Learn how to add flavour to your favourite food by preparing delicious sauces and dips with our recipes.
I make this salad dressing quite often. I like using it to flavour simple salads made from lettuce, tomato and cucumber. To prepare this honey and mustard dressing, you need good-quality natural honey, mustard, a little lemon juice and oil. I also add apple cider vinegar because it gives the dressing a nice flavour. All…
Quite recently, I discovered that pesto can be made from almost any type of greens. To prepare pesto, you do not need to buy any expensive ingredients as you can use so-called “leftovers”. Instead of throwing away radish leaves or carrot greens, use them in pesto. To make pesto, you need to wash your greens,…
For many people, preparing mayonnaise at home might be a frightening idea but there is nothing to worry about because there is probably no easier dish to make in the kitchen than mayonnaise. You can make mayonnaise either from whole eggs or only from yolks. The recipe below is for the second. Mayonnaise made only…
Salsa verde is a type of green, cold sauce prepared from fresh herbs. Depending on the country, this sauce can be prepared in several ways. In Italy and France, parsley, capers, anchovies, vinegar and olive oil are used to prepare it. The sauce is seasoned with lemon juice, garlic and salt. The Mexican version of…
Béchamel is a white sauce based on flour, milk and butter. The first step is roux prepared from flour and butter, which are fried until the flour is cooked. If after tasting the roux, there is still a noticeable taste of flour in it, it means that the flour is not cooked and the roux…
Romesco is a Spanish sauce originating from the region of Catalonia. The base of the sauce is made from tomatoes, peppers and almonds. The sauce is seasoned with olive oil, vinegar and garlic. Romesco sauce is a type of cold sauce, which means that the ingredients are not cooked together, only mixed once they are…
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…
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…
Hummus is a dish that comes from the historical region of Levant and from Egypt. The word hummus literally means chickpeas in Arabic. So you already know what hummus is made from 🙂 It is based on cooked chickpeas, combined with garlic, tahini (sesame paste), olive oil, lemon juice and spices. The whole thing is…
Sauces are an essential part of many dishes. Usually they complement meat, but there is also a range of vegetarian dishes which are not too tasty without the addition of some sort of sauce. I make mushroom sauce quite often. It is a versatile sauce as it is as tasty with meat as with vegetables….
Peri-peri sauce is one of the spicier sauces made from peppers. In the original recipe, this sauce is made from a chili pepper called peri-peri, hence the very name of the sauce. When making peri-peri sauce, you do not need to go exclusively for peri-peri chili. It is alright to use any type of hot…