Vegan Sun-dried Tomatoes & Cashew Dip

Did i told you that i have still some Italian sun-dried tomatoes i carried all the way from Sicile when went for our summer vacation a year back. Back home i have prepared an aromatic oil by heating olive oil along with sun-dried tomatoes and rosemary sprigs. After finishing the sun-dried tomatoes flavoured oil for flavouring pasta dishes and pizzas, those sun dried tomatoes were sitting sadly in the bottle to get finished. When i picked Dip for snacks as theme for this week's blogging marathon, i prepared everything to prepare some dip with those sun dried tomatoes along with a handful of cashews. For my surprise, this dip came out extremely delicious as much as like cashew butter flavored with tomatoes.

Curried Red Kidney Beans Dip/Curried Rajma Dip

You may wonder to read the name of my today's dish. Yes my today's post is Red kidney beans dip which makes an excellent,protein rich dip to serve with some store bought bread sticks or as a spread on grilled baguette slices. Very simple to make, this vegan and gluten free curried rajma dip calls for simple, easily available ingredients which makes an excellent nutritious dip. Rajma aka red kidney beans are tremendously healthy to add in our weekly diet atleast once a while. I do add them often in most of my dishes as this beans are my family favourite legumes as well. Am running this week's blogging marathon with Dips for snacks as theme, hence i dished out this simple, nutritious rajma dip for the theme.

Chilly Garlic Sauce/Chilli Garlic Chutney

Am sharing a simple, easy and definitely a flavourful sauce to serve along with some crispy fritters or chinese style rolls. If you are a spicy lover then trust me this absolutely mildly sweet, spicy and aromatic chutney aka sauce will definitely tickle your tastebuds. I have some hot sauce lovers at home, though myself and my younger one like to have some deep fried fritters with tomato ketchup, others at home just love chilly sauces to have with. I have been looking for a chance to make some garlic loaded chilly sauce just to please my spicy sauce lovers since a while. Finally when i picked Dips for snacks as theme for this week's blogging marathon, obviously i couldnt stop myself to gather all the ingredients to dish out some homemade chilly sauce.

Fry Sauce/French Fry Sauce

My last but not least sauce for this week's blogging marathon is this super easy Fry sauce. Am running this week's blogging marathon with Condiments on side as theme. After two delicious condiments, here comes one of the simplest and very quick condiment aka Fry sauce. Fry sauce can be prepared with simple ingredients, yes just with three ingredients. This fry sauce is ready to serve with your french fries, burgers or grilled meats. Though this sauce is a best accompaniment for french fries, you can serve this sauce very much with baked vegetables as well. This sauce is quite like the popular Cocktail sauce which makes a great addition to serve along with seafoods.

Honey Garlic Sauce/Sweet & Sour Honey Garlic Sauce

If you are looking for a sweet and sour sauce, you should take a look at my today's post. My love for Chinese cuisine pulled me to dish out this easy breezy garlic and ginger loaded sauce. This honey garlic sauce is one the easiest sauce can be prepared with less ingredient in an ease. Usually this sauce is used to dish out some stir fries, however i served this sauce as side for some pan fried tofu slices. Its quite like a dipping sauce for any sort of raw vegetables, grilled meats or pan fried vegetables or else with tofu or paneer. Just dip or drizzle this sauce on the top of your favourite food and enjoy this sweet and sour sauce.

Cinnamon Chocolate Sauce

As we are chocolate lover family, i couldnt stop myself to prepare this easy breezy chocolate sauce flavored with cinnamon powder. This flavourful chocolate sauce when drizzled over your pancakes, your bread toast or else simply to top over your banana split, trust me you will definitely fell in love with this ultimate sauce. With simple ingredients and easy cooking process, your cinnamon chocolate sauce will gets ready in less time to enjoy with your favourite desserts or foods.

Homemade Creamy Caramel Sauce

Prepare a simple caramel sauce at home with some sugar and make them as creamy just by adding heavy cream makes my today's post aka Creamy caramel sauce. This sauce will definitely tickle your tastebuds. Honestly this sauce tastes absolutely fantabulous when served along with your pancakes or on the top of your brownies. However we enjoyed this delicious caramel sauce with crepes. Apart from preparing your own caramel sauce, this sauce is very simple to dish out. Take care while adding cream to the prepared caramel sauce, as there may be many projections of hot caramel.

Gluten Free Raspberry Sauce

If you are looking for a fantastic sauce to top your crepes, pancakes or else your cheesecake or simply to drizzle over some scoops of icecream, please take a look to my today's post. With simple cooking process, this raspberry sauce gets ready very quickly than you can imagine. Either with fresh raspberries or frozen ones, this raspberry sauce calls for simple stove top cooking. With just 4 ingredients, you can dish out your own raspberry sauce with less efforts. I prepared my raspberry sauce with frozen raspberries, obviously if you get fresh raspberries, dont forget to make your own sauce either by spicing them with whole spices, however i didnt spiced mine.

Vegetarian Bolognese Sauce/Vegetarian Ragu Alla Bolognese

Bolognese sauce is a popular Italian sauce which is also known as Ragu alla bolognese or simply ragu is a meat based sauce originated from Bologna, Italy. Hence this sauce got its name as Bolognese sauce, this sauce is cooked usually by slow cooking though this dish asks for several cooking techniques. Usually served with tagliatelle pasta, this meaty sauce makes an excellent sauce to enjoy with pasta. But my today's recipe goes for a delicious Vegetarian version and completely vegan as well.Am not a vegetarian but i dont cook red meat especially beef. Obviously this vegetarian version is definitely a great alternative for this sauce lovers. When i went through google, i saw many versions of this vegetarian sauce, i finally decided to go with my own way of preparing this vegetable loaded sauce.

