Recipe: Strawberry Hazelnut Crostini Strawberry Hazelnut Crostini is a quick, unique and delectable dessert or snack. Comes together pretty quickly and it is pure indulgence if like me you love hazelnut chocolate spread. There are some combinations that I simply love on my bread – peanut butter and banana, Nutella and strawberries. cheddar cheese and green chutney, cucumber slices with pickle masala. These are my lazy day or quick snack options. What Is A Crostini? Crostini is simply the Italian word for small slices of grilled or toasted bread. Toppings for a crostini may be vegetables, meat, sauces, dips, oil, etc. The options are endless to create a delicious and quick appetizer or starter in a jiffy. Sharing This Recipe With Sunday Funday Group This…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Iceberg Wedge Salad Iceberg Wedge Salad is a delicious, healthy way to enjoy crisp and crunchy lettuce. The classic wedge salad has a topping of bacon crumbles, onion and tomatoes with a generous drizzle of blue cheese dressing. My version of the Iceberg Wedge Salad is different- a vegetarian one. As a vegetarian I don’t have bacon and not exactly a huge fan of blue cheese dressing. If given an option I’d rather reach out for other dressings. I had prepared this wedge salad was as a side for my Christmas Party. Naturally, at that time cranberries and nuts appeared pretty much in most of the dishes. You know for that festive look. Hubby liked how pretty it looked and insisted I take photos.…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Guacamole Salad Guacamole Salad is an easy to make, delicious, healthy salad that has all the components of guacamole. Enjoy it as a side dish with your Mexican food or as a light meal option. Best part is that you can customize this salad to your liking. You may think, why have the salad when you can have the guacamole? Well, can’t imagine enjoy guacamole as a meal. But all the ingredients that go into in a salad form, definitely enjoyable. What Is Guacamole? Also known as guac for short, it is a condiment. Most of us know it as a dip made of avocado with a bit of onion, lime, cilantro (fresh coriander) and jalapeño. Some versions also add chopped tomato, garlic and…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Ginger Garlic Soup Ginger Garlic Soup is a comforting, soothing, nutritious and easy to make soup. This soup recipe calls for an extra amount of fresh ginger and garlic. The vegetables are chopped up finely so that the soup is ready in 10 mins and also makes it easier to sip from a mug or cup. You know how chicken soup is recommended for colds, coughs and flu, well this Ginger Garlic Soup for the vegetarians. Gluten free, vegan and it uses only 1 tsp oil so that the ginger and garlic can be sauteed. I think it took longer to chop the veggies than to make the actual soup. I would recommend using a chopper to chop the vegetables as they have…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Vegetarian Nachos Vegetarian Nachos is an easy throw together kind of dish to serve as starters for your party or enjoy it as a meal during the lazy weekend as it is loaded with veggie and beans. If I am making it as a meal to take care of tortilla chips craving, I prefer to make individual portions in small baking trays. That way we’re not fighting for the toppings, and pulling off the melted cheese from each others tortilla chips. But today it is a trayful of veggies, beans, cheese and chips. Some More Tex Mex Recipes On My Blog When it comes to Tex Mex food, I love it. Love how the all the different ingredients come together to create an…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Farali Beetroot Tikki Farali Beetroot Tikki is a gluten free, vegan, pan fried healthy snack or appetizer. An excellent way to include beetroot in your diet, kids too love it because of the bright natural colour. Enjoy the tikki on its own with a chutney or dip. Use the patty to make vegan burgers. Please note that the peanut yogurt chutney I have made to go with farali beetroot tikki is not a vegan one. You can replace the dairy yogurt with a vegan one. Alternately, make coriander mint chutney or a date tamarind one. What Is Farali? Farali is the term used for foods that one can consume during fasting days like Ekadashi, Navratri, Ram Navmi, Shivratri, Sharavan Month, etc. It means that…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Vegetarian Taco Boats Vegetarian Taco Boats are easy to make, delicious and excellent as a meal for Taco Nights or as appetizer or starter option for any get together parties. What I like about this recipe is that it comes together in a matter of few minutes as the boat shells are ready. Make the filling with canned beans and corn and ready salsa or homemade one. Memories I had first shared this recipe with the group FoodieMonday/Bloghop. The theme was Mexican Food. At that time I was in Montreal visiting my son. Hubby and I went to the local supermarket Metro to buy some tortilla. The plan was to make enchiladas. I put a packet of tortilla in the cart. As I walked…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Tricolour Mini Rava Idlis Want to celebrate India’s Independence in style? Try out this easy instant tricolour mini rava idlis where I have not used any artificial colours. For orange idlis I added cooked carrot puree and for the green ones cooked spinach puree. Rava idli batter is white. Healthy, easy to make and a satisfying breakfast or brunch with coconut chutney, tomato chutney, sambar or podi masala. The choice is yours. What Is Rava Idli? Rava is semolina in hindi. Generally, idli is made from fermented rice and lentil batter. But for a faster and quicker idli, semolina is used. Semolina is allowed to soak in water and plain yogurt for 30 minutes. This process helps the semolina grains to become a bit…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Caprese Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms Caprese Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms is piled with the key ingredients from a caprese salad on top of garlicky buttery mushroom caps and broiled. It serves as an excellent side dish. It also makes a satisfying, delicious main meal for vegetarians. Basic caprese ingredients – tomatoes, mozzarella and basil are used for this dish. Depending on the size of mushrooms I get, usually 1 or 2 or enough as a main meal served with a bit of pasta or quinoa. What Are Portobello Mushrooms? Known as Portobello, Portabella, Portabella, or Portabello, these mushrooms are basically the larger relatives of the white button and crimini. The cap can range in size from 3 inches to 6 inches. Portabella mushrooms have a rich,…
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Continue ReadingEvent: Sunday Funday Theme: Oktoberfest Recipes Recipe: Vegetarian Flammkuchen | German Pizza Vegetarian Flammkuchen is a crispy, thin flatbread that is topped with creme fraiche, onion and some cheese. Usually bacon is added also but to make a vegetarian version I left it out. I used creme fraiche, onion, sliced mushrooms and olive slices. Also added some cheese. A Bit About Flammkuchen | German Pizza Also known as German Pizza, flammekueche or as tarte flambée in French, you’ve got to try out this delicious crispy pizza. Flammkuchen literally translates as ‘flame cake’. Bakers would roll out a thin piece of dough and put in their wood fired ovens. The dough was a test to indicate whether the correct temperature had reached so that the baker…
