Side Dish
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Red Lentil Kofta With Spinach
These bite-size bulgur and lentil balls can be part of a mezze spread — an assortment of appetizers — or they can be served as a side dish.
Raw Beets With Sherry Vinaigrette
When eaten raw, beets have a crunchy sweetness, so they need a strong, acidic dressing for balance. If you just can't resist cooking them once they're shredded, they can be quickly sautéed in butter or oil.
Artichokes With Garlic, Chives and Cheese
Quinoa and Beet Pilaf
Use regular pearl white quinoa for this beautiful pink pilaf, which uses both roasted beets and their greens.
Swiss Chard
How to cook Swiss chard.
Leek-Vegetable Fritters With Lemon Cream
Spinach With Mushrooms and Bread
This simple vegetarian recipe, from Mark Bittman, is a great light lunch, the result of a trip to a Parisian market in 2008. Pairing bread from an earlier dinner with flavorful chanterelles and spinach, he came up with this quick, flexible meal. It was, as he wrote, “a completely honest and delicious dish that might’ve been the most creative thing I did all week, had it not been among the most traditional.”
Bone Broth
"Bone broth" has become stylish as part of the Paleo diet, which enthusiastically recommends eating meat and bones. (The idea is to eat like our Paleolithic, pre-agricultural ancestors.) But cooks have known its wonderful qualities for centuries. This robust and savory beef broth — more than a stock, less than a soup — can be the basis for innumerable soups and stews, but it also makes a satisfying and nourishing snack on its own.
Simple Braised Potatoes
One doesn't usually think of braising as a technique for cooking potatoes, but one should. It's so easy, and yields the same comfort quotient of the mashed sort without all of the peeling, boiling and mashing. Onion, garlic and your choice of thyme or rosemary give them a little oomph. As with all potato dishes, don't forget to season well with salt.
Asparagus With Walnuts, Parmesan and Brown Butter
Here's a sophisticated yet simple way to prepare spring's trademark vegetable. Steam the asparagus. Brown a knob of butter in a sauté pan and toss in a handful of chopped walnuts, garlic and fresh thyme (lemon thyme if you can find it). Whisk in a 1/4 cup of Parmesan cheese, then pour over your awaiting asparagus. Dive in.
Cooked Grains Salad With Tomato Vinaigrette
You can use a variety of grains in this salad. I’ve made it with a mixture of brown rice and farro, with quinoa and with bulgur. The mixture makes a robust main-dish salad for summer.
Vichy Carrots
Vichy carrots are a dish in which the vegetables are cooked through in water with a little sugar on them to create a glaze. Historically, the excellence of this preparation derived from the quality of the spring water in Vichy, a resort town in central France. Jody Williams, the chef at Buvette in Greenwich Village, from whom this recipe is adapted, adds sherry vinegar to the water, along with, eventually, some honey, shallots and a pinch or two of fresh thyme. Who knows if the Vichyssoise would recognize the result. But served hot, room temperature or cold, they are some fantastic carrots.
Beet, Potato, Carrot, Pickle and Apple Salad
This recipe was brought to The Times by Joan Nathan and was featured in her cookbook "Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France." It's a hearty root vegetable salad enriched with hard-boiled eggs and tossed with a lively Dijon vinaigrette.
Roasted Beets With Chiles, Ginger, Yogurt and Indian Spices
The pungent spices, zingy fresh ginger, dollops of tangy yogurt and fiery green chiles found in Indian cuisine tame the sugary beets in this recipe and open up a whole new universe of flavor. In traditional Indian cooking, beets are usually boiled or steamed, then often made into vegetable curries or chutney. But here they are roasted, which intensifies their sweetness.
Focaccia With Sweet Onion and Caper Topping
This is much like pissaladière, the Provençal onion tart. It’s a perfect time of year to make it, with sweet spring onions in abundance in the markets.
Eggplant Parmesan Deconstructed
Sweet Focaccia with Figs, Plums, and Hazelnuts
This is only slightly sweet, with three tablespoons of sugar in the dough and another tablespoon of cinnamon sugar sprinkled on top. What I find irresistible about the topping is the flavor of the rosemary-scented oil against the subtle figs and sweet-tart plums, and the nutty crunch of the hazelnuts. I use a small amount of cornmeal in my sweet focaccia dough; look for fine cornmeal, which is sometimes called corn flour.
Whole Wheat Focaccia with Tomatoes and Fontina
Focaccia, a little crisp on the bottom but soft on the top and inside, can take on many toppings besides tomatoes. Focaccia is a dimpled flatbread that can take a number of toppings, like a pizza but breadier. I used Community Grains whole wheat flour for this half-whole-wheat version, and I’m loving the results so much that I’m ready to start on a week’s worth of focaccia recipes with different toppings very soon. The bread is fragrant with olive oil, a little crisp on the bottom but soft on the top and the inside. It’s a great vehicle for summer tomatoes.
Sautéed Beets With Butter
Braised Spring Carrots and Leeks With Tarragon
Serve this sweet springtime dish as a starter or side dish, or as part of a vegetarian main dish with grains.
Buckwheat and Black Kale With Brussels Sprouts
This warm vegetable and grain salad from executive chef Michael Anthony at New York City’s Gramercy Tavern is hearty and satisfying and works as a standalone vegetarian meal or as an accompaniment to roast meat or fish.
Beets With Garlic-Walnut Sauce
A departure from the standard pairing of beets with goat cheese is a dressing of walnuts, garlic and fresh orange juice. Note that all of these have some bitterness or acidity, which counter the sweetness of beets beautifully.
Provençal Tomato and Squash Gratin
Some of the tomatoes in this gratin are cooked down to a savory sauce, while the rest are sliced and used to decorate the top.
