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Chana Masala, Roast Orange Chicken and a Flexible Cabbage Salad

Chana Masala, Roast Orange Chicken and a Flexible Cabbage Salad


I married a person who doesn’t like chickpeas. This has been difficult to wrap my head round, provided that, as a child, I might eat canned chickpeas as a snack, drained and unadorned, admiring how every one appeared like a tiny cartoon peach earlier than popping it in my mouth. But marriage is about compromise and understanding. So after I prepare dinner chickpeas at dwelling, I search out recipes the place they type of soften into the dish and lose that aggressively starchy style that I believe could be the difficulty.

Chana masala is a favourite for each of us, and Zainab Shah’s recipe will be made with both canned or dried chickpeas (she has a tip for the latter). Either means, these bulbous little legumes grow to be tender and delicate and take in the cumin, coriander, turmeric and chile, plus the garlic and ginger paste that kinds the spine of this dish. I serve it with rice and — as a result of we each can’t get sufficient of something spicy, salty and bitter — lime pickle.


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What else to make with a can of chickpeas? Sharon Attia has 11 extra solutions for you in her wonderful checklist of garbanzo-based dinner concepts. I can let you know that Melissa Clark’s recipe for coconut curry chickpeas with pumpkin and lime is a favourite round right here, as is Alexa Weibel’s creamy chickpea pasta with spinach and rosemary.

For no matter purpose, I like to purchase an entire rooster for a Saturday or Sunday dinner — rooster elements, I’ve determined, are for the weekdays. So tomorrow, I’d prefer to make Genevieve Ko’s roasted orange rooster, which appears like an incredible use of all these clementines I can’t cease shopping for.

Leftover rooster can go into this cabbage salad with miso-sesame French dressing, however as Kenji López-Alt notes, his recipe could be very versatile: “Thinly sliced leftover steak, shredded salmon or sliced dense tofu might simply take the place of the rooster,” and “You might go for shredded carrots and diced jicama as an alternative of cucumber and radish, or add a handful of cut up cherry tomatoes and uncooked snap peas reduce on a bias.”

And after I’m not choosing recipes primarily based on my self-enacted guidelines or what I believe we’ll like, I’m going by what within the fridge must be used up, like, yesterday. Right now, that’s a package deal of brussels sprouts I forgot I had and a few huge spoonfuls’ price of grapefruit marmalade. The sprouts can go into this roasted brussels sprouts and tofu with chile lime dressing from Kristina Felix, and I’m fairly certain I can swap within the grapefruit marmalade for the orange selection known as for in David Tanis’s straightforward apple tart.

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