There’s something incredibly comforting about a warm bowl of veggies, but let’s be real—texture is everything. That’s why I’m currently obsessed with this Garden Vegetable Stew (or Aviyal, if you want to get technical!). It’s a creamy, flavorful South Indian vegetable...
This dish utilizes a method where vegetables are steamed until tender before being cooked in spices. The potatoes are stir-fried in seasoned ghee and then coated, along with the eggplant, in a delicately spiced yogurt-coconut sauce. The result is flavorful yet light,...
This everyday vegetable dish is a staple throughout North and Central India. It combines earth-specked new potatoes with fresh fenugreek greens, which provide a pleasingly bitter flavor similar to sprouted mustard or cress. If fresh fenugreek is unavailable, you may...
Potato spears and cauliflower flowerets are browned in spices over strong heat to bring out their rich, deep flavors and are then gently cooked to tenderness with tomatoes. Neither dry nor wet, this dish has a succulent, moist texture that is somewhere in between. You...
This Gujarati specialty requires home-sprouted mung or aduki beans in order to be authentic, because the market variety, with 2–3-inch (5–8 cm) tails, is waterlogged. Ideally, the sprouted beans should barely measure ½ inch (1.5 cm). Sprouting increases the vitamin...
This savory tart will wow your brunch guests. Try to stick with homegrown or farmer’s market tomatoes for the most decadent dish. Serves 4-6 Ingredients • 8 ounces store-bought puff pastry, thawed • 1 tablespoon olive oil • 4 leeks, sliced and thoroughly washed • 3...
“Gado-gado” means “mix-mix.” In Indonesia, this salad is a complete one-dish meal. The word for sauce is bumbu. Gado-gado uses peanut bumbu. Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago (ar-kih-PEL-uh-go), or chain of islands. Indonesia is made of 17,000 islands. The...
Serves 4 to 5 • 5 large eggs • 5 Tbs. chick-pea flour • dash of black pepper • ¼ tsp. ground coriander • crushed seeds from 4 to 5 cardamom pods • ½ tsp. salt • ½ cup minced or finely chopped onions • 2 Tbs. chopped fresh parsley • 3 to 4 Tbs. yogurt • 3 Tbs. butter...
Serves 8 Cocido is a peasant dish, variations of which have developed in all the different Spanish provinces. This is my simple version of the Cocido Madrileno that the ever-smiling Delfina used to prepare for us on cold, wet winter days in Segovia. The broths from...
Serves 6 to 8 • ¾ lb. green bell peppers (about 2 large) • ¾ lb. zucchini • ½ lb. small Japanese eggplants (about 3 eggplants) • 1 small yellow onion • ¼ cup olive oil • 1½ tsp. salt, or more to taste • 2 Tbs. chopped fresh cilantro (coriander leaves) • 1 tsp. crushed...
