Recipes

‘Loaded’ Baked Sweet Potatoes

The idea of ‘loaded’ baked sweet potatoes or otherwise stuffed baked sweet potatoes gives you another chance to freestyle at your kitchen, letting your imagination free to create with anything left in your refrigerator or your cupboards, an alternative but always healthy meal for lunch or dinner. The idea is simple. While the sweet potatoes are being baked, you prepare …

Crispy Baked Sweet Potato Fries

I am in love with the sweet potatoes, that are particularly healthy and nutritious. I usually cook them with stuffed tomatoes and peppers in the oven, with peas, fresh green beans, eggplants, and in other traditional Greek recipes. I made my rest family love them too, with the way you will find described below. Crispy sweet potatoes like the famous …

Cauliflower Pizza

Cauliflower pizza is a very good ‘alternative’ and modern idea for low carb, naturally gluten-free, and low calories pizza. It is a favorite snack of the California residents in the USA and for the fans of a healthy diet and pizza too. Cauliflower is considered as a tasteless and with an unpleasant smell vegetable by many people. However it is …

Beetroot or Avocado hummus

I love chickpeas and all of its variations, from the classic Greek soup which I have grown up with to the more modern or ‘fingered’ ones.  Hummus is for the Middle East what tzatziki and fish-roe mousse are for Greeks. It is a famous appetizer of the Mediterranean cuisine, loaded with proteins, accompanies perfectly your veggie bowls or your falafels. …

Quinoa salad with mango, kale and peas

What can anyone say about quinoa! It is widely known and has a well-earned place in every diet, nutrition, restaurant, and house. It could not be excluded from the Modern Yogi site! Quinoa is a bush with edible seeds. It belongs to the family of pseudo-cereals. The Andean populations have cultivated it for four thousand years. Incas referred to it …