Cafe Salivation at 176 Race Course Rd - Black Bean Tostrada

This is the Signature Black Bean Tostrada served here at Cafe Salivation located at 176 Race Course Road.

Core Ingredients - Tortilla, Black Bean paste, spicy salsa, Red & green Jalapenos, Cucumber.

How it is prepared - To make the Tortilla from scratch, Chef uses rice flour & tapioca flour, with chopped parsley, a little chili, salt & turmeric. 

To make the Black Bean paste - The black bean is sauteed with cumin, chili powder (paprika), & salt, it is gluten free, no onion, no garlic is used in this recipe. The mixture is sauteed & blended coarsely. 

The Black Bean paste is served on Tortilla.
To serve, the Tortilla is topped with black bean paste, homemade Spicy Salsa, pickled red & green Jalapeno slices, cucumber. 

Tasting Notes - This dish has Mexican flavor. 
Strong cumin & paprika flavor in the Black Beans. Aftertaste is a distinct, strong flavor of paprika, balanced by the Tortilla, even out the spicy paprika flavor. The Salsa has a spike of spicy taste, has a tarty bite, with residual spicy flavor as Chef uses chili in the salsa to add level of spiciness. 
Black bean paste with cumin & paprika, salsa has tinge of spiciness, to give a uniform spicy flavor to this dish.

About Cafe Salivation 
Prasad Raja, 62, Director at Homely Raj Pte Ltd which manages the Raj & Jade groups of restaurants here in Singapore, and second Generation in the business started by his dad the elderly Mr Raja, is a pure vegetarian. 

It helps that Mrs Raja (Karen), 59, who is of British & Indian descent is a self taught chef at home, and improvises with the various ingredients she could find to come up with great tasting vegetarian cuisine with Mexican, Italian, American influences she serves her husband at home. 

With experiment comes experience, and with experience comes confidence, leading to a business idea to using these self taught recipes she has invented to start truly pure vegetarian cafe serving cuisines with Mexican, Italian, American influences. 

This marks the birth of Cafe Salivation back in 2008, which started its operations at Syed Alwi Road where Mrs Raja, Karen manages the kitchen. It was a good 3 years at Syed Alwi Road before rising rental caused the Rajas to move Cafe Salivation to 176 Race Course Road right next to Farrer Park MRT in the North East Line where the rental was more reasonable.

It was this passion to make vegetarian cuisine hip and trendy among the foodies in this little isle of Singapore that keep Karen Raja 3 years & going on strong in her campaign to encourage vegetarian diet. 

Over here at Cafe Salivation - Karen Raja & her management holds the Philosophy that vegetarian food need not be bland, but can be tasty & healthy. The kitchen uses sunflower oil in the cooking process, & do not administer MSG in any dishes at all. The ingredients used in the recipes for the various dishes at Cafe Salivation serves to tantalise the tastebuds of the customers without compromising their waistlines. 

The menu is a smorgasboard of vegetarian delights which includes categories - Pasta, Pizza, Sandwiches, Mexican, Baked dishes, Rice dishes, Eggless Cakes, Desserts & more. 

Cafe Salivation serves a wide selection of beverages - Colombian Coffee, Flavored Teas, Milkshakes, Smoothies, Freshly Squeezed Juices.

Cafe Salivation is located at :

176 Race Course Road, S(218607)

Tel : 62981412

Email: enquiries@cafesalivation.com

www.cafesalivation.com

www.facebook.com/cafesalivation

Opening Hours : 

Mon to Fri 10 am - 10.30 pm

Sat - Sun    10 am - 11 pm