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The key to juicy baked chicken breasts is all about brining. Don’t worry, it’s super easy to do and takes only 10 minutes. I use this method on lots of poultry recipes, including air fryer chicken breast, 6-ingredient spinach stuffed chicken, fancy looking prosciutto wrapped chicken, cheesy asparagus stuffed chicken, and even spatchcock turkey — making them all juicy and extra flavorful. Ingredients & Substitutions Here I explain the best ingredients for healthy baked chicken breasts, what each one does in the recipe, and substitution options....

I am not going to play it coy: your girl loves wine. I mean, hey, I used to live in Paris! So I might have become a bit spoiled with an amazing selection of the stuff for oh so cheap. Just saying… These days, though? I’m a bit older and more interested in drinking high-quality, healthy wines that are lower in the icky stuff and high on the attention to quality growth and producing....

I’m one of those people who stresses out big time when it comes to holiday gift buying. I always want to give the perfect gift, but it can be really hard to figure out what that is! Are you the same? Perhaps I can help. While I may not be able to help you find the right gift for everyone in your life, I think I have some good ideas for anyone who loves vegan cooking....

Ingredients Chicken breast- Large chicken breast cut into horizontal fillets Seasoning – Mix of garlic powder, salt, and pepper to add to the flour Flour – All-purpose flour to coat the chicken fillets Cornstarch- makes the coating crispy Oil- Any neutral cooking oil with a high smoking point. Garlic- Minced Honey – Fresh Lemon Juice – I would always recommend fresh lemon juice for best flavor. Chicken Broth – For the base of the sauce Butter – Added to the sauce at the end for flavor and also it makes the sauce glossy....

But every now and then you come across the odd ingredient that doesn’t quite fit into any of these categories, like buttermilk. You can’t just use any dairy substitute to make something like this, because buttermilk has specific properties that make it behave in specific ways in baked goods. There’s good news though: making dairy free buttermilk is almost as easy as replacing regular milk with non-dairy milk. You just need to alter the chemistry of it a bit....

Luckily, there is no shortage of great tasting recipes that you can make with leftovers along with Mahatma® Rice. But before we take a look at these recipes, let’s learn about some simple things we can do to spice up our leftover ingredients. How to Store and Prepare Leftovers Leftovers make an excellent addition to your meals. Believe it or not, leftovers can often taste even better than freshly made foods if they are stored and prepared properly....

Oven Roasted Garlic If you’ve never roasted garlic before your life is about to change forever. When you roast garlic you completely change to flavour and texture. It caramelizes and turn gorgeously sticky and sweet. The texture turns silky and soft. It’s just an all round good time. We’ll chat about how to use it in just a sec, but first let’s see how easy it is to make....

What Is Hunan Beef? Hunan beef is a smoky, spicy stir fry dish that pairs wok-fried slices of beef with a spicy chili garlic sauce. Hunan cuisine originated in the Hunan province of China. This particular dish is pretty similar to Szechuan beef, except it’s more spicy and less sweet. My Hunan beef recipe is based on trying this dish at several Chinese family-owned restaurants, along with hours of research about the ingredients and spices that are prevalent in the region....

What’s needed to make Indian onion salad? For this Indian onion salad recipe you will need the ingredients shown below: This spicy onion salad is also known as laccha pyaz or masala pyaz. Laccha is the Hindi word for ring, masala for spice, and pyaz for onion. It’s a North Indian recipe that can be served with almost every savory North Indian meal. Ingredient notes and substitute suggestions Onion: Use medium red onions to make laccha pyaaz....

What Makes This Recipe So Good The Instant Pot makes homemade apple sauce unbelievably easy! It’s super quick, too. Just a 5 minute cook time and then a natural pressure release gives you a big batch of rich, flavorful applesauce.Instant Pot applesauce is healthier than the store-bought, prepackaged kind. It calls for fresh, whole ingredients and no artificial flavors or preservatives. You can even make a no-sugar-added applesauce by swapping out the granulated sugar for a natural alternative sweetener like erythritol, monk fruit, or coconut sugar....

