When you don’t have any fresh mushrooms available, you can still use this recipe and get a very tasty mushroom risotto with dried funghi. That’s because the dried product gives us the possibility of using a trick that we will reveal here, and that fills the preparation with flavor.
Tag: vegetarian
Recipe of healthy carrot muffins
These carrot muffins are a very simple alternative for a healthy breakfast or snack. Normally vegetables might not be associated with these types of recipes, but carrots have a good amount of natural sugars, and they match perfectly with the nuts and cinnamon.
Authentic Syrian-Lebanese tabbouleh salad
“Tabbouleh” salad is probably the most famous of the Levant region. It’s simple and admits some variations, but it’s often offered in a completely distorted way. For example, some supermarkets sell a ready-made version presented as a couscous salad, which is completely different from the traditional recipe.
Make Tzatziki like in Greece
Either to serve it as a mezze, as to accompany vegetables or roast meat, or to dress a sandwich on a pita bread, with this simple recipe of “tzatziki” you will feel like at the shore of the Aegean Sea.
Lentil soup “Ezogelin” (Ezo the bride)
This popular Turkish lentil soup is named after a bride named Ezo, who was unhappy in her marriage and therefore prepared this recipe for her mother-in-law, to make her feel the same way. Despite the bad advertisement that this may suggest, I assure you that the soup is very tasty, as well as healthy and easy to prepare.
Recipe of „Imam bayildi“ without frying eggplants
“Imam bayildi” is a dish has been very popular for centuries, and literally means „the fainted Imam“, which is said, was his reaction when he tasted it for the first time. Many recipes start by frying the aubergines but as usual, I propose a lighter version.
Amazing oriental aubergine spread “baba ganoush” or “mutabbal”
Baba ganoush (sometimes called mutabbal, depending on the region), is another classic mezze of Middle Eastern cuisine, which preparation is very easy, and served with a good pita bread is a guaranteed success.
Traditional Greek salad “Horiatiki” like in a Greek taverna.
Mixing raw ingredients for a salad doesn’t really require a recipe. But it is worth reviewing which ingredients are really part of the tradition, which are optional… and which are better to do without.
Healthy version of Italian “Parmigiana di melanzane”
This recipe is a healthy version of the traditional parmigiana di melanzane (eggplant parmesan) as it saves a lot of calories by baking the eggplants instead of frying them.
How to prepare the best homemade hummus
Hummus is a typical chickpea paste from the Middle East that has different variations depending on the country, but it basically consists of chickpeas, tahini and lemon juice. It is seasoned with extra virgin olive oil and salt, everything that is added later are extras that are not part of the main ingredients.