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Strawberry Lassi
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Feb 11, 2025

Strawberry Lassi

Strawberry lassi is a popular variation of lassi, the yogurt-based blended beverage with origins in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. This refreshing drink is made with frozen strawberries instead of ice to add flavor while keeping it cool. Sugar is the traditional sweetener in lassi, but the maple syrup here adds a subtle earthiness and dissolves quickly while blending. South Asian dahi (yogurt) is ideal for achieving the drink’s characteristic tart creaminess, but plain whole-milk yogurt will also work well. (Greek yogurt and skyr can be too thick for lassi.) 

10m4 servings
Chipotle Honey Chicken Wings
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Feb 7, 2025

Chipotle Honey Chicken Wings

Spicy and sweet, with a cooling dip to dunk them in, these chicken wings are simple to make. Smoky chipotle chiles in adobo sauce are blended with sour cream, honey, garlic and a couple spices to make a flavorful coating for the wings while the oven heats up. Then with just a quick roast on a wire rack over a parchment-lined sheet pan (so your pan stays relatively clean), the wings are ready. Orange zest adds a fruity brightness, but is optional.

40m4 to 6 servings
Buffalo Chicken and Cheese Paratha
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Feb 1, 2025

Buffalo Chicken and Cheese Paratha

Filled with a spicy Buffalo chicken and mozzarella mixture and pan-fried in ghee until crisp, these parathas are delightfully cheesy.

1h 15m6,6 parathas
Garlic Parmesan Wings
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Jan 31, 2025

Garlic Parmesan Wings

Wings are a crowd-pleaser for game day or any day of the week. Baked, not fried, with a savory blend of spices, the chicken is then tossed in butter, fresh garlic, lemon zest and parsley. Plenty of freshly grated Parmesan added at the end makes these garlicky wings irresistibly good. The key to crispy wings is ensuring they spend time in the refrigerator after they have been coated in the baking powder and spices. The baking powder and salt draw moisture out of the wings, allowing the skin to brown more easily in the oven. Serve these with ranch dressing or your favorite dipping sauce. Feel free to add a few splashes of hot sauce while tossing the wings in the butter mixture, if you are feeling extra spicy.

1h 55m6 to 8 servings
Baked Chicken Meatballs
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Jan 29, 2025

Baked Chicken Meatballs

These weeknight-friendly chicken meatballs come together in a snap, with minimal chopping and minimal mess. They’re made with a panade — a simple combination of bread crumbs and milk — which makes for light and tender meatballs. Baked meatballs aren’t quite as charred and caramelized as the pan-fried variety, but they do brown nicely underneath, thanks to contact with the hot sheet pan. A hit with adults and kids, chicken meatballs can be served as a snack with your favorite sauce for dipping, or tossed with a simple tomato sauce and served over pasta.

1h4 servings
Egg Muffins
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Jan 29, 2025

Egg Muffins

Baked egg muffins are an ideal weekday breakfast: They’re portable, easy to make in advance and endlessly adaptable to what’s in the fridge. This recipe calls for a colorful mix of spinach, tomatoes, bacon, Cheddar and feta, but feel free to experiment with your own combinations. Aim to keep roughly the same ratio of ingredients that contain more water, such as tomatoes and spinach, to less wet ones like cheese and bacon. For a vegetarian version, replace the bacon with chopped steamed broccoli or sautéed mushrooms.  

1h12 egg muffins
Baked Oatmeal Breakfast Bars
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Jan 29, 2025

Baked Oatmeal Breakfast Bars

Perfect for breakfast, these bars feel like cake but taste like a granola bar in the best way. They are light but substantial. Instead of old-fashioned rolled oats, these bars call for quick-cooking oats and a little bit of all-purpose flour. Rolled oats don’t soften enough in a quick bread but quick-cooking oats bake up soft and fluffy. Delicately flavored with cinnamon and a bit of applesauce, they are simple but satisfying and easily dressed up. Try adding up to 1½ cups of mix-ins like chocolate, shredded coconut or dried fruit, or a combination. Leftover slices are delicious toasted in a skillet with butter and sprinkled with flaky sea salt.

40m16 bars
Avocado, Edamame and Yuzu Dip With Furikake
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Jan 28, 2025

Avocado, Edamame and Yuzu Dip With Furikake

This voluptuous dip “couldn’t be simpler,” wrote Ravinder Bhogal, the chef of Jikoni in London, in her cookbook “Comfort and Joy” (Bloomsbury, 2023). Tumble avocado in a food processor with ginger, for a subtle sweetness and restorative sting; soy sauce, standing in for salt but rounder and deeper; toasted sesame oil, earthy and plush, making everything it touches more intensely itself; and edamame, for body (and protein). Then stir in yuzu, a citrus that’s sweeter and gentler than lemon, lending a sherbety tang, and light where avocado is luscious. (If you don’t have any on hand, try squeezing together lemon and clementine.) A dose of sambal brings a throb of heat, if you like, while a dusting of furikake adds crunch. Ms. Bhogal serves the dip on toast at her restaurant, but you can dispense with the formality of framing it as a meal and eat it straight, dunking the likes of carrots, radishes, tortilla chips and Thai prawn crackers.

