Mango Salad Avocado Sauce

Mango lettuce salad with creamy avocado sauce... mmm sound great right? It's mix of exotic fruit (mango) and healthy fruit (avocado), perfect match! This is salad recipe that I've posted at Desire To Eat blog, for mango salad recipe click here, and for creamy avocado sauce recipe click here. Enjoy your salad.

Mango Lettuce Salad

Ingredients:
1 ripe Mango
50g Lettuce
1 tablespoon Honey

Instructions:
Prepare a bowl, wash and slice the lettuce, peel mango, cut dice, remove the seed, mix it with creamy avocado sauce, stir until salad coated with the dressing.

Creamy Avocado Sauce

Ingredients:
2 Avocados, peeled and chopped
1 clove Garlic, minced
1 Tablespoon lemon or lime juice
60ml Milk
1/4 teaspoon Salt
a pinch of pepper

Instruction:
Mix all ingredients with food processor

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Pineapple Pie

I've made this pie few months ago and had change to post it now, to be honest, it took a long time to make this pie, because I used fresh pineapple, it take a lot of effort to peel the fresh pineapple itself and blend it to make puree, but at the end it's worth. You could also use pineapple puree in a can to safe some of your time.
Check out also my new blog at Desire To Eat  to see some appetizing photos created by me.

PINEAPPLE PIE

INGREDIENTS:

Pie crust:

300g flour

150g butter

50g powder sugar

1 egg yolk

2 Tablespoons milk

Filling:
500ml pineapple puree
2 tablespoons water
50g sugar
2 tablespoons butter
2 egg yolk
1 tablespoon corn starch
a pinch of vanilla powder

Meringue topping:
2 white eggs, whipped, foamy
a pinch of salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons powdered sugar

INSTRUCTIONS:

Peel the pineapple skin, cut into four and remove the middle-part of the pineapple. Cut into small pieces and blend it, add some water to make blending easier. Set aside the pineapple puree.

Mix all ingredients for pie crust, wrap with plastic wrap, keep in refrigerator for 10 minutes.
Prepare a pie form. Put pie dough into pie form until the edge, prick it with fork.
Bake 150°C for 15 minutes (pre heat before), bake it with paper and some beans on top of the pie.

While waiting, we preparing the filling of pie. Heat butter, sugar and egg yolks in a pan, stir it. Add corn starch and vanilla powder, stir it. add pineapple puree, stir and cook for 10-15 minutes with low heat (until the consistence a little bit thicker).
Whisk the meringue ingredients in a bowl until foamy.

Remove pie crust from the oven, pour pineapple filling into the pie and whipped meringue on top of the filling until covered. Continue baking for 5 minutes until the meringue turn its color into light brown. Ready to serve.

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Apricot Pistachio Tart

Hmm Apricot Pistachio Tart , sounds good right? I got this recipe from Bojon Gourmet - Apricot crème fraîche tart with honey and pistachios. Alanna recipes and pictures looks really amazing, I wish I can do as best as her. The idea to make pie crust from pistachio is brilliant, honestly I never tried it before, normally I added pie crust ingredient with ground almond. Try to show how to make this tart step by step, see the pictures below: 

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APRICOT PISTACHIO TART

Ingredients:

7 apricots
10g pistachio

Filling:
100ml heavy cream
50g crème fraîche
1 egg yolk
3 tablespoons honey

Tart crust:
50g pistachio
160g flour
100g butter
30g powder sugar
a pinch of salt

you need: 24cm Tart pan

INSTRUCTIONS:

Mix all tart crust ingredients with food processor until the mixture clump together, put the crumbs into the tart pan, press the dough from the sides of the pan and the bottom by using your hand. prick the bottom of the crust with fork, put the whole pan in refrigerator for 5-10minutes, (you could wrap it if you don't need that day).
Pre heat oven 150°C, bake the crust for 10 minutes.
Whisk heavy cream, add crème fraîche, egg yolk and honey for filling.
Divide apricot into half, remove the pits, arrange them on pie crust and pour the cream custard over the apricots, sprinkle with pistachio.
Bake the tart 150°C about 40-50 minutes, or until the custard firm.
Note: you could chop and sprinkle the pistachio later after you bake the tart/pie.

