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I’ll at all times, in any season, make a chicken-and-rice dish. It’s my favourite protein mixed with my favourite carb, and I adore it in any iteration: Hainanese rooster rice, arroz chaufa, arroz con pollo, iwuk edesi, rooster perloo, rooster cook-up rice, rooster doria, oyakodon. I don’t care if it’s scorching outdoors; all are value mopping my forehead and doing that factor the place I whap the perimeters of my T-shirt away from my physique.
Add Kay Chun’s new spiced rooster and rice to that record. Boneless rooster thighs brown in olive oil till golden, after which garlic, cinnamon, cardamom, turmeric and allspice are bloomed in the identical oil to launch their aromas. (The turmeric is a considerate swap for saffron, which will be fairly dear.) Then go within the rice, broth, golden raisins and pistachios for a fast, light simmer. Top with toasted almonds, and there you may have it: some extraordinarily good rooster and rice.
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Another good factor about Kay’s recipe is that it cooks up comparatively rapidly for a chicken-and-rice dish — simply 45 minutes from begin to end. Lidey Heuck’s shrimp-y (to not be confused with shrimpy) tackle vongole rosso can also be fairly fast. So is Ali Slagle’s chipotle-coconut rooster, a superb use for that may of coconut milk in your pantry and the half-empty jar of chipotle chiles in adobo within the fridge.
Summer weekends name for informal gatherings, and informal gatherings name for pretty salads. Eric Kim tailored this recipe for lettuces with contemporary herbs and cheese from the chef Adam Baumgart of Brooklyn’s Oma Grassa, and it speaks to a basic reality. “A superb salad can transport you,” Eric writes, “however the really nice ones all have one factor in widespread: loads of cheese.”
Kay’s tahini ramen salad doesn’t have cheese, however it does have tahini, which lends loads of creamy savoriness. It additionally has instantaneous ramen noodles, which lend their wiggly goodness. Save the seasoning packets for an additional use (like this Japanese party combine).
I’ll go away you with two straightforward cooking initiatives for the weekend, as a result of nothing feels extra luxurious to me than having a few hours to do no matter I would like within the kitchen. Melissa Knific’s new strawberry jam recipe calls to me, a beautiful use for the bruised berries I choose up from the low cost tables at my farmers’ market. And to go together with my jam, these pillowy, accordioned buttermilk sugar biscuits, made with home made buttermilk as a result of I at all times overlook to purchase some.