15mAbout 4 cups
Instant Pot Yogurt
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Jan 24, 2025

Instant Pot Yogurt

Making yogurt from scratch is just one of the Instant Pot’s many functions — and one worth exploring if yogurt is a repeat purchase on your grocery list. Like many homemade approaches, DIY yogurt offers big benefits, including the low cost as well as ingredient control. Any plain yogurt with active cultures will work here, but a powdered starter can also be used (see Tip). Go wild on flavorings (add vanilla, coconut or almond extracts; espresso or cocoa powders; lemon zest; or saffron threads) and sweeten to taste with honey, agave or maple syrup. (Just make sure the enhancers are mixed in after the yogurt is fully set and chilled.) The yogurt lasts in the fridge for up to 2 weeks; make use of any extra in smoothies, rice dishes, curries, baked goods and marinades.

16h2 quarts unstrained yogurt (8 cups)
Kimchi, Egg and Cheese Sandwich
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Jan 23, 2025

Kimchi, Egg and Cheese Sandwich

For heat, crunch and a jolt of brightness, add kimchi to your breakfast sandwich. Most classic egg sandwiches, like sausage or bacon, lack the necessary acidity to balance out the richness of the other ingredients, which is why we often slather on ketchup — it’s sweet, but also tart. By replacing the meat with kimchi, the flavors in the sandwich are awakened. If your fridge isn’t always stocked with kimchi, you can also use another pickled vegetable, like sauerkraut or chopped pickled peppers or dill pickles.

15m1 sandwich
7-Layer Buffalo Chicken Dip
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Jan 22, 2025

7-Layer Buffalo Chicken Dip

Buffalo chicken dip gets the seven-layer treatment with refried beans, pepper jack cheese, blue cheese crumbles, crispy bacon, and more.

35m8
Scottish Oatcakes
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Jan 22, 2025

Scottish Oatcakes

Oatcakes—savory, crumbly Scottish crackers—are delicious on their own, or with several slices of cheese.

1h 5m16,16 oatcakes
Matcha Overnight Oats
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Jan 17, 2025

Matcha Overnight Oats

Oats and a matcha latte make a wonderful breakfast pairing, but this recipe goes one step further to combine them into matcha overnight oats, an effortless breakfast that will delight lovers of efficiency and morning matcha. For vibrantly colored oats and a strong matcha flavor, whisk the oat mixture with a full teaspoon of matcha powder, but feel free to decrease that amount for a more delicate flavor or lower caffeine level. Refrigerate the oat base at least 3 hours to thicken (or overnight), then adjust the desired thickness to taste, adding more milk to thin as desired. To serve, top with thick, creamy Greek yogurt and vibrant fruits of choice, like raspberries, mangoes and blueberries.

3h4 servings
Cinnamon Date Smoothie
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Jan 17, 2025

Cinnamon Date Smoothie

When the craving for a cinnamon bun strikes but you don’t want to go through all the proofing, forming and baking, this smoothie almost hits all those notes in a snap: buttermilk steps in for the tang of cream cheese icing, dates offer their caramelly sweetness, and nutty flax brings that freshly baked aura. Don’t skimp on the salt, which helps all the flavors pop.

10m1 serving 
Applesauce Coffee Cake
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Jan 16, 2025

Applesauce Coffee Cake

This warmly spiced, moist apple cake is the cozy breakfast, afternoon snack or dessert that dreams are made of. The top is covered with a generous layer of crumble that’s spiced with cinnamon or your favorite pumpkin spice blend and caramelized on the edges, which adds delicious toasty flavor and wonderful crunchy texture. The topping is at its most crisp the day that it is baked, but the cake stays soft and delicious for a few days when stored in an airtight container at room temperature. Brew a cup of tea or coffee, slice a piece of cake and enjoy these cozy flavors in any season.

1h 15m16 servings
Is It a Bierock or a Runza? These Savory Midwestern Buns Are Delicious Either Way
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Jan 15, 2025

Is It a Bierock or a Runza? These Savory Midwestern Buns Are Delicious Either Way

Bierocks—comforting beef-and-cabbage filled buns—were brought to Kansas and Nebraska by immigrants in the late 1800s and remain a Midwestern staple to this day.

