Recipes

Easy to make, mostly healthy recipes, often using inexpensive local ingredients. Drawing from my Indian background, my keenness to eat more healthily and what my family says is tasty! Many of the recipes here also have accompanying videos with them too.

Gluten Free Chocolate Cake

GLUTEN FREE CHOCOLATE CAKE

A rich, moist, gluten free chocolate cake recipe made without flour but with a magic ingredient : a can of kidney beans! You’ll be amazed at the taste. Try it as a special dessert and see if anyone can even remotely guess how you have added vegetables to it! The kidney beans add a marvelous supply of the Vitamin B’s esp B1. Calcium, Potassium, Magnesium, Iron,  Zinc and Selenium with a great amount of fibre. Ingredients for Gluten Free Chocolate Cake This recipe has appeared with a few changes in a thermomix recipe site before now, but works well with

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Paleo_Dessert_Chocolate

PALEO DESSERT RECIPE

An EASY, NO COOK Paleo dessert recipe …that is slightly adapted from the original which comes from an Australian cooking forum. My super fit and uber health conscious neighbour from Melbourne (now in the Arabian Ranches) shared it with me and it’s brilliant. They call it “I can’t believe it’s not chocolate!” and actually the name is very appropriate. Forget Chocolate Brownies, Hello Paleo Pudding! Excellent for kids and adults alike AND it makes use of LOCAL INGREDIENTS. No sugar, flour, butter or eggs, so it’s good for vegans too. If you use a certain type of sunflower oil then the recipe is

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Crispy Okra recipe DoinDubai Monica Kapila

CRISPY OKRA RECIPE – good for air frying

 Okra is a vegetable  This crispy okra recipe is perfect for those tv munchies when you want to avoid crisps. Air Frying it is a super way of making it more healthy. We use a Ninja AF 100 Air Fryer. Okra is a long, green, pod like vegetable with ridges down it’s sides and a small stalk at one end. Okra is also known as known as ladies fingers, bhindi, bamia, ochro or gumbo. The word okra though is West African in origin. Okra is used as a dish in it’s own right in Indian, Pakistani, Emirati, Iranian, African and

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Chocolate Belgian Cake

EASY BELGIAN CHOCOLATE CAKE

Soft, sophisticated Easy Belgian Chocolate Cake, in two easy mixtures…fool proof. Of course it doesn’t have to be Belgian Chocolate, I used Swiss chocolate, which works just as well. This recipe for easy, Belgian, chocolate cake comes from my neighbour in the Arabian Ranches who is Swiss but used to live in Belgium, Thanks Isabel B. I don’t think it needs anything with it but you could add creme fraiche and a mint leaf for effect or in this heat add a good quality vanilla ice cream. Have you tried the ice creams from Govindas, fabulous flavours like fig, chikoo and

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South Indian Prawn Curry

SOUTH INDIAN PRAWN CURRY

An Easy Prawn Curry recipe that works People always ask me how to make a good Prawn Curry although everyone has their own versions with slight variations. I’ve experimented with a few recipes and have come up with a simple, authentic, tasty recipe that seems to be a hit with kids and friends from East and West. So try it and tell me what you think…   Luckily in Dubai we can easily and cheaply obtain staples for a lot of Indian cooking, things like ready chopped onions, fresh curry leaves, coriander and tamarind paste all cost a fraction of what

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