905 tender recipes

Tender eggplant meets the salty bite of ricotta salata in this rustic Italian pasta that brings together roasted garlic, fresh rosemary, and sweet cherry tomatoes for a weeknight dinner with soul.

Clay pot curried chicken simmers bone-in pieces with curry powder, dried apricots, carrots, and tomato puree until tender, finished with peas and shredded coconut. A hands-off Indian-inspired one-pot dinner.

A one-pan vegetable rice that cooks paella-style: arborio rice simmered with turmeric, peppers, tomatoes, and sweet corn. A budget-friendly, vegan-ready dinner with golden, tender grains.

Swedish meatballs in a creamy dill and mushroom sour cream sauce, served over egg noodles with green beans. Club soda in the meat mixture keeps them light and tender.

Classic counting cake with foolproof 1-2-3-4-5 proportions: butter, sugar, flour, eggs, and baking powder create a tender vanilla cake that's ridiculously easy to memorize and bake from scratch.

Warm fruit crisp loaded with sliced apples and plump raisins under a crunchy oat-pecan streusel. Soaking the raisins in boiling water keeps them tender. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

Traditional Irish lamb stew with whole potatoes, carrots, and onions simmers for 2 hours until tender, then gets finished with butter and fresh herbs for rustic comfort.

Rich Brazilian chocolate cake baked in a tube pan with two kinds of chocolate melted into strong coffee. Intensely fudgy with a tender crumb, finished with a simple dusting of powdered sugar.

Olga bread is a soft honey-egg bread machine loaf with a tender, slightly sweet crumb and golden crust. Dump-and-press easy with milk, honey, egg, and yeast.

This Star Trek-inspired stacked sandwich layers tender chicken, corned beef, and Swiss cheese on rye bread, topped with crunchy homemade coleslaw. A nerdy, hearty bite worthy of any Tribble.

Spanish rice made with brown rice, fresh pureed tomatoes, bacon, green peppers, and a touch of molasses. Simmered on the stove then baked until tender and deeply flavored.

Nancy's ice cream kolacky: a three-ingredient Eastern European-style cookie where vanilla ice cream replaces liquid and eggs, creating a tender pastry dough filled with jam and dusted with powdered sugar. A Christmas cookie-tray favorite.

Pouding renversé des bluets is a Québécois upside-down blueberry cake: fresh blueberries and lemon zest under a tender vanilla sponge, inverted to serve.

Slow cooker stuffed round steak rolled around grated carrots, zucchini, and cheddar cheese, then braised in spaghetti sauce until fork-tender. Hands-off comfort food.

A Boston landmark recipe: Durgin-Park's corn bread made with cornmeal, flour, eggs, milk, and butter, baked hot and fast for a golden crust and tender crumb. Old-school New England simplicity.

Cold noodle salad with tender shrimp, crisp snow peas, and luscious ginger-garlic dressing. This Asian-inspired pasta salad is ready in 20 minutes, perfect for lunch or potlucks.