Tag: onion
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Easy Onion Pilaf Recipe for Cuban, Indian, Mexican, and Middle-Eastern Cuisine
This is my son’s favorite rice and the rice I always serve with black beans, it goes perfectly with Cuban black beans but it mixes and matches with Indian, Mexican, Middle-Eastern – take your choice. It also makes an excellent emergency store cupboard meal, when you have no idea what to cook – add…
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Madhur Jaffrey’s Zucchini Raita – Eastern Vegetarian Cooking
This raita is from one of my ancient, falling apart cookbooks, Madhur Jaffrey’s Eastern Vegetarian Cooking, where it goes by the name courgettes in yoghurt. In our house it’s called zucchini raita. Jaffrey claims she eats it by the spoonful by itself and this I can believe. It’s a mellow, mildly spiced raita that’s extremely…
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Spicy Korean Tofu: A Simple Recipe with Gochugaru
I recently discovered a Korean tofu factory that sells fresh tofu from the factory door. It’s a little hole in the wall place next to the Korean corp of the Salvation Army in Belmore. They do a roaring trade selling basic white tofu, silken dessert tofu with ginger sauce and fried tofu pockets in various…
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Simple Spiced Spinach Dahl with Cumin Seeds
When I first moved to Sydney about 15 years ago, there was a hole in the wall Indian eatery up at my local shops. I’m calling it an an eatery because it wasn’t as grand as a cafe or restaurant, just a un-renovated shop with a few tables and chairs, offering a small selection of…
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Marcella Hazan’s Essential Tomato Sauce Recipe
This tomato sauce with onion and butter is from Marcella Hazan is astonishingly simple and delicious. It’s been posted a million times on various food blogs and raved about countless times, but that’s no reason not to do so again. I’ve made this sauce many times over the years, it reminds me of the spaghetti…
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Classic Vegetarian Split Pea Soup Recipe
This is my family’s favorite split pea soup, it’s an old-fashioned vegetarian classic from the Moosewood Cookbook. There’s nothing fancy about it. Hearty, thick and filling – served with some good bread it’s all you need to make a meal. Start early because the split peas take a few hours simmering on the back burner.…
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French Lentil and Onion Soup Recipe
It’s muggy and wet in Sydney. After the intense record-breaking heat wave of early February we’ve gone into a record-breaking season of rain… so much rain, everyone’s sick of the rain. Australia’s a drought prone continent and with global warming there have been years where I thought it was never going to rain again, so…
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Transform Surplus Tomatoes into Delicious Roasted Sauce
Every wondered what to do with 3-4 kilos of end-of-season tomatoes going cheap at your local green grocers, the answer is this: roasted tomato sauce. Chop the tomatoes up with some onion, garlic, herbs, salt and a good slurp of olive oil. If you’re feeling really fancy, you can add a dash of wine and…
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Easy Canned Bean Dahl with White Beans | Madhur Jaffrey Recipe
Last weekend for my son’s twelfth birthday party, we hosted a ‘mega sleep out’ party for 10 boys in a tent in our backyard. After a quite a deal of research on whether Pizza Hut or Dominos were the best cheap option for ordering in pizza, I decided to hell with it and just make…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 