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Spaghetti Napolitan
Spaghetti Napolitan should be thought of as a yaki (“fried”) noodle dish more than an Italian-style pasta. This smart, effortlessly delicious version comes from ketchup lover Chiaki Ohara of Davelle, a Japanese café on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Frying the ketchupy noodles and vegetables over high heat, in a generous amount of oil, results in a deeply satisfying sauce, so don’t be afraid of a little fire (or oil, for that matter). This is Japan’s yoshoku (“Western-style”) interpretation of Italian tomato spaghetti, a dish that’s hard to get right, but Ms. Ohara’s Napolitan ratios are quietly precise and genius. If you can relish it, the soft fried egg on top adds so much.
Caramelized Carrot and Halloumi Salad
Salty bites of crisp, golden-brown halloumi play well with sweet and tender caramelized carrots and red onion in this warm salad that takes inspiration from fattoush. Here, kale and crunchy toasted pita add enough bulk to ensure this dish is satisfying enough for dinner. It’s all tied together with a simple vinaigrette that’s both earthy and herbaceous, thanks to the blend of herbs, sesame and sumac found in za’atar. If you’d like to make this salad vegan, feel free to skip the cheese.
Kale, Couscous and Tofu Salad With Carrot-Ginger Dressing
This satisfying no-cook salad demonstrates that taking cooking shortcuts need not come with any compromise when it comes to taste. Shortcut number one: You can skip massaging the kale; tearing it vigorously softens the leaves sufficiently. Shortcut number two: Save time with store-bought baked tofu, as it has been pre-cooked, which results in a firmer texture that stands up well in salads. And, lastly, shortcut three: Rather than actively monitoring couscous on the stovetop, you can simply season it and rehydrate in boiling water (or even hot vegetable stock, for even more flavor). The punchy, golden-hued carrot and ginger dressing takes cues from the simple salads served at Japanese American restaurants. This version adds miso, which softens the heat of the ginger.
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This Beloved Savory Mediterranean Pastry Is a Spiraled Delight
This borek features hypnotic spirals of golden flaky pastry filled with a savory carrot, mushroom, and feta cheese filling.
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Creamy, Nutty Za’atar Roasted Carrot Dip
Roasted carrots, za’atar, and tahini make this a wonderfully sweet, earthy, and creamy dip.
French Lentil Salad
Bright with flavor, dynamic and crisp with a combination of roots and chicory, and fresh with major herb appeal, this is a hearty, friendly, anytime salad that will work well with any grocery or farmers’ market haul. It can easily become a staple in your home: You can make it on Sunday and eat it throughout the week, its flavors changing as it marinates. Because of this, it’s also a salad you can adjust as days go by, adding more lemon here and there, maybe some cheese to change up its flavors after a day or two. Sturdy enough to stand alone as a light meal in and of itself, this lentil salad also makes a fantastic side served with roasted chicken or fish. This is one special and easygoing recipe to have on hand for all occasions.
Easy Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
The whole point of carrot cake is that, in its most ideal form, it’s a vehicle for cream cheese frosting, a triple stack of fluffy spiced cake, finished with generous swoops of frosting. Baking the cake batter in a half-sheet pan, then cutting the flat cake into three rectangles delivers thin, even layers and skips the hassle of baking and slicing tall cake rounds. To highlight the tang of cream cheese, this frosting includes sour cream instead of butter. It gives the whole thing a fresh lightness, each forkful equal parts tender cake and silky frosting. The resulting cake looks modern with its sharp angles but can still be cut into classic triangular wedges.
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Carrot Cake Meets Baklava in This Delightful Spring Dessert
With layers of buttery phyllo dough and a spiced carrot and nut filling drenched in simple syrup, this homemade carrot cake baklava is irresistibly flaky and delicious.
Roasted Carrots With Whipped Tahini
For a spectacular vegetable side at home, try this tried-and-true formula: A swoosh of sauce on a plate topped with a cooked vegetable and a confetti of finely chopped garnish. For this iteration, blend the base (a cloud of yogurt, tahini, citrus and garlic) and chop your garnish (a pretty pile of pistachios, dill and chives) while the carrots roast. Set on a platter, served hot or at room temperature, it’s a special side dish that can also hold its own as a vegetarian main, supplemented with chickpeas, quinoa, couscous or toasted bread.
