Recipes
Nan’s style of cooking is to taste as you go along and modify these dishes to your own palate. Here is a selection of tried and tested family favourites and we hope these will also be your family favourites.
The Eurasian Table contains dozens more recipes and stories, including classics like Curry Devil and Pineapple Tarts
Vindaloo Curry
The history of Vindaloo follows the Noronha family around the world. From the original Portuguese dish of ‘Carne de vinha d’alhos’ which means meat with wine, vinegar and garlic, that...
Kueh Bong Kong
Nan used to make Kueh Bong Kong often back in the day. There are so many cooking memories from my childhood and this reflects one of the more exciting ones...
Eurasian Scotch Quail Eggs
This is a fantastic dish that we like to take on our family picnics and on our outings to the beach. They go perfectly with Nan’s Mixed Vegetable Pickle! (found...
Egg Sambal
Eurasian food focuses heavily on spice and this recipe is no exception. The deep fried, boiled eggs will create the perfect base to pour the sambal over, catching in the...
Caramelised Chicken
This is such an easy dish to prepare but don’t let the simplicity fool you, it’s absolutely delicious. This is my favourite non-spicy Eurasian dish, however most of us would have it with...
Prawn & Pineapple Curry
The trick to this dish is finding the balance between the spice of the chillies and chilli powder and the sweetness of the pineapple. Whilst it looks like a large...
Crab Omelette
The Noronha’s European heritage comes through Nan’s father, as does this dish. Nan has been making it for over 70 years and it has changed little. Traditionally it is quickly...
Vegetable Curry
Eurasian children are taught from a young age that spicy food would make you big, strong, healthy and clever. Their parents would brag to one another that their children could...
Beef Ching Chang
This is another Christmas staple. The name is derived from the sound the knife makes on the cutting board when the beef is chopped into small pieces. Because so many...
Tamarind Pork Belly Curry (Porku Tambreneu)
The word that our family uses for each dish provides rare clues as to where each branch of our ancestory comes from. This dish has always been called “Porku Tambreneu”...