Reviewing Vegan restaurants in Dubai

I love vegan food and while visiting one of the restaurants, it occured  decided that it will benefit my friends if I reviewed restaurants on my page . So here I am with my first review.

Super Natural Kitchen
Location: Galeries Lafayette, Dubai Mall

Head Chef: Athena Matheou

Athena is  a young chef with immense passion. She is very hands on and looks minutely into every aspect. I knew I was definitely in a very good space after meeting her.  I believe a restaurant is as good as the chef. Athena graduated from Westminster Kingsway college in London with a professional chef diploma, specialising in patisserie and confectionery. Athena has travelled extensively and through doing so her food has become an eclectic mix drawing inspiration from across the globe. Although Athena came to veganism interested in the health benefits, the ethical and environmental side soon made it clear that this would be a lifelong commitment to spreading awareness and joy through plant based foods.

Super Natural Kitchen( SNK) is situated inside the Galeries Lafayette of Dubai Mall. My first feel of the place was warm and vibrant. The Kitchen has dishes of the day on the black board. Price wise it is reasonable and value for money I would say. The location, ingredients, taste and of course the passion of chef justifies it. All the dishes have raw ingredients with no sugar. There are no deep fried offerings. It has salads/starters/main dishes like pizza/lasagna/wraps etc. It also has healthy drinks and smoothies.  It was the dessert which most caught my eye though, the carrot cake looked very delicious. 

 

The kitchen also has a store attached to it with many organic food to sell.

Go and have a refreshing vegan meal or snack at SNK.

6 year Vegan fairy party

Any guesses what my blog picture is? well , it is a rainbow salad platter. It is from the fairy party that I did for my daughter 2 years back. 

When my daughter turned 6 in December two years back, she asked for a fairy party at home. I didn't have much time in to plan and execute but 3 days were not less either to decide on the menu and decoration.My older daughter helped me in organizing it . She did  the handwritten labels. Sharing the pictures of the 'fairy' snacks.

Rainbow Salad Platter

Fairy dust cupcakes

Butterfly Sandwiches

Toadstools with banana, chocolate and strawberries. 

Magic fruit wand- this wand was the favorite of all kids  and it was fun watching them casting fairy spell on each other while eating it too. 

The party had started with a Magic potion which I made with colored ice cubes. When the birthday girl said a go, I put those ice cube in water - as the water changed the color, those little innocent kids believed it was a real magic potion. 

For the main dish, I did butterfly pasta in cream sauce. With the fairy cake, it was the perfect fairy party. 

Home Made STRAWBERRY JAM

If you and your family love jam, then this simple recipe is a must try as its very easy to make. Strawberry is again a good fruit rich in antioxidants. Of course this recipe has sugar but it compares to home made vs store bought. I didn't use any store bought pectin. Lemon and lemon zest does the work of pectin. 

4 cups strawberry cleaned

1 cup sugar/raw sugar

1 lemon juice and zest

Chop strawberry roughly. Take a deep thick pan and mix it with sugar and keep covered for 30 min. Add lemon juice and zest and cook on high heat while stirring for 10 min.Sugar would have melted by now. If you would like chunky jam then keep cooking until you get a thick jam else remove from heat and let it cool down. Blend to get a smooth mixture and cook again until you get the desired consistency. 

Store in glass jar and refrigerate. 

Use with  pan cakes/ flat breads or any kind of bread. You can use it for layering yogurt and granola too. 

Pl leave a comment if you like the recipe. 

Mango chia pudding

Vegan Chia Seeds Mango Pudding

Mango is a delicious fruit loved my almost everyone. As against popular belief that its high in calories- it has only 60 cal per 100 g with almost no fat and cholesterol. Its not only rich in Vitamin C but also an antioxidant. Benefits of mangoes are many. So, I would say that don't hesitate to  eat mangoes.

Chia seeds as we all know is a super food and has many benefits. Chia seeds nutrition is best extracted if they are soaked or ground. I am using the soaking method.

So here is a pudding which is low in calorie and power packed. Use it for any occasion and everyone will surely love it. It can be done in few min other than soaking time.

Ingredients:
Chia Seeds- 1/2 cup
Mango- 2
Milk -1 cup
Cardamom 4-5 seeds ground.

Makes about 15 of these glasses.

Soak Chia seeds for an hour or so in 1 cup milk. It can be even soaked longer. For vegans, coconut milk is a good option. Puree the mango with cardamom. Spoon it in glass and let it freeze for 10-15 min. Spoon in the soaked chia seeds. Let it set in fridge for another 30 min. Serve chilled.