Category: Pasta + Noodles + Rice
Pasta + Noodles + Rice Recipes
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Dashi is fundamental to Japanese cooking. Kelp and bonito are boiled down to make the dashi broth that’s most popularly known as the base for miso soup. With soy sauce, or soyu, and rice wine vinegar, or mirin, you can make the simplest yet most satisfying Japanese soup perfect for a last course after a…
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I adjusted this from a vegetable ramen recipe using rice and potato vermicelli. This may seem to require a lot of ingredients but it’s easier than you think–just put all the vegetables in the pot and boil. Any vegetables will do, really, and I’ve tried this with baby bok choy, Napa cabbage and carrots. Ingredients:…
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There have been some wonderful sugar snap peas in Chinatown for less than $2 a pound. I imagined making some sort of crunchy salad with them so I stopped by my butcher on Mott to buy a nicely-red beef flank steak to match. After searing the steak, the sauce caramelized and I ended up throwing…
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Hungry when I woke up one Sunday afternoon with a developing cold, I searched for leftovers in the fridge to nourish myself. There was a bowl of fried ground beef. The folks love making their own tacos at home so I’m bound to find ground meat at any time during the week. And when they’re…
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Adapted from a Korean calendar photo Ingredients: half a pound of London broil, rinsed 1 package of buckwheat noodles 3 cloves of garlic, minced 2 shallots, cut in half 1 hard-boiled egg, sliced thinly 1 small daikon radish, sliced thinly a few slices of pickled radish or cucumber (from a Korean store) a few slices…
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Ubin gave me a lecture about the Newar people of Nepal when he gave me this recipe. They are the indigenous people of Kathmandu and the largest ethnic group according to the 2001 Nepalese census. He grew up eating chataamaris–what he would translate as rice crepes–and drinking San Miguel beer to match. He claims that…
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If you have a food processor, it will save your life when you try this recipe. It’s not the making of the rolls that took time, it was the cutting of the vegetables. Ingredients: 1 small daikon, julienned 1 small green papaya, julienned 1 carrot, julienned 1 cucumber, julienned 2 small packets of rice vermicelli…
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Adapted from delicious. Magazine Ingredients: cauliflower, cut into florets 3 cups of basmati rice 4 tbsps of curry powder 3 cups of vegetable stock 1 onion, finely chopped 2 bay leaves 1 cinnamon stick a handful of cilantro leaves, finely chopped oil 1. Heat oil in a large skillet. Cook onions until soft. Add cauliflower…
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Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups of macaroni 6 slices of prosciutto dried breadcrumbs 1 medium red onion, roughly chopped 1/2 cup of sun-dried tomatoes, roughly chopped half a red bell pepper, chopped handful fresh basil, chopped 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese 2 eggs, lightly beaten 3/4 cup milk salt, pepper, olive oil 1. Preheat oven to…
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Ingredients: angel-hair pasta Perdue Shortcuts honey-roasted chicken, sliced diagonally 4 small radishes, julienned half an apple, julienned 2 scallion stalks, chopped handful of baby spinach, finely chopped half a cup of olive oil 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar 1 tbsp lemon juice 3 tbsps whole-grain mustard salt, pepper 1. Add pasta in salted boiling water. Remove…
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I loved reading Diana Abu-Jaber’s The Language of Baklava. Not only did I read about how it was like to grow up with a Jordanian father and an American mother, I also learned how to cook some of her family’s dishes. Ingredients: 1 cup of fine bulgur wheat, soaked in water for about an hour…
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A staple of Chinese takeouts, sesame noodles is an easy, protein-rich dish that can be both spicy and sweet. The key is using Skippy’s smooth peanut butter so as not to complicate the recipe and not use any more sugar since peanut butter off the supermarket shelves is already too sweet. I used soba noodles…