Recipes from Ingredient: Carrot
Roasted Carrots with Dates
I cooked these carrots for our family on Christmas Eve! Not a shred of carrot was left! Everyone liked it a lot. The idea of roasting them with dates came to me because I had received packets of them from our friends, from UAE and Qatar. I needed to use ...
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Green Peas, Carrots and Lamb Shanks Stew
This is another Lebanese dish, hearty, easy to cook and full of goodies. it is tastier if cooked with lamb shanks because of the bone but you can use any other lamb cuts or even use beef instead. it is usually served with “Vermicelli” rice. The recipe of this will ...
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Tigua Degué aka Mafé – Chicken in Peanut Butter Sauce
Tigua Degué is the national dish of Mali, a country situated in West Africa. It is also a popular dish in Senegal where it is known as Mafé. It is usually cooked with either chicken or meat (beef or lamb), some vegetables and the signature ingredient, peanut butter. I have ...
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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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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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Shepherd’s Pie or Cottage Pie
This British comfort food is a variation of other similar dishes existing in other countries. For example, in France it is called Hachis Parmentier whereas in Lebanon it is called Kebbet Batata. In UK, the dish that is prepared with minced lamb is called Sheperd’s Pie and the one that ...
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Ragu alla Bolognese (Bolognese Sauce)
In Italy, Ragu alla Bolognese is referred to as Ragu and in Bologna as Tagliatella. Whereas, outside Italy, it is referred to as Bolognese sauce and commonly served with pasta. There are many variations for this famous sauce but my recipe is a traditional one and I use it with ...
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Bigos
This is my version of this famous Polish stew. My mother used to cook it the traditional way, using both sauerkraut (fermented cabbage) and fresh white cabbage, carrots and dried wild mushrooms. The original recipe Includes also the use of various kinds of meat (pork, beef, chicken, duck, turkey, charcuterie…) ...
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