Easy Baby Mozzarella And Cherry Tomatoes Salad

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Favourite, Recipe, Salad, Vegetarian

Here is another tasty and delightfully filling baby mozzarella and cherry tomatoes salad which is completely vegetarian and really easy to make.

This mozzarella and tomatoes salad is traditional and although it is used mostly in the summer months, you can make it in all the other months too because you can find most if not all the ingredients in the supermarkets all year round and you can substitute any ingredient you don’t find with a similar one.

These ingredients are filling and eating the baby mozzarella and cherry tomatoes salad will provide you with energy for hours, so besides having a very healthy salad, you will not be hungry until next mealtime.

To keep this salad really simple, I also used my ready in one minute salad dressing which helps make this mozzarella and tomatoes salad ready in under ten minutes.

Although you can slice the mozzarella balls and the cherry tomatoes, you can leave them as they are because they are bite size. That leaves only the iceberg lettuce, cucumber and onion to be sliced which makes the preparation time less than five minutes.

I usually only slice a few of the cherry tomatoes to make the salad look more appetising, but you can make your own mind about this step, this will only take less than a minute, so you decide which way you prefer.

Use a large bowl for your mozzarella and cherry tomatoes salad and after mixing the ingredients, dish out what you would like to eat in smaller salad bowel before you add the dressing. This will help keep your salad fresh.

Watch How To Make This Baby Mozzarella And Cherry Tomatoes Salad

As you can see from the picture, to make the dressing for the mozzarella and cherry tomatoes salad I only used, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, dried oregano, sea salt and fresh pepper.

As there are very few ingredients to make this baby mozzarella and cherry tomatoes salad, it is important to use good quality olive oil and balsamic vinegar because they will make your salad taste amazing.

To make this perfect and really easy to make dressing for your baby mozzarella and cherry tomatoes salad, use a dressing jar to mix the dressing ingredients.

Add one tablespoon of olive oil, one tablespoon of balsamic vinegar, a teaspoon of dried oregano, one teaspoon of sea salt and one teaspoon of freshly ground black pepper.

Mix very well for about half a minute to let the sea salt dissolve and use straight away, or give it another mix if you add it later.

Besides the amazing taste of all the fresh ingredients in this baby mozzarella and cherry tomatoes salad, you will find out how tasty the salad dressing makes your salad tastes which is completely different from not having the dressing on your salad.

At the time of making this mozzarella and cherry tomatoes salad, I am staying on the Greek island of Crete and as you can see from the picture I have some Greek black olives complete with the pits which make the olives taste amazing.

I have tried this same salad with boiled eggs which adds an extra layer of protein and taste to the salad, but it also makes the preparation time for this salad around twenty minutes. If you like to try this salad with boiled eggs, you may like to boil the eggs earlier in the day or even the day before so that they are ready when you want to make your salad which keeps the salad preparation time under 10 minutes. Well, you can call it cheating with time, but every little helps. The eggs will keep fresh in the fridge, you’ll just be using time to your advantage!!!

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Easy Baby Mozzarella And Cherry Tomatoes Salad


  • Author: Ihsan
  • Total Time: 10 mins
  • Yield: 2 1x
  • Diet: Vegetarian

Description

Here is another tasty and delightfully filling baby mozzarella and cherry tomatoes salad which is completely vegetarian and really easy to make. This mozzarella and tomatoes salad is traditional and although it is used mostly in the summer months, you can make it in all the other months too because you can find most if not all the ingredients in the supermarkets all year round. You can substitute any ingredient you don’t find with a similar one.


Ingredients

Scale
  • 1 Small Iceberg Lettuce
  • 1 Cucumber
  • 1 Small Onion
  • 200g Cherry Tomatoes
  • 200g Baby Mozzarella Balls
  • 100g Black Olives
  • 1 tbsp Olive Oil
  • 1 tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
  • 1 tsp Sea Salt
  • 1 tsp Dried Oregano
  • 1 tsp Black Pepper

Instructions

  1. Chop the iceberg lettuce into bite size pieces and place in a large salad bowl. Slice the onion into thin slices and scatter on top of the lettuce.
  2. Slice the cucumber into medium size slices and place on top of the lettuce and onions.
  3. Toss the baby mozzarella balls, cherry tomatoes and black olives into the salad bowl.
  4. Use a salad dressing jar to make the salad dressing. Add one tablespoon of olive oil, one tablespoon of balsamic vinegar, one teaspoon of sea salt, one teaspoon of dried oregano and one teaspoon of freshly ground black pepper.
  5. Mix the salad dressing ingredients and shake the jar before sprinkling the dressing on top of the salad.

Notes

  • If you like to have boiled eggs with this salad, you may consider boiling them ahead of time, early in the day or the day before, so they are ready when you start making the salad.
  • You can substitute any of your salad ingredients with a similar one if unavailable.
  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Category: Salad
  • Cuisine: Mediterranean

Nutrition

  • Serving Size:
  • Calories: 332
  • Sugar: 10.9 g
  • Sodium: 2299.1 mg
  • Fat: 12.9 g
  • Carbohydrates: 22.9 g
  • Protein: 35.4 g
  • Cholesterol: 18 mg

Keywords: Healthy Salad, Mediterranean Salad

Best Homemade Pizza

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Vegetarian, Pizza

How to make homemade pizza! Pizza is one of my favourite food choices and I absolutely love making and eating pizza. Mama Mia, I am not 100% sure, but I think everybody loves pizza, especially kids, teens and young at heart adults ( lets say up to 80 years old, just to be on the safe side ). In fact, I have never met anyone that doesn’t love pizza, and if you know someone who doesn’t, please don’t introduce us ????. Making homemade pizza is not as hard as you might think. You can make it thin and crispy or thick and chewy. I have been making pizza for years and I have tried many different recipes.

