Pumpkin Puree is a delicious side dish, which suites this time of the year well! I went a step further and enriched my pumpkin mash with carrots and some spices to give it an extra health boost! While browsing through my old recipe posts, I noticed that I was short on interesting side dishes and tantalizing salads. How did it come to that? Well, I … [Read more...]
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Kohlrabi Potato Purée
The other day I came across a vegetable that I hadn’t seen for a while in my little neighborhood market here. As you must have guessed it from the title, I am talking about the humble Kohlrabi, a plump, whitish and roundish looking leafy bulb vegetable. Personally, I am very familiar with the taste of the bulb and I blame my mother for that. She had the habit to … [Read more...]
Simple Kohlrabi Salad with Vinaigrette
A simple kohlrabi salad recipe prepared with grated or shredded raw kohlrabi and dressed with an easy to prepare vinaigrette dressing. This refreshing salad can be prepared in advance. Here is how it's made from scratch at home. 📕 What is Kohlrabi? Kohlrabi is a roundish bulb root vegetable. It's juicy on the inside, and it has a hard thick skin, which will … [Read more...]
Creamy Coconut Chickpea Curry Recipe
A creamy coconut chickpea curry prepared with wholesome spices. This is a healthy plant-based dinner meal. 📕 What is this Curry? A Chickpea curry is an Indian inspired, spiced curry prepared with whole cooked chickpeas, spices and coconut milk. This recipe is based on the Indian Chole Masala/Chana Masala or restaurant style chickpea tikka masala. It's not … [Read more...]
Guava Fruit
The guava fruit is a beautiful tropical fruit. It has many delicious and useful uses. Here you will find everything you need to know to start enjoying guavas all the more. 📕 What is a Guava? Guava is a tropical fruit in every sense of the word. It grows in the tropics around the equator, smells like the tropics, and is the fruitiest of all the fruits out … [Read more...]
Mashed Sweet Potato Recipe
This simple savory mashed sweet potato makes a lovely vibrant side dish. I show you how to make it from scratch with or without a blender. 🍴 Tools to mash potatoes You can mash your sweet potatoes with various kitchen tools. 🔪 How to make mashed sweet potatoes? Here is how you can prepare mashed sweet potatoes, the fastest and most straightforward … [Read more...]
Small Batch Apple Butter Recipe
Simple small batch apple butter prepared within minutes on the stove top. You don't need an immersion blender! Learn how to make this simple, easy, vegan fruit butter (great for beginners too!) and collect some flavor ideas and tips on how to use your apple butter. 📕 What is apple butter? Apple butter is a type of preserve prepared of whole fresh … [Read more...]
Fall Pumpkin Chili Recipe
A hearty fall pumpkin chili recipe to get through the colder months. This chili can be prepared with roasted and pureed pumpkin or you can use canned pumpkin puree too. I had this dish waiting to be posted since February. We totally fell in love with the flavors but this was most definitely a fall dish. Fall has fallen into our laps and here comes a super … [Read more...]
Fava Beans - How to prep, cook and store
Fava beans (aka broad beans) are incredibly nutritious beans! In this post, you will learn how to prep cook and store them. 📕 What are fava beans? Fava beans are also called broad beans in some regions in this world. They are large green beans growing and sitting in a thick, slightly hairy, thick green pod. The pods can get about 6-7 inches long and one … [Read more...]
Asian Ginger Dressing with Napa Cabbage
A bright intense ginger dressing served over napa cabbage. This is an Asian-inspired vinaigrette coleslaw side dish recipe, which you can serve with most East Asian main course meals. 💡 Dressing ingredients The homemade dressing is a straightforward, Asian flavored vinaigrette style salad topping. The recipe was inspired by my Japanese cabbage slaw salad, … [Read more...]
Bechamel Sauce Recipe
Bechamel Sauce is a basic french sauce, also called and known as the white sauce. This sauce is used in lasagne, in casserole dishes, pasta meals and more. 📕 What is Bechamel? Bechamel Sauce (actually spelled Béchamel) is one of the five basic mother sauces in French classic cuisine. They are called mother sauces because other french sauces can be based on … [Read more...]
Mashed Turnips Recipe
Best mashed turnips prepared with whole or frozen turnips, all low carb. Watch how to make mashed turnips with my short video clip and process shots further below. This is your holiday side dish if you like a healthy, easy to prepare, low-calorie mash. 📕 What are turnips? Turnips are round-shaped roots, which average the size of a fist. Varieties exist, … [Read more...]
Meat Stuffed Patty Pan Squash Recipe
Garden fresh stuffed patty pan squash with a french meat filling. This is a low carb gluten free recipe for small and large patty pan squash! Watch and learn how to prepare this dish at home with my video and process shots further below. I came up with this recipe with the help of my uncle, who grows squash in his garden. The recipe is loosely based on the … [Read more...]
Rhubarb Sauce Recipe
Freshly homemade Rhubarb sauce is a great treat with sweet or savory dishes. I show you how to make it and enhances to make it your own. 📕 What is Rhubarb? Rhubarb is a red and green thick juicy stalk with large leaves. The edible stalks taste tart sour and can be rather stringy. The leaves are not edible at all and need to be discarded because they are … [Read more...]
Chocolate Beet Cake Recipe
Chocolate Beet Cake is a popular cake in my home. This super moist and decadent cake is easy and quick to prepare. Lately, I have been obsessed with two ingredients mixed, beets and chocolate. You wouldn't imagine the earthy sweet pink/red beetroot together with the sinful dark chocolate, and yet, both complement each other outrageously well. Do you like … [Read more...]
