What Makes This Recipe So Good Sometimes plain tap or bottled water just won’t cut it – that’s where cucumber water comes in! It’s the perfectly delicious way to quench your thirst. Full of antioxidants and nutrients, it’s way healthier than a sugary soda, sports drink, or saccharin- or aspartame-packed diet drink. This water is exceptionally hydrating and our favorite way to feel refreshed! Key Ingredients Water – If you have great tap water where you live, perfect!...

If you liked this recipe, please leave a star rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in the recipe card below. You can also follow me on Instagram, Youtube, and Pinterest. This dish is more commonly known as aloo chana masala in India. Aloo is the Hindi word for potato and chana for chickpeas. So, it’s a curry that’s made by cooking chickpeas and potatoes in a rich onion-tomato sauce flavored with Indian spices. If you like Indian food and looking for some comforting curry recipes then this curried chickpea potato recipe is perfect for you....

I feel like risotto gets a bad rap! People seem to think of it as fancy or fussy — there was even a time when I did. But it’s totally not. Risotto is usually a one-pot deal. This risotto recipe actually gives you the option of making it on one pot, so saving time by cooking it in two. Also, the rice takes about 20 minutes to cook up, so unless you’re pairing it up with something that takes much longer, you’ve probably got a relatively quick meal on your hands....

Are Eggplants fruits or vegetables? Most people assume eggplants are vegetables because they are used primarily in savory, cooked recipes rather than sweet desserts. However, from a botanical point of view, eggplants are fruits, as they bear seeds and grow from flowering plants. The same is true for tomatoes and zucchinis. That being said, botanists will also point out that ‘vegetable’ is not a botanical term. It is, in fact, a culinary term and refers to how an ingredient is used in cooking....

Question: how do you guys feel about store-bought vegan cheese? For the longest time, I refused to include it in any of my recipes. When I started blogging, most of what was available wasn’t all that good, and I got it in my head that if I wanted to include cheese in a recipe, I’d include instructions for making it from scratch. But it’s not very realistic to think everyone can make a batch of homemade vegan cheese on any given night for dinner....

The idea of lettuce wraps perplexed me for a while. My brother waited tables at P.F. Chang’s when he was in college. I never made it in there for dinner, but he suggested that if I did stop in I should try the tofu lettuce wraps. My response back was to ask why on earth would one use lettuce when the world is filled with perfectly good tortillas, rice paper and spring roll wrappers....

Vegetarian food doesn’t need to be just a boring bland salad or soup, this is what I wanted to share with my readers when I started this blog of mine. In the last few years, I have shared a lot of flavorful meat-free recipes from different countries on my blog. Today I am sharing one of my favorite vegetarian recipes from the Mediterranean region called Gigantes plaki or Greek baked lima beans....

I love these chickpea burgers. I’ve made them many times since I first developed the recipe a couple of years ago. I even made a video showing how they’re made, just so I could enjoy them again! This is my go-to recipe when I want to impress people with my veggie burger crafting skills. It works well on so many levels! First, chickpeas. They make an excellent base for veggie burgers, and I find myself using them again and again in so many veggie burger variations, from falafel burgers, to vegan barbecue burgers to vegan Buffalo burgers....

After every festival season or a trip that involves a lot of unhealthy eating, we prefer having simple Indian home-cooked meals like dal chawal (rice with lentils), khichdi, or sabzi roti (a vegetable dish with whole wheat Indian bread). The dal recipe which I am sharing today is one such dish that we eat during healthy eating days. The dish is called- sabut moong ki dal which is basically mung bean curry....

You’ve got your American flag bandana tied around your neck and your bald eagle primped and ready for show. Your paleo flag fruit tart is chilling in the fridge (or is it your paleo American flag pie cooling on the open windowsill?), and you’ve got lettuce wrap burgers in the queue. It’s 4th of July weekend, and you, my friend, are ready. Except you’re not ready, because you don’t have a patriotic side dish....

The dry ranch seasoning blend will convince you that you never need to buy the packets again! Not only does it taste so much better and avoid those questionable ingredients, but it’s so quick and easy. Try it once and I’ll bet you’ll be hooked. I recently started experimenting with this ranch seasoning recipe when I wanted to make ranch chicken. In the end, I actually made that dish using plain ol’ ranch dressing, but the seasoning was definitely too good not to get its own place in the spotlight....

Easy and full of flavor, these honey chipotle salmon nachos are a delicious sheet pan meal the whole family will love. The star of the show? Wild Alaska Salmon fillets with a sweet honey and smoky chipotle crust that are baked to tender, flaky perfection. What Makes This Recipe So Good Sea Cuisine’s Honey Chipotle Salmon just screams “BBQ”, and being from the land of BBQ (a.k.a. Memphis, TN!), we just couldn’t resist turning these tasty fillets into a giant pan of BBQ nachos....

First off, let me just say that this is not a traditional hot and sour soup, at least not as far as I know. If this bowl is in any way authentic, it’s purely by accident. It’s got plenty of tangy lime juice and spicy chili paste, so it’s hot and sour, but probably not the hot and sour you’re familiar with. (Still delicious though!) Someone always calls me out on these things, so I figured I might as well put it out there that this dish was just a result of some goofing around in the kitchen with noodles and veggies....

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Why You Need to Know This Technique Boiling potatoes sounds simple, sure, but you’d be surprised how many questions pop up. Do you cut the potatoes or keep them whole? Do you peel them? How long do you cook them for? Do you boil water first, then add the potatoes, or do you add everything at the same time? I could go on, but don’t worry. We’ve made boiling 7 different types of potatoes simple and totally foolproof....

🌵 What Makes This Recipe So Good Knowing how to cook nopales is great for a lot of reasons. 1) It’s another easy dish to keep in your back pocket. 2) Nopales are really versatile. 3) They’re delicious. 4) They’re good for you. 5) They’re low carb, keto-friendly, gluten free, dairy free, vegan, vegetarian, paleo, and Whole30-compatible. Speaking of “good for you”… Besides fitting various dietary needs, nopal cactus pads contain a bunch of antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals....

My family and I, we drink a lot of almond milk. We usually buy it by the carton, but even the healthiest of brands has an ingredient list longer than my thumb. But this girl doesn’t have time for complicated processes when it comes to healthier switcheroos. Nope. If it requires thinking ahead, planning, soaking… I’m out. I just totally forget! I can barely keep up with “wacky sock day” at preschool or when my client proposal is due....

Nevermind all the processed ingredients those quesadillas were filled with – I wasn’t even thinking about that stuff back then. Sure, I still tried to get my veggies in, but looking at food processing wasn’t even in my radar. A lot has changed since then and I haven’t eaten fast food in years, but for some reason that creamy jalapeno sauce got stuck in my head recently. It occurred to me that I could probably recreate it without using any processed ingredients....

We’d like to take you through our favorite recipes using avocados with all kinds of rice varieties that go beyond simply slicing up avocado to place on top. So, get your knives ready as we’ll guide you throughout the entire process from picking avocados all the way to enjoying them! How to Tell if Your Avocado is Ripe Starting at the grocery store or local farmer’s market, if you’re looking for the best method to choose an avocado, we’ve got you covered....

I eat a lot of hummus. Nearly all of it is homemade. In fact, I pretty much always have at least one batch of homemade hummus stashed away in the fridge, along with all of your basic hummus ingredients. There’s nothing quite like a dish of creamy hummus to round out a salad or slather on a sandwich. I usually go for simple hummus flavored with the bare essentials of lemon and garlic, but because I eat so much of the stuff, I’m always looking out for new and interesting things to throw in....