I started experimenting with pizza using the the thin and crispy base because it is much easier but soon got bored with it and wanted to make the spongy chewy base pizza and it was hit and miss because I didn’t know what I was doing.

To make a consistent quality homemade pizza, you need to know the rules associated with making pizza. The dough, the sauce, cheese, toppings, oven temperature and many other little things that need to be understood if you want to make a good homemade pizza every time.

A great looking and tasting pizza have a base that doesn’t flop down when you hold a pizza slice, a chewy, springy crust that will bounce back up when you press it down and also has a slightly brown crust and cheese, no large cremated bubbles and large black spots, little ones are inviting though.

For a homemade pizza using your domestic oven you need to invest in a pizza stone to be able to cook the base of the dough correctly. A stone is what most professional restaurants, pizzerias and pizza takeaway/delivery places use in their large pizza ovens to cook the pizza because a stone gets very hot and holds the temperature well.

You will also need to invest in a pizza peel or shovel so you can place the pizza in and out of the oven easily in one piece. These will last you many years, so, make life easy.

To make the perfect pizza you need to make the perfect dough, the perfect sauce and the perfect pizza preparation (putting everything together). You also need to heat up your oven to the maximum temperature for about an hour to give the pizza stone time to get hot enough to cook the base of the pizza. This is the most important thing to cook the pizza the way it should be cooked.

Because I will be posting many different pizza recipes, I thought it would be better for everyone if I posted how to make the dough and how to make the sauce in their own posts, so I don’t have to repeat posting them with every new pizza and to also keep the pizza posts shorter, saving time for both, you and me.

Click here to learn how to make the perfect pizza dough.

Click here to learn how to make the perfect pizza sauce.

Watch How To Make The Perfect Homemade Pizza

Before you start to shape your homemade pizza prepare the pizza sauce, the cheese and any toppings for your pizza and have everything ready so you can move quickly when your homemade pizza is ready to go in the oven. The semolina and flour help the pizza slides off the peel onto the pizza stone, but if you take too long they will go inside the dough and your dough will stick to the peel.

It is important to flour everything that comes in contact with your pizza dough including your hands so the dough doesn’t stick. Start by sprinkling flour and semolina on the work surface and place the dough on top.

Start pressing the dough about 25mm/1 inch from the outside to form the crust. Turn the dough round as you continue to form the crust all around. Next, place one palm down next to the crust’s inside and stretch in opposite directions with both hands as you stretch with your palm and pull with your thumb and fingers of the other hand, all as you turn the dough round at the same time as you can see in the video.

When you finish stretching the pizza, it should look like the picture below. Sprinkle flour and semolina on the pizza peel and gently move the dough onto the peel. You now need to work quickly to add the pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese and toppings so you can place your homemade pizza on the pizza stone.

Next start adding the pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese and toppings, try to use as little and few items as possible, this will help keep the top of your pizza light and prevent it from being soggy.

Watch the video for the recommended amounts and notice the slice is staying flat and not flopping down.

Once you’re done adding the toppings, place the pizza on the pizza stone and keep monitoring the pizza. When the pizza crust and cheese start to brown, your homemade pizza is ready. Use the peel to remove it and place it on a chopping board.

Grate some parmesan cheese and add a drizzle of olive oil on your pizza.

Optional, you can mix a little pizza sauce with half a teaspoon of garlic granules and a teaspoon of olive oil to brush the crust giving it a hint of garlicky taste.

Use a pizza slicer to slice it as you like. I find it easier to make 8 slices by making 4 symmetrical cuts.

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Best Homemade Pizza


  • Author: Ihsan
  • Total Time: 22 minutes
  • Yield: 8 Slices 1x
  • Diet: Vegetarian

Description

Pizza is one of my favourite food choices and I absolutely love making and eating pizza. Making homemade pizza is not as hard as you might think.

To make a consistent quality homemade pizza, you need to know the rules associated with making pizza. The dough, the sauce, toppings, oven temperature and many other little things that need to be understood if you want to make a good homemade pizza every time.

I have been making pizza for years and I have tried many different recipes.

 


Ingredients

Scale
  • 0g Pizza Dough
  • 50g Pizza Sauce
  • 50g Mozzarella Cheese
  • 30g Mushrooms
  • 15g Onions
  • 15g Red Peppers
  • 3 tsp olive Oil
  • 10g Parmesan Cheese
  • 1/2 tsp Garlic Granules
  • Flour & Semolina For Stretching

 


Instructions

  1. Heat Up A Pizza Stone Inside The Oven On Maximum Heat For 1 Hour
  2. Prepare Pizza Sauce, Mozzarella Cheese & Toppings
  3. Prepare Work Surface Using Flour & Semolina For Stretching The Pizza Dough
  4. Stretch The Pizza Dough To Form A Circular Shape With 15mm / 1 Inch Crust
  5. Place Pizza Dough On Lightly Covered Pizza Peel With Flour & Semolina
  6. Cover The Dough With A Light Coat Of Pizza Sauce
  7. Evenly Cover The Dough With Mozzarella Cheese, Mushrooms, Onions & Red Peppers
  8. Using The Pizza Peel, Place The Pizza Dough On The Hot Pizza Stone
  9. Optional – Mix A Little Pizza Sauce With 1/2 tsp Garlic Granules & 1 tsp Olive Oil
  10. Remove The Pizza When The Crust & Cheese Start To Brown.
  11. Brush The Pizza Crust With The Optional Mix For A Hint Of Garlicky Flavour
  12. Grate Parmesan Cheese On Pizza
  13. Drizzle 1 tsp Olive Oil On Pizza
  14. Slice Pizza & Enjoy

 

Notes

  • Please Note Pizza Dough & Pizza Sauce Are Posted Separately To Save Time And Make The Individual Pizza Posts Shorter. The Cooking Time Assumes You Already Have The Pizza Dough & Pizza Sauce Prepared.
  • Cooking Time May Vary Slightly Depending On Your Oven Maximum Temperature.
  • Calories Are Per Slice.

