6 Rice Recipes from Around the World

6 Rice Recipes from Around the World

6 Rice Recipes

From Around the World

Are you wondering how to make exciting meals with rice and simple recipes? See what people around the world are cooking and add your own take on this. 

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From Spain to Indonesia

Rice cannot only be a side dish. It plays a major role in paella and nasi goreng. Try it!

Main Ingredients

Spanish Paella Valenciana

  • short grain rice
  • beans, 
    peas, green beans,
    and/or bell pepper
  • 1-2 lemons
  • 1 tomato or from a can

Optional

  • chicken, pork, fish fillet, or shrimp

Brazilian Vatapá

  • rice
  • coconut milk
  • 2 tomatoes or from a can
  • 2 slices sandwich bread

Optional

  • shrimp, fish fillet, or chicken
  • 2 tbsp ground peanuts

Taiwanese Ló͘-bah-pn̄g

  • rice or noodles
  • ground meat
    or chopped mushrooms
  • soy sauce or tamari ( or coconut aminos. liquid aminos, or Worcestershire sauce)

Optional

  • eggs, bok choy or cabbage

Main Ingredients

Goan Vindaloo

  • rice or bread or potatoes
  • chicken or lamb or pork or beef (stew) or eggplant, cauliflower, or sweet potatoes
  • 1/2 head garlic
  • 1 onion
Korean Bibimbap – coming soon
  • rice
  • beef, chicken, or portabello mushrooms
  • eggs (works also without them)
  • vegetables of your choice
  • sesame seeds
  • soy sauce or tamari ( or coconut aminos. liquid aminos, or Worcestershire sauce)


Indonesian Nasi Goreng

  • rice leftovers
  • 2-3 cups vegetable mix (anything available)
  • soy sauce or tamari ( or coconut aminos. liquid aminos, or Worcestershire sauce)

Optional

  • shrimp or chicken or sausages
  • peanuts
6 Rice Recipes from Around the World
Spanish Paella Valenciana
Brazilian Vatapá – Brazilian Curry
Taiwanese Ló͘-bah-png
Goan Vindaloo
Korean Bibimbap
Indonesian Nasi Goreng
6 Rice Recipes from Around the World
10 Ideas & Recipes for Mediterranean Pesto

10 Ideas & Recipes for Mediterranean Pesto

10 Ideas & Recipes for Mediterranean Pesto

Italian Pesto Genovese Homemade

Are you a fan of fresh homemade pesto? The original recipe for Pesto Genovese from the region of Genoa in North Italy dates back to the 8th century.

Want to try it? We made it a bit easier for you. It takes only a few minutes – Promise!

Tomato Mozzarella with Pesto

Tomato and Mozzarella with Pesto

Who doesn’t love caprese salad? Slices of tomatoes and mozzarella pair pefectly with fresh basil leaves, salt & pepper, and a good quality olive oil. You can also just drizzle pesto over it. So yummy!

Modern Pesto Variations

Today, the authentic Pesto Genovese is just the start for plenty of variations. Trendy is to substiute pine nuts with walnuts or pistaccios. 

10 Ideas & Recipes for Mediterranean Pesto
Homemade Pizza by Ashim D'Silva @randomlies

Upgrade Your Pizza

Whether you can take the time and have fun making your own pizza at home or get a quick pizza delivery, enhance it with drizzled fresh pesto sauce.

Running out of Basil?

Sub or mix with spinach or kale. And even edamame works. We tried it mixed with basil, pine nuts, and pistaccios. Delicious!

Pollo con Pesto al Forno

Do you think it’s a lot of work for the homemade pesto? How about a short cut using our delicous pesto seasoning? 

Whatever pesto you prefer, try our Italian Pollo con Pesto al Forno. It’s an easy baked chicken. Just perfect for a weeknight.

Pasta con Pesto

This fast dinner will make you feel happy 🙂 No need for a recipe. Just mix the ingredients that you see in the picture and add pesto.

Set your creativity free: pesto is always a good solution when you are looking for a change in your pasta sauce options. Add just one or two vegetables to your pesto pasta and you have a delicious healthy meal. For instance, try leek fried with olive oil until soft.

Tip: Try pasta made from beans to cover the protein. Or add chicken leftovers or ham or prosciutto cut into strips. 