2h 25m8
Tanghulu (Sugar-Glazed Skewered Fruit)
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Jan 9, 2025

Tanghulu (Sugar-Glazed Skewered Fruit)

Long before tanghulu—skewered fruit glazed in sugar—became a TikTok darling, it was a snack eaten by Chinese royalty. Today, it’s a popular street food in China and Taiwan. Here’s how to make your own jeweled lollipops at home.

20m8 skewers
French Onion Dip
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Jan 7, 2025

French Onion Dip

The simple combination of a packet of French onion soup mix and a tub of sour cream is instantly delicious. Paired with crinkle cut potato chips, it’s the dip that everyone can’t stop eating. All the flavor found in that packet of soup mix can be duplicated — and perhaps improved upon — in this homemade version. Dried onion flakes are replaced with sweet and silky caramelized onions, which are time consuming but worth every minute. They are joined by onion powder, garlic powder, cayenne and Worcestershire sauce and stirred into sour cream, which creates a smooth and deeply flavorful dip that promises not to break your chips. If you want to make this recipe vegetarian, replace the Worcestershire sauce with a few splashes of soy sauce to taste. If you are looking for extra tang, replace some of the sour cream with Greek yogurt. If you crave a bit more fatty flavor, replace some of the sour cream with mayonnaise. And if you somehow don’t crave potato chips, serve this dip with crudités. 

3h6 to 8 servings
Skip the Store-Bought Stuff and Make Your Own Gourmet Popcorn at Home
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Dec 25, 2024

Skip the Store-Bought Stuff and Make Your Own Gourmet Popcorn at Home

Make popcorn in the microwave in a brown paper bag—not the store-bought microwaveable stuff that comes pre-coated in flavors, but your own. A bag of microwave popcorn is incredibly easy to make at home and lets you customize your popcorn with your own flavors.

2m4,1 Bag of Popcorn
Pão de Queijo (Chewy Cheese Buns)
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Dec 20, 2024

Pão de Queijo (Chewy Cheese Buns)

Brazil's pão de queijo stands out among Latin American cheese breads for its simplicity and irresistible chewiness. The secret lies in tapioca starch, extracted from cassava root (also known as manioc or yuca) native to Brazil, which gives these buns their distinctive texture. Pão de queijo is traditionally made with queijo minas, a cow’s milk cheese with a mild flavor, plus sweet or sour tapioca starch (or both), but this adapted version uses more readily available cheeses and omits the sour tapioca starch without compromising that addictive chewy texture. The straightforward nature of this recipe is a great way to highlight your favorite cheese's flavor. While pão de queijo is traditionally enjoyed on its own, the optional tangy, sweet-heat guava dipping sauce pairs perfectly with it, offering a Caribbean twist on that classic guava and cheese pairing. You can freeze the buns for future meals and bake them off as needed, as they are best eaten the same day they are baked.

1h 50mAbout 24
The Crispy Fried Fish Fritters I'm Making for All My Friend's This Holiday Season
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Dec 19, 2024

The Crispy Fried Fish Fritters I'm Making for All My Friend's This Holiday Season

With crispy edges and tender, slightly dense centers, bacalaitos, Puerto Rican fried salt cod fritters, are a great snack or appetizer to feed a crowd.

1h 15m10,17 Fritters
The #1 Holiday Cookie My Friends and Family Request Year After Year
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Dec 17, 2024

The #1 Holiday Cookie My Friends and Family Request Year After Year

These tender brown sugar shortbread cookies are rich and buttery, with a savory kick from just the right amount of salt.

1h 50m32,32 cookies
Kettle Corn
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Dec 17, 2024

Kettle Corn

Crunchy, sweet and salty kettle corn is a nostalgic childhood reminder of fairs, farmers markets and snack shacks. A feel-good anytime snack that is hard to walk away from, homemade kettle corn can be prepared easily with a handful of ingredients. Use a large (6-quart), tall and wide pot so the kernels have plenty of room to pop and the sugar doesn’t burn. A lighter-weight pot is also helpful to minimize the workout your arms will be getting with all the shaking. A glass lid is useful to better keep an eye on the kernels as they pop. You’ll be tempted to keep popping every last kernel, but it’s best to lose a few kernels than risk scorching the kettle corn and ruining the whole batch. Err on the side of caution, and remove the pot from the heat sooner than later. Kettle corn is best served right away but will keep, covered, for up to 5 days.

10mServes 4
Ginger Sesame Granola
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Dec 17, 2024

Ginger Sesame Granola

Anchored by earthy tahini, oats and almonds, this just-sweet-enough mixture pops with each bite of vibrant candied ginger. A touch of zippy ground cardamom and floral vanilla and a generous dose of flaky salt further enhance the complex aromas. The addition of egg whites helps to bind the ingredients together and provide an extra boost of morning protein, although they are easily omitted to accommodate dietary restrictions. Make a big batch in the evening to warm and perfume your home, then enjoy it sprinkled over yogurt for an easy breakfast.

1h9 cups