 

  • Prep Time: 15
  • Cook Time: 7
  • Category: Pizza

How To Make The Best Homemade Pizza Sauce

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Pizza, Vegetarian

Homemade pizza sauce is easy to make and better than most ready made sauces that you can easily buy. The two primary items that make a delicious homemade pizza are the pizza dough and the pizza sauce. If either of these two does not taste as it should, there is no way you would have a pizza that tastes good.

I have been making pizza for many years and have worked in an Italian pizzeria for five years and after all that experience, I have developed my own secret homemade pizza sauce recipe and I will share it here with you (I guess it won’t be much of a secret anymore). It is absolutely delicious and besides using it as a pizza sauce, you can use it for many other dishes including pasta. Not sure if you’ve noticed, but not many pizza chefs share their pizza sauce recipe.

Once you have made this sauce for the first time, you will be making it for just about everything you like to have a delicious red sauce with. Simple ingredients, easy to make and the result is a very tasty sauce.

Watch How To Make The Best Homemade Pizza Sauce

To start making the pizza sauce, sauté diced onions in one tablespoon of vegetable oil on medium heat until they turn translucent.

Add chopped garlic and stir until they become soft.

Add two tablespoons of tomato puree and stir until they get mixed with the onions and garlic.

Add tomato juice and turn the temperature to high.

Next, add salt, pepper, sugar, dried oregano, dried basil and bay leaves.

Cover and cook on low heat for forty minutes until the sauce is reduced and becomes thick. Add one tablespoon of olive oil and mix well. Remove the three bay leaves.

You will now have a delicious aromatic homemade pizza sauce. Let the sauce cool down completely before you can use it on your homemade pizza. This sauce is good to refrigerate for three days. You can also divide it into portion size (fifty grams) and freeze it in sealed containers or freezer bags.

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Pizza Dough

Best Homemade Pizza Dough In 9 Easy Steps

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Pizza, Vegetarian

The first thing that makes a perfect homemade pizza is the pizza dough and besides the pizza sauce and cheese, everything else is less important. So, once you have learnt how to make the perfect pizza dough, you’ll be on your way to make the best homemade pizza.

Although making a good pizza dough is relatively easy, there are rules that must be followed in order to achieve your goal. Most people get one or more of these rules messed up and fail to make a good dough.

Pizza Dough

01 – Everything that comes in contact with the dough must be floured especially your hands. This will prevent it from sticking. The first thing to consider is the flour to make the dough with. There are many different varieties and it is very easy to use the wrong flour. For a pizza dough, the flour needs to be a strong flour of type zero-zero (Typo 0-0).

Generally, a good strong pizza flour that you can find at your local supermarket, will have a pizza picture on the packet and if they stock a few, the most expensive will be the best. On average, you can make about four pizzas out of one kilogram flour packet, and if you divide the difference per pizza, the extra cost is not really much (usually about 25 cents) which is worth it to have a better pizza dough.

Watch How To Make The Best Homemade Pizza Dough

02 Activate the yeast with water and add sugar or honey so it can start to make the flour rise by creating air bubbles. In a small bowl, mix 5g of dry yeast with lukewarm water and a teaspoon of sugar, stir until the yeast and sugar are dissolved in the water and set aside for around five to ten minutes until you see bubbles starting to form on the surface.

Pizza Dough

03 – In a large bowl, add three hundred millilitres of lukewarm water and two teaspoons of salt and stir until the salt is completely dissolved. Add approximately one hundred grams of flour to the salted water and mix until you make a pancake like mixture. This will prevent the salt from contaminating the yeast. Yeast does not like salt.

04 – Add the yeast mixture to the flour and gradually incorporate the rest of the flour while stirring until you have an elastic doughball.

05 – Flour the work surface and press the dough ball. Keep sprinkling flour onto the dough and shape it for a couple of minutes. Flour the bottom of a large mixing bowl and smear a little olive oil on top of the doughball to prevent the pizza dough from forming a skin.

06 – Cover the bowl with a damp towel and set aside in a warm place for two to three hours until it doubles in size.

07 – After the pizza dough has doubled in size, it will become very elastic and full of air bubbles. You now need to knead the dough for approximately ten minutes to get all the air bubbles out. There are many ways to knead the pizza dough and an easy way is to press the dough as you roll it forward until it becomes elongated, then fold it onto itself and start rolling it again.

08 – Cut the pizza dough into two halves and sprinkle a little flour to shape them into 2 dough balls. Flour the bottom of a sealed food container and place the dough balls inside. Refrigerate for twenty four hours.

09 – Gently take out a pizza dough ball and place onto a floured work surface with flour and semolina and start to shape the dough into a pizza base while stretching it.

Semolina are coarse flour balls that help the dough slide. Start by pressing the pizza dough down about 15mm / 1 inch from the outside to form the crust.

Turn the dough round as you stretch it by placing one hand on the inside of the crust and pull in opposite directions using your thumb and fingers of your other hand (watch the video). Be mindful not to have a see-through dough because you may end up having a hole in the dough. Flip the dough over and stretch the other side.

When you finish stretching your pizza dough you will have a perfect pizza base.