Pomegranate Molasses/Pomegranate Sauce

I was looking for a prefect molasses to prepare at home, some molasses are quite interesting to make at home, especially fruit based molasses. Actually i seriously want to give a try to a small batch of pomegranate molasses aka pomegranate sauce with fresh pomegranate pearls. Finally i made it, yes i prepared a small bottle of catchy and a very delicious molasses with pomegranate pearls at home. Its really very easy to make though the cooking part goes for a bit long than the preparation part. However its really worth to give a try to this eye pleasing sauce.Pomegranate molasses is an essential ingredient in Middle Eastern cooking though this sauce is quite interesting to relish with French crepes or drizzled over a slice of simple vanilla cake.

Mumbo Sauce/Mambo Sauce

While i was searching for an easy breezy sauce to serve along with some french fries through google master, i got hooked to this new sauce which is completely unknown for me. Its seems this mumbo sauce or mambo sauce have its origin from Chinese take out restaurants in USA especially in Washington and its surrounding area. This sauce is an excelllent condiment to serve along with fried foods or else with crunchy vegetables, actually i loved it with some raw cauliflower florets. This red sauce is quickly prepared with easy ingredients like tomato ketchup and it is flavoured with paprika powder, vinegar,hot sauce with sugar. This sauce tastes mildly hot with sweetness, hence you can serve it easily to anyone.

Honey Peanut Butter Sauce

Though many varieties of store bought sauces do exists, nothing can beat the freshly home made, preservative free sauces to enjoy with fritters or with finger foods. Homemade sauces are easy to make some sauces even goes for no cooking, just whisk the ingredients which you need to make a quick sauce and your sauce is ready to relish with your favourite food. My today's recipe is one among the easiest sauce i have prepared at home. Just with 5 ingredients is needed to dish out this nutty and mildly sweet sauce. This sauce makes an awesome accompaniment with raw vegetable sticks,fried samosas or spring rolls else simply to drizzle over your salad if you like peanuts in your dressing.

Tomato Cream Sauce

Tomato and cream makes excellent sauce to serve along with pastas, this creamy sauce tastes absolutely fabulous to have with any type of pastas. This sauce is also my younger one's favourite and he just love this lipsmacking sauce. This sauce is very simple to make and easy to dish out, with this delicious tomato cream sauce am sure that you can have a filling meal in just matter of minutes. I used fresh tomatoes for making this delicious sauce in case if you want something very quick, just go with canned tomatoes.However i love the taste of fresh tomatoes in this sauce than the canned ones.

Garlic Cream Sauce

After rice, pastas have their important place in our daily menu. My kids devour pastas with anything, even just with ketchup. However i dont forget to make couple of sauces to enjoy with. From Marinara sauce to White sauce, sauce for pastas may goes for many different variations and for easy preparation. My today's recipe goes for an excellent, very creamy and garlic loaded sauce. This sauce need just garlic cloves, all purpose flour and fresh cream which is spiced simply with salt and pepper powder.This sauce goes awesome with pastas else you can make a garlic flavoured gratin with pastas as well. This cream sauce sounds almost like the white sauce but fresh cream is the key ingredient of this sauce.

Sugo Rosso - Red Sauce

Earlier, for me pasta sauce is always a quick sauce with tomatoes but later i learned many and now i make excellent pasta sauces. Pasta, this word itself makes my kids happy, they can have pastas everyday and they never get bored of pastas. However we have pastas atleast twice or thrice a week. My today's recipe goes for Sugo Rosso, this sauce is called Red sauce which is prepared simply with fresh tomatoes and flavored with basil leaves,garlic cloves. This sauce is very quick to prepare, easy to dish out and delicious to enjoy with pastas.

Eggless Lemon Curd

Fruit curds are dessert spread usually prepared with citrus fruits like lemon,lime,orange or else with berries like strawberry,raspberry. The basic ingredients for making fruit curd are egg yolks, fruit juice, and the fruit zest which is cooked together until the mixture turns thick. Once cooled, the soft, smooth and fabulous flavoured spread can be used in small pastries, tarts, fruit bars or simply as filling in cakes.Home made fruit curds goes for no preservatives hence its better to make this fruit curds in small quantity. Coming to today's fruit curd, i prepared mine as eggless lemon curd. Yes you read it rite, my lemon curd is simply prepared without eggs. My lemon curd goes for corn starch, butter, lemon juice,sugar and zest. The addition of butter gives a beatiful smoother and creamier texture.

Vegan Coriander Cashew Pesto

Pesto, this Italian dip/sauce is prepared traditionally with garlic,basil leaves with pinenuts blended with olive oil, parmesan cheese. The word pesto means to pound, to crush, as the original method of preparing this sauce goes for marble mortar and wooden pestle.Pesto is usually used to spice up the pastas, but now they can be used in making bruschetta,as dips, pizzas or else simply as filling in savoury breads.Some makes use of the pestos even to flavor their soups,in stir fries or simply as dressing for roasted vegetables and to flavour the meats.