Recipes With Course: Side dish
Tubers and Root Vegetables Creamy Mash
This is a healthy and tasty mash done with four vegetables instead of one. It accompanies any meat or poultry and almost fulfills your quota of “5 a day”! You can also use turnips, Jerusalem artichokes and celeriac.
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Vietnamese Chicken and Rice Vermicelli Salad
This vietnamese salad is one of my preferred salads. It can be prepared with shredded cooked chicken (e.g. leftover roasted chicken) or, if you prefer, cooked prawns. This salad will be as good if it is only done with fresh vegetables that goes into it such as carrots, mange-tout, cabbage, ...
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Braised Brussel Sprouts
In the past, brussel sprouts were mainly used on Christmas time. They were served boiled and mushy! My husband hated them until I convinced him to try my braised “garlicky” sprouts. He is a big fan now! This recipe is vegetarian but can be transformed into a meaty one by ...
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Choy Sum – Chinese Vegetable Stir Fry
Choy sum is a green vegetable commonly used in Chinese cuisine together with other Brassicas such as bok choy (or pak choi) and napa cabbage. It is my favourite Chinese green! Brassica or cruciferous vegetables which include also broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, radish, cabbage and kale are packed with antioxidants, ...
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Burghul Bi Banadoura – Bulgur wheat in tomato sauce
Burghul is ground wheat that has been parboiled and dried beforehand. It comes in finer and larger grains and is either white or brown (whole wheat). The finer grains are used for tabboulé and kebbé (see recipes) whereas in this recipe a brown bulgur with coarse grains is used. The ...
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Russian Salad (also known as Olivier Salad)
This salad was initially invented by a French chef whose name was Olivier and who owned a restaurant, in Moscow, in the 19th century. There has been many variations since that time and the original recipe, popular in Russia, includes eggs, vegetables and meat (such as ham, or bologna sausage). ...
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Mutabbal – Grilled Eggplant with Tahini (Sesame paste)
I have published earlier, on this website, a recipe named Baba Ghanouj, which is the correct Lebanese name of the grilled eggplant (aubergine) salad. This recipe is similar but is prepared with tahini and it is called Mutabbal, wrongly known as Baba Ghanouj! Tahini is a paste of white sesame ...
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Potato and Egg Medley
This is quite a simple meal usually made by the Lebanese housewife when she doesn’t have the time to cook a normal meal but still needs to have something healthy enough to feed her family. It has only few ingredients: potatoes, eggs, olive oil and seasonings. It is eaten with ...
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Chicken and Wild Rocket Salad
This salad is easy and quick to prepare. I was inspired to do it when, one day, I only had one chicken breast left in my freezer (not enough to prepare my usual chicken escalopes) and, when foraging in my fridge, I found a little bag of wild rocket and ...
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Baba Ghanouj (grilled eggplant salad)
In Lebanon, you have 2 different dishes made with grilled smoky eggplants: Baba Ghanouj and Mutabbal. Baba Ghanouj (actual recipe) is made with grilled eggplants, green onions, parsley, tomatoes (optional), lemon juice, garlic and olive oil, but no tahini (sesame paste). Mutabbal is the dish that is made with grilled ...
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