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With canned chickpeas there is no soaking or boiling, and the only real wait is for the steamed beets to cool completely. Blended with chickpeas and tahini, they turn the hummus deep pink and add sweetness to the nutty, lemony base of classic hummus, with its garlic and cumin.
No butter, no oil, no yolks: this tall white ring cake rises entirely on whipped egg whites folded with cake flour and sugar. It likely appeared in late 19th-century America as a way to use whites left over from custard making. The top has a slight marshmallow chew over a cloud-light crumb. The pan goes upside down the moment it leaves the oven, because cooling right side up lets the delicate foam sink under its own weight. Fresh berries and whipped cream are the traditional companions.
Broccoli stems are not wasted: peeled with a vegetable peeler and sliced 3 mm thick, they are cooked along with the florets. Soup soy sauce with a little lemon juice puts a light acidity under the sharp garlic, while the broccoli's mild bitterness stays in the background.
Big flakes of smoked haddock and halved hard-boiled eggs show through rice tinted yellow with curry powder. Haddock is a cod relative, and the smoked fillets used here are the kind sold for cooking, so they need to be cooked through, not eaten straight from the pack.
Canned saury goes into a soy-seasoned stir-fry of oyster mushrooms and cabbage, and a teaspoon of lemon juice just before the heat goes off takes down the fishy smell. The fish is already cooked, so it waits until the vegetables have dried out again and is folded in gently to keep the pieces large.
There is no gochujang in this sauce. Lemon juice, honey, and soy sauce boil until glossy, the twice-fried thigh pieces go in, and the tossing is over within 20 seconds. What stays afterward is the black pepper from the marinade.
Brennan's Restaurant in New Orleans created this dessert in the 1950s, and there the rum is poured into the pan and set alight. This version skips the flame. Bananas cook in a butter, brown sugar and cinnamon sauce, then go hot onto cold vanilla ice cream and reach the table still steaming. Start to finish, about ten minutes.
Apple cider vinegar loosened in cold sparkling water with a squeeze of lemon loses much of the sharpness it has straight from the bottle. Allulose or honey replaces sugar and is stirred into the vinegar and lemon base before the ice goes in. Lemon slices and apple mint go on top, and the glass is served while the bubbles last.
Chicken thigh charred over high heat and cold cucumber yogurt go into a warm pita together. Hot meat against cold sauce in the same bite is the whole point of the wrap, and it is eaten the moment it is rolled. The cucumber gets a light squeeze before it meets the yogurt, which keeps the sauce from turning thin.
Rice and chicken breast cook in the stock first, then eggs beaten with lemon juice turn the broth thick and tart. Hot stock is whisked into the eggs a ladle at a time to warm them, and once they are in the pot the soup never comes back to a boil.
Whole eggplants roasted in the oven, rather than charred over an open flame, give this Turkish dish a silky, mild puree instead of a smoky one. The flesh is mashed into a butter-and-flour béchamel with aged cheddar and a pinch of nutmeg, then topped with lamb leg braised in tomato and Turkish red pepper paste.
Mustard greens keep their sharp, nose-tingling heat even after a vinegar brine, and lemon juice added off the heat lays a fresh citrus note over it. The pickle is ready to eat after 12 hours in the fridge, but thick stems need about a day before the brine reaches their center. Next to fatty grilled meat, the spicy sourness clears the palate.
Yuja syrup and lemon juice brighten soy sauce and tsuyu, giving this chilled udon a fruitier, sweet-sour sauce than plain tsuyu. With the sauce already balanced by 220 ml water, any rinse water left between the strands dilutes it directly. Seaweed flakes and sesame turn soggy once they touch the sauce and go on only right before eating.
Swapping basil for chamnamul, a celery-scented Korean mountain herb, and pine nuts for toasted walnuts makes this pesto greener and earthier than Genovese. Parmigiano and lemon juice set the salt and acidity. Twisted trofie hold the pesto in their grooves, and because they are not rinsed, their surface starch helps the sauce cling.
Chewy abalone, slippery sea mustard, and crisp cucumber with red cabbage give this cold salad three textures in every forkful. The whole dish hinges on a blanch of about 40 seconds followed by ice water, because abalone toughens quickly with heat. The dressing of lemon juice, plum syrup, and soup soy sauce stays light, supporting the shellfish's natural brininess instead of masking it. Serve it chilled as a summer starter or ahead of grilled dishes.
A griddled corn cake is split into a pocket, still joined along one edge, and stuffed with shredded chicken bound by mashed avocado and mayonnaise, with a few avocado slices tucked in. The dough uses precooked corn flour made for arepas, not ordinary cornmeal or cornstarch, which absorb water differently and will not hold the same disc. Pressed by hand, a good dough keeps its shape without deep cracks around the edge. A browned crust can hide a sticky center, and covering the discs, sometimes with lower heat at the end, cooks them through. Assembly waits until just before eating, with the creamy filling kept cold until then.
Hong Kong-born chef Chou Yuanji came up with this in Japan by adding mayonnaise to a Cantonese shrimp dish, and it now shows up at Chinese restaurants, izakaya and in convenience-store bento. Shrimp in a thin egg-and-starch coating are fried, then rolled quickly through a sweetish sauce of mayonnaise, condensed milk and lemon juice.
The cornstarch tossed with the apples is what lets this pie slice cleanly: it catches the juice the fruit releases and sets it into a glossy syrup. The dish has English and Dutch roots going back to the 14th century, and Americans have baked it since colonial times. The apples sit between two sheets of crust, with slits on top to let steam out. Serve it warm with vanilla ice cream, a la mode, or beside a slice of cheddar as in New England.
Korean myeongnanjeot is normally plain salted, not chili-cured like Japanese mentaiko, and here the chili flakes stop at a faint orange tint on the surface. Two or three folds with a spoon and the mixing is over. Burst eggs make it mushy and take away the pop.
In this Indian breakfast dish the flattened rice never boils. A quick rinse in cold water and a short rest soften it enough to press between two fingers, and a brief toss in oil scented with mustard seed and turmeric warms it through. Roasted peanuts go into the yellow flakes, and a squeeze of lemon follows once the heat is off.
Bokbunja, Korean black raspberry juice, is set with sheet gelatin so the cups keep its deep purple color and tartness. One pass through a fine strainer before pouring takes out foam and sediment, and the jelly turns clear. A few blueberries and a mint leaf go on top.
Syrup made from prickly pear cactus fruit turns the glass a deep magenta and brings a berry-like sweetness with an earthy edge. Plenty of lemon and grapefruit juice keeps it from tasting like straight syrup, and the sparkling water goes in last, poured down the side of the glass and stirred only once.
Lemon, olive oil, garlic, and dried oregano give these Greek thigh skewers a sharp, slightly bitter herbal edge over the char. Thirty minutes of marinating works, but a night in the fridge goes deeper. Serve with plain yogurt, or tuck the chicken into warm pita with tomato and onion.
Red lentils fall apart on their own as they simmer, so the soup thickens to a golden, spoonable body without any added thickener. Cumin and turmeric make it deep in both color and aroma.