I absolutely love this Vegan Black Sesame Shortbread -This Vegan Black Sesame Shortbread is salty-sweet, perfectly crisp and melt-in-your-mouth buttery. I’ve been wanting to make a dairy-free shortbread for a while. I don’t like to use things like vegan butter or other dairy-free spreads, so opted for a mixture of two great whole foods alternatives: coconut oil…
Vegan Chickpea Eggplant Tagine (GF)
This Vegan Chickpea Eggplant Tagine is the perfect warming, filling and comforting yet healthy meal. I absolutely love the combination of the intensely savoury, subtly-spiced sauce that envelops the meltingly soft aubergine and nutty chickpeas, which all pairs perfectly with the fluffy quinoa. Pomegranate arils add sweet and juicy pops of colour, whilst the pistachio…
Purple Sweet Potato Cheesecakes (Vegan + GF)
These Purple Sweet Potato Cheesecakes are vividly colourful, perfectly sweet and surprisingly healthy! I absolutely love purple sweet potatoes, and have previously used them for lots of different desserts, including ice cream, mochi and milkshakes. I adore their natural sweetness, almost perfume-like flavour, and of course their beautiful colour! They’re also really, really healthy. These little Purple…
Apple Fig Walnut Rocket Salad (Vegan + GF)
I absolutely love the combination of flavours and textures in this Apple Fig Walnut Rocket Salad: crunchy apples, jammy dried figs, earthy walnuts and peppery rocket (arugula) coated in a garlicky pesto dressing! I’d been wanting to make a salad for autumn/winter for a while, but had a hard time finding flavour combinations that would…
Italian Hummus (Vegan + GF)
This Italian Hummus is made with creamy white beans and flavoured with fragrant rosemary. One of the most popular post on my blog is this Wagamama-Inspired Salad Dressing, so I thought doing more restaurant-inspired recipe posts was the way to go! The recipe here is pretty similar to a normal hummus recipe, but you just substitute the chickpeas with…
Vegan Japanese-Style Mapo Tofu (GF)
This Vegan Japanese-Style Mapo Tofu is intensely savoury, comforting and warming, and super easy to make! This is an adapted version of a Chinese dish originating from China’s Sichuan province, which consists of mincemeat and soft tofu cooked in a very spicy chilli sauce with fermented black beans. The dish is also very popular in Japan, where it has…