Mashed Potato Recipe
Learn how to make mashed potato easily with my quick video. Enjoy your own homemade mashed potatoes as a side dish, or check out some tips further below on how to use left-over mashed potatoes or to create different mashed potato variations! Are you like me?! A total mashed potato fan? I make mashed potatoes whenever I'm craving a homely feeling. That's when … [Read more...]
Bavarian Cream Dessert Recipe
Our Bavarian Cream Recipe so that you get to try this amazing and delicious dessert at home! Make the cream and let it set in pots to serve as dessert with your favorite toppings or fruits. Watch my quick and easy how to make Bavarian cream video further below. 📕 What is Bavarian Cream? Bavarian Cream, also advertised as Crème bavaroise in some places, is … [Read more...]
Hot Mango Habanero Sauce Recipe
My super hot Mango Habanero Sauce with real fresh habanero chili peppers and mango fruit. This sauce is irresistibly hot and sweet, plus it also looks stunning! This is part of my homemade hot sauce series, which also includes the Thai sweet chili sauce and Buffalo sauce. 🔪 How to make it? Here is a quick overview to give you an idea of how this sauce … [Read more...]
+30 Essential Mango Recipes
More than 30 Mango Recipes, la creme de la creme, and only the best! You get to pick your future favorite Mango dish! See what I and my food blogger friends share on mango recipes further below. I think we covered everything from dessert to salads and anything in between. 📅 Mango Season We are celebrating Mango months right now, so to fully enjoy the … [Read more...]
No-Bake Mango Cheesecake Recipe
A perfect no-bake Mango Cheesecake made from scratch. This cold cheesecake recipe is a winner every time! Fresh Mangoes turned into a purée and added to the cream cheese mixture. The base is prepared out of crushed cookies and butter and held together firmly. Ingredients To make this no bake mango cheesecake, you will need some basic ingredients. The base … [Read more...]
Goan Masoor Dal Curry Recipe
Healthy Masoor Dal Recipe, all from scratch and ready within minutes! This easy dal recipe is a one-pot vegan Indian main course meal. The lentils are briefly soaked, and the recipe doesn't require a pressure cooker. 📕 What is masoor dal? Masoor Dal is an Indian curry prepared with orange-red split lentil, which are also called masoor dal (मसूर … [Read more...]
14 Indian Cauliflower Recipes
Indian cauliflower recipes can come handy in so many ways! If you like spiced curried food and the humble, delicious, filling and always affordable cauliflower, then you need to save this cauliflower collection. BTW, Gobi is the Hindi word for Cauliflower. Cauliflower is such a versatile vegetable, and I have not met many people who don't like … [Read more...]
Yule Log Recipe - Christmas Bûche de Noël Cake
Yule Log Recipe is a Christmas Roulade cake, common in French-speaking countries and it's neighbors. The Yule Log is better known as Bûche de Noël in French and both names will tell you that the cake looks like a wooden tree branch. So, how do you easily make a Yule Log look like a tree branch? See further below the Yule Log recipe and how I and my mum … [Read more...]
Chicken Mulligatawny Soup Recipe
A Mulligatawny soup is a must-have in your spicy recipe repertoire. This one pot chicken curry soup is a flavor experience, and it will warm you up from within. Whether you want to warm up during cold nights or you just want comforting flavors, a homemade Mulligatawny soup recipe will be your best friend in any case. It's a healthy soup, and it doesn't have … [Read more...]
Papaya Paste Meat Tenderizer
Did you know that Papaya Paste can make your meat super tender? Papaya paste tenderizes meat deliciously well and very effectively so that the meat melts in your mouth with each bite and the angels start to sing. The first time I heard papaya was used as a meat tenderizer, I didn't believe it. How could such a plainly tasting tropical fruit, which has never … [Read more...]
How to make Mango Pulp
I make Mango Pulp when I have too many mangoes ripening way too fast. The fruit pulp of different Mangoes can be so useful even months after the harvesting season, plus the sweet mango pulp tastes great months later! So if you would rather not make Mango Jam to use up your mangoes, then try out this mango pulp recipe. 🥭 Mango Qualities This might … [Read more...]
Mushroom Duxelles Pasta Sauce
More then a year ago I had introduced you to Mushroom Duxelles, a mixture of finely chopped Mushrooms shallots and herbs. Back then I had shared my stuffed Tomatoes a la Duxelles at Cafe Terra blog, so a recipe was never shared here at Masala Herb. Mushroom Duxelles is usually used for stuffing's and the most known dish stuffed with Duxelles is Beef Wellington. … [Read more...]
Vegetarian Potato Goulash Recipe
This Potato Goulash is completely vegetarian and a common weeknight dinner meal during the cold winter months in Austria. The one-pot wonder is easy to make and you just need a few ingredients to prepare the soup within 30 minutes. 📕 What is this dish? The Austrian Goulash soup with potatoes is a dish we all grew up with, in Austria. The authentic goulash … [Read more...]
Austrian Beef Goulash
In Europe, we have something like a spiced meat stew that has gained popularity with time all over the world. As the title suggests, I am speaking of the brown paprika loaded Goulash. Actually, the dish is typically Hungarian. Once upon a time, Hungary and Austria used to be one without borders. It is fair to say that Goulash has become an Austrian favorite … [Read more...]
Classic French Toast Recipe
Now you can make fancy french toast at home anytime! Here is a classic recipe for you with crystal clear instructions to make this deliciously flavored breakfast toast that is soft on the inside and crispy on the outside. 📕 What is it? French Toast is a popular breakfast or dessert prepared with bread, milk, and egg. The French variation is better known as … [Read more...]