side dish
Recipes good to serve as side dish to the main course.
Thai noodle salad
This Thai noodle salad is best eaten at room temperature.
Matzah stuffing
Serve this matzah stuffing as a side dish for Hanukkah and other Jewish celebrations.
Mashed yams from Nigeria
This recipe has been altered to suit Western cooking style, where butter and milk are common.
Grilled tomatoes with fried sage leaves
Grilled tomatoes with fried sage leaves make a flavorsome side dish for your barbecue or roast, or a zesty warm appetizer.
Italian sausage meatballs
Serve Italian sausage meatballs with your favorite pasta. It feels Italians have the thousand and one flavors for sausage meat, try different ones and you will be surprised. Fennel flavored sausage is one of our favorites.
Roti done right
Roti is a delicious bread that complementes your Indian cuisine. Roti is a flat bread. It is unleavened and not baked, but cooked on a tava, or griddle, with oil. Want to make your own righteous roti? That is as easy as one, two, three. OK, maybe it will take a half-dozen or so steps. But they're all simple.
Indian rice dish
Bisi bele baath is a mixture of rice and lentils that forms the staple of many an Indian table. It is rich in traditional Indian spices and is simply delicious with tandoori chicken or all by itself.
As you would expect in such a diverse and ancient land, there are thousands of rice-based recipes. Nearly every family will have its own distinctive favorite. This recipe is an example that any diner will enjoy.
Paratha, flat bread from India
Paratha is one of the delicious Indian flat breads. The difference with other types of breads comes because paratha is brushed with melted butter or ghee and folded over then cooked on the skillet with more butter resulting in flaky, delicate bread.
Broccoli slaw
Wonderful new flavors happen to broccoli when you cut it thin, mix it with vegan mayonnaise and add a touch of spice. It becomes a flavorful vegetarian treat.
Saag paneer
Saag paneer is a type of paneer and spinach curry, very easy to prepare.The addition of other Indian spices and spinach gives a slightly different flavor to palak paneer.