If you’ve been feeling uncomfortable lately due to the rising temperature and humidity, try our dishes packed with cooling ingredients here.
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Cool down from the heat with these pickles prepared restaurant-style – they are sweet, tart and crunchy, making them the perfect appetiser before your savoury Asian dishes.
Packed with cooling cucumber and baby capsicums, this dish is refreshing, nutritious and also delicious!
This amazing waterless soup is specially created by Chef Leong Chee Yeng, Chinese Executive Chef of Jade Restaurant, The Fullerton Hotel, as a tribute to Singapore. It contains some really cooling ingredients like watermelon and tofu.
Stuffed with baby rocket leaves, carrots, cucumber and tomatoes, these wraps make a fantastic cooling lunch or a yummy mid-day snack.
There is an absolute freshness and vibrancy to this salad that makes it delicious by itself, or with cooked prawns, cooked chicken or steamed fish fillets.
Ceviche is originally a Spanish dish made from fresh raw fish cured in citrus juices, and this version by Chef Mario Malvaez of TONO Cevicheria pays tribute to our Asian rojak with fresh, light flavours and a juicy mouth feel.
There’s a refreshing sweet-sour punch in this Pork And Pineapple Salad that is packed with cooling pineapple slices.
Ready in minutes, this Japanese classic miso udon soup is nourishing, comforting and so easy to make!
This versatile salad is packed with fibre and nutrients from the beans, and takes only minutes to prepare.
A simple light chowder, this vibrant fennel, zucchini and pea with scallops soup meets your daily requirement for green vegetables!
Rehydrate your body with this icy treat made using 100 per cent natural coconut water.
Woo Wai Leong, Chef-owner, Restaurant Ibid says, “My version embraces Asian flavours, and instead of raspberry, I use goji berries, an ingredient I use a lot. Have fun with this dessert, plate it up messily and haphazardly as you see fit! Better yet, organise all the ingredients in the middle of the table and let your guests design their own ice-cream sandwich!”
This refreshing Asian dessert is made healthier with the addition of light jellies and fruit.
If you are bearing the brunt of the weather, let the heat motivate you to prepare this simple but tasty brew of sugar cane herbal tea which contains dried sugar cane and golden luo han guo (monk fruit).
Counter the hot weather with this easy-to-cook Chinese pear and snow fungus soup that contains sweet, cooling ingredients, such as the sugared tangerines, honey date, red dates and fresh pear.