Recipes with vegetable / fruit

Green beans with sesame dressing

Toasted sesame seeds are ground and mixed with rice vinegar, dashi, mirin, soy sauce and sugar to make the dressing. Briefly boiled green beans and thinly sliced red onion are tossed in to complete this lovely side dish.

Cook time: 8

Servings: 3 people

Quick-fried eggplants with ginger dashi sauce

Eggplants are cut into slices, quick fried, doused with ginger dashi sauce and garnished with crispy bonito flakes. Great side dish or vegetarian main dish.

Cook time: 7

Servings: 4 people

Sweet peas soup

Dried split peas are often used for making pea soup. But dried peas lack the natural sweetness of fresh peas which gives pea soup a more nuanced flavor. In this recipe, frozen fresh peas are used. After simmering them in chicken broth, the peas are pureed with an immersion blender. No cream is added.

Cook time: 15

Servings: 4 people

Leek and potato soup

A soup so delicious it’s hard to believe how few the ingredients are and how easy the cooking procedure is. Cream is omitted in this recipe to highlight the natural flavors of the leeks and potatoes.

Cook time: 30

Servings: 6 people

Banana bread with chocolate chips and nuts

Got overripe bananas? Mash them and bake them into this banana bread (it’s really a cake) that’s ultra moist and chock-full of chocolate chips and nuts.

Cook time: 30

Servings: 3 small cakes

Beef brisket BBQ quesadillas

Chopped beef brisket BBQ, bell pepper, scallions and shredded cheese are tossed to make the filling for this beef brisket BBQ quesadillas. Serve for breakfast, as a snack or pack for a picnic.

Cook time: 10

Servings: 4 people

Mandarin chicken salad

Fruity, nutty, protein-rich with just enough carbs in the form of croutons, this filling salad is a one bowl meal.

Cook time: 0

Servings: 4 people

Bandeja paisa

In our home version of the Colombian platter, chorizo, chicharron, fried egg and bananas are served with rice and beans.

Cook time: 15

Servings: 3 people