Recipe: Summer Avocado Salad Summer Avocado Salad is an easy, healthy, filling, nutritious salad. With two summer fruits, avocado and juicy fresh tomatoes, I like to enjoy this salad as a light meal.Β Add some roasted nuts and seeds and in no time a delicious summery salad is ready. As a matter of fact, I love both avocado and tomatoes a lot so they tend to find their way into most of my salad recipes. I had first published this recipe on 28/08/2012. Republishing it with new photos and better write up. What Type Of Salad Dressing To Use? Well, any of your choice. Use ready made ones or make the dressing at home. It is very easy to make vinaigrette. For this summer avocado…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Quinoa Burrito Bowl Salad Quinoa Burrito Bowl Salad is a healthier way of enjoying burrito without all that extra rice and too many processed sauces. Quinoa replaces the rice, making this salad more protein rich and healthier without compromising on the overall flavour. Usually a burrito is served on a tortilla. Here I have not served any tortilla with the salad bowl. You can always serve it with tortilla chips, ready made or home baked ones. check out my Mexican Bhel recipe for home baked tortilla chips. Sharing This Recipe With FoodieMonday/Bloghop The 55th theme is Salads. I decided to make a Burrito Bowl Salad which I first had as a meal at one of the Tex Mex restaurants in Montreal. You take…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Pasta & Sweet Potato Salad Pasta & Sweet Potato Salad is a different, delicious and filling kind of salad. What I like about this salad is that it can be served warm or cold. Additionally, one can add any other ingredients to make it more appealing and filling. Add a dressing of your choice, a light one or a creamy one. Memories – Drought, A National Disaster 2016 did not bring enough rains to many parts of Kenya. Fast forward to 2017 and out of 47 counties 23 which are arid or semi arid parts of Kenya are facing drought. Rivers have dried up, animals and humans are dying without food. A National and International appeal has been sent out to help these…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Mango Strawberry Salad Mango Strawberry Salad is a refreshing, delicious, colourful summer time salad. Easy to make, it can be served as a side dish or as a light meal. We enjoy this salad as a light lunch option as I add mozzarella which makes it filling. As for the dressing, add any of your choice. Natural sweetness from the fruits, bite from the roasted almond, refreshing flavour from the mint and protein rich with those grassy slightly tangy mozzarella balls. I prefer to use a vinaigrette. I’m actually quite gullible when it comes to salads with fruits, can eat a huge bowlful of it. No wonder most of my salads feature some sort of fruit. Sharing This Recipe With Shhh Cooking Secretly Group…
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Continue ReadingApple Cucumber Salad Apple Cucumber Salad, the name in a way doesn’t include all the other ingredients. However, I had to shorten the title. But yes, the main ingredients for this salad are apple, cucumber and onion. The rest are what I add depending what is available in my fridge. Apple Cucumber Salad is so easy to put together. It is a healthy, filling and crunchy salad. Several times I’ve made big batches of this salad for pizza parties, potlucks, picnics, etc.Β The orange vinaigrette adds a deliciously sweetish fruity taste to the salad. Whenever I have to make a larger quantity, I chop the salad ingredients a day before except for the apple. As apple turns brown I prefer to chop it when required.…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Parsley Walnut Pesto Parsley Walnut Pesto is different from the traditional basil and pine nut pesto.Β With a bit of peppery and earthy taste from the parsley, slight tang from the walnuts, this pesto is a pleasant change especially during winter time. Basil tends to disappear or is too expensive during winter. Parsley makes a good substitute. And most of us have walnuts in our fridge or pantry. What Is Pesto? Pesto is a green sauce typically made from fresh basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil and hard cheese like parmesan. Originating from Genoa, traditionally it is crushed in a mortar using a pestle. However, modern times make use of food processors, blenders, choppers, etc. Some Pesto Recipes On My Blog Coriander Mint &…
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Continue ReadingApple Carrot Salad Apple Carrot Salad is a delicious, crunchy, tangy and refreshing salad that is perfect as a light lunch option or as a side dish. With homemade lemon vinaigrette, this is my go to salad for picnics and potlucks. An easy salad which does not require too many ingredients. While one can easily grate both the apple and carrot to make the whole process of preparing the salad faster, I find that if I am making it for picnics, potluck or cookouts, after a while the salad goes limp and too watery. If we are going to enjoy the salad straight away then I grate both. Homemade Lemon Vinaigrette adds a tangy, refreshing flavour to the salad. However, if you want to prepare…
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Continue ReadingTropical Pasta Salad Tropical Pasta Salad is a colourful, refreshing, filling and different. The stars of this delicious salad besides the pasta are ripe mango, avocado and fresh pineapple. Easy to put together, this tropical pasta salad is perfect as a summer time light meal, for potluck parties and for picnics. Tastes really good withΒ Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing. However, add any dressing you like. Sharing This Recipe With Sunday Funday Group I like how this group members come up with different themes every Sunday. For this Sunday, Sue suggested we make a salad using pasta or noodles. Perfect theme as for the past few days the temperatures have soared to 18Β°C -20Β°C. Ideal weather for picnics and light lunches. Let’s Check What Kind…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Pak Choi Noodle Soup Pak Choi Noodle Soup is a comforting, filling, delicious soup that comes together within 20 minutes. Make it more wholesome by adding your choice of protein like chicken, fish, meat, tofu, eggs, etc. What Is Chinese Lantern Festival? Also known as Yuan Xiao, this festival is celebrated in China and other SE Asian Countries. It honours the deceased. This festival falls on the 15th day of the first month(yuan) of the lunar year. It also marks the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations and the appearnace of the first full moon of the lunar year. Colourful lanterns are an integral part of the celebration, thus the name Chinese Lantern Festival. Coming to food, small glutinous rice balls filled with…
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Continue ReadingEVENT: SHHH COOKING SECRETLY THEME: SOUPS RECIPE: BARLEY PUMPKIN SOUP Barley Pumpkin Soup is a Vegan Fall Season soup. Healthy, hearty, filling and tasty. Just when there a bit of a nippy chill in the evenings, this soup is so comforting. Usually with soups like this we don’t any bread slices or bread sticks as the barley is quite filling. A Bit About The Group Every month a member gets to suggest a theme. For this month Priya who blogs at The World Through My Eyes suggested we make healthy hearty soups as after all the festivities we will need light healthy meals. My Partner The unique thing about this group is that we pair the participants. They give each other 2 secret ingredients…
