5,385 petele recipes

Potato and sweet potato torte: thin-sliced Yukon gold and sweet potatoes layered with buttery thyme-scented leeks, baked into a tender, stacked round cake you flip out and slice at the table. A stunning vegetable side.

Broccomole is a low-fat guacamole alternative made from pureed broccoli stems with cumin, lemon juice, tomato, and green chilies. All the flavor of guac without the avocado.

Ground beef, carrots, potatoes, and rice simmer into thick, stick-to-your-ribs comfort that stretches to feed 8 without breaking the bank or requiring fancy ingredients.

Chinese-style steamed stuffed clams with cherrystones, minced pork, ginger, scallion, and soy. A dim sum appetizer with delicate seafood layered over savory pork in the half shell.

Slow-simmered Sicilian ragu with ground pork, pureed tomatoes, soffritto vegetables, and fresh mint. Freezes for months and gets richer with every reheat.

Acadian eight-bean chili with kidney, white, pink, black, red, pinto, cranberry, and navy beans slow-simmered with bacon, ground beef, beer, tomatoes, and warm spices.

Pan-seared salmon steaks topped with crispy ginger and green onion matchsticks, served over peppery arugula with a sherry-soy pan sauce. Date-night dinner for two in under 30 minutes.

A refined French Canadian Christmas oyster soup with gently warmed oysters in buttery milk infused with grated carrots and celery. Elegant, briny, and on the table in 40 minutes.

Shrimp with mango and basil sears turmeric-spiced shrimp and tosses them with ripe mango cubes, scallion greens, and fresh basil. Tropical-bright weeknight dinner.

Indian-style scrambled eggs with cumin, cilantro, and green chili: eggs cooked cake-style with onion, then finished with toasted ground cumin and fresh herbs.

Pickled pink eggs tinted with beet juice and brined in a vinegar-pickling-spice mix with garlic and bay leaf. Classic pub-snack or potluck appetizer that gets better the longer it sits. Just six ingredients.

Healthier apple pie packed with granola and raisins for texture, using less sugar than traditional recipes. Tart apples get spiced with cinnamon, cloves, and vanilla. Optional lattice top.

This famed chicken "barbecue" from northern India is traditionally prepared in a tandoor, an underground jar-shaped clay oven that believed to have originated in Persia. The oven can be heated to very high temperatures, which sears the chicken and seals in the juices. Equally delicious results can be obtained in a conventional oven or on a covered grill. The yogurt marinade keeps the chicken from drying out.

Hearty beef summer vegetable soup with fresh tomatoes, corn, lima beans, and cabbage. Slow-simmered soup with tender beef chunks and garden vegetables.

A hearty yet wholesome winter soup is made with apple, potato, butternut squash, cheddar and prosciutto, simmered in a mixture of cider, broth and milk. It's creamy, tasty and packed with goodness.

Italian-American penne alla vodka built on cream, butter, and ripe tomato. The vodka spends 24 hours infused with dried red peppers for a deeper, mildly fiery edge. Glossy, restaurant-style pasta.