Recipes By Amanda Cohen
4 recipes found
Charred Cauliflower Stew
This vegetarian stew uses two different techniques — grilling (or broiling) and pickling — to coax the maximum amount of flavor from cauliflower. Charring the cauliflower before adding it to your stew delivers smoky depth; quick-pickling some grated cauliflower adds bright spikes of flavor that contrast nicely with everything else in the bowl.
Roasted Tomatoes and Whipped Feta on Toast
I love putting roasted tomatoes on toast with whipped feta, and it’s the easiest thing in the world. If you want to make it fancy for guests, try this recipe. I like to amaze them and cut the bread lengthwise into 1/2-inch slabs rather than across. Creative cutting will take you a long way in this world. A word about the cheese: Make sure you press the feta or it’ll have too much liquid in it to set up properly. If you’re really strapped for time, you can substitute fresh ricotta for the feta, but it’s not going to make your tomatoes pop quite as much.
Roasted Winter Tomatoes
This recipe is designed to be used with the watery, mealy tomatoes you find at the market in the depths of winter. I like to use cherry tomatoes for this recipe, but anything will do. The method couldn't be easier: cover those sad tomatoes in oil, add ginger, garlic and basil, and pop them in the oven for about 2 hours. With that, your tomatoes are suddenly juicy and flavorful and exciting again. Refrigerate or freeze them for later use; you can serve them with pasta, on toast with whipped feta, on bagels with cream cheese. Or you can make a delicious tomato soup with them, or turn them into a coconut curry sauce that can go over fish, tofu or rice, and is guaranteed to blast your seasonal affective disorder to bits. And save that cooking oil too, which you can store in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. Use it as you would any normal olive oil, except it’s so much more delicious. Taste it and try to avoid guzzling the entire bowl.
Roasted Tomato-Coconut Sauce
This easy sauce, which uses slow-roasted tomatoes, goes great with fish or tofu served on top of a grain (rice, coucous, anything). Just pan-sear your protein very quickly, and you’re ready to eat. If you don’t like tomato skins, blend the tomatoes before you add them, or use an immersion blender on the finished sauce.