This post contains helpful tips and tricks! If you’re in a rush, please use the “Jump to Recipe” above! Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, or just looking to add a Meatless Monday dish to your rotation, this recipe is sure to please. Plus, it’s easy to make and can easily be scaled up or down depending on how many people you’re feeding. Don’t forget to check out the vegan turkey roast as well!...
This turkey chili is a lighter version of chili – with no beef and stuffed with veggies. It’s packed full of flavor with onions, garlic, and spices – smoked paprika, chili powder. The cocoa powder is my secret chili ingredient that gives it a velvety smooth texture and mole-like flavor! It couldn’t be easier to make. And like most chili recipes, the longer it cooks, the more flavor it develops....
Today’s dish is a little bit more on the hearty side yet still super summery, bursting with flavours of sun-drenched tomatoes and basil. This is my attempt at the famous pasta alla bolognese vegan-style – vegan bolognese. It’s easy to put together, super filling and ideal after a hardcore workout if you or someone you feed happens to be a bit of a fitness enthusiast (looking at you, Duncan) or a gym bunny....
Mother Nature has finally let us have some properly summery weather, here in England. I’ve been loving sitting in my garden, with Tina slumped in the shade nearby, reading, sipping a cold brew coffee or a cheeky glass of white wine and eating heaps of delicious strawberries! I don’t want this to end! I keep on checking the forecast like a hawk, and although this week the sky isn’t as cloudless as it was last week, things are still looking promising....
Time for a big green salad to brighten up our January tables and lighten up our meals. Not just any boring salad though, this green beauty is fit for a Caesar… Yes, you’ve guessed it – today’s recipe is my vegan take on a classic: Caesar salad. This puppy has bags of flavour despite being completely free of any animal products. Crispy cos lettuce gets tossed in an obscenely creamy, tangy and cheesy dressing – this acts as the salad’s base, which gets punctuated by crispy sourdough croutons, smoky almond bacon and finally sour pomegranate arils, which add a bit of colour as well as tiny pops of sweet and sour flavour....
It’s been almost a year since I made any kind of cookies – except my recent oat and raisin cookies (although I actually shot that recipe in early Spring) – so I had a massive hankering for some flour-fat-sugar induced magic and this is how these vegan choc chip cookies with tahini were born. These vegan choc chip cookies with tahini are simple to make yet delightful to eat. Their crispy edges give way to a moist and decadently chewy interior....
In the last week and a half I transitioned from the Siberian cold that I’ve had to endure during my holiday in Poland, to an almost spring aura over here. I mean there is a bit of a chill in the air still, but the sun is shining and the birds are chirping and it almost feels like Madam Spring herself has finally moved in. I love that transition when everything (people included) wakes up from the sluggishness of winter....
A quick drive by from me this weekend as I am actually on long awaited holidays right at this moment, but I still wanted to share a new recipe with you. I finalised this recipe for these coconut matcha cheesecakes just before I went away. They are really lovely – I personally adore the combination of creamy coconut and bitter matcha – and suitably green – just in time for the coming up St Patrick’s day…So I thought I should share it....
It’s the weekend at last and if you enjoy cooking, a family vegan potsticker making session is a great way to spend your Saturday, especially when the weather does not entice you outside… I love potstickers and I enjoy making them too, but I do get a tad discouraged seeing how quickly they disappear down Duncan’s mouth (he is a prolific dumpling eater). I guess it’s a compliment and I should treat it as such, but they do take a lot of time and effort to make and to see them all hoovered up in less than 15 minutes makes feel that maybe I should have made something quicker to put together....
And best of all? You can make it in advance for easy meal prepping (see recipe notes). This recipe is part of Bowl of Delicious’s month-long Mediterranean Diet theme. The red wine vinaigrette is my standard dressing for any Greek salad, and brings the flavors of the Mediterranean into this salad. While the ingredients themselves may not scream Mediterranean, the recipe fits the bill for the diet perfectly, since it’s packed with plants and a dressing made of extra-virgin olive oil....
