RECIPE: Gluten Free Singapore Noodles (Dairy Free / Onion Free)

Singapore Noodles is one of the nations takeaway favourites. My Gluten Free Singapore Noodles recipe allows everyone to enjoy it at home – plus it’s so simple & quick to make! (It’s also Onion Free – Bonus!)

Singapore Noodles has always been one of my favourite dishes at Chinese restaurants and for takeaway. I can’t deny that I miss eating a big portion of Chow Mein when we have takeaway with big thick egg noodles, but I have always enjoyed the slight curried spicy flavours that so often come in a good Singapore Noodle dish. Gluten Free Singapore Noodles are not uncommon in some Chinese restaurants, though in my opinion  and experience it can often be very risky even ordering them. Most Singapore Noodles are cooked with a small amount of soy sauce & the char siu pork is not gluten free either.

For me, a night of cooking my own tasty Gluten Free Singapore Noodles that I know are safe to consume and are very delicious is so much better than worrying about the consequences of potentially being glutened in a restaurant. This dish is incredibly quick to make as well, as noodle dishes always are!

This Gluten Free Singapore Noodles recipe is also free from onions. As you may or may not know, onions highly disagree with me and I have a zero tolerance with onions – if they are on my plate I won’t eat it… the discomfort onions put me in is just not worth it. I honestly no longer miss onions in dishes, and a dish like this has so much flavour it really doesn’t need to contain onions.

Equally, you will see that the only vegetable in this recipe is carrot. I have a lot of issues digesting vegetables, due to my IBS, especially green veg, so I don’t tend to put them in my food. However if you would like to, you could easily add in some peppers, tender stem broccoli or mange tout and it would work great.

Sometimes Mark and I make these Gluten Free Singapore Noodles in a smaller quantity as part of our very own Gluten Free & Dairy Free home made Chinese takeaway! (This is one of my favourite dinners!) We will make Gluten Free prawn toast, fried rice, satay skewers, marinated chicken wings, breaded sweet & sour and my personal favourite Honey (Agave) Chicken with Cashew Nuts – click her for my recipe. Gluten Free Singapore Noodles goes perfectly with all of these dishes!

Anyway, back to today’s dish the Gluten Free Singapore Noodles… here it is!

Singapore Noodles (Gluten Free, Dairy Free & Onion Free)

2015-03-20 16:55:12

Serves 2

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Ingredients

1. 1 carrot sliced
2. 300g chicken breast chopped
3. raw prawns (deveined & butterflied ideally - you can have as many or as few as you like!)
4. 1 slice of ham chopped (this is instead of a char siu pork & isn"t necessary if you don"t want it!)
5. 2 tsp turmeric
6. 2 tbsp gluten free soy sauce
7. 2 tbsp gluten free oyster sauce (you could use a fish sauce or like we do, the Blue Dragon Oyster & Spring Onion Stir Fry Sauce - which is gluten free)
8. 1 tbsp rice vinegar
9. a dash of sesame oil (a dash is an 1/8 tsp)
10. pinch of chilli flakes (depends on how hot you want it!)
11. 1 egg
12. 1 tsp minced ginger
13. 2 tsp mild curry powder
14. rice noodles (we use around 350g - you can buy fresh or dried but if dry you will need to soften them first)

Instructions

1. Heat a wok with a small amount of oil
2. Add the minced ginger & sliced carrots and fry until slightly softened (softer veg is easier for me to digest!)
3. Add your chicken & turmeric, make sure the turmeric is mixed in and coats the contents of the wok
4. When the chicken is nearly cooked, add your raw prawns (these don"t take long to cook and will do so whilst you are doing the rest of the steps)
5. Add your soy sauce, oyster sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil & chilli flakes.
6. Then add your cooked rice noodles and curry powder, again make sure everything is thoroughly mixed and coated.
7. Make a gap within your noodles and crack an egg into the centre of the wok, allow this to fry on one side before mixing it into the noodles.
8. If you wish to, you can add the chopped up ham at the last moment. Allow it to heat through.
9. Serve up & enjoy!