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Greek Salad

Easy Greek Salad With Feta Cheese & Black Olives

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Vegetarian, Favourite, Salad

This Greek salad is one of the most famous and widely used salads in almost every country worldwide. It is delicious, easy to make and has many healthy ingredients. Greece is famous for it’s olives, olive oil, feta cheese and Greek yoghurt. This salad includes three of these ingredients and although it doesn’t include the yoghurt, you could easily have it alongside the salad and they will combine well together.

As it happens, I’m currently staying by the beach on the largest Greek island, the beautiful, sunny Crete and thought what better else to have for dinner than a Greek salad. All the ingredients are available in almost every shop, mini market and supermarket, which leaves no excuses not to make it.

Watch How To Make The Greek Salad And Dressing

Lets make this yummy Greek salad. Using a large salad bowl, start by chopping the iceberg lettuce into bite size pieces and place them inside the bowl.

Next, slice a Mediterranean cucumber into medium thickness slices and place them on top of the lettuce.

Slice the red onion into thin slices and add them to the lettuce and cucumber.

Toss the black olives on top of the lettuce, cucumber and red onions.

Slice some of the grape tomatoes and toss them on top of the rest of the ingredients already inside the salad bowl.

Cut the feta cheese into bite size blocks and add them on top of all the salad ingredients. Many people and local restaurants in Greece use their hands to squash the feta cheese into small pieces that can be sprinkled on top of the salad ingredients instead of slicing into small blocks. This way, when you add the salad dressing the feta cheese sticks to the other salad ingredients and make them taste cheesy.

Now, using a salad spoon and fork or two large spoons, let’s mix everything and have our delicious Greek salad ready for the easy Mediterranean style salad dressing.

This is a very easy to make, yet very tasty dressing. Using a salad dressing jar, add a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, a tablespoon of good quality balsamic vinegar (good quality Italian Aceto Balsamico is available in most supermarkets), a teaspoon of sea salt, a teaspoon of dried oregano and half a teaspoon of freshly ground black pepper (or a teaspoon if you like your salad to have a strong peppery taste).

Using a spoon, mix all the salad dressing ingredients well until the sea salt has melted and drizzle your yummy Greek salad with this tangy salad dressing.

Your Greek salad will stay fresh for longer without the dressing so for best results, add dressing only to the salad you will eat. This is also why I love making this salad dressing, because it takes a couple of minutes to make some extra if you need more dressing.

This Greek salad is very tasty and takes around 15 minutes to make, so you may like to keep these ingredients in your fridge so you can make this salad whenever you want to eat a healthy meal that can be ready in minutes.

More often than not, in Greece people add fresh bell peppers to their Greek salad, so you may like to add some to your salad if you like fresh bell peppers. I love bell peppers, however, I prefer them cooked. This is why, I didn’t include them in this Greek salad. Feel free to experiment making your salad with and without bell peppers to discover which way you prefer it.

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Greek Salad

Easy Greek Salad With Feta Cheese & Black Olives


  • Author: Ihsan
  • Total Time: 15 minutes
  • Yield: 4 1x

Description

This Greek salad is one of the most famous and widely used salads in almost every country worldwide. It is delicious, easy to make and has many healthy ingredients. Greece is famous for it’s olives, olive oil, feta cheese and Greek yoghurt. This salad includes three of these ingredients and although it doesn’t include the yoghurt, you could easily have it alongside the salad and they will combine well together.


Ingredients

Scale
  • 1 Small Iceberg Lettuce
  • 1 Mediterranean Cucumber
  • 1 Small Red Onion
  • 200 g Grape Tomatoes
  • 100 g Black Olives
  • 200 g Feta Cheese
  • 1 tbsp Olive Oil
  • 1 tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
  • 1 tsp Sea Salt
  • 1 tsp Dried Oregano
  • 1/2 tsp Black Pepper

Instructions

  1. Using a large salad bowl, start by chopping the iceberg lettuce into bite size pieces and place them inside the bowl. Next, slice a Mediterranean cucumber into medium thickness slices and place them on top of the lettuce. Slice the red onion into thin slices and add them to the lettuce and cucumber. Toss the black olives on top of the lettuce, cucumber and red onions. Slice some of the grape tomatoes and toss them on top of the rest of the ingredients already inside the salad bowl.
  2. Cut the feta cheese into bite size blocks and add them on top of all the salad ingredients. Many people and local restaurants in Greece use their hands to squash the feta cheese into small pieces that can be sprinkled on top of the salad ingredients instead of slicing into small blocks. This way, when you add the salad dressing the feta cheese sticks to the other salad ingredients and make them taste cheesy.
  3. Using a salad spoon and fork or two large spoons, mix everything and have our delicious Greek salad ready for the easy Mediterranean style salad dressing.
  4. Using a salad dressing jar, add a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, a tablespoon of good quality balsamic vinegar (good quality Italian Aceto Balsamico is available in most supermarkets), a teaspoon of sea salt, a teaspoon of dried oregano and half a teaspoon of freshly ground black peppe. Using a spoon, mix all the salad dressing ingredients well until the sea salt has melted and drizzle your yummy Greek salad with this tangy salad dressing.

Notes

  • Your Greek salad will stay fresh for longer without the dressing so for best results, add dressing only to the salad you will eat. This is also why I love making this salad dressing, because it takes a couple of minutes to make some extra if you need more dressing.
  • More often than not, in Greece people add fresh bell peppers to their Greek salad, so you may like to add some to your salad if you like fresh bell peppers.

