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🌱 Turn up the heat! Today's Culinary Adventure is Quick and Easy Pickled Chili Peppers!

This spicy appetizer is a perfect addition to veggie main courses, plant-based burgers, and salads. The apple cider vinegar marinade with mustard seed is easy to make, but it adds the peppers extra deliciousness! 🌱

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🍽 ~ 800ml / 27oz glass jar 🍽

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🔶 What You Need 🔶

▪️8-10 chili peppers ~ 230g / 8oz

▪️3 garlic cloves

▪️water 1 cup

▪️apple cider vinegar 1 cup

▪️brown sugar 2 tbsp

▪️sea ​​salt 1½ tbsp

▪️mustard seed 1/4 tsp

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🔶 What to Do 🔶

1️⃣ Cut the chili peppers into circles together with the seeds. Cut the garlic into thin slices.

2️⃣ In a small saucepan, mix water with vinegar, salt, sugar, and mustard seed. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, and remove from heat.

3️⃣ Add pepper and garlic to the marinade, mix and let cool to room temperature.

4️⃣ The pickled chili peppers are ready. If you are in a hurry, you can serve them right away. Or, put them in a clean jar and leave them to marinate in the fridge at least overnight. The longer the chili peppers marinate, the richer the flavor will be.

Bon Appetit! ❤️

If you, like me, have ripened blackberries, then it's time to cook the most delicate summer dessert! So, Today's Cooking Adventure is Blackberry Mousse Cups with Chia Pudding!

This berry mousse is airy like a cloud. It is a vegan recipe, so it's an egg-free and dairy-free dessert. I whipped aquafaba into the most delicate foam and made a wonderful puree from fresh blackberries.

You can make this vegan dessert very quickly. Only don't forget to make the chia pudding in advance.

🌱 Are you tired of the ordinary Cole Slow? Then try this vegan recipe for cabbage salad. So, today's Cooking Adventure is Refreshing Cabbage Salad with Red Radish and Tofu.

This salad of white cabbage and red radish, fresh herbs, and tofu will keep you cool on a hot summer day because it is a dish best served cold. This veggie salad is also very juicy. You can season this vegan salad with your favorite dressing, though I recommend you my Zesty Eggless Mayonnaise for this recipe. 🌱

🌱 Do you want to know how to make savory mayo at home easy? So, today's Culinary Adventure is Homemade Zesty Egg-free Mayonnaise!

I love to design new ways to make sauces. Every new salad recipe in my collection usually has its unique condiment! This mayo I've specifically made for a juicy cabbage and radish salad. But you can use it as a sauce for many other dishes! This vegan mayo could be perfectly in-tune with summer recipes and winter recipes, with plant-based burgers and veggies. The possibilities are limitless! 🌱

This easy vegan recipe contains just five main ingredients. You can make this plant-based soup quickly and easily.

The highlight of this summer recipe is the sorrel leaves. Sorrel is a leafy green plant with a distinctive sour, lemony flavor, which you can use as an herb and a vegetable. Other names for sorrel are common sorrel or garden sorrel, spinach dock, and narrow-leaved dock.

You may be interested to know that sorrel is also known as a medicinal plant. It also contains high amounts of vitamin A, more than double the daily requirement of most adults.

This vegan recipe does not have a drop of oil, but it still produces a decent crunchy crust. First of all, you should choose the suitable settings for your oven and baking time. In my case, I chose the Upper and Lower Heat setting and kept the potato wedges in the oven for 25 minutes. You may need to adjust the time for your oven.

Also, you can use your favorite seasoning or ready-made potato seasoning. But I suggest you try to compose the potato seasoning by yourself because a ready-made seasoning cannot compare in taste and aroma with freshly ground spices.

Besides the fact that beets have health benefits, including improved heart health and enhanced exercise capacity, they are a great source of nutrients, fiber, and many plant compounds. I have no doubt this simple vegan recipe with beets will add spark to your daily menu.

🌱Dipping sauce or salad dressing? What if both? So, Today's culinary adventure is Mango Dip. This vegan dairy-free sauce goes well with fresh vegetables like celery and salads like Baked Chickpea Salad. You can make this smooth and thick, plant-based sauce just in a couple of minutes.

