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Agedashi Tofu
Tofu dusted in potato starch, fried until the shell crackles, and sat in warm dashi broth so you eat it before it softens.
- Time
- 1h 5m
- Serves
- 4 as a starter
- Effort
- Moderate
#vegan
69 entries filed under this tag.
Recipes
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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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indian
Aloo Gobi
A dry curry, not a gravy. Roast the cauliflower separately so it browns instead of steaming into mush.
- Time
- 55m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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indian
Aloo Matar
Potatoes simmered in a tomato masala until the gravy clings, with peas thrown in late so they stay green and sweet.
- Time
- 45m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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Baba Ganoush
Aubergines burnt black over a live flame, drained hard, then folded with tahini and lemon. Smoke and texture, not a smooth purée.
- Time
- 1h 10m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate
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baking
Bagels
A stiff, low-hydration dough held overnight in the fridge, boiled in malted alkaline water and baked hot for a shiny, chewy skin.
- Time
- 14h 12m
- Serves
- 8 bagels
- Effort
- Moderate
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indian
Baingan Bharta
Aubergines charred whole over a flame until they collapse, then mashed into a smoky masala. The char is the dish.
- Time
- 1h 10m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate
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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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Briam
Sliced summer vegetables baked slowly in a great deal of olive oil until the edges blacken and everything collapses together.
- Time
- 2h 15m
- Serves
- 6
- 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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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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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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breakfast
Congee
One cup of rice, twelve of stock, and an hour of low heat until the grains dissolve. The toppings are the meal; the base is a canvas.
- Time
- 1h 25m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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weeknight
Dan Dan Noodles
A sauce built in the bottom of the bowl — sesame paste, chilli oil, black vinegar — with hot noodles dropped straight onto it and tossed at the table.
- Time
- 30m
- Serves
- 2
- Effort
- Moderate
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Dolma
Vine leaves rolled around herby rice and simmered under a plate. Undercooked rice going in is what makes them tight going out.
- Time
- 2h 50m
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Involved
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weeknight
Falafel
Soaked raw chickpeas, never cooked ones, ground with herbs and fried hard. The starch sets in the oil and holds the whole thing together.
- Time
- 13h 15m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Involved
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salad
Fattoush
Chopped salad built around fried pita and sumac. The bread goes in at the table so it is still crisp when you eat it.
- Time
- 38m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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indian
Dhokla
A steamed chickpea-flour sponge, sour with lemon and aerated in the last ten seconds, then flooded with a sweet mustard-seed tempering.
- Time
- 1h
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Moderate
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salad
Freekeh Salad
Green wheat with a smoky, chewy bite, dressed while still warm so the grain drinks the lemon rather than sitting in it.
- Time
- 1h 10m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate
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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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soup
Gazpacho
Ripe tomatoes macerated in salt and sherry vinegar, blended with soaked bread and emulsified with a lot of good oil.
- Time
- 3h 55m
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Easy
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Gigantes Plaki
Big white beans baked in tomato and olive oil until the sauce reduces to a jammy skin and the beans turn creamy.
- Time
- 14h 30m
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Moderate
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breakfast
Granola
One syrup, one fat, and a low oven. Press it flat and leave it alone if you want clusters.
- Time
- 1h 55m
- Serves
- about 8 cups
- Effort
- Easy
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Hummus
Dried chickpeas cooked soft with bicarbonate of soda, then whipped with tahini and ice water until the purée mounds like buttercream.
- Time
- 13h 30m
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Moderate
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indian
Idli
Steamed cakes from the same fermented family as dosa, but ground thicker and steamed rather than griddled.
- Time
- 20h 42m
- Serves
- 20 idli
- Effort
- Involved
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soup
Harira
Moroccan tomato, lentil and chickpea soup thickened at the end with a flour slurry that turns it velvety rather than merely thick.
- Time
- 14h
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Moderate
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Imam Bayildi
Whole aubergines split, stuffed with sweet onion and tomato, and braised in olive oil until they can be cut with a spoon.
- Time
- 2h 45m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate
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side
Japchae
Sweet potato noodles, springy and translucent, tossed with vegetables cooked one at a time and a soy-sesame dressing.
- Time
- 45m
- Serves
- 6 as a side
- Effort
- Moderate
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soup
Kimchi Jjigae
Sour, overripe kimchi fried in sesame oil before any liquid goes near it, then simmered hard with tofu into a scarlet stew.
- Time
- 40m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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weeknight
Koshari
Egypt's stacked plate of rice, lentils and macaroni under a sharp tomato sauce, garlic vinegar and a mountain of fried onions.
- Time
- 1h 35m
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Involved
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soup
Laksa
A coconut curry noodle soup with a pounded rempah, tofu puffs that soak up broth like sponges, and a spoonful of chilli on top.
- Time
- 1h 10m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Involved
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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
Masala Dosa
A fermented rice and lentil batter spread thin on a hot griddle, wrapped around spiced potato. The fermentation takes a day and does all the work.
