Recipe: Baked Brie With Honey Baked Brie With Honey is an easy and quick appetizer that always wows my guests. A versatile appetizer, it can be topped with so many different nuts, dried fruits, fruit sauces, etc. After honey or maple my favourite is when I top it with cranberry sauce during the Christmas season. Baked Brie is usually served with lightly toasted baguette slices, crackers, meat slices, fruits, bread sticks, etc. instead of maple syrup or honey, sometimes I like to top it with...| Mayuri's Jikoni
Recipe: Chermoula Sweet Potato Salad Chermoula Sweet Potato Salad is a filling, flavourful salad where sweet potato, chickpeas, couscous, tomatoes, olives and feta are mixed with Chermoula Sauce. Enjoy this delicious salad warm or cold. What Is Chermoula? Chermoula or Charmoula (pronounced sher-moo-lah,) is a popular North African sauce made of fresh coriander, parsley, lemon, olive oil, garlic and warming spices. This popular condiment is used as a marinade, dip or a dressing. Traditionally ...| Mayuri's Jikoni
Recipe: Vegetable Poha Vegetable Poha is a version of the popular traditional Indian breakfast, lunchbox or snack food known as Bateta Poha. Instead of adding only potatoes to the flattened rice, I like to add mixed vegetables. This makes it more healthier and an excellent way to get more veggies in one’s diet. What Is Poha? Poha is flat, pressed or beaten rice. The rice is de-husked, parboiled and flattened.The flattened or pressed rice is dried. The flakes have rough edges and the thickne...| Mayuri's Jikoni
Recipe: White Dhokla White Dhokla also known as Idra, Idada, Idla or Khatta Dhokla is a traditional Gujarati steamed snack made from a batter of rice and lentils or dals. Enjoyed usually as a snack or as a part of a thali, it is commonly served with mango ras and puri. It is different from idli in the ratio of rice to urad dal. Also my mum would add a bit of chana and moong dal. Some add flattened rice or poha too. Khatta means sour, so the batter is allowed to ferment overnight so that it be...| Mayuri's Jikoni
Recipe: Pesto Pasta Salad Pesto Pasta Salad is one of the easiest, tastiest salad that one can enjoy as a light meal. Healthy and versatile, add any salad ingredients of your choice. For hubby and me pesto pasta salad is our picnic or eat out on the balcony meal. Sometimes accompanied by some bread sometimes not. All depends. Though I do carry a slice or two to wipe the bowl. After we finish the salad we don’t waste the pesto and olive oil that sticks to the bowls. Sharing pesto Pasta Sa...| Mayuri's Jikoni
Recipe: Rosolli, Finnish Salad Rosolli, Finnish Salad is usually prepared during Christmas time. It is made of beetroot, apple, carrot, potato and onion. The dressing is fresh cream. Trust me this salad has become one of my favourite. We enjoyed as a light meal. A balance of flavours and different textures. Softness from the boiled potatoes, crunch from the carrot and beetroot, crispiness from the onion and apples. A symphony for the tongue… if there is something like that! You may find rec...| Mayuri's Jikoni
Recipe: Apple Cinnamon Waffles Apple Cinnamon Waffles with fresh apple, cinnamon are so delicious, easy to make and come together within 20 minutes. Usually it is a Fall time recipe when apples are picked from the orchards and used up in every possible way. Last fall I had made apple pancakes and decided to use the same recipe to make waffles. Memories A few weeks ago I was looking for a waffle maker and hubby was scrolling through the Temu site for sandwich makers. So the tussle was b...| Mayuri's Jikoni
Recipe: Bharli Vangi Bharli Vangi is Maharashtrian Style stuffed brinjals. This delicious dish is made by stuffing small brinjals with coconut, spices and roasted peanuts. Generally enjoyed with ro…| Mayuri's Jikoni
Recipe: Nectarine Quinoa Salad Nectarine Quinoa Salad is a gluten free, vegan, colourful, bright, packed with flavours and textures kind of summery salad. With a homemade fresh ginger salad dressing, this is one salad you don’t want to miss out on. Each spoonful or should I say forkful reminded me of the apple mangoes back home. Yes, I have added nectarine but they were super sweet and almost reminded me of mangoes. I like the bite that the cooked quinoa adds to the salad but I have also tr...| Mayuri's Jikoni
Recipe: Sama Pulao Sama Pulao is a simple, healthy, filling, one pot meal that is generally prepared during the Hindu Fasting Days like Navratri, Ekadashi, Ram Navmi, etc. Sama, samak chawal, moriyo, barnyard millet is widely used during fasting. Though the name has the word millet it is not a true millet. Actually it is a grass seed much like quinoa but smaller. How Come We Can Eat Barnyard Millet During Fasting And Not The Other Millets? Barnyard millet, sama is not a true millet. It is a v...| Mayuri's Jikoni
Recipe: Pineapple Salad Pineapple Salad with berries, coconut, fresh mint, with a drizzle of honey and some fresh orange juice makes a refreshing summery dessert salad. Enjoy it on its own or with…| Mayuri's Jikoni
Recipe: Orange Avocado Salad Orange Avocado Salad is a colourful, refreshing, full of flavour kind of summer salad. Enjoy it as side or as a light meal. What I like about this salad is the delicio…| Mayuri's Jikoni
Recipe: Crispy Noodle Salad Crispy Noodle Salad is not only a filling nutritious light meal on its own but a dish which offers different flavours and textures. Quite easy to make, this salad is pre…| Mayuri's Jikoni
Recipe: Honeydew Sorbet Honeydew Sorbet is a light, refreshing, cooling, healthy summer time dessert. Pretty easy to make if you have frozen honeydew cubes in the freezer. Summer time is when I al…| Mayuri's Jikoni
