Ever just wanted a whole slab of cheese for dinner? Now’s your time. Coated in za’atar and sesame seeds, blocks of feta get seared with a little heat and cornstarch, becoming crunchy on top and soft within. The feta is ideal for breaking off in chunks and enjoying with the garlicky, charred broccolini. A nonstick […]

The only thing better than a ball of mozzarella? Many tiny balls of mozzarella. Better still? Tiny marinated mozzarella balls combined with sweet pickled peppers. A garlicky brine of red wine vinegar, chile flakes, and fresh thyme adds heaps of flavor to this perfect party snack. We call for perlini here, but you could use […]

Juicy melon with a salty-sweet crunchy topping makes for a low-effort but universally crowd-pleasing summer appetizer. “My mother has been making this dish since I was a young kid,” says the cookbook author Leela Punyaratabandhu. “It’s inspired by the Italian classic, prosciutto e melone, and an elegant and old-school Thai appetizer in which watermelon is […]

If you limit your spinach artichoke dip consumption to the appetizer spread on Super Bowl Sunday, you are missing out. Simple to make, supremely creamy, lightly cheesy, and with just the right amount of greenery, this recipe is just right for snacking all year round. The veggies here are straightforward (no surprises here: They’re in […]

These bronzed, crispy-on-the-outside spiced potato patties, or aloo tikki in Urdu and Hindi, take me back to my school years in Lahore. We used to line up for the school tuck shop owner Apa’s aloo tikki: Each one was placed neatly in the middle of warm naan and folded for a mobile snack during recess. […]

“Time-honored recipes are important both for passing down history within families and introducing the culture to those outside it. And while for many people that might mean that traditional recipes should never be changed, I would argue that food is always evolving,” writes recipe developer and food stylist Tyna Hoang. “The key questions are who […]

A grilled chicken wing is essentially a vehicle for sauce, whether that’s Buffalo, sweet chile, or, in this case, agrodolce, a sour-sweet Italian glaze (literally, “sour-sweet” is the direct translation) that’s made by simmering vinegar with honey (or sugar) and often chiles or crushed red pepper flakes. Here, developer Bill Clark also adds frozen berries […]

Farhan Momin, who runs the pop-up Farmo Cooks and the butcher shop Atlanta Halal Meat & Food, likes to make his own flavored ghee by toasting whole spices like coriander seeds and smoky black cardamom in butter. He uses the resulting mixture to poach shrimp, though the flavored ghee would also be great spooned over […]

Inspired by bhajia, crispy fried snacks with origins in the Indian subcontinent, these zucchini fritters avoid the pitfalls of becoming an average soggy mess. The moisture released from salting the sliced zucchini and onion hydrates the chickpea flour without introducing any other binder—minimizing the need for a liquid yields a fritter that’s actually crispy. The […]

If you don’t look carefully, you might miss that these adorable deviled “eggs” are, in fact, not eggs at all. For the 2022 Met Gala, chef Lauren Von Der Pool created this vegan hors d’oeuvre using boiled and hollowed-out small Yukon Gold potatoes. The rich potato filling includes kala namak, a volcanic rock salt also […]