Notes

1. If you wish, you could add a variety of different vegetables to this dish. For instance, peppers, tender stem broccoli and mange tout would all work perfectly and give the dish some great colour!
2. You could also add some shrimps into the dish to give it that really strong fishy flavour if you like!

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Let me know what you think of the recipe if you give it a go. I really enjoy being able to eat Singapore Noodles once more, entirely worry free. I love knowing exactly what is in my food, there are no nasties in this one. Using a variety of spices is perfect for bringing out great flavours in a healthy way. I love cooking this type of food so if you have any other recipes you would like to share that are similar to my Gluten Free Singapore Noodles, let me know!

If you do make this recipe share it with me on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram… a picture would be great!

Thanks for reading,

Becky xxx

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RECIPE: Gluten Free Singapore Noodles (Dairy Free / Onion Free)

RECIPE: Tuna Pasta Bake - Gluten Free & Dairy Free

Did somebody say its Pasta Bake night? Tuna Pasta Bake has to be one of the easiest and tastiest meals on the planet & here is a gluten free & dairy free recipe that oozes cheesy deliciousness! 

Oozing delicious cheesy gluten & dairy free tuna pasta bake!

When I stopped being able to eat gluten in 2010 it was a pasta dish at a restaurant that confirmed what I was dreading about my gluten intolerance… I had quite an awful night! I found it hard to want to even try any pasta, even gluten free pasta after that. When I did eventually try gluten free pasta I wasn’t overly impressed. It seemed to get stuck together in clumps and just not do what pasta should do; plus it was a lot more expensive.

I ended up not eating pasta for a couple of years until myself and Mark tried to make our own gluten and dairy free Chicken Carbonara, the recipe for this is up on the blog so click here to view it! (It’s super tasty!) Other than the very occaional Carbonara I don’t think I have touched pasta since 2010 until I moved to Manchester. I’ve always craved having the standard, easy dinner of a tuna pasta bake and until September 2014 I had never even tried one. I will never look back now, tuna pasta bake is one of my favourite dishes. It is so simple to chuck in the oven after a long day at work and you will pretty much have all the ingredients in your cupboards all the time – I love tuna pasta bake!

I have to say I do use a pasta bake sauce from Homepride instead of making my own for our tuna pasta bake. We found one that contained no dairy which is rare as many contain cream, milk or cheese. I would attempt to make my own pasta bake sauce, but when it is for a simple meal like this and it tastes so good already… why change anything?! If you were wondering, we use the Tomato, Garlic and Chilli flavour.

We always put tuna into our pasta bakes but obviously you could just go for more veggies, chicken, turkey… or pretty much anything into it! It’s kind of like a pizza in that you can chuck whatever you have in the cupboard/fridge in and it’ll taste pretty epic. However, for ultimate ease and taste I personally would always recommend a tuna pasta bake!

We always use courgette as our main vegetable in a pasta bake. It really soaks up the flavours of the sauce well and cooks quickly. I have a few issues with eating onions and peppers otherwise we probably would include that in the bake too. Mushrooms would likely work well too. Basically any vegetable that you like would do the job.

I really feel like all gluten free pasta has improved somewhat. Since making pasta bakes I initially just used the brand Salute but I have since used Tesco and Sainsburys own brand gluten free Fusilli and liked it just as much.

The pasta bake is just a staple homely meal that everyone needs to have every once in a while. It is comforting and just makes you smile. Any dish with cheese in it always does, right?! (Especially when the you live with a dairy intolerant and you have delicious dairy free cheese!)

I would highly recommend this dish, so take a look at the recipe for my tuna pasta bake below and let me know what you think.