🌱 Want something sweet? You want it now? Then today's Cooking Adventure is definitely for you! Try this simple Thai-inspired vegan dessert: Kluai Buat Chi or Banana in Coconut Milk. To do this, you need a minimum of ingredients. Cook bananas in coconut milk or a mixture of coconut milk and coconut cream with sugar - I replaced it with syrup - and a pinch of salt to create a flavorful dessert. You may serve it hot or cold. You can even add crushed ice. For example, I prefer this vegan dessert warm.

🌱 Today's Culinary Adventure is Split Pea Soup with Smoked Tofu. First of all, pea soups are known for their high nutritional value, and the second, for their special and unique taste. You can make pea soups from both split yellow peas and fresh or frozen green peas. Or, as in this case, from both at once. This plant-based soup organically complements fried tofu marinated in smoked paprika sauce. Together they create an unforgettable duo of taste and aroma.

Do you want to know how to cook and store pumpkin puree easily? So today's Culinary Adventure is a tender and smooth baked pumpkin puree.

To make pumpkin puree, you will need to make a minimum of effort. You don't even have to peel the pumpkin - all you need is to cut it into several pieces and remove the seeds. Then bake the pumpkin in the oven until fork-tender and puree it using a hand blender or NutriBullet. Then place the puree in portions in freezer bags, food containers, or ice cube trays. Freeze mashed potatoes at -18C / -1F and store in the freezer for up to 8-12 months.

🌱 Many of us think of breakfast as the most important meal of the day. It should charge us with energy and a good mood. That's why I love colorful breakfast oatmeal smoothies with fruits, berries, and nuts so much. So today's Culinary Adventure is Cream Oatmeal with Mini Pancakes.

You can make this porridge pretty quickly, although you still need to bake mini pancakes. But pancakes are baked with NO oil in seconds, and this porridge you even don't need to cook. The result is sweet and nutritious, vegan and gluten-free oatmeal with berries, nuts, and adorable mini pancakes that will cheer you up any morning. Who said that morning is never good? 🌱

🌱 Yet find tofu dull and tasteless? Try Georgian-style tofu! So, Today's Culinary Adventure is fried tofu inspired by Chakhokhbili, a famous Georgian dish.

This very aromatic but simple to prepare dish will make you take a fresh look at tofu. The highlight of this vegan recipe is a fragrant blend of herbs and spices - khmeli-suneli. This spice blend gives tofu its unique flavor. With a minimum of ingredients, you will get an insanely delicious result.

Today's Culinary Adventure is my favorite seasonings – a fascinating spice blend – khmeli suneli. Sounds very exotic, right?

Khmeli suneli is a legendary Georgian seasoning blend of spices and herbs. It's a very aromatic golden greenish spice mix with a unique taste with a hint of walnuts. Khmeli suneli means as much to Georgian cuisine as curry to Indian cuisine or paprika to Hungarian cuisine. Some call it the Georgian garam masala.

Khmeli suneli seasoning goes well with almost any dish, marinade, or pickles. You can use it to make soups, sauces, salads, vegetable dishes, rice, legumes, and savory pastries. Of course, it is a must-have ingredient when preparing traditional Caucasian dishes, such as tkemali, chakhokhbili, satsivi, lobio, pkhali, and many others.

Add the khmeli suneli seasoning 10-15 minutes before the dish is ready, so the herbs have time to convey their aroma to it but not overcook at the same time.

I highly recommend you to let khmeli suneli into your kitchen at least once. And, perhaps, you will fall in love with this seasoning as much as I did in my time.

For the recipe, like for many other fried rice recipes, I use a significant amount of olive oil (3 tbsp). So this recipe may not be suitable for those trying to limit oil consumption. For those who sometimes like to pamper themselves, the rich taste of fried rice may be to their liking. Fried mushrooms and curry with tofu, fresh vegetables add their flavor to this dish.

🌱 Try these Vegan Breakfast Burrito with Potato Tortilla! These burritos are loaded with fresh veggies such as lettuce, tomatoes, and carrots with savory oil-free sauce. Furthermore, these gluten-free tortillas are easy to make from the simplest ingredients. Give these vegan burritos a chance - they are worth it.