pasta
Aglio e Olio
The ten-minute pantry dinner. Everything depends on not letting the garlic go past gold.
- Time
- 17m
- Serves
- 2
- Effort
- Easy
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16 entries filed under this tag.
Recipes
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technique
Basic Vinaigrette
A ratio rather than a recipe. Learn the three-to-one and the mustard trick and you will never buy salad dressing again.
- Time
- 5m
- Serves
- enough for 6 salads
- Effort
- Easy
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weeknight
Chana Masala
Tinned chickpeas, one onion cooked far longer than feels reasonable, and whole spices bloomed in fat. Dinner in forty minutes, most of it unattended.
- Time
- 45m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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technique
Chicken Stock
Bones, cold water, aromatics and four hours at a temperature that never quite bubbles. The single most useful thing to keep in a freezer.
- Time
- 4h 15m
- Serves
- about 2 litres
- Effort
- Easy
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indian
Dal Tadka
Soft yellow lentils finished with a tempering of spices bloomed in ghee, poured over at the table.
- Time
- 45m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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indian
Gatte ki Sabzi
Gram flour dumplings boiled, sliced and dropped into a yoghurt gravy. A Rajasthani dish designed around having no fresh vegetables at all.
- Time
- 1h 5m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate
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indian
Khichdi
Rice and moong dal cooked together to a soft, savoury porridge. The dish people make when they are ill, and eat when they are not.
- Time
- 45m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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soup
Leek and Potato Soup
Leeks sweated under a lid until they give up their sugar, then potato and stock. Three ingredients, no browning anywhere.
- Time
- 50m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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pasta
Marinara Sauce
Four ingredients, forty minutes, and no browning at all. The point is bright tomato, not deep savoury.
- Time
- 45m
- Serves
- enough for 500 g pasta
- Effort
- Easy
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soup
Minestrone
A soffritto, whatever vegetables you have, and a parmesan rind in the pot. The pasta is cooked separately for a reason.
- Time
- 1h 10m
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Easy
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indian
Poha
Flattened rice rinsed rather than soaked, then warmed through with mustard seeds, onion and turmeric. Ten minutes from start to plate.
- Time
- 20m
- Serves
- 3
- Effort
- Easy
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side
Soft Polenta
Coarse polenta, forty-five minutes at a bare blip, and butter and cheese beaten in at the very end. Instant is a different food.
- Time
- 1h
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Easy
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technique
Quick Pickled Onions
Ten minutes of work and thirty of waiting. They turn bright pink on their own and improve almost anything savoury.
- Time
- 43m
- Serves
- one jar
- Effort
- Easy
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soup
Red Lentil Soup
Thirty minutes from cupboard to bowl. Lentils need no soaking and thicken the soup themselves.
- Time
- 40m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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indian
Upma
Semolina toasted dry, then hydrated with boiling water. Fifteen minutes, and the toasting is what keeps it from turning to paste.
- Time
- 35m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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braise
White Bean Stew
Dried cannellini cooked slowly in a lot of olive oil and their own broth, with a ladleful mashed back in for body.
- Time
- 9h 40m
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Easy