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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.

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.

This simple, big-flavor chicken thigh dish is a great intro to the fundamentals of braising—once you've got the method down, you can braise just about anything.

Olive oil works great in stir-fry recipes; its sharp grassy notes complement flavors like lemongrass and basil.

This recipe is a great way to showcase the eggplants and basil you just hauled from the market.

The perfect recipe for any type of beautiful summer bean you buy at the farmers' market!

The yogurt tenderizes the chicken as it sits, so the further in advance you make it, the better!

This all-purpose chile crisp—which is tangy, spicy, and crunchy—will give your other condiments an inferiority complex.

AKA fruit sandos, the delightfully squishy Japanese dessert we can’t get enough of.

Tender, succulent ribs that spent 9 minutes under pressure and then hit the grill. Weeknight ribs are in your future.

This gomae recipe has a simple soy-sesame dressing that makes it a versatile side dish for whatever else you’re cooking.

Chewy. Crunchy. Salty. Spicy. These veggie-packed fritters have it all.