56 hot sour recipes

Philadelphia-style soft pretzels with a chewy, dense bread interior and a glossy egg-washed crust crusted with coarse salt. Four ingredients, baked in a hot oven for street-cart authenticity at home.

Cajun-seasoned salmon fillets and spiral-cut fries baked together on two sheet pans in a hot oven. Four ingredients, 30 minutes total, and dinner is solved with zero frying and easy foil cleanup.

Indian dressing with orange juice, ground coriander, fresh cilantro, and sweet-hot mustard. A light, oil-free, four-ingredient dressing with warm spice. Ready in minutes.

Phal base recipe: the blazing-hot curry paste foundation for Britain's spiciest Indian restaurant dish. Four ingredients blend into fiery heat for an authentic phal curry at home.

Four-ingredient thermos lunch with black beans, corn, brown rice, and salsa. No cooking, no microwave needed. Pack it hot in the morning and eat it warm at your desk.

Hot bananas a la Baloo are grilled bananas marinated in honey, sambal oelek, and soy sauce. Spicy-sweet Indonesian-Japanese fusion side that pairs with grilled meats. Just four ingredients.

Grilled Cornish game hens glazed with a fiery red pepper sauce made from roasted peppers, Dijon mustard, and three kinds of hot pepper. Four-alarm heat with a sweet roasted pepper backbone.

The original Irish coffee invented at Foynes Airport: hot coffee, brown sugar cubes, Irish whiskey, finished with a float of cold lightly whipped cream. Four ingredients, one warming cocktail for cold nights.