Quick one pan fried trout fillet recipe to enjoy with a good glass of wine. 📕 What is a trout? The trout originated in the North American East Coast but was introduced in 1800 to the rest of the world. Various species exist, with the most well known called the rainbow trout and the steel head trout. The trout is related to the salmon fish, and that is why … [Read more...]
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Sour Cream Dill Dip Recipe
Easy Sour Cream Dill Dip Recipe to enjoy with raw fresh vegetables, over baked salmon, cooked potatoes or simply with smoked salmon and much more! 💡 Choice of dill I tend to prepare a fresh dill dip with garden fresh dill but you can use dried herbs too. But keep in mind that fresh dill makes a better dip. Also, there are dill weed varieties out … [Read more...]
French Raspberry Jam with Seeds
Prepare the BEST Raspberry Jam with my easy homemade from scratch Recipe. Use fresh or frozen Raspberries and make this berry fruit jam your own. Ingredient Notes This is a French raspberry jam without pectin. I only add natural pectin to help to set the jam. Raspberries You can use fresh or frozen Raspberries. I usually use frozen raspberries because we … [Read more...]
Fresh Lemon Cucumber Mint Water
Lemon Cucumber Mint Water is a flavore infused water that I want to share with you. The purpose of this series of infused waters is to remind us to drink water all day long. What is Lemon Cucumber Mint Water? Lemon Mint Cucumber Water is a cold water infusion with these ingredients. So the fresh ingredients are left in the cold water in a container such as a … [Read more...]
How to make Spaetzle Recipe
![Easy Spaetzle Recipe - How to make perfect Spätzle Noodles! [+Video] from scratch with instructions and spaetzle maker. You can make a hue batch ahead and freeze for later. The Spaetzle make a delicious side dish with other dishes such as a goulash gravy, knoedel, jägerschnitzel, wienerschnitzel, Sauerbraten and Rouladen www.MasalaHerb.com #noodles #DIY #masalaherb](https://www.masalaherb.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Easy-Spaetzle-Recipe-How-to-make-perfect-Spätzle-Noodles-Video-serp-150x150.jpg)
Best Spaetzle recipe, delicious and so easy to make! Spaetzle are made with a spaetzle maker or spaetzle press. Learn how I make my homemade Spaetzle recipe further below with the video and step by step instructions. What are Spaetzle? I love to make fresh pasta and noodles because it tastes amazing. What I don't like about fresh pasta is that it can be … [Read more...]
French Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe
There is nothing better than french vanilla ice cream with real vanilla beans. I share how to succeed in making delicious, creamy, flavorful, and hence, the best vanilla ice cream out there with my video below. I partially based this vanilla ice cream recipe on my bavarian cream recipe after having tried failed vanilla ice cream recipes from the web. This is a … [Read more...]
Hawaiian Pizza Recipe
The Hawaiian Pizza is my all-time favorite pizza! I show you how to make this pineapple pizza at home with my recipe further below. Pizza, no doubt, is always a dinner time winner in my book, and there is nothing better than a pizza topped with pineapple chunks and ham. I know there is a giant debate about this and there are naysayers out there, yet I don't … [Read more...]
French Cherry Jam Recipe
The best homemade cherry jam recipe prepared with fresh cherries, completely without artificial pectin sugar. This recipe follows the French jam making tradition, and my family has been making these for generations. This is a french cherry jam prepared the way my mother and grandmother showed me. That means we follow the traditional way of making jam, which by the … [Read more...]
How to make Dehydrated Blueberries
Dehydrated Blueberries are easily prepared, it's just that they need time to slowly dry out. I show you how to dehydrate blueberries with a dehydrator or follow my alternative drying options. So, you like dried apple chips and dehydrated pineapple slices? Then these dried blueberries should be on your bucket list too! 📕 What are dehydrated … [Read more...]
