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
#quick
45 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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indian
Bhindi Masala
Okra fried dry and hard before anything wet touches it. That single rule is what keeps it from going slimy.
- Time
- 50m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate
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breakfast
Blueberry Muffins
A high blast of heat first for the domed top, then down to finish. Frozen berries, tossed in flour so they stay put.
- Time
- 47m
- Serves
- 12 muffins
- Effort
- Easy
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breakfast
Buttermilk Pancakes
Lumpy batter, a rested ten minutes, and a pan that is cooler than you think. Most bad pancakes are overmixed, overheated, or both.
- Time
- 35m
- Serves
- about 10 pancakes
- Effort
- Easy
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indian
Cabbage Thoran
A dry Kerala stir-fry of finely shredded cabbage with coconut. Fifteen minutes, and the coconut goes in raw at the end.
- Time
- 27m
- Serves
- 4 as a side
- Effort
- Easy
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side
Cacık
Turkish yoghurt with cucumber, garlic and dried mint, loosened with cold water until you can drink it or spoon it.
- Time
- 45m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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salad
Caesar Salad
An emulsified anchovy and egg dressing, croutons fried in the pan rather than baked, and cold crisp leaves.
- Time
- 28m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate
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pasta
Carbonara
Egg, cured pork, hard cheese and pepper. No cream, and no heat under the pan when the eggs go in.
- Time
- 25m
- Serves
- 2
- Effort
- Moderate
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pasta
Cacio e Pepe
Four ingredients and one failure mode. The trick is temperature control — the cheese must never meet heat it can't handle.
- Time
- 17m
- Serves
- 2
- Effort
- Moderate
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indian
Chapati
Two ingredients and a hot dry pan. The puff comes from steam, and it only happens if the dough is soft and properly rested.
- Time
- 1h 10m
- Serves
- 10 chapatis
- Effort
- Moderate
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indian
Coconut Chutney
Fresh coconut, roasted gram and a green chilli, ground loose. Five minutes, and it goes with almost everything from a South Indian kitchen.
- Time
- 13m
- Serves
- about 1 1/2 cups
- Effort
- Easy
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baking
Cornbread
Buttermilk batter poured into a smoking cast-iron skillet, which fries the base into a crust before the oven gets to work.
- Time
- 44m
- Serves
- 8
- Effort
- Easy
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weeknight
Crispy Chicken Thighs
Skin side down in a cold pan, weighted, and left alone for most of the cook. You turn them once, near the end.
- Time
- 40m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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salad
Crunchy Slaw
Salt the cabbage, wring it out, then dress it. Twenty extra minutes buys you a slaw that is still crisp an hour later.
- Time
- 1h
- Serves
- 6 as a side
- Effort
- Easy
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weeknight
Fish Tacos
A quick chilli rub, four minutes in a hot pan, and a slaw dressed at the last minute so it stays crunchy.
- Time
- 38m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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baking
Flapjacks
Butter, golden syrup and brown sugar melted together and stirred through oats, baked until the edges darken and left to set hard in the tin.
- Time
- 1h 35m
- Serves
- 16 squares
- Effort
- Easy
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breakfast
French Toast
Stale bread, a long soak, and a pan cool enough that the custard sets before the outside burns.
- Time
- 32m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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weeknight
Fried Rice
Cold day-old rice, a screaming pan, and everything prepped before you start. The whole cook is four minutes.
- Time
- 23m
- Serves
- 3
- Effort
- Easy
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breakfast
Courgette and Ricotta Frittata
Started on the hob, finished under the grill, pulled while the centre is still soft. Ricotta keeps it from going rubbery.
- Time
- 37m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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breakfast
Ful Medames
Warm fava beans crushed in their own liquid with cumin, lemon and a lot of olive oil. Breakfast that holds you until evening.
- Time
- 35m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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indian
Jeera Rice
Basmati with cumin bloomed in ghee. The absorption method, a fixed ratio, and a lid you do not lift.