Tuna Pasta Bake - Gluten Free & Dairy Free

2015-03-04 15:22:26

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Ingredients

1. - 1 500g Jar of Homepride Tomato, Garlic and Chilli Pasta Bake Sauce
2. - 200g (You could easily put a bit more in, we always do!) Gluten Free Dried Pasta (Any shape.. we use Fusilli)
3. - 2 Large Tins of Tuna in Spring Water (Not the tiny sandwich sized tins or you"ll need 4!)
4. - 1/2 a courgette chopped up.
5. - 50g - 100g of Dairy Free Cheese (We have found that you don"t need as much cheese as you would imagine!)
6. - Black Pepper

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 200°C / Gas Mark 6 / Fan 180°C.
2. Get out a large oven proof dish that you want to cook the pasta bake in.
3. Pour the Pasta Bake Sauce into the oven proof dish.
4. Fill the empty Pasta Bake jar to the top of the label with cold water and stir into the sauce.
5. Pour you dried pasta into the oven proof dish and thoroughly mix it into the sauce mix.
6. Place the dish into the preheated oven uncovered for about 25 minutes.
7. Whilst in the oven you can chop your courgette, get your tuna ready and grate your cheese.
8. After 25 minutes remove the oven proof dish from the oven and mix around the pasta and the sauce.
9. Mix into the pasta the tuna and the courgettes.
10. You can now sprinkle the cheese over the top of the pasta or if you prefer you can mix it in. Or... you can do a bit of both!
11. Season with some pepper if you wish and place the dish back into the oven for a further 20 minutes.
12. Remove from the oven once all the cheese has melted and is bubbling & golden! (it will be super hot!)
13. Serve up and enjoy!

Notes

1. In terms of dairy free cheese we often use a mix of Mozzarisella & Toffuti for a pasta bake... both are great and fairly easy to get hold of in the UK.

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Thanks for reading,

Becky xxx

RECIPE: Tuna Pasta Bake - Gluten Free & Dairy Free

RECIPE: Gluten Free KFC - Kentucky Baked Chicken

This is a recipe for Gluten Free KFC, however the chicken is baked not fried! It is also a take on Buttermilk Fried Chicken but is 100% Dairy Free too. So if a Baked, Buttermilk Style Dairy Free & Gluten Free KFC is something that tickles your taste buds, listen up.. its really simple & tastes super authentic! Let’s create something gluten free & dairy free that the Colonel never managed to do!

When I was younger and had the ability to eat KFC before my gluten intolerance took hold… I never actually ate KFC! As a child I rarely ever had fast food… a McDonalds Happy Meal might have been a yearly treat & we had a Burger King on the way home from our summer holiday at the airport; other than that fast food chains were never places I went. I think that kind of rolled on to when I was a teenager as I don’t really remember going to McDonalds with my friends, and definitely never to KFC. We often ended up in Pizza Hut instead, at the buffet! The only KFC I have actually ever consumed is Popcorn Chicken… I loved it! But seeing as KFC do not do Gluten Free KFC that’s as much as I have ever had!

Over the past five years of not being able to eat gluten, I think I probably would have had KFC if I could have. I mean, in that time period I was at university so I definitely would have enjoyed a KFC after a night out!! On the other hand, over my university years I became quite a health conscious person so the idea of eating battered deep fried chicken wasn’t something I would have really appreciated. That’s why the recipe I am going to share with you today is so great.

Gluten Free KFC, seasoned and all ready to be baked!

Buttermilk Style Chicken has been quite the trend in the last few years for any type of fried chicken recipe. Obviously we cannot use buttermilk, as we were not only looking to make this a gluten free KFC, but, a dairy free buttermilk style chicken too. Instead of marinading or dipping the chicken in a buttermilk we made our own ‘coconut buttermilk’ by combining coconut milk and lemon juice. This definitely did the job in terms of tenderising the chicken leg meat as well as helping the seasoning mix to stick to the chicken. I would actually recommend using coconut milk & lemon juice as a substitute for buttermilk even if you can consume dairy. For me, it is much easier.. we always have coconut milk and lemons in the house & it works great!