Basil Cashew Pesto Recipe
Nothing beats freshly made basil cashew pesto! You can use a mortar and pestle or food processor to prepare this flavorful basil cashew pesto sauce from scratch. This pesto recipe with cashews is based on the traditional Genoa Pesto from Italy. You can use it as bread spread or in pasta, such as in this mozzarella pesto pasta. Discover more ideas and uses further … [Read more...]
French Meat Stuffed Tomatoes Recipe (Tomates Farcies)
Juicy Meat Stuffed Tomatoes with a tomato sauce, baked in a casserole dish in the oven. This is a traditional French supper meal and I share our family recipe. TL;DR This is a French-stuffed tomato recipe. It's a classic dinner meal commonly prepared in Northern French homes. We call these ground meat stuffed tomatoes, tomate farcies in French. My mother and … [Read more...]
Infused Lavender Water Summer Drink
Infused Lavender Water is a sugar-free and cooling summer drink. This lavender-infused water beverage is for you if you enjoy infused waters and if you want to get fit and live a healthier life. What is lavender? Lavender is a purple-blue plant with multiple small flowers that commonly grow in bunches together. There are countless smaller lavender varieties. Yet … [Read more...]
Infused Waters That Make Staying Hydrated Easy
Infused Waters are not only healthy but super tasty and sugar-free! Did you know that you can prepare your own flavored infused waters easily at home? What are infused waters? Infused waters are mostly fruits or other fresh ingredients like cucumber, herbs, and blossoms left to infuse in water. That way, the water takes on the flavor of the ingredients. Infused … [Read more...]
Endives au Jambon - Belgian Endive au Gratin
Endives au Jambon is a baked au gratin dinner meal from the North of France. Belgian Endives are rolled into ham slices and coated with a cheese béchamel sauce. This traditional dish is also known under a different name as Chicon au Jambon in some regions or as Endives Jambon Bechamel. 🍲 What are Endives au Jambon? The term Endives au Jambon is French, and it … [Read more...]
French Red Currant Jelly Recipe
Red Currant Jelly is a classic jelly that we prepare from scratch every year during the months of June and July in Europe. This is my family's french recipe, and it's made with 2 ingredients and water only. What are red currants? Red Currants (or redcurrants spelled) are ruby red semi-translucent round berries. The red currants are related to gooseberries and … [Read more...]
Lemon Gin Elderflower Cocktail
My Lemon Elderflower Gin Cocktail is prepared with clear Gin, elderflower syrup, tonic water, and fresh lemon juice. 📕 What is Elderflower? Elderflowers are cream-colored small edible flower blossoms that grow on a shrub in bunches before turning into elderberries. Elderflower and elderberries come from the same plant. The blossoms of the elderflower are … [Read more...]
French Rhubarb Jam Recipe
My family's French Rhubarb Jam Recipe prepared with only 3 ingredients, and without pectin or any other artificial setting ingredients. This jam recipe is simple, straightforward, and perfect for you if you are looking for a way to use up a bounty of rhubarb stalks. Ingredients To prepare this rhubarb jam without pectin, you will need only 3 ingredients. Tip: Get … [Read more...]
Lemon Elderflower Syrup Recipe (No Cooking)
My Lemon Elderflower Syrup is a family recipe prepared without cooking. You will need fresh elderflower for this recipe so that the syrup gets infused within 2 days. 📕 What are Elderflowers? The elderflower is a flowering plant with strongly flavored, small cream-colored blossoms. It's also known as Sambucus. The little blossoms of an elderflower bush taste … [Read more...]
French Yogurt Cake Recipe
French Yogurt Cake is a quick soft cake that you can prepare anytime when you crave a simply delicious cake. I have made this cake countless times in a square and round mold. Pick your cake pan shape and let's make my family's yogurt cake recipe. 📕 What is this cake? The French yogurt cake is probably the easiest cake in the world and is prepared by using … [Read more...]