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For Moist, Tender Carrot Cake, Make It the Brazilian Way
Bolo de cenoura is a Brazilian carrot cake that’s balanced, just sweet enough without being cloying, and equally wonderful as a snacking cake or as a dessert for a special occasion.
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Quick Pickled Carrots
These quick pickled carrot ribbons have just the right amount of punch and crunch, and they're a cinch to make. Try them as a topping for chicken, fish, pork, or tofu, toss them into a salad, or spoon them over rice.
Frosted Carrot Cake With Ras el Hanout
In this twist on the classic carrot cake, ras el hanout, a vibrant Moroccan spice blend, replaces the recipe’s typical spices. Translating from “top of the shop” in Arabic, ras el hanout refers to a blend of the finest available spices in the shop. Its warm, complex flavor, rich with cinnamon, ginger and coriander, adds a delightful kick and fragrance that perfectly complement the tangy cream cheese frosting.
Bubble and Squeak
Bubble and squeak is a deeply caramelized, homey cake of leftover mashed potatoes and other vegetables, traditionally made the morning after a Sunday roast. This classic British dish gets its name from the cooking process: As the moisture from the vegetables bubbles away, the vegetables sizzle and squeak — especially the cabbage, a common addition. Be sure to let the bottom brown and crisp, mix those bits into the mash, then repeat until the cake is strewn with golden vegetables throughout. Eat alongside a fried or poached egg for breakfast. To make it vegetarian, replace the bacon with 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
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Sweet, Crunchy Carrot Salad
This delightfully crunchy side salad features crisp shredded carrots, plump raisins, and pistachios, all tossed with a creamy citrusy dressing.
Cucumber-Cabbage Salad With Sesame
Taking cues from Vietnamese flavors, this colorful salad can be served on its own or be a fine accompaniment to roast chicken, grilled meat or fish. The dressing, a zippy mixture of garlic, ginger, sesame oil, fish sauce, lime juice and jalapeño, makes sure the vegetables shine. Ordinary cabbage will work fine, but if you can find napa cabbage, so much the better.
Vegetable Beef Soup
A lighter version of beef stew, this soup has all the makings of a cold-weather comfort meal: hunks of potatoes, a mix of hearty vegetables, and tender, fall-apart beef that’s been slowly cooked in a tomatoey broth. Stew meat, a diced mix of various cuts of beef, is the easiest and most economical option, but that can be swapped with singular cuts, including chuck, round or brisket. If you have a bottle of wine already open or are planning to drink it with the meal, pour in a little here to release the browned bits from the bottom of the pot and add a depth of flavor; if not, water or more beef stock works, too. Sprinkle each serving with crushed butter crackers or serve with a wedge of cornbread.
Gregory Gourdet’s Carrot Salad With Oranges and Cashews
I love how sweet carrots get in a hot oven, becoming this perfect, creamy foil for tart dressing and crispy, crunchy textures. I don’t even peel them in this recipe, to preserve the extra nutrients — give me all the beta carotene and vitamin A — and OK, because it’s easier that way. While I roast the carrots for this recipe, adapted from my cookbook “Everyone’s Table” (Harper, 2021), I char a couple of chiles on the stovetop burner, which add extra flavor and some heat to the simple dressing of fish sauce, lime, and the garlic and shallots roasted and plucked from the pan of carrots. Juicy oranges cool things down and cashews provide crunch and some lovely fat.
