Charred Sweetheart Cabbage and Butter Beans with Caperberry Vinaigrette
Friday, January 17, 2025Budget-friendly, healthy and versatile, these charred sweetheart cabbage with white beans and freshly grated Parmesan will be a favourite on your dinner table in no time at all. Use savoy if you can’t find sweetheart cabbage and cannellinis are a great substitute for butter beans.
Sweetheart, also known as pointed cabbage or hispi cabbage, is a part of the cruciferous vegetable family, but milder, sweeter and more salad-like in taste and texture, and it also cooks faster.
Bengali Fried Chicken with Chilli Aioli
Wednesday, January 15, 2025These Bengali styled fried chicken are crispy, spicy and flavourful! The use of garam masala, ground turmeric, cumin, coriander, ginger and garlic paste and chilli powder adds warmth, colour, and depth to this simple dish, while the tapioca starch coating ensures that the chicken becomes super crispy on the outside while remaining juicy and tender on the inside. A flavour explosion in every bite and and you really can’t mess up chicken thighs as they are delicious prepared at any way. Dip these crunchy bites into a chilli aioli sauce and you won't be able to stop yourself from eating the whole plate.
Chocolate Cherry Rye Bread
Monday, January 13, 2025Whether for breakfast or as an afternoon snack, this rye bread, enriched with dark chocolate and dried cherries, will make all sweet tooth happy. It is chocolatey and fruity at the same time and also has a proportion of rye flour, which makes it more wholesome and less guilty. If you don’t have dried cherries, dried cranberries would work too. This is a high hydration dough, so a sticky dough is expected. If you add more flour, you'll end up with a really tough, dry loaf, so don't add more flour! Bread is best baked with conventional top and bottom heat, as it would dry out too quickly with circulating air. This makes it nice and crispy on the outside and keeps it soft and fluffy on the inside.
Edamame and Quinoa Salad with Pickled Lemon Skin
Saturday, January 11, 2025Packed full of flavour and nutrients, you will want to make this superfood salad, adapted from Delicious, time and time again! Edamame are naturally gluten-free and low in calories. Unlike most plants, edamame soybeans are a whole protein source that provides all the essential amino acids, many essential vitamins and minerals the body needs.
Arugula Cheese Salad
Thursday, January 09, 2025You love cheese? Great, so do I! Simply use your favourite cheese, add a few grapes, nuts and a light vinaigrette and you have the tastiest salad for the lunch: a grape and cheese salad. It brightens up the mundane of cold season with its freshness and variety and also provides a portion of vitamins. The salad tastes great with classic cheeses such as Edam, Cheddar, Emmentaler or Gouda. If you like it more intense, try it with blue cheese or goat cheese.
Miso Banana Cake
Tuesday, January 07, 2025This tender, moist miso banana cake with walnuts (pecans are great too) is so easy and fun with an Asian twist. The miso works surprisingly well, giving the classic banana cake a deeper, robust umami flavour that really elevates the cake. The mascarpone cream and caramel walnuts are completely optional, but I thought it's a cake, so a little icing won't hurt.
25 Curry Recipes to satisfy your Spice Cravings
Monday, January 06, 2025Curries are all the rage and rightly so. They are super quick and easy to prepare and extremely versatile. Whether with vegetables, meat or fish, mild or spicy: these curries have something for every taste. Some recipes make the spice blend from the scratch, while others use ready-made pate to keep things quick and simple. Try one of the curry recipes and cook your own little flavour miracle.
- Sri Lankan Carrot Curry
Sri Lankan curry is usually heavily spiced and uses a blend of fresh spices and aromatics. This typically includes cumin, coriander, fenugreek seeds, mustard seeds, and curry leaves. The curry is usually prepared with coconut milk and commonly served with rice. If you can't find fresh curry leaves, use dried one or even pandan leaves. Don't like carrot? Use cauliflower, sweet potatoes, eggplants or green beans or a mixture of vegetables.
TikTok Cajun Egg Boil
Saturday, January 04, 2025If you’re a fan of traditional seafood boil or the viral onion boil that has recently been circulating on youtube and tiktok, or simply because you love eggs, garlic and butter, you need to try this soft egg boil. The preparation is slightly different than the traditional boil, but it's equally buttery and downright delicious. The sauce comes together in minutes, and is so saucy and flavourful you will want to enjoy every morsel soaked up with bread, rice or pasta. If you ain't fancy for soft-boiled eggs, simply hard boil them.
Melanzane a Funghetto (Sautéed Eggplants and Tomatoes)
Thursday, January 02, 2025Melanzane a Funghetto in Neapolitan, or eggplants cooked in the style of small mushrooms, a quick side dish that’s simple, quick to prepare and so delicious! You can serve them as a side, or with pasta or as a topping with shaved Parmesan for crostini. Although the name of this recipe contains “funghetto” which means “mushroom” in Italian, it contains no mushroom at all, it means that when the eggplant chunks are sautéed they look like little mushrooms and have the texture of mushrooms.
Pumpkin Kofta with Avocado Sauce
Tuesday, December 31, 2024A meatless and gluten-free take on Turkish koftas / meatballs with finely grated pumpkin and lots of warming spices. The creamy avocado sauce is the perfect balance to the aromatic, crunchy kofta. A great recipe that both vegetarians and carnivores would enjoy. I have shaped kofta into sausage form, but you can shape them into balls or patties.
Burrata Arugula Salad with Raspberries and Truffle
Monday, December 30, 2024May the New Year bless you all with health, wealth, and happiness!
A festive and refreshing arugla salad loaded with raspberries, pomegranate arils, creamy burrata cheese, shaved black truffle, and drizzled with a truffle balsamic glaze and argan oil!
Burrata is a special form of mozzarella that is characterised by its creaminess. Alternatively, you can also use mozarrella di bufalo or just regular mozzarella. As the name suggests, the mozarrella di bufalo is made from buffalo milk instead of cow's milk. It also tastes creamy, slightly salty and tangy.
Greek Chicken Giouvetsi
Sunday, December 29, 2024Giouvetsi (translated as 'little barley') or youvetsi is a Greek dish made with veal / beef, lamb or chicken and pasta, either kritharaki or hilopites. This flavour-packed one-pan chicken dish in a rich tomato-based sauce is the ultimate Greek comfort food! Traditionally giouvetsi is served with a hard white goat cheese called kefalotiri. Use Parmesan or Feta instead if you like. To make this stew with lamb or beef, you might need to spice it up a bit with cinnamon, paprika, chilli, and more allspice. Replace some of the stock with red wine for a richer flavour.