Banana Peach Smoothie Recipe
Banana Peach smoothie with natural whole fruits, totally plant-based without yogurt and it's tasty! 🍑 Ingredients Peach season is during the hot summer months and that's when you should try this fresh peach smoothie recipe My favorite way, besides eating these gorgeous fruits freshly, is to make a homemade peach smoothie with banana. Peach You can use the … [Read more...]
French Apple Cake Recipe
Our French Apple Cake is an authentic easy and moist French family recipe from my grandmother's side, who hailed from Normandy. If you like homemade apple cake recipes with fresh apples, check out the German apple cake too! 🍏 Why this French apple cake? Can you remember the last time when you had a bit of a cake and it transported you to another time and … [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...]
Austrian Liptauer Cheese Recipe
The Austrian Liptauer Recipe is a flavorful cheese spread or dip enriched with Paprika and other spices and ingredients. If you like cream cheese spread over your bread, you might also enjoy my spicy cream cheese spread. What is Liptauer? Liptauer is a well seasoned and spiced cottage cheese spread. This particular spicy spread is traditionally made with sheep's … [Read more...]
Semmelknödel Recipe (Bread Dumplings)
Semmelknödel are round bread dumplings from Southern Germany. I show you how we make them from scratch at home with stale bread in this recipe. I talked about Semmelknödel years ago, where I showed you how to cook homemade fermented Sauerkraut. Ingredients The ingredients for the homemade authentic bread dumplings are straightforward. For the dumplings … [Read more...]
Individual Strawberry Charlotte Cake Recipe
Individual strawberry charlotte cakes are easily prepared in a glass and still look great as well. I show you how to make the quickest and easiest charlotte dessert in my recipe further below. What is Charlotte? Charlotte is a French cake dessert made with ladyfingers cookies. Countless charlotte variations exist and have been emerging; some are prepared with … [Read more...]
Iced Passion Fruit Green Tea Recipe
Iced Passion Fruit Green Tea is a refreshing fruity summer delight which you can easily make at home within minutes. Enjoy a glass on your own or sere up a pitcher at a party, everyone will be raving over this summer time beverage! We enjoy iced teas when the days are getting hotter and our thirst grows every day all the more for a fruit ice tea. I love … [Read more...]
Trinidad Mango Chow Recipe
Trinidad Mango Chow is a healthy Caribbean snack prepared with sweet mangoes and hot chilis amongst other flavor giving ingredients. Sunita, my Trini food expert, had me try her favorite Caribbean summer snack, the Mango Chow. If you remember back in December, Sunita was the one to introduce us to the Caribbean Sorrel drink. This is how I ended up sitting in my … [Read more...]
Shrimp Scampi with Asparagus and Tomato
15-minute shrimp scampi with asparagus and tomato is a favorite dinner meal at home! Prepare the shrimp butter sauce in minutes for dinner tonight! TL;DR I most definitely made my own version of the Olive Garden shrimp scampi recipe. Basically, the classic Olive Garden recipe has been adapted. I like to add more asparagus, and I love the addition of fresh … [Read more...]
Passion Fruit Juice Recipe (Maracuja)
The best passion fruit juice can only be a homemade juice! Soon you will want to make your own fresh passion fruit juice all the time I show you how to do prepare a maracuja juice from scratch with tips and uses. Do you like passion fruits? Then check out my strawberry passion fruit jam. 🍈 What is a passion fruit? A Passion Fruit is the name of a … [Read more...]
Mango Pico de Gallo Recipe
A fresh Mango Pico de Gallo with perfectly balanced fruity, tangy hot flavors. This will amaze your taste buds! TL;DR Mango Pico de Gallo is a Mexican variation of the classic tomato Picco de gallo, which is known as a salsa fresca or cruda (means fresh or raw). Ingredients are cut small and each enhances the other. Occasionally, a pico de gallo is also known and … [Read more...]
