Recipe: Indian Style Bean Salad Indian Style Bean Salad consists of three different beans with a green chutney as the dressing. Other salad ingredients are added to make it wholesome, nutritious and filling. Enjoy it as a light meal option or as a side dish. This spicy, easy to make, flavourful salad is suitable for vegans and is gluten free too. Sharing Indian Style Bean Salad Recipe With Sunday Funday Group For this weekend Sneha who blogs at Sneha’s Recipes suggested the theme “Cook With Dried Beans, Black, Red or Pinto Beans”. Truth be told, when I lived in Kenya, beans were soaked and cooked for all bean dishes. Settled in Canada and for quick cooking, I tend to rely on canned ones. I use…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Avocado Strawberry Salad Avocado Strawberry Salad with a creamy poppyseed dressing looks so pretty, but trust me, it tastes even better. With crunchy almonds and the saltiness from the feta makes this salad a perfect light meal. Change the cheese, add different kind of nuts, choose your favourite dressing – that is how versatile this salad is. Sharing Avocado Strawberry Salad Recipe With Sunday Funday Group February is National Avocado Month. Wendy who blogs at A Day in the Life on the Farm suggested we share a recipe featuring this nutritious superfood. I am a huge fan of avocado and it is always there in my shopping cart. Actually,I was planning on redoing an old post, Avocado Chocolate Pudding. But when I went to…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Pai Huang Gua Hé Xigua Pai Huang Gua Hé Xigua or Smashed Cucumber and Watermelon is an easy, delicious, crunchy and full of umami flavour salad. First of all, I don’t think the word salad exists in the Chinese language. Usually it is referred to as a cold dish. Secondly, Pai Huang Gua originates from the Sichuan region of China. However, it is a popular dish or salad all over China. Apparently, it is a popular street food. Pai means to pat, clap or slap. Huang gum is cucumber. Hé is the conjunction ‘and’. Xigua is watermelon. Pai Huang Gua As I mentioned above, this dish originated from Sichuan area and is now popular all over China. Simple to make, it is one of…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Udon Noodle Salad Udon Noodle Salad, especially cold is my favourite summer time light meal. With the right amount of carbs, loaded with protein and colourful veggies, it has the right balance of flavours too. Marinated tofu, the peanut sauce or dressing, crunchiness from the veggies and come together beautifully to create an awesomely delicious light meal. Sharing Udon Noodle Salad Recipe With 2025 Alphabet Challenge Group Reaching letter U is a reminder that the year is coming to end pretty soon! This Alphabet Challenge Group, initiated by Wendy has allowed me to recreate old recipes, discover some new ones and given me the opportunity to finally try out the bookmarked ones. Udon Noodle Salad is one of them. Can you believe it all…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Mini Taco Salad Cups Mini Taco Salad Cups make a great appetizer/starter dish for parties. Best part is that you don’t need a fork. They are so cute and attractive. Add any salad of your choice to the taco cups. Use up leftover chile. Add any topping of your choice, sour cream, guacamole, lime coriander salad dressing, etc. Make the taco cups ahead and store them in an airtight container till required. Sharing Mini Taco Salad Cups Recipe With 2025 Alphabet Challenge Group We’ve reached letter T for the alphabet challenge initiated by Wendy who blogs at . Lots of options for T, ingredient wise. Tea, tomato, thyme, taco, tangerine, tofu, tempeh, tamarind, tapioca, tarragon, Thai cuisine, turmeric, tuna, tortellini, etc. I opted to…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Nectarine Quinoa Salad Nectarine Quinoa Salad is a gluten free, vegan, colourful, bright, packed with flavours and textures kind of summery salad. With a homemade fresh ginger salad dressing, this is one salad you don’t want to miss out on. Each spoonful or should I say forkful reminded me of the apple mangoes back home. Yes, I have added nectarine but they were super sweet and almost reminded me of mangoes. I like the bite that the cooked quinoa adds to the salad but I have also tried it with couscous and it tastes equally good. And dare I mention that it is an adaptable salad. Besides quinoa and nectarine add other salad ingredients of your choice. If you’re not a fan of ginger…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Orange Avocado Salad Orange Avocado Salad is a colourful, refreshing, full of flavour kind of summer salad. Enjoy it as side or as a light meal. What I like about this salad is the delicious light orange dressing. And you can add other salad ingredients like radish, beans, quinoa, orzo, rice, etc. Somehow I felt that oranges and tomatoes don’t go together well. Sharing Orange Avocado Salad Recipe With 2025 Alphabet Challenge Group Half the year is over, imagine, time is flying by so fast. Too much happening around the world but daily life continues for all. We’re on letter O which brings with it quite a few options. Oven baked, octopus, oranges, oats, orzo, onion, okra, olives, oil, etc. For me, the…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Crispy Noodle Salad Crispy Noodle Salad is not only a filling nutritious light meal on its own but a dish which offers different flavours and textures. Quite easy to make, this salad is pretty versatile as you can add any ingredients that you like. Dress it up with a sweet, sour or a balanced dressing. This salad dish is inspired by the famous and popular Aussie favourite Chang’s Crispy Noodle Salad. This salad can be enjoyed warm or cold. So it is perfect for both the hot and cold seasons. Noodles And Me I am not a fan of instant noodles. I prefer egg noodles, udon noodles, any variety which needs a bit of cooking and not just hot water. Whenever I use noodles…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Grilled Halloumi Salad Grilled Halloumi Salad is a colourful, healthy and filling Mediterranean inspired salad. Some grilled halloumi , salad leaves, vegetables and some cooked grain with a homemade dressing is perfect as a summer or light meal salad. What I like about this salad is that you can add veggies, salad leaves, fruits, herbs and dressing of your choice. The star of this salad is the grilled halloumi. And I like mine with a generous amount of cheese. For this salad I went for a homemade Blackberry Salad Dressing. What Is Halloumi? Halloumi is a semi hard, unripened cheese made from sheep and goat or cow’s milk. This cheese originates from Cyprus. The firm squeaky cheese retains its texture when grilled or…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Fattoush Salad Fattoush Salad is a delicious tangy, slightly sweetish, crunchy Levantine Salad made with veggies, herbs and crispy pita. Fattoush is an ideal weight loss salad as it is low in calories, filling and flavourful. Two Common Ingredients In Most Salads As I have decided to share salads for the Alphabetical Challenge, I have realized that all salads be it from Africa, Asia, Europe, The Americas, all have two common ingredients – tomatoes and cucumber. Yup! When we make traditional or regional based salads for parties, as light meals, sides, etc we add all the ingredients together without thinking much. As I do my research for different salads, tomato and cucumber are in almost all of them! Not that I am complaining…
