Condiments
725 recipes found
Ginger Butter Sauce
Walnut-Oil Dressing
Maraschino Cherries
The liquid and cherries glow Kool-Aid red, but they are seductively crisp-textured and steeped with an exotic, piney, floral flavor that is just sweet enough but balanced by a tart tang. Sublime in a manhattan, they are even better over coconut sorbet, and just imagine them on top of an ice cream sundae.
Spinach and Yogurt Dip
A food processor transforms a great Middle Eastern spinach dish into a spread. In the traditional dish the spinach is topped with the garlicky yogurt. Here everything is blended together.
Minty Yogurt Chutney
Sometimes Indian cooks use yogurt to make a cooling, barely-spicy raita sauce to accompany a meal. But for snacking, and to give a lift to anything that dips into it, you can also make yogurt into a fiery chutney.
Bacon Scallion Cream Sauce
Here we have a re-education — or an education, if you're a first-timer — in the virtues of an old-fashioned cream gravy. A few tablespoons of this elixir can uplift plainly cooked meat like a lamb chop or steak, layering on the richness of cream but also the freshness of scallion and black pepper. Use plenty of each.These days, home cooks are not likely to keep meat drippings around in the kitchen to make a fat-and-flour roux, but there's nothing wrong with hacking a substitute from a lump of butter and a slab of bacon. Then cook them together with flour to make a golden, toasty-smelling roux. After adding the broth and cream, the sauce will seem thin, but stay the course: don't even think of adding more flour. It takes a few minutes for the flour's starch to absorb the liquid. Take the gravy off the heat when it still seems a little too thin: it will thicken further at the table.
Apricot Jam On A Whim
Portuguese Pumpkin Preserves
This recipe was designed for something that happens only about every 125 years: the collision of Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah, an event that presents both a celebratory conundrum and culinary opportunity. Of course, you don’t have to wait (the last time it happened was in 2013). These preserves are a perfect topping for latkes, but you can just as easily incorporate them into your breakfast routine. Best of all, the recipe takes less than an hour, and will make your house smell like the essence of fall.
Spicy Lemon-Mint Jelly
This easy jelly, which you can store in your refrigerator for a week or so, adds a jazzy note to lamb, pork, even an oily fish. The mint’s coolness is balanced by tart lemon, and a tone of red-pepper flakes answers them both. Think of it as a musical riff on the old staid green mint jelly.
Garlicky Beet Spread with Yogurt, Dill and Horseradish
This recipe for an easy appetizer borrows from the Ashkenazi tradition, making it a perfect Hanukkah offering. Roasted beets, dill, walnuts and horseradish are whirred in a blender with yogurt, garlic and olive oil, coming together into a pungent magenta purée. It is thick enough to serve on latkes, and creamy enough to go it alone as a dip with vegetables. (The New York Times)
Onion Jam
Vidalia Onion And Garlic Jam
This pungent jam softens and spices the taste of beef, pork, chicken or lamb when rubbed on either side of the meat about an hour before grilling. Wipe excess jam off before grilling over hot coals as it becomes bitter. It also makes a fine substitute for butter or oil on slices of crusty bread, can be used in place of mayonnaise on meat sandwiches or in place of tomato sauce on pizzas.
Fennel Marmalade
I can’t think of a better accompaniment for this Provençal-inspired condiment than a piece of grilled fish. For a simpler meal, try this marmalade atop a bowl of brown rice or a bruschetta.
Mushroom Stock
Nobu's Chicken Stock
Coconut Dukkah
Adding coconut to dukkah introduces a sweetness to the nutty/spicy Middle Eastern mix. Serve it with crudités and flatbread, or sprinkled over a carrot purée.
Pumpkin Seed Dukkah
Because I associate pumpkin seeds with Mexican food, I decided to add some mild chili powder to this mix. You can substitute Aleppo pepper if you want to keep with the Mediterranean theme. I love this mildly spicy, nutty dukkah with everything, including on its own.
Spicy Egyptian Dukkah With Chickpea Flour
Dukkah is very popular in Egypt, where it is made with chickpea flour, sesame seeds, sometimes dill seeds, and spices. I like to toast the chickpea flour. I use the mixture, which is adapted from a dukkah in “The Arab Table,” by May S. Bsisu, not only as a condiment for vegetables and bread, but also as a coating for fried fish or vegetables.
Cranberry Sauce With Chiles
In the Southwest, local chiles of all kinds accent the flavor of Thanksgiving. Cooks put them in everything from Hatch turkey rubs to chipotle mashed potatoes to chiltepin cranberry sauce, which uses the small, round, fiery hot chiles that are native to Arizona and northern Mexico. You can make this sauce a day ahead and chill it; if it's too stiff for your tastes when you remove it from the fridge, add a little water and sugar, reheat until simmering and then cool once more. (And for everything you need to know about cranberry sauce, check out our cranberry sauce guide.)
Spicy Cranberry-Apple Relish
Vietnamese Pineapple-Shrimp Sauce
Steven Raichlen's Romesco Sauce
Curried Tomato Sauce For Soft-Cooked Eggs