Pasta con Pesto

SpiceBreeze Pesto Seasoning

SpiceBreeze Pesto Seasoning
Ingredients: Basil, garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, pine nuts, salt, and black pepper.
SpiceBreeze Pesto Seasoning

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Pesto – 10 Ideas & Recipes
Pesto – 10 Ideas & Recipes
Pesto – 10 Ideas & Recipes
Pesto – 10 Ideas & Recipes
In the Midst of Cranberry Season

In the Midst of Cranberry Season

In the Midst of Cranberry Season

Freshly Fruity Fun

It is this time of the year when juicy fresh cranberries are everywhere and we can enjoy them as much as possible! 

  • Start with this 3 steps recipe below for freshly made cranberry sauce. 
  • Check out some ideas to use this fruity deliciousness and discover your own.
  • Add different spices for a new twist along the way with our spice recommendation in the recipe below.
cranberry camenbert
On a Bread with Cheese
peach cranberries
On Fresh or Baked Peaches
On a Pancake
On a Pancake
With Venison
With Venison
With Baked Camenbert
With Baked Camenbert
As Simple Dessert
As Simple Dessert
Cranberries

Easy Fresh Cranberry Sauce

SpiceBreeze
Freshly made cranberry sauce is much more delicious than from a can, and it takes no effort with this 3-steps-recipe.
Servings 3

Ingredients
  

  • 12 oz fresh cranberries
  • agave syrup or honey
  • fresh orange juice

Optional Cranberry Spices

  • cinnamon, cloves, cacao, ginger, green pepper, star anise, vanilla

Instructions
 

3 Steps

  • In a small POT, add cranberries and 1/2 cup water.
    In the Midst of Cranberry Season
  • Bring to boil. Cook over low heat for 10-15 minutes.
  • Stir in 1-2 tbsp orange juice and agave syrup or honey until it tastes as you prefer it.

How about a new taste for your cranberry sauce?

  • Try one or two of the following spices.
  • Add little by little and see how you like it:
  • cinnamon, cloves, cacao, ginger, green pepper, star anise, vanilla
In the Midst of Cranberry Season Recipes
In the Midst of Cranberry Season Recipes
Grand Meteora Monastery

Meteora – The Heart of Greece

Valley of Monasteries
Valley of Monasteries

Breathtaking Meteora Phenomenon in Greece

How is the feeling visiting the Valley of Monasteries? “Serene, spiritual, magical, mystical, extraordinary, breathtaking, immense, inspiring, impressive. These are only some of the words people very often use in an effort to describe the Meteora phenomenon” in Greece. (Visit Meteora)

Climb Up To Get Home?

Remember the fun to climb up a tree house? It seems hard to imagine to get up a rope to return home every day. Even more, if your house was built on a steep mountain, right? But it’s possible!

The Valley of Monasteries

This monastery is located near the town of Kalmbaka in the Meteora region in the heart of Greece. It seems hard, almost impossible, to build a monastery on top of such a steep cliff. Tough it was an ideal place for monks in search of solitude.

Agio Triada Monastery
Agio Triada Monastery
Rousanou Monastery
Rousanou Monastery

Impossible Was Not An Option

It was not an easy undertaking to settle on the natural sandstone pillars of the Meteora region.
Driven by the need to find an isolated place for their communities, monks constructed almost 1,000 years ago an impressing number of 20+ monasteries on these sandstone mountains. No wonder they are listed since 1988 as UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Dare to Visit Meteora in Greece?

If you decide to visit the Meteora monasteries in Greece, be prepared for narrow and curvy mountain roads. The monks had to access their monastery either by ladder, net or rope. Nowadays, stairs make it easier to climb up the mountain hermitages. Still – the number of steps varies from 100 to over 300, some followed by an uphill walk.

Meteora - The Heart of Greece
Greek Moussaka

Visit Greece Tonight!

Cook authentic Moussaka is a casserole made with ground lamb and eggplant covered with a thick layer of béchamel sauce.


Or try mix with Kleftiko, a lamb dish baked in parchment paper. It’s easy to prepare, fun to eat, and has the rich Moussaka flavor. Get the recipes here!

Moussaka a la Kleftiko
Moussaka a la Kleftiko