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A spicy and a lip-smacking Mexican enchilada sauce from scratch. Here comes my next Mexican sauce recipe – Instant Pot Enchilada Sauce with no preservative and no added food color and guess what, it’s GLUTEN-FREE too. Check out the detailed enchilada recipe with step-wise pictures.
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I am here with another quesadilla recipe but with the traditional cheese that gives quesadilla the name quesadilla. I am going to share a delicious quesadilla with mushrooms and jalapenos but loaded with the traditional queso cheese – the queso fresco. Let’s see how to make this simple yet yummylicious quesadilla with the queso cheese.
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Yes, you read the title right. I am talking about Jalapenos in the kid’s lunchbox series. Try this insanely delicious combination of Jalapenos and cheese inside the warm and soft flour tortillas; you might never know, your kids might ask for second servings. Check out the recipe and see how I sneaked in this spicy Jalapeno peppers and made this not-so-spicy Jalapeno Cheese Quesadilla.
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Looking healthy alternatives for regular potato fries? How about some fiber-rich Baked Jicama Fries? Yes, that’s what I am going to share today. So what is Jicama(pronounced as hee-cama)? It is an edible root grown in the warm climates of Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes Mountain regions, and Southern Asia, where it’s an essential as well as an extremely versatile food source. It is popularly known as Mexican Yam Bean or Mexican Turnip.
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Finally, I am posting a cake recipe for this blogging marathon. I am glad that I am sharing our family favorite – Tres Leches Cake, of course, the eggless version. :-) We all know that this is a famous Mexican cake and Tres means three and leches mean milk. It’s a sponge cake soaked in three milk mixture; Whole milk /heavy cream, condensed milk, and evaporated milk. I did not use any butter for this recipe. It’s light, spongy cake with the air bubble, and this texture helps to absorb the milk and make it moist and juicy.
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After the rich and scrumptious festive foods, all I want is some simple, light, healthy and comfortable one-pot meal. Today I am going to share one such recipe – Vegetarian Jambalaya with leftover rice, yes I prepared it with leftover rice. According to the wiki, Jambalaya is a dish of Louisiana origin of Spanish and French. For me, it reminded me of vegetable and rajma pulao. I served this with tortilla chips, and it became a filling and a complete meal.
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A short break for Diwali snacks and sweets. What do you do during a movie break? But some popcorn and start the movie again right? I am doing the same thing too. A Popcorn Break today.
When you are watching a movie you need something to munch and sip. What’s better than homemade popcorn? Theatre or home, Tea or soda – popcorn goes well with any combo. This recipe is called Popcorn Ole. It seems it is a very popular Mexican street food. It pretty much has all the flavors. Tangy, spicy and creamy with a bit of sweet – oh yum.
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Two weeks has gone already. The third week theme is “condiments from different countries”. Another interested theme huh? When I was looking back at my old posts I realized I have missed many basic recipes. So decided to post all simple sauces, dips for this week. So starting with my favorite one – Guacamole.
Guacamole is a no stove spanish dip which is traditionally made by mashing ripe avocados and sea salt with a mortar and pestle. We get fresh guacamole prepared in mortar pestle in front of us in Chevys. Its chunky but yum and perfect for chips. I wanted to try a similar chunky guacamole as they prepare in chevys. The tradition recipes just calls for avacados and sea salt. But you can add onions, tomatoes, green chillies or salsa along with lime juice, cilantro. I usually prepare with whatever ingredients I have it at home.
Before getting into the recipe, I would like to mention the beneficial properties of Avacado.
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That’s it. Yummy Avacado dip is ready and serve with chips.
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I wanted to prepare one Mexican combo for this week’s theme. That’s when I got this recipe from my colleague – Quinoa and spinach burrito. The recipe was super simple and very healthy so I thought of trying it right away for the International combo. And you know what prepared a huge batch of my slow cooker rajma so thought using the rajma gravy instead of boiled/canned beans. To my surprise Spinach and quinoa cooked with a hint of oregano and combined with rajma was really great. My sous chef, Mr. Vaandu approved it ate one whole burrito without any complaints and made feel proud. (Touch-wood)
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Here is the simple baked tortilla chips to go with my Quinoa and spinach burrito. For my second dish I tried tortilla chips. Obviously when its burrito the combo should be chips right?
