Here’s a smashing combination of baby potatoes and sesame seeds that is jazzed up with a combination of indian spices.

The moment you think olives, a tart and tangy taste that wakes up your taste buds is what comes to mind. Indeed, this Olive Dressing delivers a similar effect. The peppy taste of olives, augmented by the tanginess of lemon juice and the pungency of mustard paste, make this dressing a real tongue-tickler! A dash of thyme is the master stroke, which carries this dressing into a totally different class of exoticness. You can store this dressing in an airtight glass jar in the fridge for around two days.

Thai cuisine is known for its use of coconut milk, garlic and red chilli paste. Here is a rice preparation that combines rice and vegetables with precisely the same flavourful combination of ingredients. Lemon rind and basil are two unique ingredients used in this Coconut and Vegetable Rice to impart a distinct flavour that lingers in your taste buds for a long time.

The combination of sweet and tangy pineapple cubes with veggies like cucumber and carrot is the highlight of this salad. This gives a juicy and tasty twist to an otherwise ordinary salad. Pieces of torn lettuce make the salad all the more alluring, while a dressing of fresh cream with peppy flavours like mustard paste and lemon juice makes it a true tongue-tickler. Refrigerate the Creamy Pineapple, Cucumber and Carrot Salad for sometime before serving, so the salad sets and the veggies regain their crunch. This creamy salad will go well soups and pastas .

It is a brilliant idea to combine tender coconut meat cubes with juicy fruits, because their flavours and textures are so contrasting that they bring out the best qualities of each other! Potato cubes and cheese cubes add to this fine balance, while a luscious dressing of curds and cream flavoured with lemon and mustard make the Hawaiian Fruit and Coconut Salad a perfect treat for the palate! This salad is delicious served with pasta, or serve with soup and bread for lunch.

This salad does not have the usual blend of veggies! An off-beat combination of walnuts, tomatoes, lettuce and sprouts with bread sticks, dressed in a tangy spring onion honey lemon dressing, makes this salad a really outta-this-world experience. The addition of spring onions to the honey-lemon dressing gives it a more zesty flavour and an exciting crunch too. Enjoy the Veg Salad with Spring Onion Honey Lemon Dressing immediately on tossing.

One of the most traditional Indian mithais gets a fruity twist in this recipe. By mixing chopped canned pineapples with this paneer-based sweet, we balance the dairy flavour and introduce an exciting tanginess that makes it appeal to everybody. We have used canned pineapples to make this, because fresh pineapples might sometimes be a little tart. Refrigerate the Pineapple Sandesh for sometime before serving, so that the sweet sets well. This mithai also tastes best when it is chilled. When the urge for a sweet treat strikes cook up this Bengali delicacy and to further enhance it top it with Rabri Cream and chopped mixed fruits or chopped mixed nuts .

Samosa without potatoes? What! That frown on your face is sure to change into a wide and contented smile once you taste this Hariyali Samosa. Featuring a well-spiced stuffing of crushed green peas and French beans, this samosa is made all the more wholesome and filling with the addition of poha to the filling mixture. You will be amazed by the texture and flavour of this ‘samosa with a twist’! If you are looking for recipes of samosas with different fillings do check these out - Poha and Sprouted Vatana Samosa , Patra Na Samosa , Spicy Rice Samosa , Mini Onion Samosa , Paneer Samosa and Punjabi Samosa .

Oondhiya is one of gujarat's culinary treasures! here is an interesting version i arrived at while experimenting by grinding sprouts instead of fattening coconut, you get a healthier recipe without compromising one bit on taste.

When you are bored of having rice and pasta based dishes, reach out for a packet of couscous. One of the staple foods of North African regions like Morocco, couscous is nothing but tiny granules made of durum wheat. Cooked properly, it is light and fluffy and quite nice on the palate. Here, we have cooked the couscous with lemon juice and rind, which give it a refreshingly tangy flavour, and served it with an exciting Vegetable Moroccan Curry. Several juicy veggies and boiled chickpeas are cooked with tomato puree and an assortment of spice powders, to get a brilliantly-flavoured Moroccan curry. This curry, however, is a little dry, so prepare it only some time before serving and not too much in advance. If you still feel it is dry, add a little water. Garnish the Lemon Couscous with Vegetable Moroccan Curry with parsley to get a truly authentic aroma.

Rich in taste and nutrition, this Palak Toovar Dal is a healthful dish you can prepare frequently without any hassle, as it uses simple cooking methods and common ingredients. You just need to remember to soak the toovar dal earlier. The smart twist in this dal recipe is the addition of lemon juice, which lends a helping hand in absorbing the iron better.

Here is another interesting mousse that employs white chocolate. The specialty of this recipe is that it sets on its own, without any need for agar-agar. It is made with simple and easily available ingredients, making it ideal for any occasion. Fresh strawberry sauce tastes best, but when the fruit is not in season you can use strawberry crush; however, omit the sugar in that case to avoid over-sweetness.

This dressing has a unique flavour and aroma because of a special process of roasting the red pepper on an open flame. The red pepper is to be roasted slowly on a low flame till it blackens, in order to get the perfect results. This beautifully roasted capsicum is then perked up with complementary ingredients like rosemary, lemon juice and mustard paste, which enhance the flavour of the dressing in an apt way, without overpowering the roasted red pepper. You can make a batch of this Roasted Red Pepper Dressing and store it in the fridge in an airtight glass jar for two days.

An olive oil based dressing with a strong flavour, the Parsley and Garlic Dressing is perfect to perk up the flavour of any salad with veggies, fruits, beans and cheese too. Lemon juice and orange juice give this garlicky dressing a tangy dimension, while parsley gives it a herby touch. A dash of jeera powder is all that it takes to highlight all the assorted flavours in this dressing. Make a batch of this Parsley and Garlic Dressing, and store it in an airtight glass jar in the fridge. It will last for two days.