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This satisfying rice dish can often be an elaborate, ambitious affair, but our version simplifies the process without sacrificing any complexity of flavor.

This creamy, spicy-sweet dip pairs with leftover rotisserie chicken, jammy eggs, cucumber spears, and roasted sweet potatoes for the perfect desk-friendly lunch.

This Kung Pao recipe stays very close to the original but includes seasonal peppers.

We opted to use cherry tomatoes for this poached cod recipe because we like their sweetness and how quickly they collapse into a sauce.

This isn’t the crisp-skinned, high-heat-roast chicken you’re probably familiar with. Instead, it’s a melt-in-your-mouth tender, schmaltzy, slow-roast version.

August is peak eggplant season; look for Japanese and Chinese eggplants for this stir-fry recipe.

Nam prik is a delicious chile-based dip found all over Thailand. Here's our healthyish take on it.

The hardest part of this recipe is tracking down Thai tea mix (or waiting for it to arrive in the mail)—but it’s worth it.

This Vietnamese-inspired marinade, packed with fish sauce, brown sugar, and chiles, hits all the notes.

If you’re not set up for grilling or the weather doesn’t permit, a cast-iron grill pan will also do the trick for making these spicy, gingery, umami-packed meatballs.

This shakshuka-inspired dish is green because it forgoes the traditional tomatoes and red peppers for spinach and kale.

Welcome to your newest go-to summer marinade, featuring some spicy sambal, brown sugar and coconut milk to balance out the heat, and lots of fresh ginger and lime juice.

These richly flavored ribs are a riff on kalbi jjim, a traditional Korean special-occasion dish.

Any vegetable or meat would be in good company with this stew’s spicy-funky base of kimchi, gochugaru, and gochujang.

The tastiest rice is seasoned sushi rice.

What’s better than a jammy egg? One that’s been sitting in a tangy-salty marinade of chiles, soy, mirin, and vinegar, like this classic star of Korean banchan.

This fiery, bubbling Korean broth is a powerhouse mixture of alliums, kimchi, gochugaru, and briny, fresh seafood.

A pan full of veggie-packed fried rice is one of the easiest and most satisfying weeknight dinners we know of.

No searing! No chopping! One baking dish!

Marinating in spiced yogurt gets you a juicy and super-tender chicken every time.