How to Make Healthy Vegetarian Foods Recipes

A few good years ago when I began this blog, a fellow blogger commented that they loved that I made the most of an ingredient often using it for both sweet and savoury recipes.  I am guilty of it this time too.  After making this Sweet Parsnip Pie I made a Parsnip and Oat Porridge, I  usually eat porridge with freshly grated apple stirred into the mix but decided on trying it with parsnips and it was remarkable and naturally sweet, though I did throw in a handful of golden raisins.  I also made a Parsnip Crumble with some frozen berries and wait for it - Vanilla and Parsnip Creme Brulee .   I've not always liked parsnips.  I have often found this root vegetable too sweet for my taste so one-day - a long time ago - I had decided it would be reserved mostly for sweet cakes and bakes, the way carrots are used in carrot cake (or if your South Asian like me,  gajjar ka halwa  aka Carrot  halwa) , though I must admit parsnips still makes an appe...

South Asian people traditionally don't really do cakes, they celebrate those special occasions like parties, weddings, birth of a child (grandchild, great grandchild....) and significant events like Diwali, Eid and Vaisaki and so forth  with a colourful boxes of Mithai - which loosely translates as Sweets. Laddu or Ladoo are probably the most well known Indian Sweet, followed by Barfi and Jalebi.   I often describe Laddu's as the original bliss ball!.  Laddu's are  golden balls of crumbly deliciousness,  If you have ever watched the outstanding movie Monsoon Wedding , you will have noted throughout the film various scenes leading to the wedding day (and the wedding day) where various characters are having their mouths stuffed with a whole laddu .  I could never eat a whole one in one go - honest.  Little mouse bites for me. Yes, I am a lady  - sometimes.  Laddu's   are t traditionally made with flour, ghee, milk, sugar, nu...

Today I thought I would share some of my Naked Violet Coconut Bars too - Is it a fudge, is it a 'Bounty' bar, is it a cake....it indeed is a sweet treat.  These are just a variation of my  Coconut  Ladoos  aka Bliss Balls  from last month generously coated in edible violet crystals.     As Dr Oetker have confirmed that the violet crystals are suitable for vegans. I also want to share something amazing whilst we were gardening today.  A swarm of bees elegantly, yet loudly buzzed over us on their way somewhere, it was a little thrilling, exciting and a little magical.  It is with this reason, that I am sharing this picture once again on my blog.  D my husband took a while back.  It a fuzzy bee bumbling and buzzing in our garden around a purple  allium .   Naked Violet Coconut Bars You will need some silicon moulds Makes Lots  Ingredients 4 tablespoons violet crystals 180grams dessicated coconut 125...

This is  not a cake 'cake' with a sponge, and its not a cheesecake though on first glance that is how it appears. This is a Butternut, Mango and Orange Marigold Layer Cake,  which I have also pretentiously dubbed as Sunrise Cake. The bottom is an almond crust, the middle Mango and butternut Squash filling is infused with Mango sweetness and then the topping finished off with a zingy zesty orange  jelly made with  agar agar  and then finished off with a light scattering of dried marigold flower petals - all depicting colours of the Sunrise.  I was impressed with myself, though I have to admit the rice paper butterflies actually look a little out of place, here or maybe dare I say it tacky - I did like the scattering of the dried marigold petals. This is not a very sweet cake, needs a squirt of (soya) cream to cut the richness of the butternut mango filling and the sharp twang from the orange topping.  Its also a very big cake, you can slice i...

Its been two years since I last made a vegan Creme Brulee , and I was looking for an excuse to use my new cooks kitchen blow torch that was gifted to me two years ago, when I grumbled to my husband that the Brulee topping of the Creme Brulee  I had made were not perfect. Christmas came that year and I found one under the Christmas tree.  I  made these stunning vegan Beetroot Creme Brulee's   with Pomegranate Seeds last weekend.  These Beetroot Coconut Creme Brulees are vegan and were a a bit of an experiment.  I was not sure if the heaviness of the beetroot was solidify, I was pleased with my first attempt as the Beetroot Coconut Creme Brulee turned out pretty  amazing.  I have to admit there are still a couple of tweaks required as its not perfect,  but I am happy to share what I have already with my readers as Valentines Day is coming.   The Beetroot Coconut Creme Brulee really, really was luscious, it was creamy, it...

Like the   vegan and vegetarian meatballs , I am having a thing about fudge at the moment. In recent days, I have made beetroot fudge, chocolate fudge and now these vegan tiger orange coloured Sweet Potato Fudge Bites with Cacao Nibs.   This recipe comes from Kari's blog Bite Sized Thoughts .  I have a number of recipes bookmarked from Kari, one of which is this  Sweet Potato Fudge  bookmarked since I saw it and one she showcased when she was doing a bit of fundraising. I had good intentions of following her recipe for this Sweet Potato Fudge to the gram, but as the weight of my baked sweet potatoes were a little more, I decided to increase some of the ingredients a little. I also replaced the lacuma powder with maca powder as that is what I had in my cupboards.  I picked up the maca powder when it was on offer along with some cacao nibs a year or so ago and have been looking for ways to use both.  So even with my little tinkering, ful...

I have a number of food bloggers recipes bookmarked , as well as those from cookbooks. I have been making an attempt to cook them, not just drool over them and admire them. Today's bookmarked recipe comes from I am hosting MLLA this month, so please join in if you can .   I have a thing for fudge at the moment, vegetarian fudge , vegan fudge and raw fudg e.  I only made one change to Lisa's No Bake Cocoa and Peanut Butter recipe.  I substituted the coconut butter for edible cocoa butter as I did not have any coconut butter at the time since then I have found some coconut butter and keep it for for future recipe experiments.   The Cocoa and Peanut Butter Fudge flavour  somewhat reminded me a  little of my raw chocolate  that I made a few years ago, but unlike those these were not an acquired taste and quite enjoyable.  These  were much better in both flavour and consistency was a little fudgy and a little truffle like.  Sayi...

Last month I mentioned that I have a thing for fudge at the moment.  I have made  vegetarian fudge ,  vegan fudge  and even  raw fudg e.  Well here are some more that I have dubbed as Quadruple Coconut Fudge as its made with coconut flour, coconut blossom syrup, coconut oil and dessicated coconut.  For a long while, I have been dilly dallying what to do with my stash of coconut flour...  By the way, Is coconut flour the same as coconut milk powder ????? I cannot seem to get a definitive answer on this question on any of the website, or maybe I am just not cooking in the right places. Anyway, this recipe for Coconut Flour Fudge is much of an on-going experiment with coconut flour being treated a little like milk powder for Indian style Burfi's .  This Coconut Flour and coconut Blossom Syrup Fudge is good for up to 3 weeks as long as its kept in the fridge. I preferred this a few days later when the texture changed.  It firmed up ev...