Appetizers

Orange and avocado salsa

Orange And Avocado Salsa

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Here’s a delicious and fruity spin on salsa that pairs perfectly with grilled chicken breast or fried fish. Orange and avocado salsa brings both spiciness and a citrusy-sweetness to your meal. It’s delicious as both an appetizer or as a side. We use one orange …

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Spicy Maple Chicken Wings

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Sweet and heat are always a delicious pair. So the double whammy of flavor in these spicy maple chicken wings – maple syrup and Sriracha sauce – is a combo not to be missed. It’s pure pleasure and a tasty foil to those “all fire, …

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Steamed shrimp dumplings with fiery dipping sauce

Steamed Shrimp Dumplings With Fiery Dipping Sauce

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Depths of delicate flavors, textures, and colors make these steamed shrimp dumplings a richly satisfying treat. And when paired with a hot, sweet, smoky, and slightly tart dipping sauce, they’re ideal for a rather special light-ish lunch or supper. These generous, two-bite delights are so …

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Jalapeno and Sriracha Cauliflower Cheese

Jalapeño And Sriracha Cauliflower Cheese

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Cauliflower cheese is delicious enough as it is. But can you imagine just how much you are going to enjoy it with a tangy kick of pickled jalapeño peppers and a deliciously spicy Sriracha cheese sauce?  The answer is, A LOT! Jalapeño and sriracha cauliflower …

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Spicy Chana Masala

Spicy Chana Masala

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A hotter take on the classic Indian chickpea curry. Chickpeas simmer in a cooked-down tomato and onion masala, with a fresh minced jalapeño stirred in at the end so it stays green and sharp.

Papa a la Huancaina

Papa a la Huancaina

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A popular Peruvian appetizer…

Who doesn’t love the idea of potatoes with a spicy cheese sauce? That’s simply what the popular Peruvian recipe papa a la Huancaina is: boiled potatoes topped with  a cheese sauce spiced up by the deliciously summery-sweet aji amarillo pepper. It’s made all the better by the addition of hardboiled eggs and black olives – very rustic in flavor.

Papa a la Huancaina is typically served as an appetizer, but it’s so heavy it can also work as meal in its own right. The recipe calls for Huancaina sauce (which you can find the recipe for here).

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Stuffed Cherry Peppers

Cheese Stuffed Cherry Peppers

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Creamy, sweet, and tangy – with a touch of heat…

It’s often these simple recipes that bring the most pleasure. This cheese stuffed cherry peppers recipe takes a handful of ingredients, but delivers a delicious creamy tang that friends and family will love.

Cherry peppers (a.k.a. pimento peppers) have only a mild heat, 100 to 500 Scoville heat units. That’s at minimum five times milder than a jalapeño pepper, so this is a very family friendly chili pepper appetizer. They are deliciously sweet which pairs very well with the tang from the pickling and the herbed goat cheese.

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A speckled white plate of golden chilli pakoras with their green stems on, one cut open to show the spiced potato filling, beside a small bowl of green coriander chutney on a butcher-block counter

Chilli Pakora

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Chilli pakora: large green chilies stuffed with spiced potato, dipped in a chickpea flour batter and fried until golden. Choose paprika, cayenne or Thai chili powder to set the heat.

A bowl of creamy Thai coconut soup with chicken, tomato, red chili and cilantro, with a halved lime, lemongrass and lime leaves on a pantry shelf

Spicy Thai Coconut Soup

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A rich Thai coconut soup with chicken, mushrooms and tomatoes, simmered with lemongrass, galangal and lime leaves and warmed with red jalapeño. Ready in about 35 minutes.

Red pepper hummus: roasted red bell pepper and smoked paprika blended into creamy hummus, sweet and smoky with barely any heat.

Red Pepper Hummus

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Red pepper hummus with a broiled red bell pepper and smoked paprika, sweet and smoky with barely any heat. A dip for pita and vegetables or a spread for veggie sandwiches.