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Usually, I would avoid potatoes because it full of starch and gives zero energy to a body (according Ayurveda), but… baby potatoes are young and guiltless. Baby potatoes have very low amount of starch and therefore, in my opinion, are not harmful (or much less harmful) for energy loss. so, summer is a time to enjoy potatoes! (baby potatoes:))
dinner in three steps
Recipe
Before you start:
Passive time
Active time
Equipment needed
Servings
0
60
steamer
1
Main information about preparation process
PASSIVE TIME is time before, during or after food preparation when nothing should be done, just waiting
soaking, sprouting, cooling down, freezing
ACTIVE TIME is factual time spent in a kitchen for preparation
cutting, washing, boiling, crashing, mixing
EQUIPMENT NEEDED
specifickitchen equipment, if not counting regular tools like pots, spoons or knifes
Ingredients:
For step 1 (baby potatoes)
Baby potatoes (they are usually available only in summer time)
10
For step 2 (garnish)
Onion
0.5
Ghee butter
2 Tbsp
Black and red pepper corns
1 tsp
Coriander, milled
1 tsp
Galangal
1 tsp
Salt
0.5 tsp
Green chili pepper
1
Garlic cloves
3
Green beans
handful
For step 3 (salad)
Cucumber
1
Lettuce leaves
handful
Red radish
10
List of ingredients for 1-2-3 dinner preparation
Tbsp
table spoon
tsp
tea spoon
cup
US measuring cup, equal to 240 ml of water
Abbreviations and their meaning
How to make it:
Step 1. Baby potatoes (only available at summer time)
Cook baby potatoes in a steamer
Step 2. Garnish
Chop onion and stew it in a pan with a bit of Ghee butter or olive oil (I prefer Ghee) for 5 min
Add black and red pepper corns, coriander, galangal, salt, chopped green chili pepper and stew for another 5 min
Add minced garlic, stew 5 min more
Cut green beans (without edges) into 2 pieces and add to the pan, add some water, close a lid and stew on medium-to-low heat for 10 min
Step 3. Salad
Chop cucumber and lettuce leaves
Grate radish, leaving the ends of it not grated. No need to grate fingers!:)
Mix all together. It is ready!
Important to know:
Grate radish, leaving the ends of it not grated. Yes, radish could be grated not in equal pieces, what’s a problem? The most important moment is not to cut the fingers with grater! When you mix a salad ingredients all together – the taste is the same, or could appear as more interesting
Cutting and grating veggies for the salad
Do not peel the skin of baby potatoes, just wash it thoroughly with water and brush
Baby potatoes in a steamer pot. Close a lid when cooking! It is open here only to make a photo for you:)
Follow a set of species in this recipe for not to make all the dishes you cook to taste similar
Tasty process:) I have bought my new high quality pan from a friend of mine. She has plenty of them, me – only one:) I like it, super good choice!
I was cooking this dinner yesterday. You see, all the ingredients are for one person, because… because I was fasting yesterday. So, the dinner was exiting, but not for me that time, I was fasting…:)
Last year we walked through the mountains all days long. In the evenings, we were coming back to our place which was equipped with a small kitchenette.
What food to prepare when all of your favorite and most important kitchen utensils left at home? Of course, – salad:)
Two versions are available, for warm and rainy days. Because mountains are like this – one day it is sunny, another day it is drizzle, rainy and cloudy mountain mood.
Because of my transformation to Nature-food has started from 2019 January, many aspects of live within these days, including self-isolation, are so easy-go and even joyful for me and my family. We take a time to relax, to spend time together, to clean our space, to create, to write, to paint, to cook, and of course to eat, but just a simply food:)
The story of the lentil soup in my kitchen is so successful, that I definitely need to share the recipe with my readers:) Before 2020, when time to time we had guests at our home (the restaurants were open than, right?:)), the rooted meat-eaters have told me – that that is the best soup ever. No meat is there, and bliss comes into the body and mind. Time to try this soup, it is a Lent time for everyone now:)
Ingredients:
White onion, 1 pcs
Clarified (Ghee) butter, 50 g
Fenugreek seeds, freshly milled, 2 Tbsp
Red lentils, 0.5 cup
Water, boiled, 2 cups
Salt, 1 tsp
Staghorn sumak, 1 Tbsp
Lemon, 1-2 pcs
Peppermint leaves, fresh
Fenugreek seeds
Ingredients for lentil soup
Red lentils
How to make it?
Wash red lentils in running water until water is clean
Soak red lentils in 1-2 liters of fresh water overnight or at list for 8 hours
After soaking lentils, rinse it once again in fresh water and drain
Cut onion into pieces and sweat with butter in a soup pot until onion is translucent
Add milled fenugreek, sweat for few minutes more
Add soaked red lentils and stew for 5 min more
Add hot boiled water, stir well, bring to a boil, close a pot lid and simmer for 15 min
Cool down the mixture, add salt and mix in a blender for 1-2min
Serve with lemon pieces, fresh mint and sumak
Lentil soup
Important note! In the original version of the lentils soup, which I found to be a traditional Turkish soap, wheat flour is usually being used for sweating the onions. As I avoid any kind of cereal flour as much as possible (mostly in 99%), I replace flour with milled fenugreek seeds. I found milled fenugreek to be a good replacement for flour by texture (for this specific recipe) and more beneficial in terms of nutritional impact. Anyway, a year ago the recipe of traditional Turkish lentil soap has opened me a new era of tastes:)
Back to Nature through mindful food, physical activity, peaceful mind, all right cosmetics, wardrobe, hygiene and household products, labels reading, reducing plastics and waste
Last year we walked through the mountains all days long. In the evenings, we were coming back to our place which was equipped with a small kitchenette. 