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Lettuce apple salad walnut dressing

Another salad recipe, I made salad everyday, always mixed the lettuce with fruits, so that tastes fruity and fresh. I mixed lettuce and apple, for dressing I've made walnut dressing. 

 Check out another salad on my new blog mango lettuce salad with creamy avocado sauce.

Lettuce apple salad with walnut dressing

Ingredients:

100g Lettuce
1 apple
30g Walnut

Dressing:

4 Tablespoons Walnut oil
1 Tablespoon Balsamic vinegar
1 Tablespoon Honey
1 teaspoon Mustard
1/2 teaspoon Ginger powder
Salt
Black pepper

Instructions:

Wash and slice lettuce.
Cut dice apple.
Mix all dressing ingredients (walnut oil, balsamic vinegar, honey, mustard, ginger powder, salt and pepper) in an bowl.
Mix sliced lettuce and diced apple into dressing bowl, stir until it coated with the dressing.

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Lettuce grape walnut salad

Salad is always part of our daily menu at home, not only with vegetables but it tastes also good with fruits, the important thing is the dressing/sauce. Last time I've made pear lettuce salad with mustard yoghurt sauce. It was perfect. This time I made lettuce salad with grapes and walnuts, the dressing is tahini dressing.

Lettuce salad with grapes and walnut

Ingredients:

100g Lettuce
100g seedless Grapes
50g Walnut

Dressing:

3 Tablespoons Walnut oil
1 Tablespoon Honey
2 teaspoons Tahini (sesame seed pasta)
1 teaspoon Vinegar
1/2 Lemon, press the juice

1/2  teaspoon Salt

Instructions:

Wash and slice lettuce.
Wash and cut into half the grapes.
Chop walnut.
Prepare a bowl, mix dressing ingredients (walnut oil, honey, tahini, vinegar, lemon juice and salt),
stir it with spoon.
Add sliced lettuce, grapes and chopped walnut into the bowl.
Stir it until coated with the dressing.

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Banana chocolate chips cake

I've made this cake many times, I love banana, I eat this fruit everyday, normally together with cereal or oatmeal, but sometimes I made banana cupcake, banana smoothie or this recipe banana cake, with some chocolate chips, taste perfect. :-)

Banana Chocolate Chips cake

Ingredients:

3 Banana, mashed
50g Chocolate chips
2 Eggs
4 Tablespoons Sugar
50ml milk
100g Flour
2 Tablespoons Oatmeal
1 Tablespoon Cacao powder
1 teaspoon Baking powder
50g ground Almond nuts
100g Butter, melted


Instructions:

Prepare a bowl, beat the eggs, whisk it with sugar, pour milk, continue whisking.
Add dry ingredients (flour, oatmeal, cacao powder, baking powder and ground almond nuts) and pour butter.
Add mashed banana and chocolate chips. Stir it with spatula.
Grease square baking tin with butter, spread some flour (so that it's not sticky when you remove the cake from the tin later).
Pour the batter into baking tin.
Bake 180°C for 20 minutes.
Remove from the oven, cool down.

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Lettuce pear salad yogurt mustard dressing

This is very simple salad, I took only 10 minutes to made this. At the beginning I didn't plan to made this, all of ingredients were available on my refrigerator. After I've made this salad, surprisedly it was good, already two days i ate this salad. Dressing is the important part for the making of salad. This dressing is so fresh and fruity.

Lettuce Pear Salad with Yogurt Mustard dressing

Ingredients:

100g Lettuce
1 ripe Pear

Dressing:

3 Tablespoons Yogurt
3 Tablespoons Olive oil
1 teaspoon Mustard
1 teaspoon Vinegar
1/2 teaspoon Sugar
1/2 Lemon, press the juice
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/4 teaspoon Pepper


Instructions:

Wash lettuce leaves (on running water), drain and slice it.
Peel the pear, cut dice.
Prepare a bowl, mix all dressing ingredients with spoon.
Add diced pear and sliced lettuce into the bowl.
Mix until the lettuce and pear coated with the dressing.
Keep it in refrigerator before serving.

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