 

  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Category: Salad
  • Cuisine: Greek

Nutrition

  • Serving Size:
  • Calories: 227
  • Sugar: 6.7 g
  • Sodium: 1236.5 mg
  • Fat: 17.1 g
  • Carbohydrates: 11.6 g
  • Protein: 8.9 g
  • Cholesterol: 44.5 mg

Keywords: Greek Salad, Healthy Salad, Vegetarian

Spicy Lentil Soup

Easy Spicy Lentil Soup With Vermicelli

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Vegetarian, Favourite, soup

Lets make this easy vegetarian mealy lentil soup with mild spices which makes a delightfully filling meal any time of day. And to keep it simple, besides the basic onion and garlic, this soup only has green lentils, vermicelli, vegetable broth and spices, it can’t get any simpler, well it can if you leave out the vermicelli and make it with lentil only, but I love vermicelli, so lets keep it in!!!

This lentil soup is probably one of the easiest soups to make, very healthy, nutritious and pocket friendly too, but as is the case with most soups, they are very filling and much easier to digest, so you get the best of both worlds, healthy and pocket friendly.

To help reduce the cooking time, soak the lentils in water. First rinse the lintels a few times until you get clear water and cover the lentils with cold water for about thirty minutes to an hour. As the lentils are soaked, they start to absorb the water, become softer and easier to cook, taking less time to become ready.

Watch How To Make This Spicy Lentil Soup

Once you watch this super short video ( just over one minute), you will see how easy it is to make this tasty lintel soup and from the picture below, you can also see the few ingredients that are included.

Although, I love make sauce and rice dishes which take a longer time to prepare, it is far less energy and time consuming to make a delicious soup.

Start by adding one tablespoon of olive oil to a hot pan on medium heat.

Add the diced onions and turn for about three minutes until they become translucent.

Add the chopped garlic and keep turning for thirty seconds to a minute until they soften a little but make sure they don’t become brown, as they will start to have a bitter taste.

Drain the water from the lentils using a fine colander and add them in to the onions and garlic. Turn a few times to help them get a touch of olive oil.

Add 500ml of vegetable broth and turn the heat to high to bring to the boil. Reduce the heat to medium, add the mild curry, turmeric, cumin, ginger powders, salt and pepper. Cover the sauce pan, and cook for fifteen minutes.

Blitz the lentils using a hand blender until you get a smooth puree, add the vermicelli, cover and cook for 5 minutes.

Dish out this nutritious yummy lentil soup and serve it with your favourite bread. I tend to have toasted French stick with most soups as they are crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle which helps when you dip them into the soup and you don’t have bread pieces falling into the soup which you end up having to fish them out. ????

You can also decorate your soup with fresh parsley and shredded cheese.

Spicy Lentil Soup

If you don’t use all the lentil soup you make the same day, don’t worry, this lentil soup tastes even better the next day and the beauty of this is you don’t have to start making the soup all over again, it will take a few minutes to warm it up and you’re in for another treat.

This is why it makes a lot of sense to make more soup than you need, so you can save time energy and money too and while having all these bonuses, you still have a great meal again.

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Spicy Lentil Soup

Easy Spicy Lentil Soup With Vermicelli


  • Author: Ihsan
  • Total Time: 50 mins
  • Yield: 4 1x
  • Diet: Vegetarian

Description

Lets make this easy vegetarian, mealy lentil soup with mild spices which makes a delightfully filling meal any time of day. And to keep it simple, besides the basic onion and garlic, this soup only has green lentils, vermicelli and spices, it can’t get any simpler, well it can if you leave out the vermicelli and make it with lentil only, but I love vermicelli, so lets keep them in.


Ingredients

Scale
  • 2 Cups Lentil
  • 1 Medium Onion
  • 3 Garlic Cloves
  • 50g Vermicelli
  • 2 tsp Mild Curry Powder
  • 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
  • 1 tsp Ginger Powder
  • 1 tsp Cumin Powder
  • 2 tsp Salt
  • 1/2 tsp Pepper
  • 1 tbsp Olive Oil
  • 500ml Vegetable Broth

Instructions

  1. Start by adding one tablespoon of olive oil to a hot pan on medium heat. Add the diced onions and turn for about three minutes until they become translucent. Add the chopped garlic and keep turning for thirty seconds to a minute until they soften a little but make sure they don’t become brown, as they will start to have a bitter taste.
  2. Drain the water from the lentils and add them into the onions and garlic. Turn a few times to help them get a touch of olive oil. Add 500ml of vegetable broth and turn the heat to high to bring to the boil. Reduce the heat to medium, add the mild curry, turmeric, cumin, ginger, salt and pepper.
  3. Cover the sauce pan, and cook for fifteen minutes. Blitz the lentils using a hand blender until you get a smooth puree. Add the vermicelli, cover and cook for 5 minutes.
  4. Dish out this nutritious yummy lentil soup and serve it with your favourite bread. I tend to have toasted French stick with most soups as they are crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle which helps when you dip them into the soup. You can also decorate your soup with fresh parsley and shredded cheese.

Notes

To help reduce the cooking time, soak the lentils in water. First rinse the lintels a few times until you get clear water and cover the lentils with cold water for about thirty minutes to an hour. As the lentils are soaked, they start to absorb the water, become softer and easier to cook, taking less time to become ready.

  • Prep Time: 30 mins
  • Cook Time: 20 mins
  • Category: Soup
  • Method: Stove Top
  • Cuisine: Mediterranean

Nutrition

  • Serving Size:
  • Calories: 440
  • Sugar: 6.5 g
  • Sodium: 1462.8 mg
  • Fat: 4.9 g
  • Carbohydrates: 77.8 g
  • Protein: 24.5 g
  • Cholesterol: 0 mg

Keywords: Lentil Soup, Vegetarian, Vermicelli

Cauliflower And Potato Soup

Best Creamy Cauliflower And Potato Soup

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Vegetarian, Favourite, soup

If you like a mealy soup, you’d absolutely love this creamy cauliflower and potato soup. This is an old favourite of mine which is the first thing that comes to mind whenever I think of making soup, well because I love it. It is very easy to make and pocket friendly too.