Chocolate Beet Cake Recipe
Chocolate Beet Cake is one of our favorite cakes at home. Sweet and earthy beets make this cake moist, balancing the deep chocolatey flavors. TL;DR I took out my favorite, super reliable, chocolate cake recipe, adjusted the ingredients, and came up with a brand new chocolate beet cake recipe. At first, I was thinking of shredding the beet before adding it to the … [Read more...]
Tom Kha Gai Soup with fresh Ingredients
Tom Kha Gai is a flavorful modern Thai soup with coconut milk, chicken, and galangal. This recipe includes fresh from scratch ingredients, and not a ready-made tom kha curry paste. And still your tom kha gai will be ready within 30 minutes! The first time I came across Tom Kha Gai soup was in a Thai place in Europe. It all happened in a little Thai take away place. … [Read more...]
Vegan Tikka Masala Sauce Recipe
My favorite Tikka Masala Sauce is by accident vegan and so much tastier and healthier than the stuff you get in stores! The freezer friendly curry paste can be used for various tikka masala meals. What is Tikka Masala Sauce? Tikka Masala Sauce is a thin-spiced curry paste variety to prepare the famous Chicken Tikka Masala dish. Popular discounters such as … [Read more...]
Balsamic Kale Chips Recipe
I show you how to make kale chips easily at home and how to store them so that they remain crisp. My baked kale chips are flavored with balsamic vinegar to mask the kale's bitterness and to make them irresistibly delicious! A total crowd pleaser! 🔪 How to make it? To prepare homemade Kale Chips (or crisps in the UK) from scratch is so easy and these … [Read more...]
French Mango Jam Recipe
Enjoy the Mango season to the fullest with this homemade French mango jam preserve. Everybody loves Mango Jam spread on a freshly baked bread for breakfast. Store the goodness of the season in form of mango preserves. TL;DR This jam is prepared as per our traditional preserving methods in France. Our French jams use only fruit and plain regular sugar and no … [Read more...]
Mexican Corn Black Bean Salad Recipe
This Mexican Corn Black Bean Salad is stuffed with flavors, and we call it a summer comfort dish. I enhanced this black bean Mexican corn salad side dish with a light dressing, which I seasoned with my Mexican spice blend. We both absolutely adore corn and beans in a salad. Paul actually introduced me to his favorite bean and corn salads, and over the years we came … [Read more...]
Mexican Seasoning Recipe
![Mexican Seasoning - Taco Seasoning Spice Blend [DIY]](https://www.masalaherb.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Mexican-Seasoning-gog-150x150.jpg)
Mexican Seasoning (Taco seasoning blend) is prepared with a few smooth ground spices, which most probably you will have in your kitchen. It takes less than 5 minutes to just mix together the ground spices for this Mexican spice mix recipe and you can store it easily for another hot spiced day. TLDR Mexican food seasoning is a spice blend that is usually used for … [Read more...]
No Yeast Pizza Dough Recipe
No Yeast Pizza Dough to make instant pizza whenever the cravings for pizza emerge (and that's all the time in my case!) I created this pizza crust without yeast because I'm a huge thin crust pizza fan. I make pizza from scratch at least once a week by using my Italian homemade pizza dough. Why make a pizza crust without yeast? I love Pizza, but I always make … [Read more...]
Strawberry Kiwi Juice Recipe
I love this homemade Strawberry Kiwi Juice because the fruit combination is just brilliant. You can make this vibrant fruit juice within 3 minutes with a blender. 🍓 Ingredients You will need a few ingredients to make my strawberry kiwi juice at home. Using frozen fruits can be beneficial if you want a super cooled, thick juice. Fresh fruits might be the … [Read more...]
Green Peppercorns in Brine Recipe
Green Peppercorns in Brine is a very nifty way to preserve fresh green peppercorns. I captured in my how-to video below the way I pickle my green peppercorns. If you love homemade pickles, take a look at my pickled Jalapeños Recipe! 📕 What are Green Peppercorns in brine? Green Peppercorns in brine are pickled fresh green peppercorns that are preserved in a … [Read more...]