Dinner

  • Mexican Vegetable Rice

    August 26, 2020peppercook

      This flavourful, spicy Mexican vegetable rice is loaded with fresh veggies, an easy way to incorporate them into a delicious meal! This is a great one-pot dish to eat as-is, or you can wrap up the rice in a burrito. Ingredients: 1 cup uncooked white rice 1 onion, diced 4 cloves garlic, minced ½…

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  • Bamboo and Water Chestnut Salad

    July 17, 2020peppercook

      A visually enticing, multi-textured Asian salad, with unusual, robust and tantalizing flavours – it will be a definite hit with your dinner guests! Great for brunch, lunch or dinner. Ingredients: brined bamboo shoots, about 200g, sliced Click here to buy 8 shallots, sliced thinly lengthwise 3 cloves garlic, sliced in rounds 2 dry red…

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  • Quick Mexican Corn Casserole

    July 4, 2020peppercook

      This one-bowl  Mexican casserole is full of vegetables, and hardly takes 10 minutes to whip up – just grate the cheese directly into the baking dish! And it tastes even better the next day! This recipe is an old family favourite, something my Mom baked every weekend when we were children.  Perfectly easy for…

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  • Italian Style Garlicky Prawns

    June 16, 2020peppercook

      This Italian style garlicky, buttery prawns cooked in a cherry tomato sauce are a family favourite that helped us survive the lockdown! Quick and easy, they have a sauce that needs to be mopped up with some crusty fresh bread.  Leftovers from this recipe make a great breakfast – prawns on toast topped with…

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  • Goa-Inspired Prawn Curry

    June 5, 2020peppercook

      I love cooking seafood because it’s easy, quick, and absorbs so many favours. I had lots of fun last year creating this recipe and collaborating with the team from Cambay Tiger to shoot this video  (not to mention that the prawns were plump and delicious!) The red chili paste in these prawns is inspired…

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  • Mushrooms in Yoghurt Cream with Dill

    June 3, 2020peppercook

      These mushrooms in yoghurt are quick and easy to make and are a wonderful filling for pita bread with falafel, or in a sandwich.  This dish also works as a dip, but is yummy enough just to eat as is! Dill and mint add tremendous flavour to the mushrooms, and I find I can…

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  • Sri Lankan Inspired – Sweet Potato Curry

    May 27, 2020peppercook

    One of my favourite vegetables is the humble sweet potato – which tastes the best in this Srilankan-inspired sweet potato curry.  Key flavours in this curry come from cinnamon and coconut milk.  Srilankan cinnamon is of course the world’s best, and those fragile rolls of cinnamon have a far more subtle flavour than the rough,…

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  • Mediterranean Chicken with Garbanzo Beans

    May 19, 2020peppercook

      During the COVID-19 lockdowns across the world, every Mom wants to make a “one-dish-wonder.”  Food that is flavourful, easy, and tastes great, with a few dishes to wash as possible! With four grown children at home, this hi-protein nourishing chicken stew is really popular with my family.  It is ideal for lunch or dinner…

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  • Spinach Rice with Truffle Butter

    May 15, 2020peppercook

    When we all want to be gluten-free, this is my family’s go-to rice dish.  A rice dish with basic ingredients and one that is the show stopper – truffle butter!  Since all the ingredients are available, I have been making my spinach rice with truffle butter during the lockdown as well!  Easy, quick, and delicious, it is tasty…

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  • Mom’s Recipe # 4 – Potato and Coconut Kachories

    May 6, 2020peppercook

      Stuck at home during the COVID19 crisis, I’ve been trying out a lot of my Mom’s recipes.  This is the perfect situation in which to try the more time-consuming ones, as, on some mornings, the day just stretches out timelessly. With the whole family at home, enticing aromas emanating from the kitchen keep everyone’s…

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