Recipes By Martha Rose Shulman
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Eggplant, Tomato and Chickpea Casserole
This dish is based on a Middle Eastern staple traditionally served with fresh Arabic bread at room temperature, though I like to serve it warm. The casserole tastes best if made a day ahead.
Frittata With Zucchini, Goat Cheese and Dill
Goat cheese adds creaminess and rich flavor to this delicate frittata.
Cabbage Minestrone with Chick Peas
Minestrone can have many ingredients or few. This one has few, and yet its flavors are no less complex than my summer minestrones that have lots of different vegetables in them. Cabbage sweetens a broth as it simmers gently (and no, it won’t smell like boiled cabbage). You can use red cabbage instead of green for this if you wish; that will add to the mix a whole family of flavonoids called anthocyanins, which are powerful antioxidants.
Oven-Poached Pacific Sole With Lemon Caper Sauce
A fish piccata of sorts, this dish is easy to make and the lemon-caper sauce marries well with delicate varieties like sole, fluke or flounder, as well as more robust fish like swordfish. Start by laying fish fillets out in a baking dish and seasoning them with salt and pepper. Finely chop some shallots and briefly cook them in a skillet before adding wine. Pour the wine and shallots over the fish, cover with foil and bake until opaque and the fish pulls apart easily when gently probed with a fork. Meanwhile, whisk together garlic, capers, lemon juice and olive oil. When the fish emerges from the oven, pour the liquid from the dish back into the skillet to make a pan sauce. Reduce it to about 1/4 cup — thicker than you may imagine — stirring all the while. Add the garlic-caper mixture and some chopped parsley, whisk together and serve on top of the fillets, the mild flesh of the fish bathing in the bright, brawny flavors of the sauce.
Dandelion Tart
This tart tastes rich and creamy, though there is no cream in it. When you blanch the dandelion greens, they lose some of their bitterness.
Pickled Beets With Caraway
Caraway, great with carrots, is also very nice with beets. The trick to succeeding with these is to slice them very thin – about 1/8 inch thick. You can do this on a mandoline or with a Japanese slicer, or just use a sharp knife. The longer these are left to pickle the better. My favorite way to serve these pickled beets is to cut them into thin julienne and add them to a salad or make them into a beet slaw.
Kohlrabi and Celery Root Purée
This simple combination tastes so good to me, it hardly needs embellishment. The butter is optional. If you miss old-fashioned buttery mashed potatoes, let this be a stand-in.
Dukkah-Dusted Sand Dabs
Cook these delicate fish in 2 batches. They cook in about 3 minutes.
Greek Swiss Chard Pie
You may be familiar with Spanakopita, the Greek spinach pie, and this is very similar. I prefer sturdier greens like chard to spinach, because they retain their dark green color and fresh flavor better when cooked for a long time in the phyllo dough.
Celery Root, Potato and Apple Purée
Classic celery root and potato purées combine two parts potatoes with one part celery root. I’ve reversed the proportion here for a lighter purée that also incorporates apple — the “secret ingredient." Rather than milk, I usually use the broth from the celery root and apples.
Millet Polenta With Tomato Sauce, Eggplant and Chickpeas
Millet polenta is as comforting as it gets. In season you can use fresh tomatoes in the topping, but canned will work just fine. You could also make this dish with cornmeal polenta.
Summer Squash Gratin
This is a typical Provençal gratin, bound with rice and eggs. You can use the recipe as a template for other gratins using other cooked vegetables.
Greek Baked Vegetables (Briam)
A Greek version of ratatouille.
Roasted Eggplant and Chickpeas With Tomato Sauce
Eggplant is always a good, substantial vegetable to use for a vegetarian main dish. The chickpeas and the feta provide plenty of protein. Vegans can leave out the feta and substitute sugar or agave nectar for the honey.
Oven-Steamed Arctic Char With Piperade
Arctic char, a cold-water pink-fleshed fish, is farmed in a more sustainable way than salmon and has the same good Omega-3s. Simply steamed in a low oven, it is complemented here with a sweet and savory pepper sauce. The sauce is great with just about any fish. Try it with a whole grilled striped bass (another one of Seafood Watch’s Best Choices).
Baked Frittata With Green Peppers and Yogurt
This is an Iranian-style omelet. Iranian cooks often add saffron and yogurt to their omelets, which they bake or make on top of the stove. The beautiful bright yellow frittata will puff in the oven and then settle as it cools.
Gluten-Free Raisin Pistachio Biscotti
I use a mix of almond flour and either millet flour or cornmeal for these. They are irresistible. If you soak the raisins in amaretto before you make the biscotti there will be a slightly bitter edge to the flavor. As in other whole grain biscotti I use some butter here, which makes for a more delicate cookie, requiring a slightly thicker slice than a wheat flour cookie.
Gluten-Free Chocolate Buckwheat Biscotti
These biscotti have a crumbly texture when they emerge from the first baking, so allow the logs to cool and cut them carefully, about 1/2 inch thick (if you cut them too thin they can fall apart). Buckwheat flour is a great backdrop for the chocolate; it doesn’t dominate but seems rather to show off the chocolate.
Swiss Chard with Currants and Pine Nuts
This is a popular dish throughout the Mediterranean, particularly in Catalonia, Provence, and the Italian Riviera. It is often made with spinach, but I prefer to use Swiss chard, because the chard stands up to the cooking but still has a delicate flavor.
Spring Vegetable Stew
This is inspired by a lush Sicilian springtime stew called fritteda that also includes peas and fava beans (and much more olive oil). This one is simpler, but equally sweet and heady because of all the fennel and the spring onions. I like to serve it with bow tie pasta and a little Parmesan as a main dish, or with grains as part of a meal in a bowl. It also makes a delicious side dish with just about anything. The stewed vegetables will keep for about 3 days in the refrigerator, but the dish is best freshly made.
Braised Leeks With Parmesan
My friend Elizabeth tells me that even people who think they don't like leeks like this dish. The leeks are braised in wine and water or stock until soft and golden, then topped with Parmesan and run under a broiler, so you get a crunchy layer on top of soft cooked leeks. One of the tricks here is to discard the outer layers that become papery when you cook them, so that the whole leek will be soft and easy to cut through.
Orzo with Summer Squash and Pesto
There’s still plenty of summer squash in the market. I like to dice it small for this dish, cook it with a little garlic and marjoram or mint and toss it with orzo, a pasta that looks like rice but tastes and feels like pasta. I love the textures of the two, and the pesto completes the dish. Make sure to dice the squash small so the pieces aren’t much bigger than the grains of orzo.
Seasoned Blanched Kale
Here’s a recipe for a side dish of immense flavor but it can also be a killer ingredient in sandwiches. You can add fresh thyme or fresh rosemary to the kale during the (very) short cooking process if desired, or season with plenty of hot red pepper.
Tuna Tapenade
This is a wonderful version of tapenade, the Provençal olive paste. Serve it with croutons or raw vegetables, or use it as a filling for deviled eggs. Mash the hard-cooked yolks with the tapenade and spoon or pipe into the hard-cooked whites.