A lot of my dinners are some variation of “Chinese” takeaway food. I’ve put Chinese in quote marks simply because it is not authentic at all.
I used to live in Kilburn and then moved to West Hampstead and there was a severe lack of British Chinese takeaways. You know the ones, metal containers with cardboard tops, paper bags full of greasy prawn balls, FREE prawn crackers. Since moving to N17 I have found TWO (2) Chinese takeaways that were amazing. One in Dalston and one near Wood Green BUT in the meantime I developed some dinners that were, in my opinion, pretty flipping good. After much trial and error I now use the following on top of most protein and rice or noodles for a quick and tasty meal.
Soy sauce saucy sauce for anything
Lee Kum Kee anything is used mostly. https://uk.lkk.com/
You can find this in most supermarkets!
Ingredients:
SOME premium dark soy sauce
A drizzle of oyster sauce
Wee bit of honey (or some brown sugar)
Sesame oil
Garlic
Cornstarch
Yeah, but what do you do? Huh?
In a pan drizzle a little sesame oil and crushed garlic. Add some soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey and swizzle it about. Add some cornstarch flour to some cold water and dump into the soy sauce pan. Take off the heat and continue to mix, mix, mix. The cornstarch slurry will thicken this sauce. If too thick – add some water and back on the heat whilst continuing to mix.
That. Is. It.

This is a salmon and stir fry thing I made.
I put the salmon in some kitchen foil with a drizzle of soy sauce and popped into the oven for about 15 mins at 180°c
I stir fried onion and garlic with some broccoli whilst I cooked some basmati rice in a rice cooker*. Dished it up, added the above soy sauce saucy sauce thing and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Don’t it look good?
(Approx. 600 calories, if you care)
*I CANNOT COOK RICE ON THE HOB AND I CANNOT LEARN
