424 concentration recipes

French apple pie with a thick applesauce and honey filling topped with concentric rings of sliced Granny Smith apples and a glossy apricot glaze. An elegant, low-fat tart-style pie.

Fruited cheesecake: a creamy ricotta cheesecake on a vanilla wafer crust, crowned with fresh fruit arranged in concentric circles and glazed with currant jelly. A bakery-style summer dessert for eight.

Linguine with mushrooms and garlic in butter and olive oil is a stripped-down Italian pasta with just six ingredients. A pound of sliced mushrooms sauteed until concentrated and golden, tossed with linguine in garlic butter.

Southern sweet tea done right: sugar dissolved into a warm tea concentrate, steeped just briefly so it never turns bitter, then chilled and poured over ice. Smooth, sweet, and refreshing by the glass.

Orange country-style pork ribs slow-grilled with a tangy citrus-tomato glaze built from frozen orange juice concentrate, brown sugar, and Worcestershire. Backyard grill ribs with a sweet-smoky-citrus twist.

A succulent pork roast that has an extravagant taste made from apple juice and white wine.

Banana cream pie with sweetened condensed milk filling, fresh banana layers, and a cloud of whipped cream. The classic Eagle Brand recipe that's been winning potlucks for generations.

Sweet and juicy cocktail or large cherry tomatoes roasted to concentrate their flavour and then stuffed with a mixture of parsley, garlic and olive oil. Simple yet bursting with fresh summer flavour.

Old fashioned apple pie with a from-scratch butter crust made flaky with apple cider vinegar. Granny Smith apples get tossed in reduced cider, cinnamon, and nutmeg for deep, concentrated apple flavor.

Mutton dry curry with lamb rubbed in a ground paste of onions, garlic, ginger, cardamom, and curry powder, then slowly fried until the oil rises. A concentrated, saucy-not-soupy Indian curry.

Halloween spiderweb cookies decorate sugar cookies with white flooded icing and black piped concentric circles, then drag a toothpick to create perfect web patterns. Show-stopping party cookies for kids and adults.

Easy lemonade pie folds frozen lemonade concentrate and lemon zest into whipped topping for a 3-ingredient no-bake summer dessert. Set in a graham crust or sliced from a baking dish.

Bulls eye cheesecake layers vanilla and mocha batters poured one into the center of the next, baking up into striking concentric rings. A water-bath-baked, crustless cheesecake that wows when you slice it.

Potato-tomato bisque with rehydrated sun-dried tomatoes, corn, celery, and thyme in a half-pureed base thickened naturally with blended potatoes and low-fat milk. A creamy, low-fat soup with concentrated tomato flavor.

Roma tomatoes slow-roasted for three hours with olive oil, garlic, and hot chili until jammy and concentrated, then tossed with spaghetti, parsley, and basil. Named for the volcano and just as fiery.

French apple honey pie built on a honey-spiked applesauce base, layered with Granny Smith slices in concentric rings, and finished with a glossy apricot glaze. Patisserie elegance with no top crust required.