- Time
- 21h 10m
- Serves
- 10 dosas
- Effort
- Involved
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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
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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side
Muhammara
Charred red peppers pounded with walnuts, breadcrumbs and pomegranate molasses into a rough, sweet-sour paste.
- Time
- 1h 45m
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Easy
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weeknight
Mujadara
Lentils and rice under a heap of onions fried almost to the point of burning. The onions are the seasoning, so give them the time.
- Time
- 1h 20m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate
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baking
No-Knead Bread
Twelve hours of time doing the work of ten minutes of kneading, baked in a lidded pot that traps its own steam.
- Time
- 16h
- Serves
- one large loaf
- Effort
- Moderate
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breakfast
Overnight Oats
No cooking at all. The ratio is the recipe, and the chia seeds are what stop it being soup.
- Time
- 8h 5m
- Serves
- 1 jar
- Effort
- Easy
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weeknight
Paella de Verduras
A thin layer of rice, stock poured once, and then nothing touches it. The crust on the bottom is the whole reward.
- Time
- 1h 5m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate
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salad
Panzanella
Stale bread salad. Salt the tomatoes first and use the juice they give up as most of the dressing.
- Time
- 50m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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indian
Pesarattu
A green moong crepe from Andhra, ground from soaked beans rather than fermented, with raw onion pressed into the wet side.
- Time
- 4h 40m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate
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baking
Pizza Dough
Three days in the fridge, a hot stone, and dough shaped by hand so the rim keeps its air.
- Time
- 48h 53m
- Serves
- 4 x 250 g bases
- Effort
- Moderate
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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
Rajma
Kidney beans in a thick onion and tomato gravy. Cook the masala until the oil separates, then let the beans thicken it themselves.
- Time
- 9h 30m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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braise
Ratatouille
Each vegetable cooked on its own terms, then folded together at the end. Cooked all in one pan it becomes a grey stew.
- Time
- 1h 25m
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Moderate
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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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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
Sambar
A tamarind and lentil stew with mixed vegetables, finished with a mustard seed tempering. The tamarind goes in after the dal, not with it.
- Time
- 1h 5m
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Moderate
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technique
Scallion Pancakes
A hot-water dough rolled thin, painted with oil paste, coiled and flattened. The layers come from the coil, not the rolling.
- Time
- 1h 45m
- Serves
- 4 pancakes
- Effort
- Involved
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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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baking
Socca
A single thin chickpea pancake baked in a screaming-hot pan until the edges blister black and the middle stays custardy.
- Time
- 2h 25m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate
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baking
Sourdough Loaf
A single-loaf schedule built around one long bulk ferment and an overnight retard, baked cold from the fridge in a preheated pot.
- Time
- 20h 25m
- Serves
- one large loaf
- Effort
- Involved
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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
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salad
Tabbouleh
A parsley salad with bulgur in it, not the other way round. The grain hydrates in tomato juice and lemon rather than water.
- Time
- 1h
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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indian
Thepla
Soft fenugreek flatbreads with gram flour worked into the dough. They stay pliable for days, which is why they travel.
- Time
- 1h 10m
- Serves
- 12 theplas
- Effort
- Moderate
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weeknight
Thai Green Curry
Paste pounded from scratch and cracked in coconut cream until the oil splits out. That one step is the difference between fragrant and flat.
- Time
- 55m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Involved
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salad
Tofu Larb
Crumbled tofu browned hard, dressed with lime and toasted rice powder, and eaten cold from lettuce leaves with a lot of herbs.
- Time
- 35m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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soup
Tom Yum
A hot-and-sour mushroom broth built on bruised lemongrass, galangal and lime leaf, with the lime juice going in only at the very end.
- Time
- 35m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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soup
Roasted Tomato Soup
Roast the tomatoes rather than simmering them. Concentration and browning do what cream is usually asked to cover up.
- Time
- 1h 10m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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indian
Undhiyu
Winter vegetables stuffed with green masala and steamed under a lid with fried fenugreek dumplings. Nothing is stirred from start to finish.
- Time
- 1h 45m
- Serves
- 6
- Effort
- Involved
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indian
Veg Kolhapuri
Mixed vegetables in a fierce dark gravy built on coconut and whole spices roasted until they smoke. Not a mild dish, and not pretending to be.
- Time
- 1h 10m
- Serves
- 5
- Effort
- Involved
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side
Vegetable Gyoza
Cabbage salted and wrung out, mushrooms browned dry, then pleated and cooked by the fry-steam-fry method that gives one crisp face.
- Time
- 1h 25m
- Serves
- 30 dumplings
- Effort
- Involved
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weeknight
Veggie Chilli
Dried beans, whole spices toasted and ground, and a long uncovered simmer. Cocoa and cinnamon do the work meat usually does.
- Time
- 9h 55m
- Serves
- 6
- 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
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side
Zaalouk
Moroccan aubergine and tomato cooked right down to a dark, garlicky jam. It is finished when a spoon leaves a clean trail.
- Time
- 1h 45m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Moderate