Recipes designed for flavour, balance, and real-life cooking – made to be shared.
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Weeknight Stir Fry — The Blanching Method I’ll Never Skip
This is the weeknight chicken stir fry I make on repeat. Stir fry was always in the rotation growing up. Chinese food was just part of the Fijian table, not exotic, just Tuesday. This is my version of that. Quick enough for a Tuesday night, good enough to batch cook on a Sunday and pack…
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Sesame Chicken — Rebuilt From Memory
I only had one photo. This sesame chicken is from a restaurant in Suva that closed years ago. The chef moved to a tiny hole-in-the-wall spot, and as far as I know it’s the only place in all of Fiji that still makes it like this. It’s not the sticky takeaway kind. The chicken is…
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Mari waalo margho – Fiji Gujarati Pepper Chicken
We’ve always called it mari waalo margho. Mari means pepper. Margho means chicken. In our house, it just means dinner. My mum makes this. My grandmother made it before her. I’ve been making it for years. It’s one of those dishes that doesn’t really need explaining, you just know it. The smell of the whole…