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Chelow (Persian Steamed White Rice)
The famed the base of many other traditional Persian rice delicacies such as tahdig, this is perfectly textured rice that’s fragrant, light, fluffy, and tender, with each grain separate from the next.
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Arroz al Horno Valenciano (Spanish Baked Rice With Chickpeas and Pork)
A sibling of paella, this one-pot oven-baked Spanish rice is loaded with beans, meat, tomato, garlic, and potatoes, and flavored with saffron and smoked paprika. It's also significantly easier than paella, making it a much better everyday choice for the home cook.
Mushroom Scampi
While most scampi recipes feature shrimp rather than the namesake small, lobster-like crustaceans, this mushroom version is a joyful meat-free alternative. All of the signatures are here – garlic, butter and white wine – and the mushrooms add a rich, earthy umami element. There is room to vary your mushrooms; while cremini or button mushrooms are great because they remain juicy and plump, oyster or shiitake mushrooms would add a pleasing, chewier texture. This dish is also parsley heavy; some is cooked with the mushrooms and the rest is added fresh, delivering a clean herbaceousness that brightens the dish. Eat with pasta, noodles or bread.
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Moroccan Kefta and Bell Pepper Briouats (Ground Meat and Bell Pepper Pastries)
Caramelized onions and red bell peppers lend sweetness to these briouats, while paprika, cumin, coriander provide an additional layer of flavor.
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Jamaican Peas and Rice
A subtle, slightly sweet coconut aroma—along with Scotch bonnet, thyme, scallion, ginger, and garlic—encompasses every bite of this classic Jamaican dish.
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Soubise (French Onion Sauce)
Made from only three ingredients—butter, onions, and cream—this classic French onion sauce is elegant, luxurious, and incredibly simple to make. Our recipe also gives the option to add French Vadouvan curry powder.
Roasted Cauliflower With Crispy Parmesan
The key to well-roasted cauliflower, with frizzled edges and sweet and tender middles, is to cook it at a high heat on a rack near the heat source, mostly on one side. You could stop there or, toward the end of cooking, shower it with grated Parmesan to crisp and add a salty boost. Follow the instructions in Step 1 to cut the cauliflower through the stem to create lots of flat sides, which yields more surface area for browning and cheese — in other words, more of the good stuff.
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Nigerian Masa (Fermented Rice Cake Balls)
Crunchy fermented rice cakes that can be served sweet or savory.
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Nigerian Lafun
A slightly sweet and sour swallow made with fermented cassava flour that's served alongside soups and stews.
Thanksgiving Stuffing
This deeply savory, buttery sage stuffing builds layers of flavor with each step. First, whole sage leaves fry in melted butter for a pretty garnish that offers pleasurable crispy bits. The butter ends up browned, nutty and infused with the herb’s woodsy aroma, and helps chopped sage, fennel seeds, poultry seasoning and cayenne bloom for a fragrant blend that tastes like sausage. Milk in place of watery boxed stock means there’s a base of richness that only dairy can provide. The combination of white bread and cornbread results in a classic but amped-up Thanksgiving stuffing with textural integrity and a hint of sweetness to boot.
Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes
It’s not just that mashed potatoes can be made ahead; they actually end up creamier and fluffier when prepared in advance. When mashed potatoes chill, their starches firm up, and when reheated gently, they relax into a mash with an even silkier texture. But you can’t save potatoes that start out gluey. Shearing cooked spuds with any blade — food processor, blender or hand mixer — releases enormous amounts of starch and turns the mash into spackle. Here, you break up the potatoes by hand or with a stand mixer’s paddle attachment for an airy smoothness. If you have a ricer or food mill, you can use that instead.
Honey-Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Apples
Simple enough for weeknights but special enough for holidays, this mix of roasted root vegetables and fruits showcases all the sweetness fall produce has to offer. Because each ingredient roasts differently, you’ll also get various textures, from jammy apples to crisp-tender carrots. Honey accentuates the sweetness, but there’s plenty of room for personal flair. For warmth, roast with 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, cardamom or ginger. For crunch, add chopped nuts to the pan in the last few minutes of roasting. For a little zip, add lemon or orange zest with the red-pepper flakes. Eat alongside turkey, lamb or pork, or serve over sautéed greens or salad greens.
Easy Mustard Greens
Mustard greens are a delectable option for the simplest weeknight meal or the grandest holiday table. Though they’re from the same plant family as collard greens, mustard greens are more peppery and the cooked leaves are more tender. (They also cook down a lot more, so it takes a lot of mustard greens to make a decent serving amount!) This recipe is generous with the liquid, because as it cooks it becomes something just as delicious as the greens themselves: pot likker. Smoked meats are often used for their flavor, but a small amount of liquid smoke keeps this recipe meat-free. Be sure to serve your greens in a bowl, so you can slurp up the resulting pot likker afterward.
Silky Creamed Corn
The original creamed corn likely did not have any cream at all: Native Americans scraped the cobs of their milky, starchy juices and simmered them with kernels until everything was thick and creamy. This recipe — which works with any frozen, canned or fresh corn — builds a similar silkiness by blending some of the cooked corn. Half-and-half adds richness, but not so much that it mutes the sweetness of the corn like heavy cream can. There’s no one way to flavor creamed corn; you can add herbs, cheese and peppers to make maque choux, or add nothing at all.
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Nigerian Fried Rice
Vegetable-studded fried rice seasoned with Nigerian-style curry powder, dried thyme, and bay leaves.
Challah Bread
This challah recipe is ideal for first-time bread bakers, as it contains several checks and tests to indicate exactly when you’re ready to move on to the next step, minimizing the potential for failure. The biggest risk factor is underproofing, especially in a cool environment (the dough is temperature-sensitive), so for a light, silky loaf, make sure you give it sufficient time. If your oven has a proof setting, you can use it to speed up the process considerably. (Watch Claire make and braid this dough on YouTube.)
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Dawali (Palestinian Stuffed Grape Leaves)
Warak dawali (literally: grape leaves) is a complete one-pot meal of stuffed grape leaves, often lined at the bottom with lamb chops or beef short ribs.
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Grilled Garlic Scapes
Garlic scapes coated with olive oil, salt, and pepper, then charred on a hot grill.
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Hashweh (Palestinian Spiced Rice and Meat)
Spices bloomed in ghee add complexity to this celebratory Palestinian dish.
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Chinese Spinach and Peanut Salad
A light palate-opening appetizer or the perfect accompaniment to a stir-fry or braise.
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All-Purpose Chinese Vinaigrette for Cold Vegetable Dishes
A basic template with infinite flavor possibilities.
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Salata Falahiyeh (Palestinian or Farmers Salad)
If all you have at home are tomatoes, onion, and mint, you can enjoy a very delicious salad.
Pasta Salad
This pasta salad has everything you could want in the bowl: loads of ripe tomatoes, chunks of mozzarella, sliced olives, salami and plenty of fresh green herbs, all tossed in a garlicky, oregano-spiked red wine vinaigrette. Serve it the same day it’s made for the brightest flavor and best texture.
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Armenian-Style Rice Pilaf
Rice and pasta toasted in butter and then simmered in chicken stock makes the perfect side dish for any meal.