Have you ever wanted to make something a little different from the usual food? Whenever you are in the mood for something different, you can make yourself something new and fun.
Gone are the days when exotic cuisine was reserved only for the most seasoned chefs or reserved for special occasions. With a bit of culinary curiosity and the right guidance, you, too, can whip up dishes that evoke the vibrant flavors and aromas of distant lands.
Here are some easy and exotic meals that anyone, even you, can make.
Tasty and Traditional Filipino Chicken Adobo
Served alongside rice and other delicious Filipino side dishes, like pancit bihon and munggo guisado, chicken adobo is typically eaten with both a fork and a spoon — the latter being so you can ladle the delicious, savory-tart gravy over every grain of rice!
Tasty and Traditional Filipino Chicken Adobo
Rainbow Vegan Soba Noodle Salad With Peanut Dressing
This vegan soba noodle salad is a celebration of freshness and color. It has crunch from the purple cabbage and carrots, sweetness from the red bell pepper, and savoriness from the peanut sauce. Sesame seeds and green onions add a little more crunch and flavor and amp up the already quite pretty presentation.
Rainbow Vegan Soba Noodle Salad with Peanut Dressing
Vegan Udon Noodle Soup With Miso Broth & Corn
My Japanese vegan udon noodle soup is something I eat almost once a week, since shelf-stable vacuum-sealed udon noodles are a staple in my expat kitchen.
Vegan Udon Noodle Soup with Miso Broth & Corn
Vietnamese Mango Salad With Mint, Red Onion, and Chili
And while it may not be the most authentic Vietnamese mango salad you’ll ever find, as in traditional Vietnamese cooking, mango salads tend to use unripe green mangos, it is the Vietnamese-inspired mango salad I think most everyone will be able to access — which is the whole point of my food blog, to make ‘exotic’ food accessible to your everyday kitchen.
Vietnamese Mango Salad with Mint, Red Onion, and Chili
EASY SAAG PANEER WITH FETA CHEESE
Adjust your expectations of traditional Indian saag paneer, remembering that you’re using an entirely different ingredient, and I think you’ll enjoy it quite a bit! It’s definitely not your typical saag paneer, but in a pinch — it’ll definitely do the trick!
Easy Saag Paneer with Feta Cheese
Easy Filipino Munggo Guisado (Mung Bean Stew) With Shrimp
To me, munggo guisado represents home cooking at its finest. It uses simple pantry ingredients in order to get another dish on the table and add nutrition and stretch out the main dish a bit further, and yet somehow it ends up tasting way more delicious and complex than its ingredients would suggest.
Easy Filipino Munggo Guisado (Mung Bean Stew) with Shrimp
Spicy Shakshuka With Green Onion, Goat Cheese, & Avocado
I went on an emotional cheese-shopping bender (what, you don’t do that?) and ended up with a fridge full of cheeses that needed to be used up — so I picked fresh goat cheese for this one, because I think goat cheese and tomatoes are a match made in heaven.
Spicy Shakshuka with Green Onion, Goat Cheese, & Avocado
Bulgarian Shopska Salad
Simply seasoned and topped with an ungodly amount of fresh Bulgarian sirene (a feta-like cheese found everywhere in Bulgaria and rarely outside the country) — these are what my salad dreams are made of.
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