Recipe: Vegetable Pulao Vegetable Pulao is a one pot, delicious,aromatic and a filling rice dish. It is a popular Indian Cuisine recipe which every household has its own version of it. What I like about making vegetable pulao is that once you have all the ingredients at hand it makes a perfect lazy Sunday or any day meal. I love making this pulao, pilau, pilaf recipe at least once a week as it allows me to use a variety of vegetables. Go on give this recipe a try and add vegetables of your choice. I usually make vegetable pulao either on the stove top in a big pan, in the rice cooker or pressure cooker too. Also making it in an Instant Post is super…
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Continue ReadingEvent: Sunday Funday Theme: Sprouts Recipe: Spicy Tofu Bowl Spicy Tofu Bowl is a healthy, delicious and easy recipe where I serve spicy tofu with salad ingredients and nuts with a light sesame seed dressing. This bowl is perfect as a light meal, for picnics, for lunch boxes or to serve it as a side to a main Chinese meal. And it is completely vegan and gluten free. Memories Tofu is not an ingredient I’ve grown up with. As a kid had no idea that a food ingredient tofu existed. That changed when Bangkok Chinese Restaurant, Nairobi first introduced it on their menu. During one family meal at the restaurant, the owner sent some stir fried tofu to our table to taste. Some didn’t…
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Continue ReadingEVENT: SHHH COOKING SECRETLY THEME: CHETTINAD CUISINE RECIPE: CHETTINAD URULAI ROAST | POTATO ROAST Chettinad Urulai Roast | Potato Roast is simply baby potatoes roasted in a pan with freshly ground Chettinad Masala or Spice Mixture. It easily can be enjoyed as a starter dish, a snack or as a side dish which is usually served with rice or roti and a lentil curry. Hubby and I decided to enjoy it as a starter. Actually, it was more like a meal for us. Just recovering from Covid, Furthermore, I didn’t have the energy to cook meals that took too long. Made the masala and boiled the potatoes the previous day. Put away the potatoes in the fridge as I got tired and went to sleep.…
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Continue ReadingEvent: Sunday Funday Theme: Rice Recipe: Palak Rice | Spinach Rice Palak Rice |Spinach Rice is a healthy, tasty and easy rice recipe. An excellent way to get the family to enjoy spinach. Add vegetables of your choice and make it into a meal with some plain yogurt, papad and pickle or salad on the side. I actually use up leftover rice to make this Indian style Spinach Rice. Memories This is one more recipe I learned from my kaki (aunt). She use to make this rice quite often. Don’t know if she makes it anymore. Perhaps, it was her way of getting the kids to eat spinach. To make it even appealing she would add grated cheddar cheese and serve it. After I got…
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Continue ReadingEVENT: SUNDAY FUNDAY THEME: CELEBRATE HAMBURGER | BURGER MONTH RECIPE: CHICKPEA & QUINOA BURGERS Chickpea & Quinoa Burgers are protein rich with delicious savoury flavours, healthy and filling too. Served with hummus, salad leaves, tomato, cucumber, onion and cheese, it is an excellent way to add vegetables to your family’s diet. So who says that burgers are junk food? Burgers can be healthy and tasty at the same time. Instead of serving them with the normal french fries opt to serve it some salad or oven roasted fries. We prefer to enjoy burgers without the fries. A NEW HOME – 12/09/2016 As most of my followers know, my blog is not only for recipes but I share events, experiences and thoughts too. So it is…
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Continue ReadingEVENT: SUNDAY FUNDAY THEME: CREATIVE LASAGNA RECIPE: VEGETABLE LASAGNA Vegetable Lasagna, loaded with vegetables and home made sauces is satisfying, delicious and a filling dish. Pretty easy to make once you have all the ingredients at hand. What I like about lasagna is that one can add any vegetables of their choice. Here, I have also used a mixture of three cheeses, cheddar, mozzarella and parmesan. Along with tomato sauce, I like to add béchamel sauce or white sauce to add a creaminess to the overall baked dish. Sunday Funday Sunday Funday is a group of Food Bloggers. Every Sunday we share some fun, traditional, hearty or easy recipes to make Sunday Family Meals a bit more exciting. To join this fun group, visit the…
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Continue ReadingEVENT: SHHH COOKING SECRETLY THEME: STICK TO SEEDS RECIPE: BEETROOT BUCKWHEAT RISOTTO Beetroot Buckwheat Risotto made in a healthy style, with buckwheat groat and roasted beetroot. Total comfort food which is creamy, full of flavours and easy to make. Have also added beetroot stem and leaves for added nutritional value. Beetroot enriches the risotto with iron and folate and buckwheat is a great source of protein and fibre. First Time I Had Risotto The first time I tasted a lovely creamy and cheesy risotto was at Hilton Dubai The Walk. My son was the manager at one of their dining area, the Pure Sky Lounge. We had dinner once and the vegetarian option was Mushroom Risotto. My son assured me that I would love it.…
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Continue ReadingEVENT: SUNDAY FUNDAY THEME: 2022 IS THE YEAR OF THE TIGER RECIPE: KUNG PAO CAULIFLOWER Kung Pao Cauliflower is a vegetarian/vegan take on the traditional Chinese Kung Pao. Cauliflower is oven roasted instead of deep frying. With a spicy sauce, enjoy it on its own, with some rice or noodles. I know deep frying makes the cauliflower more crispier but oven roast them so hubby and I can enjoy this delicious, spicy dish without any guilt. What Is Kung Pao? Kung Pao, Gong Pao, Kung Po is traditionally a Chinese stir fried dish made from chicken pieces, peanuts, vegetables and chilli peppers. This dish originates from Sichuan Province of China. Sichuan pepper is used to make the sauce spicy. Chicken cubes are coated in flour,…
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Continue ReadingEVENT: SUNDAY FUNDAY THEME: MAIN COURSE SALADS RECIPE: VEGGIE PASTA SALAD Veggie Pasta Salad is a warm, healthy, filling and delicious salad that can be enjoyed as a meal on its own. Loaded with veggies, one can use any vegetables of their choice. Addition of your favourite dressing or just lemon juice makes this salad a medley of flavours. What Is A Main Course Salad? Generally, a main course salad is a hearty, filling salad and usually has a protein rich ingredient added to it. It can any meat or sea food. For vegetarian version one can add tofu, paneer, beans, cheese,etc. The salad is enjoyed as a main meal, either for lunch or dinner. Bearing that in mind, I usually add paneer, tofu…
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Continue ReadingEVENT: SHHH COOKING SECRETLY THEME: HEALTHY IDEAS RECIPE: CURRIED CHICKPEA STUFFED SWEET POTATOES Curried Chickpea Stuffed Sweet Potatoes is a healthy, delicious, filling and easy to make healthy, gluten free meal. Enjoy it for lunch or dinner and it is a perfect hot meal for the cold season. Basically, I prepare a thick chickpea curry and stuff baked sweet potato with it and serve with some plain thick yogurt. Actually, I love sweet potatoes whether they are the whitish oriental variety or the orange flesh ones. The Oriental variety is commonly available in Kenya and India. However, sometimes they are quite small and not really ideal to stuff them. Usually, those ones I bake or boil and enjoy with some salt, chilli powder and generous…
