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Tahini & cocoa cookies

Tahini and cocoa cookies

October 10, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Tahini is sesame seeds butter and is an amazing ingredient for many recipes, sweet or savoury. Tahini makes hummus nutty and super creamy, it is the perfect addition to a salad dressing, it tastes amazing on toast with a layer of jam or honey, it is great to use on cakes and it pairs perfectly…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: cookies, easy cookie recipes, tahini, tahini cookies, what to cook with tahini

Sweet potato and greens salad

Sweet potato, millet and greens salad

June 12, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Me and my salad obsession are back. This time I’m sharing with you an old love of mine “sweet potato, millet and greens salad”. This wholesome salad with earthy flavours was an “empty the fridge creation”. I had some leftover spinach and lettuce and a single sweet potato that was sleeping in my pantry for…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Savory, Super healthy Tagged With: delicious salad, healthy dinner, healthy lunch, how to make salads at home, millet, millet salad, salad, salad dressing, sweet potato, sweet potato salad, tahini, tahini dressing

Tahini & dates cake

Tahini, olive oil and dates cake

May 5, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

I love browsing the internet and discovering new blogs that inspire me. Eat in my kitchen is one of my latest discoveries and I’m sharing with you the first recipe from this blog that I had fun experimenting with. It’s a date and tahini cake, with an amazing nutty flavour that stole my heart in…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: cake, cake for breakfast, cardamom, cooking with rye flour, dates, easy recipe, healthy cake, how to make olive oil cake, olive oil cake, rye flour, tahini, tahini cake

Power balls – guilt free healthy bites

April 19, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Power balls are an amazing choice for the afternoon snack or after lunch sweet treat. That’s really cool to have a jar of power balls in the fridge and reach for them after lunch instead of dessert or anytime you are craving for something sweet. They’re moist, chewy and packed with healthy ingredients like dates, raisins, sunflower…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Recipes, Super healthy, Sweet Tagged With: bliss balls, dates, easy recipe, healthy dessert, healthy sncak, how to make healthy power balls, lunchbox, power balls, tahini

Hummus

Hummus, a Middle East treasure – the basic recipe

March 31, 2017 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

Hummus is a dip or spread made from mashed chickpeas with tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper and cumin. It is a Middle East dish, but its popularity has now crossed continents. Hummus is so simple yet tastes heavenly. The best things in life are the simple things, aren’t they? <3 The most wonderful…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Recipes, Savory, Super healthy Tagged With: basic hummus recipe, chickpeas, cumin, healthy spread, how to make hummus at home, hummus, tahini, vegan, vegetarian

Tahini and vegetables whole wheat pasta

November 8, 2016 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

One the things I like more about pasta is that tasty they’re quite comfortable. You can make them in few minutes and serve in millions of ways accompanied by assorted sauces, vegetables, seeds or whatever you like 🙂 My favorite pasta at the moment is “Tahini pasta”. I love the combination of creamy texture and…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Recipes, Savory, Super healthy Tagged With: easy, easy recipe, how to make pasta at home, pasta, sauce, tahini, vegan, vegetables, vegetarian

Healthy strawberry ice cream

August 23, 2016 By Mandarina Leave a Comment

This is maybe the last ice-cream recipe I post this summer, and maybe the best. It is a combo of Greek yogurt, banana, tahini and strawberries. It is delicious, beautiful and healthy.  🙂 As my other healthy ice-creams, “Coconut Popsicles” and “Chocolate Ice-cream”, it takes only few minutes to make. I’m sure once you try…

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Filed Under: Fast & Easy, Recipes, Super healthy, Sweet Tagged With: banana, healthy, ice cream, nice cream, strawberry, tahini

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Welcome to Mandarina Yum!

mmMy name is Ejona Varangu and I am a full time researcher in the telecommunication industry, and part time food blogger. I blog from a small apartment in Tirana, Albania, where I live with my better half and our two cats Weirdo and Pixel.

I started cooking in late 2013, when I decided to live alone, and I missed the great homemade dishes that my mum prepared, before that, I couldn’t even boil an egg by myself. Little by little I started experimenting with new ingredients and techniques and I loved every single minute of it. Find out more…

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Simple almond cake

Almond cake

Walnut and chocolate chips cookies

Chocolate and walnut cookies – recipe for the classic little bites of heaven from Double Tree Hotel

Petulla - Albanian Donuts

Petulla – Albanian donuts

Spinach casserole

Spinach casserole

Chocolate Baklava

Chocolate & walnuts baklava

Rye bread

Homemade rye bread

Ciabatta

Classic ciabatta

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