Cauliflower and Potato Soup

This cauliflower and potato soup will take about thirty minutes to make but you can improve on this cooking time if you’re in a hurry. You can save some time by blitzing the ingredients after 10 minutes of cooking and using medium/high heat instead of medium.

Watch How To Make The Cauliflower And Potato Soup

I prefer to cook this for thirty minutes on medium heat to let it simmer rather than using higher heat, this will keep the vegetables at their best.

To make this yummy cauliflower and potato soup, start by adding one tablespoon of olive oil to a hot pan on medium heat and sizzle the diced onions for a couple of minutes until they become translucent. Add the finely chopped garlic and root ginger and stir for half a minute to a minute but ensure they do not start to brown because they will have a bitter taste.

By this time your kitchen will start to smell amazing from the wonderful aroma of the onions, garlic and root ginger being mixed and fried together.

Add the potato cubes and cauliflower florets and stir for half a minute until they are all covered with the olive oil and juices of the onions, garlic and root ginger.

Add the vegetable broth (you can also use chicken broth if you’re not vegetarian which adds more flavour), salt and pepper and bring to the boil.

Cover and simmer on medium heat for twenty minutes. Blitz the vegetables with a hand blender for a few minutes until you get a smooth puree.

Add the lemon juice, cream and cheddar cheese and stir for a couple of minutes until the cheese is completely melted and the soup has a slightly thicker texture.

Dish out the cauliflower and potato soup into a bowl of delicious and yummy treat, decorate it with fresh parsley and cheddar cheese and serve it with toasted bread.

I have tried many different types of bread and croutons and although I like many types of bread, I eventually settled on sliced toasted French stick to be the best type of bread to accompany my soups, because beside the great taste, they don’t break and fall into the soup when you try to dip them in.

Of course everyone has their preferred taste, but if you’d like you can give French stick toast a go to see if it is perfect for you too.

Once you have tasted this cauliflower and potato soup, you will find your true “Soup Love” and I believe you will make this many times and tweak it to suit your own taste and preference.

The amazing thing about this cauliflower and potato soup is, it is healthy, totally vegetarian and besides being a complete meal, it’s pocket friendly too. I hope you enjoy making it.

I love making soups because they are easy to make, healthy and pocket friendly, but you can also get as creative as you like trying different herbs and spices and adding cheese and mixing vegetables, well you get the point, the sky is the limit when it comes to creativity and there is no right or wrong, if you love what you’ve created you make it again and again and if you don’t, there is always next time to find your true “Soup Love”. ????

Of course you can always stick to making the classic soups to be on the safe side but if you don’t try, you will never find out what you’ve been missing!

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Cauliflower And Potato Soup

Best Creamy Cauliflower And Potato Soup


  • Author: Ihsan
  • Total Time: 30 mins
  • Yield: 4 1x

Description

If you like a mealy soup, you’d absolutely love this creamy cauliflower and potato soup. This is an old favourite of mine which is the first thing that comes to mind whenever I think of making soup, well because I love it. It is very easy to make and pocket friendly too.


Ingredients

Scale
  • 1 Large Cauliflower
  • 2 Large Potatoes
  • 1 Medium Onion
  • 1/2 A Lemon
  • 200ml Cream
  • 150g Cheddar Cheese
  • 2 Garlic Cloves
  • 1 tbsp Root Ginger
  • 1 Cup Vegetable Broth
  • 1 tbsp Olive Oil
  • Salt & Pepper To taste

Instructions

  1. Chop the cauliflower into florets and the potatoes into small cubes. Dice the onion to medium pieces, chop the garlic and root ginger into fine pieces.
  2. Add 1 tbsp olive oil in a hot pan, add the diced onions and turn for a minute or 2 until they become translucent. Add the chopped garlic, root ginger and stir for 30 seconds or before becoming brown. Add the potatoes and cauliflower and stir for 30 seconds.
  3. Add a cup of vegetable broth, salt, pepper and bring to the boil. Cover and simmer on medium heat for 20 minutes
  4. Blitz using a hand blender until you get a smooth puree. Add the juice of half a lemon, cream and cheddar cheese.  Stir until the cheese is melted and serve with toasted bread.

Notes

This recipe can serve 4 people as a starter or 2 people as a healthy meal with toasted bread.

I have found the French Stick sliced toasted bread to be the best with soups, because the toasted bread will be crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle which makes it stay in one piece when you dip it into the soup. You may have a different favourite, but either way, give it a try.

  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 20 mins
  • Category: Soup
  • Method: Stove Top
  • Cuisine: Mediterranean

Nutrition

  • Serving Size:
  • Calories: 472
  • Sugar: 9.5 g
  • Sodium: 1073.6 mg
  • Fat: 26 g
  • Carbohydrates: 47.5 g
  • Protein: 17 g
  • Cholesterol: 65.8 mg

Keywords: Creamy, Cauliflower, Potato, Soup, Vegetarian

Delicious Avocado Toast

Easy Delicious Avocado Toast & Poached Egg

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Vegetarian, Breakfast, Favourite

Hey breakfast lovers, having a delicious avocado toast with poached egg breakfast will help you get more out of your day.

Delicious Avocado Toast

Whether you’re going out to work, working from home or doing anything that requires you to stay focused and be productive, having a good breakfast will certainly help you achieve that.

This is one of my favourites which is a complete breakfast that is totally vegetarian and it will set you up for the day. It is full of goodness and very tasty. It also comes with the Avocado super fruit vitamins which has been proven to be extremely good for your health. You can also have it for lunch or dinner and it is ready in under 15 minutes, a completely filling avocado toast breakfast doesn’t get any better than that.

