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: Zeytin Piyazi Zeytin Piyazi is a tangy, refreshing, easy to make Turkish green olive salad. It is a traditional dish from the southeastern part of Turkey which is generally enjoyed for breakfast or as part of a mezze. Usually enjoyed with some bread. A simple salad made from green olives, tomato, onion, fresh herbs and seasoning. Sometimes walnuts, bell pepper, green apples, other herbs are added. As a matter of fact, olives in Turkish are called zeytin. Piyazi originates from the Persian language meaning onion. However, in Turkish piyazi refers to a salad made with onion. Therefore Zeytin Piyazi is an olive salad with onions. Sharing Zeytin Piyazi Recipe With 2025 Alphabet Challenge Group Wow, 2025 is ending so soon. Actually, the year…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Vegetable Raita Vegetable Raita is an easy to make Indian side dish or salad. Vegetables and a few spices are added to some plain yogurt to make this delicious dish. While you can use any vegetable of your choice, I have used tomato, cucumber and onion. You can easily add bell pepper, carrot, radish, etc. Technically both tomato and cucumber are considered fruits. But it goes by the name vegetable raita. What Is A Raita? Raita is a popular yogurt based side dish or salad. We don’t call it a salad in any Indian language but in the West it is classified as a salad. Any mixture of raw or cooked vegetables, grains, pulses, meat, eggs, seafood generally served cold with a dressing is…
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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: Waldorf Salad Waldorf Salad is a creamy, crispy, filling, delish, classic salad. Enjoy it as a light meal, serve it as a starter dish or as a side for a party. The subtly sweet dressing, the crunch from the celery and crispiness of the apples makes this elegant salad a party winner. What Is Waldorf Salad? A Waldorf Salad is generally a fruit and nut salad with a bit of celery, dressed with mayonnaise and served on a bed of lettuce. It gets its name from the famous Waldorf – Astoria Hotel in New York. Oscar Tschirky, a maître d’hôtel at the hotel is credited for creating this salad for a charity ball given in honor of the St. Mary’s Hospital for Children on…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Salata De Varza Rosie Salata De Varza Rosie is a simple and yet flavourful Romanian Red Cabbage Salad. Easy to make, basically you need only a handful of ingredients. Some red cabbage or white (then it is simply called Salata De Varza), carrot, vinegar, salt and oil. What I like about this recipe is the versatility. Can add fresh or dried dill, parsley, apple, onion, crispy bacon, etc. Make it with either red or white cabbage, both taste a bit different. This salad is like the slaw recipe but without the mayo. Salata is salad, Varza is cabbage in Romanian and Rosie is red. Sharing Salata De Varza Rosie Recipe With 2025 Alphabet Challenge Group We’re almost at the end of the Alphabet…
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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: Chermoula Sweet Potato Salad Chermoula Sweet Potato Salad is a filling, flavourful salad where sweet potato, chickpeas, couscous, tomatoes, olives and feta are mixed with Chermoula Sauce. Enjoy this delicious salad warm or cold. What Is Chermoula? Chermoula or Charmoula (pronounced sher-moo-lah,) is a popular North African sauce made of fresh coriander, parsley, lemon, olive oil, garlic and warming spices. This popular condiment is used as a marinade, dip or a dressing. Traditionally it is made using a mortar and pestle but I used a food processor. This sauce requires a rough texture and not a smooth one. Therefore just a few pulses and the sauce is ready. For the coriander, I added also the tender stems as they are full of flavour. It…