- Time
- 40m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
-
indian
Lemon Rice
Cold rice folded through a tempering of dal, peanuts and curry leaves, with the lemon squeezed in off the heat so it stays sharp.
- Time
- 25m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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weeknight
Mapo Tofu
Silken tofu in a red, numbing sauce built on fermented chilli bean paste. Minced mushrooms do the job the pork usually does.
- Time
- 35m
- Serves
- 4 with rice
- Effort
- Moderate
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indian
Matar Paneer
Peas and paneer in a straightforward onion-tomato gravy. A weeknight dish that takes half an hour and no special ingredients.
- Time
- 45m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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technique
Mayonnaise
One yolk holds a surprising amount of oil, as long as you add it slowly enough. Five minutes, and it fixes if it breaks.
- Time
- 10m
- Serves
- about 1 cup
- Effort
- Moderate
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soup
Miso Soup
Kombu and dried shiitake steeped, never boiled, then miso whisked in off the heat. Twenty minutes, mostly waiting.
- Time
- 50m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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weeknight
Miso-Glazed Salmon
A four-ingredient glaze, a short marinade, and eight minutes under the grill. The sugar in the miso is doing the browning, so watch it.
- Time
- 49m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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weeknight
Mushroom Stroganoff
Mushrooms browned hard in two batches, not steamed in one crowded pan. The soured cream goes in off the heat.
- Time
- 40m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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weeknight
Nasi Goreng
Yesterday's rice fried with a pounded chilli-shallot base and darkened with kecap manis, a fried egg landing on top.
- Time
- 27m
- Serves
- 3
- Effort
- Easy
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weeknight
Pad See Ew
Wide rice noodles charred in a dry-hot pan with Chinese broccoli, egg and dark soy. Four minutes of cooking, all of it fast.
- Time
- 25m
- Serves
- 2
- Effort
- Moderate
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indian
Palak Paneer
Spinach blanched and shocked so it stays green, blitzed coarse, and paneer added at the very end.
- Time
- 45m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate
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technique
Pan-Seared Steak
Dry surface, hot pan, butter only at the end. Temperature decides everything and a thermometer removes the argument.
- Time
- 23m
- Serves
- 2
- Effort
- Moderate
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pasta
Basil Pesto
Raw sauce, so every ingredient shows. Keep the basil cold and bruise it rather than shredding it.
- Time
- 15m
- Serves
- enough for 400 g pasta
- 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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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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indian
Rasam
A thin, sour, peppery broth. Never let it boil once the tamarind and dal water are in — it goes cloudy and dull.
- Time
- 40m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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baking
Scones
Cold butter, a barely-mixed dough, and a straight cut down. Twelve minutes from bowl to oven.
- Time
- 29m
- Serves
- 8 scones
- Effort
- Easy
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salad
Sesame Noodles
Cold noodles in a sesame-and-black-vinegar dressing that stays emulsified because of the noodle water you saved.
- Time
- 43m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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breakfast
Shakshuka
A thick pepper and tomato base with eggs poached in wells. The sauce has to be reduced before the eggs go in, or you end up with soup.
- Time
- 40m
- Serves
- 3
- Effort
- Easy
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weeknight
Smash Burgers
Loose balls of beef flattened hard onto a screaming pan for thirty seconds. The crust is the entire point.
- Time
- 25m
- Serves
- 4 burgers
- Effort
- Easy
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baking
Soda Bread
Four ingredients, thirty seconds of mixing and no proving. The loaf is in the oven before a yeasted dough has finished its first stir.
- Time
- 1h 20m
- Serves
- one round loaf
- Effort
- Easy
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breakfast
Soft Scrambled Eggs
Low heat, constant movement, and off the pan while they still look slightly underdone.
- Time
- 11m
- Serves
- 2
- Effort
- Easy
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side
Stir-Fried Greens with Garlic
Ninety seconds of actual cooking. The trick is a dry pan, dry greens, and not stirring as much as you think.
- Time
- 14m
- Serves
- 4 as a side
- Effort
- Easy
-
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