Hey guys, hope this week has been treating you well thus far! I am slowly starting to pack all our stuff into boxes in the anticipation of the impending house move and I am trying not to get overwhelmed with the amount of stuff we need to take care of before setting foot in our new house. In other news, I have not been running for almost 3 weeks now, first due to an illness and now due to a running injury that I first observed before I got ill and which did not go away despite prolonged rest....
WHAT IS ALOO SABZI? Aloo Sabzi is a simple potato dry curry recipe meaning it has no gravy. This Aloo Sabzi is also known as Aloo Bujia and Aloo Ki Katliyan. It only takes few ingredients to get this vegetarian recipe ready. It originated in India and made its way to Pakistan. This 20-Minute Pakistani/Indian Aloo Sabzi is perfect for a weeknight meal. Did you notice Aloo (potatoes) are the key ingredient in many Pakistani/Indian main dish recipe check out other potato recipes on the blog are: Aloo Chana, Gobi Aloo Matar, and Baigan Aloo....
In its most basic form, avocado toast is nothing more than mashed avocado on- you guessed it- toast, seasoned with salt and pepper. In fact, I have a whole post on simple, easy, and DELICIOUS traditional avocado toast. This recipe is SO much more than that. First, the toast itself is made extra special by a drizzle of olive oil and a fresh clove of garlic rubbed into each oiled piece....
Greece, like most Mediterranean countries, isn’t exactly known for its breakfast culture, so going out for breakfast, especially when you are vegan and a health nut (like me) is hard work and never really that satisfying. While I am happy to occasionally have a vegan pastry and a coffee to start my day, eating like this long term does make me feel crappy and ravenous an hour and a half later....
WHAT IS CHUKANDAR GOSHT? Beetroot and Meat Curry (Chukandar Gosht) is a flavorful curry made with a base of tomatoes. Chukandar Gosht beautifully combines mutton (goat) with beetroots and is one of my mother’s best recipes. Similar Pakistani recipe, like Gobi Gosht and Lauki Gosht, also pair mutton with vegetables for a perfect balance of flavors. In this Indian/Pakistani dinner recipe, we add spinach to balance the sweetness of the beetroot, which is naturally sweet....
I have two great memories involving blackened fish (I know, it’s weird, but what can I say, I love food). The first is from when I lived in New Orleans, and at every single festival or farmer’s market, there was a vendor selling AH-MAZING blackened fish tacos with crunchy red cabbage and a cool creamy dill sauce. I could not leave without eating at least one of them! The second is from my first visit with Zach to see his homeland, when we went down to South Padre Island from Austin to see the Rio Grande Valley, where he began his teaching career....
Blueberry Lemon Bundt cake is so easy. It’s basically mixing the wet and dry ingredients together. I’d make sure you leave 2 sticks of butter out overnight before you melt them, because so you won’t get any lumps in your mixture. Blueberry Lemon Bundt is very yummy and soft. Make sure you mix the batter up really good, when add the wet and dry ingredients together. When it comes time for storing please don’t store it in the fridge....
At last we are having warm weather over here so light meals like salads are course du jour. Today’s recipe is a simple broccoli salad with a creamy dressing and almond bacon I published last week. It’s easy to make and a delicious way to eat broccoli. I used tenderstem broccoli (known as broccolini in some parts of the world) for my salad as they are currently in season over here but regular broccoli would work too....
One of my favorite Indian curry dishes is homemade Chana Masala. It is a popular spiced chick pea dish that can be found at all Indian restaurants in many variations. Chickpeas are all the rave these days but this particular ingredient has been most commonly used in South Asian cooking as either a thickening or binding agent for years back. I personally think the perfect Chana Masala recipe relies on how the chick peas are cooked....
If you fancy a homemade pizza with the best of autumn’s ingredients, I’ve got you! Recently, we’ve been stuffing our faces with this cheeseless pizza with pumpkin, balsamic onions, olives, walnuts and kale. It’s really easy to make and soooo delicious. It features cheesy (without any cheese) white base flavoured with roasted garlic, topped with sweet caramelised pumpkin, salty black olives, tangy balsamic onions, crunchy roasted walnuts and crispy, slightly bitter, kale....