Tempeh is hard sell for some folks. I know: I’m married to one of them. I get it. Tempeh is weird! Maybe you’re even wondering what tempeh is, in which case I’d refer you to my complete guide to tempeh. And those of you who are familiar with tempeh may have noticed that it’s something of an acquired taste. The trick is to cook your tempeh using methods that make it absolutely delicious....

Is Apple Crisp Keto? No, typical apple crisps are made with apples, flour, and sugar, so would not be considered keto. This is a keto mock apple crisp, or mock apple crumble. That means we make some swaps (for the apples, flour, and sugar) to get all of the traditional warm and cozy apple flavors and textures, without all the carbs. Ingredients & Substitutions Here I explain the best ingredients for this keto apple crisp, what each one does in the recipe, and substitution options....

Naan sounds like a complicated recipe but this gluten free naan recipe is pretty fool-proof. If you’ve made fathead dough before (you have, right?) you’ll know how easy it is. And if you haven’t? Well, make this keto naan bread first, and then go make my fathead pizza crust recipe for your next keto pizza night! If you prefer a lighter, softer texture, try my keto flatbread recipe here, which is more like pita bread....

We already have a few keto salad dressing recipes on the blog, including ranch, blue cheese, and caesar. I love making them as part of my keto meal planning! But this healthy thousand island dressing recipe is the first standalone post for a sweet dressing – without sugar, of course. And it’s so good! What Is 1000 Island Dressing Made Of? Homemade thousand island dressing recipes are made up of a simple combination of mayonnaise, ketchup, vinegar, sweetener, pickles, and onions!...

Creamy and light, this no-churn mango ice cream is packed with real mango flavour. Made with mango puree, condensed milk, milk powder and cream, this ice cream is scoopable and a perfect summer treat. I have been making Ice Cream at home since last year. There is no doubt that an Ice Cream machine gives the best result. But if you follow few tricks while making Ice Cream at home, I bet you won’t get disappointed....

Ingredients & Substitutions Here I explain the best Mediterranean salad ingredients, what each one does in the recipe, and substitution options. For measurements, see the recipe card. Mediterranean Salad: This salad is brimming with fresh veggies! Feel free to customize with what you have on hand: Cucumbers – You can use English cucumbers or Persian cucumbers for Mediterranean salad recipes. Grape Tomatoes – I used grape tomatoes, but any tomatoes would work, including cherry tomatoes, roma tomatoes, plum tomatoes, roasted tomatoes, and even sun-dried tomatoes....

This chickpea soup is my new go-to lazy soup recipe. It’s one of the easiest homemade soups I’ve ever made, and also one of the most delicious. Since coming up with the recipe I’ve made it a bunch of times, and that doesn’t happen often when you develop new recipes day-in day-out for a living. And just about every time I make it, my husband declares it to be the best soup ever....

Oh, hey there! It’s been a while! Well, a while relative to this blog anyway. One full week, which might be the longest I’ve ever gone between posts. I’m happy to say that I’ve been enjoying some relaxing holiday time. But I couldn’t let the new year come and go without at least sharing one festive party recipe for you to get down with. Well, that and I’ve got tons of mushroom recipes lined up for January, so I thought maybe I’d space them out a bit by posting one now....

Quitting meat after spending years of relishing non-vegetarian food, is not always easy, especially during the initial few days, maybe months, or even years of the cruelty-free journey. However, as you start discovering and creating tasty vegetarian or vegan recipes, you start enjoying the peace on your plate. The recipe which I am sharing today is a South Indian-style mushroom recipe known as black pepper mushroom fry. I developed this recipe one day when I was craving one of my favorite chicken recipes from my non-vegetarian days- Kerala-style pepper chicken....

Mushroom is one of my favorite things to eat and it was my favorite even when I was a non-vegetarian. That’s the reason you will find a lot of mushroom recipes on my blog. If you want to try them, I have shared a list of my mushroom recipes further in this post. Today I am sharing a simple mushroom rice recipe which is made with some very basic ingredients but the final dish is full of flavors....