Recipes By Martha Rose Shulman
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Shell Bean Succotash
Here is another great opportunity to make an end-of-summer dish, so long as corn and squash are still available in farmers’ markets. This is most authentic, and prettiest, if you use fresh lima beans, but I enjoy any kind of shell bean I can find.
Mixed Grain and Blueberry Muffins
These muffins aren’t at all like the cakey blueberry muffins from your local coffee shop. They have a nice texture and a wholesome, grainy flavor. Better yet, your child will get lots of fruit in each muffin.
Tomatoes Stuffed With Bulgur and Herbs
These stuffed tomatoes make a great summer dish. You can serve them either warm or at room temperature. I like using bulgur for stuffed vegetables, because it’s light and softens quickly.
Chinese Fried Rice With Shrimp and Peas
This is a more subdued version of fried rice than the spicier Thai fried rice. It’s a great dish to make if you have cooked rice on hand and a great vehicle for whatever vegetables may be in your refrigerator. Feel free to add other cooked vegetables, meat or seafood.
Easy Huevos Rancheros
Fried eggs on warm corn tortillas, topped with cooked tomato salsa — it’s a classic dish, though I probably make it a little differently than they do at your neighborhood Tex-Mex restaurant. This recipe makes for an easy supper or a great Mexican breakfast.
Wheat Berries With Broccoli
I thought what I had in my pantry was farro, a strain of wheat that is slightly softer than our North American wheat berries, but when I tried to make a farro risotto and the grains took forever to become tender, I figured the grains must be wheat berries. So I used what remained to make this dish, which is more like a pilaf.
Soft Tacos With Chicken and Tomato-Corn Salsa
Tomato-corn salsa is substantial, almost like a salad. These light, fresh tacos make a wonderful summer meal.
Mexican Chicken Soup With Chick Peas, Avocado and Chipotles
This is inspired by a traditional Mexican soup called sopa tlalpeño. The chipotles, added shortly before serving, infuse the soup with a smoky, picante flavor. Cook the chicken breasts a day ahead, and use the broth for the soup. Once the chicken is cooked, the soup is quickly thrown together.
Leek and Yogurt Pie
This vegetable pie is based on a recipe from Diane Kochilas’s “The Glorious Foods of Greece,” an essential compendium for anyone interested in that country’s regional cuisines. I’ve added the walnuts and dill. In the original recipe, butter is used instead of olive oil.
Oven-Baked and Microwave Polenta
For those who have sworn off mashed potatoes because of the carbohydrates and fats, and for those who cannot eat wheat and so have said good-bye to pasta, polenta may be just the thing. Polenta is a delicious gruel, an elegant mush made by cooking cornmeal (or occasionally semolina or buckwheat) in salted water. From humble origins, polenta now appears on the fanciest restaurant menus, usually served as an accompaniment to meat and fish. But it can be a main event. It can be served hot and runny from the pot, or else sliced, grilled, pan-seared or gratinéed. And polenta can be topped with any number of sauces or vegetable ragouts.
Roasted Asparagus
Roast asparagus this way, and it becomes positively juicy. You’d think one pound would be enough for four people, but the thick stalks — the best kind to use — are really irresistible. Err on the side of extravagance, and polish up any leftovers for lunch the next day.
Guacamole With Toasted Cumin
Everybody loves guacamole, and everyone has an opinion as to what an authentic guacamole should be. I leave it up to you whether to add onion and chile — but please don’t make it in a food processor. Guacamole should have texture; use a fork or a mortar and pestle to mash the avocados.
Risotto With Asparagus, Fresh Fava Beans and Saffron
Fava beans top my list of spring favorites. The 15 minutes that it will take you to shell and skin these high-protein, high-fiber treasures is time well spent, because their season is, sadly, a short one. A warning, though: fava beans are toxic to individuals with favism, caused by an inherited blood enzyme deficiency. Be cautious when trying fava beans for the first time.
Martha Rose Shulman’s Risi e Bisi
I splurge on English peas during their short season. If I can keep myself from eating them like candy, right from the pods, I’ll make this classic risotto.
Soft Tacos With Scrambled Tofu and Tomatoes
Soft tofu makes a wonderful stand-in for scrambled eggs. Serve these savory tacos for a great Mexican and vegan breakfast.
Reconstituted Steamed Couscous
Unlike pasta, couscous should never be boiled (pay no attention to the instructions on most boxes), just reconstituted and steamed. The couscous dishes I’ll be presenting this week make perfect winter dinner party fare; the vegetable and bean dishes will be particularly welcome if there are vegans at your table.
Chickpeas With Baby Spinach
This is mostly a pantry dish, very quick to put together. You can serve it on its own, with couscous or pasta, or over a thick slice of toasted bread rubbed with garlic.
Green Pipian
This classic Mexican pumpkin seed sauce, also known as green mole, is tangy, herbal and spicy all at the same time. Serve it with poached or pan-cooked chicken breasts, fish (it’s very pretty with salmon), or shrimp. You can bathe grilled vegetables with it, or serve it with white beans and steamed or poached vegetables. Hulled untoasted pumpkin seeds are available in many whole foods stores and Mexican markets.
Malaysian Stir-Fried Noodles With Shrimp
These spicy noodles are based on a classic Malaysian noodle dish, Mee Goreng, but I’ve reduced the number of ingredients. With origins in North India, the dish lends itself well to the Indian Papadini bean flour noodles, which have more protein, ounce for ounce, than steak. If you can’t find this type of noodle, use wide dried rice noodles: soak them for 20 minutes in warm water, then cook 1 minute in boiling water, drain and toss with 1 tablespoon oil as directed.
Rice Noodle Salad
You can use Southeast Asian rice sticks or Chinese cellophane noodles (made from bean starch) for this Thai salad. It makes a satisfying lunch, or serve it as a starter or side dish (it will serve up to 6 as a side).
Red Lentil and Bulgur Kufteh
I adapted this from an Armenian recipe that I found on the back of my packet of red lentils. Kufteh (Persian), köfte (Turkish), and kibbeh (Arabic) are round walnut size patties usually made from pounded meat (the word means “pounded”) but sometimes made with fish or vegetable pulp, mixed with fine bulgur, herbs, and spices. Serve this vegetarian version as an appetizer or a side dish.
Curried Red Lentil Soup
Red lentils are a beautiful color orange when dry, but they become a rather drab yellow when they cook. This can be disappointing, until you taste the lentils.
Spinach Salad with Seared Shiitake Mushrooms
Shiitakes, which are sold in my supermarket along with cremini and button mushrooms, are powerhouse mushrooms. Along with the B-vitamins and minerals that all mushrooms contain, the shiitake contains all 8 amino acids, unusual for a plant, and the essential fatty acid linoleic acid, as well as an immune-boosting chemical component called lentinan. When you pan-cook them over high heat, as you do here, the flavor is very intense, because of the natural msg that all mushrooms contain.
Winter Marinara Sauce
This is the marinara sauce I make all winter. It’s basically the same sauce as the fresh tomato sauce I gave you last summer, but canned tomatoes stand in for the fresh ones (so you won’t have to peel the tomatoes or put them through a food mill). If you buy chopped tomatoes in juice, you won’t even have to chop them.