For the preparation of this tasty avocado toast, you need to cut your mushrooms into quarters, cut a medium size tomato into 2 haves and toast 2 slices of bread. Spread some room temperature butter onto the toast before spreading the creamy avocado on top of them.

For the avocado, you need to slice it into 2 halves, scoop out one half and use it for the mixture. Chop a handful of parsley into small pieces and add it to the avocado with the juice of half a lemon. Use a fork to gently mash up the avocado and blend it with the fresh parsley. Continue for a minute or two depending on how ripe your avocado until you get a creamy spread for your toasted bread.

Beside adding a tangy flavor, the lemon juice also helps prevent the avocado from browning.

Watch the video to learn how to easily slice an avocado. Every step is included to show you how to make this amazing breakfast easily.

Watch how to make the Delicious Avocado Toast

You can also check out the recipe card for the list of ingredients and print it to your computer or mobile phone for future use.


Avocado And Parsley In Lemon Juice

Mix fresh parsley with avocado and lemon juice to make a creamy, sumptuous spread and place it on top of toasted sourdough bread to get a Delicious Avocado Toast. Besides the heavenly taste, this is full of goodness and vitamins as well as having a mealy texture that satisfies your early morning hunger.

In the mean time, lightly pan fry a juicy tomato cut side down with some delicious mushrooms and gently poach two eggs in steamy water for about 4 to 6 minutes depending on how soft you like your egg to be.

Start by heating up your frying pan with olive oil and place the the tomato halves cut side down onto the hot olive oil. In another pan add enough water to cover the eggs and bring it to the boil. Once it starts to boil, turn the heat down to get the water to a simmer, add the eggs into the simmering hot water and after 1 minute cover the pan and turn the heat off.

Continue for 3 – 5 minutes to either have a runny egg or semi soft cooked yolk.

In the first frying pan add a small block of butter and toss the mushrooms in. Turn the heat down to medium and turn the mushrooms until they’re cooked on all sides. Add salt and pepper to taste.

This can be shared by 2 people with one poached egg on avocado covered toast, half a tomato and half of the mushrooms or if you’re having this for lunch or dinner, it can be for 1 person.

And when you’re all done cooking, the result will be an amazingly satisfying avocado toast breakfast that will set you off to a fantastic start of your day.

You have got to try this avocado toast at least once a week, the combination of these ingredients is YummyTastic!

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Delicious Avocado Toast

Delicious Avocado Toast & Poached Egg


  • Author: Ihsan
  • Total Time: 14 minutes
  • Yield: 2 1x

Description

Hey breakfast lovers, having a delicious avocado toast with poached egg breakfast will help you get more out of your day.

Whether you’re going out to work, working from home or doing anything that requires you to stay focused and be productive, having a good breakfast will certainly help you achieve that.

This is one of my favourites which is a complete breakfast that is totally vegetarian and it will set you up for the day. It is full of goodness and very tasty. It also comes with the Avocado super fruit vitamins which has been proven to be extremely good for your health.

You can also have it for lunch or dinner and it is ready in under 15 minutes, a completely filling breakfast doesn’t get any better than this.

 


Ingredients

Scale
  • 2 Slices Of Bread
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 Medium Tomato
  • 68 Mushrooms
  • 1/2 An Avocado
  • 1/2 A Lemon
  • 1 tbsp Fresh Parsley
  • 1 tbsp Olive Oil
  • 1 tbsp distilled white vinegar
  • A Small Block Of Butter
  • Slat (Pepper & Sweet Paprika To Taste)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C (approx 350 F). Slice the avocado into 2 halves and scoop out one half onto a bowl. Finely chop 1 table spoon of fresh parsley and add to the avocado. Add the juice of half a lemon and mash it all up gently with a fork until you get a creamy avocado spread. Add a little salt and pepper to taste.
  2. Butter the sliced bread and place in the oven for 6 – 8 minutes.
  3. Boil enough water in a pan to cover the eggs and turn the heat down to simmer. Heat up the olive oil on medium/high heat in a frying pan. Slice the tomato into 2 halves and place on the hot oil cut side down. Add sea salt and pepper.
  4. Add the distilled white vinegar into the hot water. Add the eggs into the simmering water for 1 minute, then cover and turn the heat off. Cook for 3 – 5 minutes depending on how soft you like your eggs.
  5. Turn the heat down to medium on the frying pan. Add a small block of butter. Cut the mushrooms into quarters and toss them into the melted butter. Turn the mushrooms until cooked on all sides. Remove the bread from the oven and butter. Add the avocado spread. Top with 1 egg on each slice, add half a tomato and half the mushrooms on each plate. Season with salt, pepper and sweet paprika to taste. Enjoy.

Notes

Besides adding a tangy flavour to the avocado spread, the lemon juice prevents the avocado from browning. So, you may like to use the juice of the other half of lemon to keep the second half of avocado from browning and refrigerate in a sealed container (it will stay fresh for 2 – 3 days).

The distilled white vinegar helps the eggs stay together while being poached.

 

  • Prep Time: 6 minutes
  • Cook Time: 8 minutes
  • Category: Breakfast
  • Cuisine: Mediterranean

Nutrition

  • Serving Size:
  • Calories: 423
  • Sugar: 8.1 g
  • Sodium: 231.8 mg
  • Fat: 28.3 g
  • Carbohydrates: 32.2 g
  • Protein: 17 g
  • Cholesterol: 201.3 mg

Keywords: Avocado Toast, Delicious Breakfast, Poached Eggs

Avocado , Tomato And Egg Salad

Easy Avocado, Tomato And Egg Salad

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Vegetarian, Favourite, Recipe, Salad

Let’s make this tasty and delightfully filling avocado, tomato and egg salad which is completely vegetarian and really easy to make.

