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Mini Pineapple Granita with Rum

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pinacolada granita

A nice boozy Pineapple Granita to freshen up the palate after or before lunch/dinner. Perfect for a hot summer night to keep your guest in party mode. This easy-to-make Pineapple Granita is so refreshing, plus it’s a super light version that doesn’t use coconut milk or cream. Plus, it’s all-natural coco water, with no added sugar, no need since pineapples are naturally loaded with sugar. A significant characteristic of coco water is that it is the best rehydrating liquid mother nature ever gave us (way more than those energy drinks), it’s filled with electrolytes and potassium (4 times more than a banana), it’s low in sodium and calories, well it’s the perfect liquid, and it tastes like the Tropics! Who could resist? Back to the Piña colada granita, I am still in a big dilemma as if… it’s a starter to open the stomach or close it… I mean, it’s…

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Fish & Sea Food

Coco-Lemongrass Vermicelli Shrimp Bowl

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COCO-LEMONGRASS VERMICELLI SHRIMP BOWL

Coco-Lemongrass Vermicelli Shrimp Bowl is a light and easy dish for the summertime, filled with a rainbow of crunchy veggies and coco-lemongrass shrimp on a small bed of vermicelli rice noodles. Summertime is sometimes painful… especially when you don’t have AC and live in Spain… It’s too hot for any long cooking sessions… Solution: the Wok! I love my wok; I like to work with it, especially in the summertime, to sauté food in no time. It’s so fast to cook with it; it won’t have time to warm up the house. This Vermicelli Shrimp Bowl is the perfect quick recipe for the summer! A Quick Heat The main idea here is to make a protein, whether shrimp, chicken or tofu and sauté it rapidly in oil and lemongrass, then let it simmer for an extra minute in coconut milk for an ultra-rapid and ultra-aromatic protein! The rest (veggies toppings)…

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Breakfast

Tropical Smoothie Bowl / Passion Fruit in detail

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Tropical Smoothie Bowl

Tropical Smoothie Bowl is a fest of tropical fruits; passion fruit, mango and pineapple blended with coconut milk and ice cubes for an exotic start to the day. I don’t know for you, but tropical fruits are my favourites! This Tropical Smoothie Bowl is an ode to the tropics with its exotic flavours. The smoothie base is a pineapple and mango blended with coconut milk with a topping of pineapple, shredded coconut and last but not least, Passion fruit (or Maracuyá). Every bite has a new fun texture with an overall tropical flair! Without saying it’s filled with vitamins, let’s say… enough to last a year without getting scurvy. A great combination of exotic flavours complements one another beautifully. The Many Names of Passion Fruit To make it more straightforward… There are three popular Passion Fruits, yellow, purple and reddish. Which is without contest the more prominent names we’ll get…

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Main Meals

Peanut-Coco Vegetarian Wok

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peanut vegetarian wok tofu

Peanut-coco Vegetarian Wok is a well known recipe, also so simple and fast to make, a great made under 20 minutes dish. It’s one of those few really fulfilling vegetarian dish, plus it’s filled with healthy veggies. The kids won’t feel they are eating a bunch of vegetables, since the creamy peanut-coco sauce will distract them from it. I, personally, have done this dish many time with chicken, but I’m trying to cut on the meat for the sake of my planet, and done my recipe with a curry-mango flavored tofu instead. To my own surprise, the tofu, which I’m still learning to love, gave the dish a new dimension, a better one even than the boring chicken pieces. I’ve bought a pre marinaded tofu piece, which turned out to be a big success for my relation with tofu and gave this dish a whole new fruity and healthy dimension. Carbon steel Woks I love…