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This week DFT theme is “Tex-Mex.” I am bringing one more stew recipe but not with quinoa. But this stew is also loaded with protein. I always see ways to add protein to our diet. Being a vegetarian that’s quite difficult. I have to keep doing my protein math at least for my kiddo. So coming to this recipe, it is loaded with three different kinds of beans (Black beans, pinto beans, and Red Kidney beans) which are a good source of protein and fiber. Also, we add corn which gives the carbs and bell peppers and chili powder the other essential nutrients. This makes it a complete balanced meal and diabetic friendly too. I prepared this without oil. You can see the benefits of bell peppers and red chili powder here.
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Vegetarian Enchilada Casserole is a semi-home made Mexican recipe that can be assembled quickly and prepared in a jiffy. All you need is some veggies, enchilada sauce, cheese and tacos. Just assemble all the ingredients and bake.. Boom you are done. :-) Welcome to the 22nd day of baking mania. So one more week to go. :-) Learnt a lot in this series and at the same time I got a chance to get back to some of my old forgotten recipes. One such recipe is this vegetarian enchilada casserole. Its a complete semi home made recipe. ;-) ;-)
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For this week’s blogging Marathon, the theme is “Say Cheese”. The first one is simple and a popular dish. A perfect kids friendly dish. I know this is a Mexican dish but I still go with cheddar and mozzarella cheese because of kiddo’s taste preference.
I got to explore about cheese only after coming to US. While in India, I didn’t even realize there are this many cheese varieties. All I knew was Britannia and Amul cheese :-) Paneer is also very rare in our household. I grew up eating typical Brahm food.
My first awwwww moment was in Subway asking what cheese I wanted in my sub. I had no clue about cheddar, pepper jack or swiss cheese. M asked me to go with swiss and I promptly nodded my head. But foodie in me, made to read all about these cheese and their making process.
Here are the two cheese varieties that you find in my fridge. The other ones come and go on required basis.
Cheddar: Ok, coming to cheddar you have multiple varieties with in itself like mild, sharp, yellow, white etc. I usually get the mild yellow cheddar and its kiddo’s favorite. It’s from cow’s milk and one of the most consumed cheese in the world. I used them for quesadilla, any cheese toast, just as snack even.
Mozzarella: This cheese is made from buffalo milk. I usually add them in salads. Mozzarella balls with basil, tomatoes drizzled with balsamic yummmmm.
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That’s it. Now cut them in triangle shapes and yummy Quesadilla is ready.
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As I mentioned on Jan 1st, along with Blogathon, I am starting this year with Blogging Marathon and the first week theme is American Street Food. :-) I count say no to that them. I have been to other states of US, but never ventured about the food much. So the three dishes that I am planning to do will be California’s street food which I am more familiar with. :-)
So coming to Californian food, you can see a lot of Mexican influence and in SFO bay you can find a lot of fusion food too. Our favorite hangout place is University Avenue in Palo Alto. You can find Indian fusion, Umami burgers, crepes, Burmese, Thai and what not. Summer evenings are the perfect time. Listening to the music bands and having food is always bliss. For typical Tamil Nadu food, you have south bay where you can find Murugan Idly Kadai, Aachi’s aapa kadai, Madras Cafe, Saravana Bhavan, Komala Vilas and more. El Camino Real in Santa Clara is known for its food places. :-)
Besides fast foods and restaurants, food trucks are very popular here. I love food trucks and especially Taco trucks. Food trucks have their own schedule and they post well ahead where they are going to be and you can plan accordingly. One of my favorite food trucks is 333. It’s a taco truck and they do fusion tacos like Paneer Tikka Taco and Korean Tofu tacos. I love these two tacos very much. Today’s dish is going to be Korean BBQ style taco. Basically the Korean sauce is sweet and spicy. It’s a great combo with the tacos and Kiddo’s loves this dish very much.
The base vegan bbq sauce recipe is taken from here. I slightly modified the version and went with what I had. But I am using silken tofu so that I can crumble it easily. You can always opt for extra firm tofu too.
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Disclaimer: I am preparing this dish as per my kiddo’s preference. Please vary the veggies and cheese accordingly.
Burrito is one perfect meal to hide beans and legumes, especially red kidney beans or pinto beans. In this burrito, I am using red kidney beans. Easy to make and pack. If you are planning to make rajma, set aside some beans for this burrito. All you need is some rice, bean and cheese of your choice.
I am not using sour cream and salsa in this burrito as it makes the burrito soggy for lunch. Also you can add veggies of you choice.
Prep Work: If you are not using canned beans, soak 3 tbsp of red kidney beans overnight and pressure cook them by adding 1/4 tsp of salt. Also cook any rice of your choice (Raw/Boiled/Basmati) in your preferred way.
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Thats it yummy bean-cheese-rice burrito is ready.
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