Recipe: 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…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Honeydew Sorbet Honeydew Sorbet is a light, refreshing, cooling, healthy summer time dessert. Pretty easy to make if you have frozen honeydew cubes in the freezer. Summer time is when I always have some frozen fruit in the freezer so that I can make quick cooling desserts or smoothies. When honeydew melons are not…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Ragda Pattis Ragda Pattis is a popular street food from the states of Gujarat and Maharastra. Dried peas curry is poured over potato pattis, topped with some chutneys, sev and chopped onion. Usually served hot, it is a filling, healthy and delicious dish. I usually make it not as a snack but for dinner.…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Moong Dal Salad | Kosambari Moong Dal Salad is a popular, protein rich, delicious and healthy South Indian style salad. Known as Kosambari, it is generally made from yellow moong dal, cucumber and coconut. A tempering of mustard seeds, green chillis and curry leaves is added to make the salad flavourful. This salad also…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Kachumbari,Kenyan Salad Kachumabari,Kenyan Salad is the easiest, most popular and a superbly delicious side dish that goes well with chicken, fish, barbecued meat (nyama choma), kebabs, tikkas, pilau, ugali, etc. It is a basic salad of tomatoes, onion, fresh coriander, lemon and a bit of chilli. This salad is popular in Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Ice Apple Salad Ice Apple Salad with coconut milk, mint, cucumber and a few spices is a refreshing, cooling and unique summer salad. This salad is full of nutrients and an excellent way to enjoy the superfood – ice apples or tadgola. Serve it as a starter or enjoy it as a light meal.…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Papdi No Lot | Khichu Papdi No Lot | Khichu is a popular Gujarati spicy steamed rice flour dish that is usually enjoyed as a snack with some red chilli powder or pickle masala and drizzled with oil. This steamed snack is usually enjoyed by all kids and adults. Known as papdi no lot…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Matar Bateta Nu Shaak Matar Bateta Nu Shaak is a Gujarati style peas and potato curry. A few everyday simple spices and a bit of tomato adds so much flavour to this sabji, shaak or curry. And it is one of the easiest to make, not requiring too many ingredients. No garlic or onion…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Chickpea Chaat Salad Chickpea Chaat Salad is a tasty, gluten free, vegan, slightly sweet, a bit spicy and tangy kind of salad. The star ingredient is boiled chickpeas. Add salad vegetables of your choice. This salad is a version of the popular Indian street food Chana Chaat. It is usually a mixture of boiled…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Avocado, Bean & Mango Salad Avocado, Bean & Mango Salad is a zesty, nutritious, filling and delicious salad bursting with colours. Like me if you are a lover of both avocado and mango then this salad is just right for you. With homemade Cilantro Dressing, we love to have this salad as a light…
