Somerset Foodie

Chinese Black Pepper Beef Noodles

Black pepper beef is one of those enduring dishes that's on every Chinese takeaway menu. This dish is super easy and really quick to bring together at home with just a few ingredients. Beef and black pepper are bold flavours and the combination will make your mouth water and your taste buds tingle.

Char Siu Pork Belly Bao Bun Recipe

Sticky Char Siu Pork Bao Bun Recipe

This is a great warm bao bun sandwich recipe - incorporating layers of flavour and texture so each mouthful is a sensory explosion. This recipe cranks up the umami dial with sweet, sticky umami pork, contrasting with sharp pickles, crunchy veg textures, creamy mayo and fragrant herbs.
Kung Pao Chicken Recipe - Somerset Foodie Gong Bao Chicken

Kung Pao Chicken Recipe

Kung Pao Chicken - sometimes called Gong Boa - is a really simple stir fry recipe that's full of rich umami flavours spiked with the holy trinity of Chinese ingredients - chilli, ginger and garlic - seasoned with mouth-tingling Sichuan pepper and soy sauce. It's a classic for good reason - dark, sticky, sweet and sour and really tasty, quick and easy to make.

Warm Noodle Salad with Lemongrass Chilli Chicken and XO Sauce

Warm Noodle Salad with Lemongrass Chilli Chicken and XO Sauce

Our Sau Tao Taiwan style wide cut noodles are key to making this dish so good, they are lovely long ribbon noodles with crimped edges that are slightly chewy, taste great and look really funky. Mixed with some intense and spicy XO sauce and a little zingy Vietnamese nouc cham, a salty, sour and sweet dressing made using fish sauce, rice vinegar, sugar, garlic, fresh chilli and lime juice, the combination is fantastic.
Jimmy's Seafood Satay Noodles

Jimmy's Seafood Satay Noodles

The lovely and supremely talented local chef Ping Coombes is the brand ambassador for Jimmy's Sate Sauce and this is her recipe for the famous Malaysian street food dish, Seafood Char Kway Teow.

Dan Dan Noodles

Dan Dan Noodles

These addictively savoury noodles, laced with fiery chilli oil and fragrant, mouth-numbing Sichuan peppercorns do require a reasonably well stocked Chinese larder, but are relatively straight forward to make and will quite possibly become a regular on your weekly menu.
Asian Cucumber Salad

Asian Cucumber Salad

It's sometimes hard to get excited about cucumber, particular when they are 'straight from the fridge cold' and sliced into slightly uninspiring rounds. Cucumbers are 96% water, they have a lovely clean, crunchy texture but need a little helping hand to bring out their best.
Noodle Salad with Sesame, Ginger & Soy Dressing

Noodle Salad with Sesame, Ginger & Soy Dressing

I just love the fresh vibrant flavours of a noodle salad, a riot of textures and flavours - brought together with a zingy, aromatic dressing. Year-round versatility, you can incorporate whatever fresh veg or salad happens to be in season at the time, or lurking in your fridge and needs using up.
Chicken Chow Mein with Crispy Chilli Oil

Chicken Chow Mein with Crispy Chilli Oil

When I was growing up, if I was asked to name a Chinese dish, Chow Mein was possibly the only dish I could come up with. It featured on every Chinese take-away menu, still does today. It's the irresistible salty combination of soy sauce and crunchy vegetables, often with chicken, prawns or beef that has made this a staple.