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Appetizers

Spiced Coconut Pumpkin Soup

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Spiced Coconut Pumpkin Soup

Spiced Coconut Pumpkin Soup is an easy soup made with roasted pumpkin, coconut milk, ginger, cumin and garlic. Perfect to warm up before the winter comes. Spiced Coconut Pumpkin Soup is a creamy, colourful and aromatic soup. To balance the sweetness of pumpkin and coconut milk, a bit of ginger and cumin will come to the rescue! The type of pumpkin used would preferably be a red Kuri or butternut squash, although any type would do. The roasting of the pumpkin pieces in the oven is what gives a pumpkin soup its kick! The smaller the pieces of pumpkin the more Maillard reaction (browning), and the more taste your soup will have. Balancing the Sweetness I saw so many pumpkin soups out there and many are on the sweet side of the spectrum. But there is nothing like a dinamic sweet and spicy or sweet and sour duo. The pumpkin’s…

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Desserts

Passion Fruit Panna Cotta

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Passion fruit coconut PannaCotta

Sensational Passion Fruit Panna Cotta is made with coconut milk and will make you fly right to the tropics. A light and easy dessert to make for the whole family. Panna Cotta means cooked cream in Italian, originating from northern Italy, Piedmont. It’s a simple dessert often aromatized with vanilla, rum or coffee and topped with fruity coulis or caramel. However, this time it will be a Tropical flair with this Passion Fruit Panna Cotta version! Types of Passion Fruits In South and Central America, they call the larger yellow passion fruit; Maracuya. This yellow version of passion fruit is more present than the purple one. In South America, they make ceviche, cocktail, cheesecake and ice cream with it, a reasonably common fruit. Although, in northern countries, finding those deliciously perfumed fruits can get tricky and usually only the purple one is found. Variations You could easily replace the passion fruit with…

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Main Meals

Coco-Lime / Spicy-Crunchy Chicken Noodles

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Coco-Lemongrass chicken noodles

This isn’t an asian meal, no curry involved here… There is some typical asian elements, like lemongrass and coconut milk but no ginger or strong curry. This way we’ll get to taste fully the coconut flavor which is often taken over by other stronger taste. The dish simple needs 1 stalk of lemongrass and coconut as flavouring, that’s it!  Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE curries off all kinds, it’s just when I feel like tasting the full coconut, well I simply do this recipe instead. I’ve used asian egg noodles for this dish but it could easily be a nice rice noodle or quinoa pasta, etc. The chicken can be changed to shrimps too. It’s all up to how your tastebuds are feeling. I’ve added a bunch of cracked pistachios on top, it gives the meal a great twist, but if you prefer other kind of nuts, like peanuts or almonds they…

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Desserts

Easy Coconut Mousse

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Strawberries with Coco-lime

A cold and airy Coconut Mousse with a touch of lime to serve on your strawberries is the new way to go! Simple, and easy to make, you’ll never get back to whipped cream. You’ll say this looks exactly like the simple cup of strawberries topped with whipped cream… boring… but you are far from the truth! This is coconut milk infused with makrut lime leaves and turned into a foamy cloud. As soon as you’ll taste it, you’ll wish for the rest of your life, to have this mousse instead of whipped cream. I ate it, at first, in one of my favourite restaurants, as a side to a “Chocolate fondant” dessert. Coconut Mousse is so delicious! Technique You’ll need a siphon to foam it, without it you won’t be able to foam it up. Siphon is the last “kitchen gadget” I got myself… especially to reproduce this coco-lime mousse and I…

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Main Meals

Coconut chicken noodles

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Coconut chicken vermicelli

Feeling like a fresh, light, summer meal? Get those rice noodles out and let’s make a simple wok dish. The coconut chicken recipe is really similar to a yellow curry sauce, but this one is for lazy people, you can use weather the yellow curry paste but I simply used the curry powder. That powder is actually a British invention to reproduce the orient flavours. The powder usually contains curcuma, ginger, turmeric, coriander, fenugreek, pepper, cardamom etc. It a mix of at those asian flavours in one pot, some powders are spicier than others, the ingredients tends to change depending of the company. I use this curry powder on popcorn, with butter, it’s delicious! Coconut meat constipate while the coconut water is a natural laxative, how perfect is that? A perfect balance within a single coconut. In the recipe, coconut milk is used, but it could be switched to coconut cream, to make it fatter,tastier and smoother.…

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