Butter-Poached Carrots
It doesn’t seem that butter, water and salt should result in carrots that taste this supremely of carrots, but the magic is evident in the incredible distilled carrot flavor, thanks to a little technique. In the 5 minutes it takes for the water to come to a simmer in a closed pot, the water gains the sweet, root-vegetable flavor of the carrots while also emulsifying with the butter into a glossy sauce. These are buttered carrots, but poached in their own glossy orange liqueur, making them the carrotiest carrots you’ll ever taste. This recipe comes from the French chef Raymond Blanc, by way of the food writer Bee Wilson, as featured in her 2023 cookbook “The Secret of Cooking.” Her promise is simple but life-changing: “On lifting the lid, you will see that the butter and water have formed a silky emulsion and, because of the quick cooking time, the carrots retain their orange color and sweet flavor in their buttery bath.” Because this universal side dish is so quick to cook, Ms. Wilson likes to have a pot of it ready up until just the last moment before serving.
Easy Roasted Carrots and Crispy Kale
Tender and sweet caramelized carrots and crisp-edged roasted kale make a delicious pair in this simple side. The two are roasted on every cook's favorite baking pan, a large rimmed baking sheet, also known as a half-sheet pan. The carrots get a little head start to make sure they are caramelized and sweet, and the kale is sliced thinly and massaged with oil and salt before cooking, ensuring that it roasts quickly and procures some prized crispy edges that contrast nicely with the tender carrots. A squeeze of lemon at the end brightens the whole dish.
Giant Roasted Vegetable Platter
A giant platter of colorful roasted vegetables is a perfect party side that you can make in advance. The vegetables can be cut up the day before and stored in the fridge. You can roast them a few hours before serving, and reheat them for 7 to 15 minutes at 350 to 400 degrees (they are very forgiving) or serve them at room temperature. Then garnish to your heart’s content – a mix of jewel-like pomegranate seeds, cumin or sesame seeds, herbs, swirls of garlicky yogurt and dashes of hot honey will make everything pop. To make a vegan version of this dish, you can substitute tahini sauce for the yogurt sauce and skip the hot honey.
Ras el Hanout Roasted Vegetables
This flavorful dish makes a versatile side that can complement a variety of main courses. Infused with ras el hanout (see Tip), a warm and aromatic spice blend from North Africa, it’s ideal for sharing or preparing ahead of a busy week. Roasting the vegetables enhances their natural sweetness, creating a crispy exterior and a tender, melt-in-your-mouth interior. Cutting root vegetables into evenly sized pieces ensures they will cook at the same rate while maximizing surface area, allowing for enhanced flavor absorption and more caramelization. For carrots and parsnips, cut the thinner ends into chunks, then halve the thicker ends lengthwise before cutting into chunks.
Chicken Pot Pie Empanadas
Empanada dough is your blank canvas! Found in the freezer section of most Latin supermarkets, these handy disks can be filled with just about anything. Transform last night's leftovers into a whole new meal—think roasted vegetables, shredded chicken, or even leftover chili. These chicken pot pie empanadas are a delicious example of how creative you can get. Fry or bake them until golden for a satisfying snack or meal.
Friday Couscous
In Morocco, couscous is traditionally served on Fridays, a holy day in Islam for prayer, community gatherings and family meals. Known as Friday couscous, this custom is deeply rooted in the country's cultural and religious traditions. Couscous refers to the entire dish — the couscous granules called smida which translates to semolina, and the flavorful stew of vegetables and meat called marka. Traditionally, the couscous granules are steamed until light and fluffy in a couscoussière, while the marka is made with a variety of vegetables, meat and aromatic spices. For this quicker, vegetable-only version, the couscous is cooked according to package instructions for convenience. Ideal for busy weeknights or meal prep, by the time the vegetables are fully cooked, the broth, which is poured over the couscous to moisten it, becomes richly infused with the spices and deep, savory flavors of the vegetables. Any remaining broth is often served on the side to be enjoyed on its own or added to the dish.
Bún Chả
Tender and flavorful pork patties packed with lemongrass, garlic, and oyster and fish sauces are the centerpiece of bún chả, a traditional Vietnamese street food. The flattened meatballs are served in a warm citrusy broth with pickled vegetables, while cooked rice noodles and herbs are added to the bowl throughout the meal. (A photo of President Barack Obama and Anthony Bourdain eating bún chả in Hanoi in 2016 further popularized the dish in the west.) Here, the patties are caramelized in a grill pan or skillet. Using ground pork with a high fat content (at least 20-percent) is optimal.