Nyonya Cooking, Cuisine, Delicacies and Recipes

Nyonya cuisine, represents "authentic Malaysian cuisine" - a taste of Chinese with a dash of Malay herbs and Indian spices; cooking in the Malay-style but using a Chinese wok or an Indian curry pot". Nyonya cuisine is synonymous with sumptuous food by fastidious and meticulous cooks who take pride in the cooking.

A Nyonya meal conjures up a variety of intense flavors - hot and spicy or sweet and sour. Nyonya cooking has its own special taste, often a delectable blend of spicy Malay cooking and the plainer Chinese fare. As in Malay cooking, flavor is often added by using aromatic roots such as lengkuas (galanggal), kunyit (turmeric) and ginger, plus spices like ketumbar and jintan putih or jintan manis. Varies leaves are often added as well for their distinct fragrances. The more popular leaves include the daun limau purut, daun kesum, daun pandan and daun kunyit. Whilst most Chinese use preserved soy bean paste (tau che) mainly for steaming fish or meat, the Nyonyas use this ingredient creatively in dishes like Ayam Oh (Chicken with Preserved Soy Bean Paste Gravy), Chilled prawns with Preserved Soy Bean Paste and etc.. Cencaluk or preserved shrimps, a favorite Portuguese relish sold in bottles, is an acquired taste. Commonly savoured as a sambal dish, the preserved shrimps are mixed with sliced chilies, shallots and lime juice and eaten with rice and fried fish. The Nyonyas, apparently love hot and spicy dishes too, like dishes - Fish in peppery Gravy, Braised Peppery Chicken - that uses pepper powder and peppercorn.

For a pleasant aftertaste, there are dainty and delicate kuih, rich in coconut milk. The Nyonyas have excellent ideas for the use of certain leaves in their kuih making. The common ones are banana and pandan (screwpine) leaves. Banana leaves impart a special and inimitable fragrance to the kuih. The pandan juice gives a delightful flavor. It has been used for its fresh green color also. The use of these leaves are best seen in these dishes - Kuih Bongkong, Kuih Lompang, Kuih Dadar, Buah Melaka and Kuih Angku. In these recipes, you also enjoy the different and delicious combinations of pulut or glutinous flour, sweet potato, green peas, pearl sago, coconut and sugar.

Recipes collection of Nyonya Cuisine and delicacies:

Nyonya Delicacies Recipes :

1. Chicken with Preserved Shrimps (Ayam Cencaluk)

2. Chicken Kapitan

3. Assam Fish

4. Nyonya Brinjal

5. Sago Pudding

6. Hati Babi Bungkus

7. Achar

8. Fish Head Curry

9. Duck Soup

10. Kerabu Meehoon

11. Sambal Kimchiam

12. Assam Bawal Hitam

13. Gulai Tumis Telur

14. Pig's Trotters in Soya Sauce

15. Charbeck

16. Grilled Kunyit Fish

17. Fried Sambal Cincaluk

18. Taucheo Pork

19. Fried Pork with Cincaluk

20. Inche Kabin

21. Chicken in Dark Soy Sauce

22. Tauhu Goreng

23. Gado Gado

24. Jaganan

25. Mee Siam

26. Poh Pia

27. Macaroni & Chicken Soup

28. Nyonya Laksa

29. Penang Assam Laksa

30. Fried Hokkien Mee

31. Hokkien Mee Rojak

32. Hokkien Mee Soup

33. Mee Rebus

34. Soto

35. Fried Beehoon

36. Pong Tauhu

37. Heepeow Soup

38. Bawan Kepeting

39. Garam Assam

40. Buakeluak Ayam

41. Kuah Ladah

42. Ikan Pedas

43. Udang Pedas Nanas
     

Nyonya Kuih Recipes:

1. Abuk-Abuk

2. Kuih Angku

3. Buah Melaka

4. Kuih Bongkong

5. Kuih Dadar

6. Kuih Lompang

7. Ondeh-Ondeh (Green glutinous rice cakes)

8. Rempah Udang (Spicy Prawn Dumplings)

9. Huat Kuih (Chiffon Crumpet)

10. Pulut Inti (Blue Glutinous Rice Cakes)

11. Pulut Tai Tai (Blue Glutinous Rice Cakes)

12. Kuih Tayap (Green Crepes)

13. Kuih Lapis (Nine-Layer Glutinous Rice Cakes)

Nasi Lemak Recipes:

1. Nasi Lemak - Steamed Coconut Rice

2. Nasi Lemak Simplified

3. Udang Assam Goreng

4. Ikan Assam Perkat

5. Sayur Kangkong

6. Sambal Timun

7. Otak Otak

8. Otak Otak Puteh

9. Sambal Udang

Lontong Recipes:

1. Sayur Loday

2. Tempe Goreng

3. Sambal Goreng Java

4. Beef Rendang

5. Opor Ayam
6. Surondeng Beef
7. Egg Sambal

Sayur Ketupat Recipes:

1. Nasi Tinday
2. Sambal Kachang Panjang
3. Sambal Blimbing
4. Sambal Grago
5. Sambal Kangkong Santan