You might also think that baking chicken in the oven will just not give the chicken that crisp coating that deep frying it does. I must inform you however that you are wrong if you think that. The chicken seriously came out amazingly crispy. The coating was as good, if not better than any fried chicken I have ever seen & it was 100% baked. Baking chicken like this in the oven is so much easier and so much better for you. Not only is it healthier but you just feel so much better after eating it… that greasy food feeling in your stomach just doesn’t occur with the baked gluten free KFC.

Crispy Baked Gluten Free KFC straight out the oven!

Each time we have done this recipe so far we have used chicken legs. Every time but one we have done the chicken legs with the skin on. This was done mainly for ease but I must admit, I think you can make this using chicken legs with the skin on or off and it works out lovely and crispy. Taking the skin off the chicken legs definitely didn’t make the meat dry (the coconut ‘buttermilk’ always ensures that!), so really its just personal preference. For me I think I’ll stick with skin on but try it however you like.

mash & gravy goes perfectly with this – true american style.

Next time we make the spice/seasoning blend for this gluten free KFC, I have decided that I am going to try out using some other parts of the chicken. I think this mix would work great on some chicken wings and of course thighs & drumsticks would also work a treat. What I am most excited to try however, is to coat a large chicken breast and make it into a baked gluten free KFC burger! I want to make my own gluten free KFC Zinger Burger! I might even take a look on the menu and try to recreate some of their chicken burgers but in a healthier baked way and with a gluten free / dairy free ‘buttermilk’ twist! If you ever consider doing this I would highly recommend using burger buns from Just: Gluten Free Bakery. They do amazing gluten free and dairy free burger buns and white rolls that are seriously to die for and work great for this.

In terms of accompaniments for this burger… the world is your oyster! We have got into the awesome habit of serving our gluten free KFC with a big creamy portion of mashed potato & gravy… with maybe a little mustard mayo on the side! You might not think of this as the best accompaniment straight off but trust me, I’ve seen it served like this is America and it tastes insanely good!

If mashed potato and gravy isn’t your thing then maybe a portion of sweet potato fries might work better (click here for a great gluten free baked recipe) or even regular fries or wedges. Basically this baked gluten free KFC will go well with everything and I guarantee you will make it again and again. All hail KBC!

Gluten Free KFC - Kentucky Baked Chicken (Dairy Free Buttermilk Chicken)

2015-03-10 15:02:16

Serves 4

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Ingredients

1. 4 large chicken legs
2. 1 tin of coconut milk
3. 1 lemon
4. 240g gluten free plain flour
5. 2 tsp oregano
6. 2 tsp chilli flakes
7. 2 tsp basil
8. 2 tsp sage
9. 2 tsp black pepper
10. 2 tsp garlic powder
11. 2 tsp marjoram
12. 3 tsp salt
13. 4 tsp paprika

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 200 degrees fan
2. Grease a baking tray by spraying or drizzling a small amount of oil on the tray.
3. Place your chicken legs into a dish and pour in the coconut milk and the juice from your lemon.
4. Allow to marinade in the fridge for a minimum of 30 minutes, longer would be great though.
5. In a bowl measure out and combine the flour and all the spice/herb seasonings.
6. Take one of your chicken legs, and place it into the seasoning mix, making sure it is well covered.
7. Once covered, return the chicken leg to the coconut milk to soak briefly again.
8. After the brief soaking in the coconut milk, return to the seasoning mix and cover once more.
9. Place your seasoned chicken leg on the greased baking tray & repeat with your other chicken legs.
10. Once all your legs are done, place in your preheated oven for about 15 minutes.
11. After 15 minutes turn the chicken legs over and bake for a further 15-20 minutes (until they are looking crisp and golden.. like the picture!)
12. Remove from the oven & serve with whatever you fancy.. we went proper Kentucky style & served ours with a large helping of mashed potato & gravy! Fries or wedges would work great too. Baked beans.. BBQ sauce, Mayo.. anything you fancy!
13. Enjoy!

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 I hope you enjoy trying out this recipe, let me know if you do!

Thanks for reading,

Becky xxx

RECIPE: Gluten Free KFC - Kentucky Baked Chicken