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Stunning Beet Hummus

Hummus is a Mediterranean savoury dip. It’s packed with fibre, vitamins, and minerals and can be flavoured in with different veggies. Although, I am not a big fan of beets. But, the great thing about beets is that when they are roasted, they have a slight sweetness, mild, and earthly flavour that I can eat.

You need to use cooked beets for this recipe. To speed the process, instead of cooking them yourself, you can buy cooked beets also that are vacuum-packed. Classic hummus is so good and delicious in taste. But, when you add root veggies like carrots, beets, hummus surely becomes more appetizing delicious.

Beet is a good source of fibre, Vitamin C and antioxidants that may help lower blood pressure and reduce inflammation and of course, its slightly sweet taste makes hummus more delicious. Vibrant pink colour with a hint of sweetness, oh! my goodness.

This beet hummus recipe is very easy to make if you have roasted beetroots. Roasting beetroot is the only time-consuming preparation.

Mild sweetness from the roasted beetroots and the creaminess from chickpeas, shiny olive oil, and tahini, makes it awesome! You can pair it with pita bread or pita chips or veggies as you like.

Roasted beets along with cooked chickpeas, garlic, pepper powder, lime juice, salt, tahini paste, olive oil and water (a little), blend them into hummus paste and serve.

Stay healthy, stay humble.

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Bottle gourd Split Chickpeas Curry (South Indian Style)

Hello! Foodie fellows. There are so many wonderful things that you can do and make with your vegetables. Some vegetables are so versatile and amazing. You like it or not but bottle gourd is one of them that can be a to-go recipe for this weekend.

Bottle gourd has always been regarded as one of the healthiest veggies. This is a very versatile veggie that has 92% water, minerals, and much more nutrients. Even in Ayurveda also describe its nutrients fact and benefits but unfortunately many are not fond of it. If you have experience with Indian cooking than you know this a part of your kitchen in different ways like curry, raita, sweet.

Well, I am sharing this recipe in a different flavour. So, you can enjoy this veggie without having any second thought. This curry is a very typical Indian but with Lil variations with split chickpeas and south Indian touch.

When I was in Bengaluru, my Telugu friend taught me this flavourful curry in authentic south Indian style. Lots of flavours burst in your mouth when you take a bite. You can pair this curry with rice or paratha. The best part is that this is no Huss-fuss recipe is made with the ingredients that you are sure to have at home.

This dudhi (bottle gourd) and Chana dal (split chickpeas) curry is rich in protein and folic acid yet most delicious and comfort wholesome curry. Of course, bottle gourd doesn’t have to mean boring, surely this curry going to make this versatile veggie more desirable. Eat your greens and be healthy, be humble.

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Jeera Masala Aloo (Cumin Spice Dry Potato Curry)

Hello foodies! How are you all? What’s your weekend brunch?

Well, I need to finish my book (The Wizards of Once) before the weekend, wants to start the second one. So, sometimes I just want quick curry with my parathas. Here in the Netherlands, it’s raining and I don’t want to go outside for buying veggies. Yeah! I am addicted to fantasy books, movies, and Netflix series so. But, I have pre-boiled potatoes in my fridge and my pantry is full of spices, that’s all I wanted for this recipe.

Let’s make one of my favourite spicy tangy aromatic cumin spice dry potato curry (Jeera masala aloo). This is homemade, delicious and quick to make dry aloo curry recipe, goes very well with steaming hot rice, parathas, poori. It’s a vegan, gluten-free, spicy and tangy dry curry that is made with special homemade jeera masala and there is absolutely no onion-garlic.
When there’s no green vegetable available at home then this flavourful and spicy dry aloo curry is the rescue. The aroma of the potatoes, sizzling in oil infused with cumin masala and freshly grated ginger fills the home with an aromatic flavour. I love the potatoes spicy, tangy and hot.

You can alter the seasoning and spices as per your taste. Even this dry curry also tastes best as a side dish with any meal or dal chawal. If you boil potatoes in advance than this recipe needs only 10- 15 min to prepare, but it’s the best restaurant style jeera aloo.

The spices required in this zingy spicy flavoured curry are fresh ginger, green chilies, coriander, asafoetida and of course cumin – the main ingredients after baby boiled potato. For the dry masala, the main key of the recipe is cumin seeds, coriander seeds, red dry chilly, anardana and fennel seeds.

Mix and tossed all the ingredients together in one pan in the proper way. So, this way aromatic magic begins…

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Pumpkin Spice Latte

Happy weekend friends!

As a coffee lover, I always fancy of pumpkin spice latte. So today I made a vegan pumpkin spice latte with homemade almond milk, some warm spices, and white Russian pumpkin puree and finest coffee. Well, this is not autumn, but I like to drink some warm drinks on a rainy cold day.

I made my own version of latte but the funny thing is that I never had actual pumpkin latte before coming here. After having a delicious and beautiful spiced warm drink, it became my one of favorite drinks on a rainy cold day.
I wish you all a happy weekend filled with good food and good mood. I also want the same wishes for me to focus after a dark time of life which I spent the last couple of months. Now my soul really wants a nice latte along with nice food, nice music, and love.

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