Whether you’re making a salad as a side dish with your food or want to make a salad as your main meal, this is one of the best salads you can make because it has all the ingredients that makes it a whole meal including the super fruit avocado which has been recommended by many experts for a healthy diet.

At the time of making this avocado, tomato and egg salad, I am staying on the Greek island of Crete and as you can see from the picture I have some Greek black olives complete with the pits which make the olives taste amazing.

For the preparation, most of the ingredients just require slicing into bite size pieces.

The only two ingredients that require removing the outer skin are the onion and avocado.

For the onion, just cut through both ends to remove the root part and the top part, cut into two halves and remove the two outer layers. Then slice the onion into thin slices.

For the avocado, you need to slice it into two haves, scoop out one half and slice it into small bite size chunks, or you can just use a spoon to scoop out little bits and toss them into the salad bowl, there’s no right or wrong here.

Watch the video to learn how to easily slice an avocado. Every step is included to show you how to make this amazing salad easily.

Watch how to make this Avocado, Tomato And Egg Salad

You can also check out the recipe card for the list of ingredients and print it to your computer or copy it to your mobile phone for future use.

I usually like to use red onions in most of my cooking, especially in salads because besides having a nice taste, they add colour to the dishes I make. However, with this salad, I decided to use a sweet white onion, and you may have noticed from the pictures, I started cutting the onion, then realised I hadn’t taken the pictures and as it was the last onion, I have a chopped onion in the picture. Still, it tasted really good. ????

And I also created a sweet and tangy dressing just for this salad, as I usually use a simple olive oil, balsamic vinegar and a sprinkle of dried oregano for my salad dressing, because it tastes great and takes 1 minute to make.

The dressing is based on Greek style yoghurt which makes the dressing just the correct density because I use Worcester sauce and lemon juice, both of which are very thin, so the yoghurt balances them, I also use honey which makes the dressing thickness just perfect for the salad.

So the dressings includes Greek style yoghurt, mild mustard, Worcester sauce, lemon juice, olive oil, honey, dried oregano, salt and pepper

Just before you add the dressing, you can remove the shells and slice two boiled eggs into wedges, add them on top of the salad, season with salt and pepper to taste and sprinkle some delicious tangy dressing on top.

Just a little tip here when adding the dressing, only use a little on the main bowl if you don’t intend to eat all the avocado, tomato and egg salad, otherwise you can dish out some of the salad into smaller bowls and then add the dressing. The reason for this, is your salad will start to lose quality if you refrigerate it while there’s dressing at the bottom of the bowl.

This avocado, tomato and egg salad makes enough for two people as a healthy salad meal or can be used as a side dish with your main meal.

And when you’re all done, the result will be an amazingly satisfying Mediterranean style salad that will satisfy your hunger as well as ensure you’re eating a delicious and tasty fruit and veg for a healthy diet.

You have got to try this at least once a week, the combination of these ingredients is yummytastic.

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Avocado , Tomato And Egg Salad

Easy Yummy Avocado, Tomato And Egg Salad


  • Author: Ihsan
  • Total Time: 20 mins
  • Yield: 2 1x
  • Diet: Vegetarian

Description

Let’s make this tasty and delightfully filling avocado, tomato and egg salad which is completely vegetarian and really easy to make.

Whether you’re making a salad as a side dish with your food or want to make a salad as your main meal, this is one of the best salads you can make because it has all the ingredients that makes it a whole meal including the super fruit avocado which has been recommended by many experts for a healthy diet.


Ingredients

Scale
  • 2 Eggs
  • 125g Baby Mozzarella Balls
  • 15 Cherry Tomatoes
  • 1/2 An Avocado
  • 1/2 An Iceberg Lettuce
  • 1/2 A Lemon
  • 1 Mediterranean Cucumber
  • 10 Black Olives
  • 1 Small Onion
  • 2 tbsp Greek Style Yoghurt
  • 1 tsp Mild Mustard
  • 1 tbsp Worcester Sauce
  • 1 tbsp Olive Oil
  • 1 tbsp Honey
  • 1 tsp Dried Oregano
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Pepper

Instructions

  1. Boil 2 eggs for 15 minutes (bring water to boil, add eggs, cover and simmer on low heat).
  2. Start by chopping the lettuce into bite size and place into the salad bowl. Slice the cucumber and toss into the bowl. Remove the top and bottom ends and the 2 outer layers of the onion, slice thinly and add to the bowl. Slice as many as you like of the cherry tomatoes and add to the bowl. Toss in the baby mozzarella balls. Toss in the black olives. Slice the avocado into 2 halves and scoop out one half with a spoon, cut into bite size and add to the bowl.
  3. Now it’s time to make the dressing. Add 2 tbsp Greek style yoghurt into a jar. Add a tsp mild mustard. Add 1 tbsp Worcester sauce. Add the juice of half a lemon. Add 1 tbsp olive oil. Add 1 tbsp honey. Add 1 tsp dried oregano. Add 1 tsp salt & 1 tsp pepper. Mix it all well.
  4. Remove Egg shells and slice the eggs into wedges, add on top of the salad and drizzle with the remainder of the salad dressing. Season with salt and pepper. Enjoy.

Notes

You can use the juice from the second half of the lemon to preserve the second half of the avocado. Place it in a sealed container and refrigerate for 2-3 days.

  • Prep Time: 20 mins
  • Category: Salad
  • Cuisine: Middle Eastern

Nutrition

  • Serving Size:
  • Calories: 321
  • Sugar: 7.7 g
  • Sodium: 2008.9 mg
  • Fat: 16.2 g
  • Carbohydrates: 17.9 g
  • Protein: 28.8 g
  • Cholesterol: 154.9 mg

Keywords: Avocado, Tomato, Egg Salad

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