925 homemade recipes

Homemade naan with a yogurt-leavened dough, no yeast required. Cooked on a cast-iron skillet then finished under the broiler for charred spots and puffed bubbles. Makes 9 pieces.

Pasta with creamy dill sauce, a light milk-based sauce built on shallots, garlic, and sherry, tossed with fresh dill, oven-dried cherry tomatoes, and shaved parmesan. A quick, low-fat creamy pasta with bright flavor.

Homemade chapatis made with whole wheat and all-purpose flour, just four ingredients and no yeast. Griddle-cooked flatbread that puffs up light and soft with the right technique.

Moist homemade banana bread made with three ripe bananas and a full cup of sour milk. The buttermilk-style batter bakes up tender with a tight, even crumb and rich banana flavor.

Homemade granola with rolled oats, bran flakes, slivered almonds, dried apples, and golden raisins bound with honey and applesauce. A low-fat, cinnamon-spiced breakfast cereal ready in under an hour.

Chocolate mint flavored coffee grounds blended with chocolate, mint, and vanilla extracts. A homemade flavored coffee blend that brews up like a peppermint mocha for a fraction of cafe prices.

Homemade fortune cookies with custom paper messages folded inside crisp golden wafers. Five ingredients, butter-egg-white batter spread thin and shaped over a glass while still hot from the oven.

Old-fashioned rhubarb and fig jam, sugared overnight then boiled down with chopped candied peel for a deep, jammy preserve. Yields about 9 pints, perfect for canning season and homemade gifts.

Blueberry sour cherry jam made with crushed ripe blueberries, pitted sour cherries, sugar, and powdered fruit pectin. A small-batch homemade jam for canning with deep purple-red color and bright fruit flavor.

When you taste homemade marmalade once, you will never want any store-bought. Made marmalade today, and it was absolutely delicious; tasted fresh, slightly bitter and not super sweet, just the right balance of the fruits and sugar.

Homemade cherry and raspberry jam with citrus zest and a hint of almond extract. A no-pectin small-batch preserve that captures peak summer fruit in glossy, ruby-red jars.

Barbecue hamburgers topped with a quick homemade sauce simmered from ketchup, pineapple juice, and onion. Pan-fried beef patties piled into soft rolls and spooned with a sweet-tangy barbecue glaze.

Sada naan is soft, pillowy homemade Indian flatbread leavened with yeast and yogurt, brushed with ghee and scattered with poppy and sesame seeds. Bake it in a home oven, no tandoor required.

Traditional Dublin-style corned beef and cabbage simmered for 3 hours with potatoes, carrots, and a clove-studded onion. Served on a platter with homemade whipped horseradish cream. A proper Irish Sunday dinner.

Vegetarian chili dog rolls wrap a smoky, cumin-spiced TVP filling with sauteed peppers, mushrooms, and tomato inside soft homemade whole wheat yeast dough. Baked golden at 375F, they make 20 hearty rolls.

A homemade sponge cake split and soaked with strawberry liqueur syrup, then sandwiched around a fresh strawberry mousse made with yogurt and whipped cream. Patisserie-level elegance you can make at home.