These are healthy and not over complicated meat-free dishes for vegetable lovers.
This zucchini cream soup I made recently definitely wins in my contest of soup of the year. It’s been a long time since I ate a vegetable soup with such great pleasure. This zucchini soup with blue cheese turned out to be extremely flavoursome. I couldn’t keep myself away from eating it and I didn’t…
Tartar sauce is a combination of mayonnaise and vegetables marinated in vinegar. Depending on which version of the sauce you are having, you will find gherkins, capers, parsley or chives in it. I have always prepared this sauce only with pickled mushrooms and gherkins. The recipe below is for that version of the sauce. Find…
Whenever the pumpkin appears in stores, I buy a big quantity of it to make some puree and freeze it. I usually make enough to last a few months. I make various sweet and savoury dishes from it. It works great in donuts, buns, cakes, but also in pasta sauces, soups or as an addition…
Ukrainian borscht is a vegetable soup made from beetroot. It is normally prepared only from vegetables but meat can also be added to it. Apart from carrots and parsnip, borscht also contains beans, cabbage, and some people also add dry forest mushrooms. The borscht is typically served with sour cream and freshly hopped dill. Find…
A cabbage salad with tomato, cucumber and red onion is perfect for meat dishes. Today I made fried chicken breasts for dinner, served with new potatoes and this cabbage salad. If you have a vegetable slicer, you will prepare this salad in 10 minutes. Without a slicer, it will take a while longer, because the…
Chimichurri is a sauce popular in Argentina and Uruguay, made from parsley, garlic, olive oil, oregano and red wine vinegar. The sauce is served fresh as an addition to meats and vegetables. The sauce is also great when used as a marinade. The recipe for chimichurri sauce is very simple, the sauce can be made…
Ajvar is a dip made form vegetables, strictly speaking from peppers. There are several versions of ajvar available. The one with tomatoes is called pindjur and the one with eggplant and mustard is malidzano. If you are ever in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina or North Macedonia, be sure to try green pindjur because it is…
This is another recipe of mine for vegetable tartare. I prepared it from celeriac root but I also added tofu cheese, pesto, pine nuts and roasted onion to it. I chose not to serve the tartare with egg yolk, instead I used green pesto, which made the tartare completely vegan. Find me on Instagram: mecooksblog and Facebook: MeCooksblog…
Are you looking for a salad recipe whose main ingredient is couscous? If so, you are in a right place. Couscous is most often served as an addition to dinner dishes. The simplest way to prepare it is to pour boiling water over it and let it swell for a few minutes. Unfortunately, couscous made…
If you like tapas-style dishes, be sure to prepare the cheese balls from the recipe below. Spicy in taste, great to share with your loved ones and, above all, simple and quick to make. Cheese balls are a perfect snack for events or movie nights or afternoons when you just want to munch something. They…
When I make meat for dinner, I usually serve it with potatoes, rice or groats and with some kind of a salad. Mostly I make salad from carrots, beetroots, celeriac, cabbage, leek and kohlrabi. These are just some examples of vegetables that can be used when making salads. Celeriac is quite a versatile vegetable. In…
Pumpkin is a vegetable I eat very often in the fall. I usually bake it and use it as puree to prepare various dishes such as soups, cakes and sauces. Recently, I baked a pumpkin with garlic and olive oil and instead blending it, I cut it up into cubes and served it like that….