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Vietnamese & Vegan Rice Vermicelli Salad
This salad is delightful, fresh and healthy! It can be a simple meal on it’s own or an accompaniment to another dish. The Vietnamese use fish sauce but for this vegan version we will use soy sauce instead. NB: you can replace some of the vegetables and use others, to ...
Read moreItch – Armenian Bulgur Salad aka Armenian Tabbouleh
Armenian cuisine is connected to the geographical dispersion of its people. On their exodus, the Armenian diaspora picked new ingredients, new flavours and added them to their original homeland cooking. Thousands of Armenians arrived to Lebanon, when the Ottoman Empire started the massacre of their people, between 1915 and 1917. ...
Read moreButter Beans Salad
This is my version of this Lebanese style beans salad. Butter Beans (also known as Lima beans) are large, flat and white dried beans. It’s difficult to find fresh butter beans (and hence the use of dried beans). They have a buttery texture and are a good source of fiber, ...
Read moreMashed Potato and Spinach Salad
This dish is inspired from an existing Lebanese dish made with mashed potatoes and dressed as a salad. Although it might seem unusual to have mashed potato, mixed with spinach, as a salad, it is really tasty! And the extra fibre from the spinach makes this dish more colourful and ...
Read moreGuacamole – Mexican Mashed Avocado
i believe Guacamole, which is made mainly of avocados (native to Mexico), is one of the most famous Mexican dishes. It was created by the ancient Aztecs and is now very popular around the world. Avocados are tasty and known to be of high nutritional value. You can eat Guacamole ...
Read morePotato Salad – Mediterranean Style
We all know potato salad made with mayonnaise. This version is “healthier”, more colourful and has no mayonnaise. It is good as a vegan meal, on its own, or as an accompaniment to any meat, fish or chicken dish. You can add or replace the herbs that are in this ...
Read moreMizeria – A Polish Radish & Cucumber Salad
This salad is done with cucumbers only or with both cucumbers and radishes. It’s very popular throughout Poland! This fresh, crunchy, peppery, creamy and delicious salad is a good accompaniment to any meat, poultry or fish dish. Most of all it is very quick to prepare!
Read moreTomato Salad with Tahini Sauce
While preparing dinner one day, I had this sudden idea of making a tomato salad with tarator* (tahini, lemon and garlic sauce) and herbs, instead of a classic sauce. It came out really good! It was tanguy, flavoursome and a side dish that will go well with everything, especially with ...
Read moreKafta bil Saynieh – Oven Baked Minced Meat Patties and Vegetables
This is my version of this very popular and hearty Lebanese dish. Usually, it is made with minced meat (lamb or beef), potatoes and tomatoes. But I always favour the addition of more vegetables. The vegetables I usually add do not have a strong flavour. Therefore, it does not spoil ...
Read morePanzanella – Tomato and Bread Salad
Panzanella is an Italian salad, more precisely from Tuscany, made mainly with stale bread and tomatoes. It used to be a summer salad but nowadays we have tomatoes all year round and, instead of stale bread, we can use fresh bread, cut into cubes and grilled (croutons). Although it is ...
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