Category: Dinner
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Easy Korean Cold Noodles Naengmyeon
Meet your new summer favorite – naengmyeon, a classic Korean dish that’s cooling, flavorful, perfect for hot weather, and super easy to make. Hard to beat a bowl of refreshing, slurpy goodness on a hot summer day! Naengmyeon is an iconic Korean dish and a top childhood fave of mine. It consists of silky, chewy,…
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Chili Oil Butter Purple Cauliflower Steak
Bring a dash of stunning color to your plate with this purple cauliflower steak! They’re pan-seared and roasted with chili oil butter that packs a big punch of flavor, served on a bed of fluffy, creamy tofu “feta” and zingy chimichurri sauce. Purple cauliflower is like the foxy sibling of cauliflowers 😉 They taste not…
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Two-Ingredient Quinoa Tortilla
The easiest and most wholesome tortillas ever! They’re naturally vegan, gluten-free, high-protein, and wonderfully soft and flexible. And the best part, only two ingredients needed! All you need to make these wraps are wholegrain raw quinoa and water, that’s it! Anything else is optional, you can add extra vegetables to give them more nutrients and…
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Vegan Mapo Tofu | Authentic Chinese style without pork
Mapo Tofu (麻婆豆腐) is more than just a dish, it’s a cultural ICON. It is fiery, bold yet tender, soul-satisfying, and perfectly embodies Sichuan cuisine’s signature flavor profile: málà—a combination of hot chili spice and tongue-numbing Sichuan peppercorns. Originating in Chengdu, Sichuan, during the late Qing Dynasty (circa 1860s–1870s), Mapo tofu was created by a woman…
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No Waste Okara (Soybean Pulp) Patties
Stop throwing out the leftover bean pulp after you make soy milk! Make these delicious little flavor bomb patties that are packed with nutrients – high in protein, fiber, and essential minerals. Soy bean pulp, or okara, or Dou Zha in Chinese, is a byproduct leftover from soy milk making. While often discarded as food…
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Traditional Homemade Kimchi (Vegan No Fish)
Once you try homemade kimchi, you’ll never look back! This is my go-to napa cabbage kimchi recipe, and it’s super flavorful, easy to do at home, and highly customizable. There are actually many types of kimchi, but the most well-known and recognizable one is napa cabbage kimchi, or Baechu Kimchi, which happens to be my…
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Stuffed Pita Pocket Vegan Arayes
Golden crispy on the outside, flavorful, juicy, and incredibly meaty on the inside! These scrumptious, high-protein stuffed pita pockets will have you coming back to them again and again. There’s quite an interesting personal journey behind these flavor bomb pockets. What started as a spontaneous creation turned into a learning experience! So what sparked the…
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Chinese Turnip Cake Dim Sum (萝卜糕)
A cornerstone dim sum dish and a great way to enjoy a super underrated root vegetable! These turnip cakes are a humble yet iconic delicacy. Chinese turnip cake, also known as Luo Bo Gao in Mandarin or Lo Bak Go in Cantonese, is a cornerstone of Chinese dim sum. Its English translation name always confused…
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Crispy Rice Sushi Cup
Give your leftover rice a makeover and turn it into these crispy rice sushi cups! They are quite literally little flavor and protein bombs. Do you ever have leftover rice that you don’t know what to do with, but at the same time feel bad about wasting it? I think we all do… Especially when…
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Stuffed Cabbage Rolls with Lentil Fillings
This nourishing and comforting one pan meal will have your loved ones requesting it over and over again! These cabbage rolls are stuffed with a high protein lentil veggie filling and baked in a vibrant tomato sauce. It always amazes me how much similarity humans across geographic, cultural and political barriers share in common, especially…
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Vegan Budae Jjigae Korean Army Stew
Easy comfort meal final boss! This Budae Jjigae is made of lots of fresh vegetables, tofu, kimchi, noodles, vegan cheese and all cooked and served in one pot. Budae Jjigae is a very popular Korean dish and one famed member of the big Korean stew family – other members include Kimchi Jjigae, Sundubu-jjigae (soft tofu…
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Tricolor Rice Paper Dumplings with Vegan Fillings
Turn your rice paper into these easiest steamed crystal dumplings. They’re vibrant, stunning, naturally gluten-free with a high-protein tofu veggie filling. Happy Chinese New Year and Year of The Horse! Of course, we have to celebrate with some dumplings, which is the most important dish for the Chinese New Year’s Eve dinner. Traditionally, dumplings are…
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Chinese Street Food – Battered Leaf Noodles in Chili Oil
Turn any leafy greens into… a bowl of noodles! This unique Chinese street food is such an ingenious invention by the people, for the people. It’s incredibly easy and affordable to make yet unforgettably delicious. Leaf noodle, or battered leaf, is a popular street food in Northwestern China, especially in the Shan Xi province and…
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Big Bubble Garlic Focaccia Overnight Cold Fermentation
The easiest, most airy, bubbly, and flavorful focaccia method ever! The overnight retarding method yields such a dream texture and rice flavor. This is a super easy, fail-proof focaccia recipe! And absolutely beginner-friendly. How do I know that? Because this was my very first time making focaccia, and it turned out like a dream! Golden,…
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One Pot Braised Eggplant with Noodles
Spiral-cut eggplants braised in a umami, sweet, and savory chili sauce with hearty chewy noodles, this one pot comfort meal packs so much flavor as well as nutrition. No you don’t have eggplants, you might just need to try them prepared in a different way! Having personally turned many eggplant-haters’ views on this underrated vegetable…
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