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The semolina bakes into a crunchy layer on the top and bottom but stays moist and delicate within.

Richly spiced gingerbread with the texture of a moist, dense devil’s food cake, this recipe only gets better if you make it ahead.

These flavorful marinated onions also make a great condiment for grilled steak.

This chermoula sauce recipe is even better if it sits for a while to let the flavors meld.

Steam, fluff; steam, fluff. This couscous recipe is time-consuming but worth it.

When working with a large quantity of greens, it’s much easier to sauté them if they’re blanched first. Their time in the olive oil is more for flavoring and reaching the ideal texture.

What makes this salad so good? A secret ingredient we like to call "flavor flakes."

Makes you wonder why you would ever serve cold pudding again.

An unexpected side dish that can be made hours ahead of a party; wait until the last minute to toss together.

Crispy, comforting chicken cutlets are even more irresistible when topped with a punched-up ranch sauce.

Remember those pink salt blocks everyone was searing steaks on for a minute? A bit of kosher salt performs a similar function: transmitting heat.

Granted, this is a bit of work for a salad, but that’s how to transform vegetables into brag-worthy ingredients. To simplify, you could char the beets and greens in a dry cast-iron skillet.

This Filipino-style chicken stew is bright with vinegar, rich with coconut milk, and redolent with the aromas of turmeric, ginger, and bay leaves.

This two-ingredient chicken relies on nothing but kosher salt—lots of it—to yield crisp skin and juicy meat.

You can finish this carbonara with other seasonal vegetables, such as shredded brussels sprouts or Napa cabbage. This recipe is from Oberlin, one of Bon Appétit's Hot 10, America's Best New Restaurants 2016.

The combination of salty water and salty Parmesan puts this pasta at risk of becoming oversalted. If that happens, throw in a knob of unsalted butter at the end to mellow it and add a smooth finish.

You probably already have everything you need to make this pasta in your pantry.

Tamarind gives this hearty stew a pleasant sweet-sour pucker.

There's a time for a 20-ingredient, four-hour curry, and it's not 5pm on Thursday. This shortcut version yields a hearty crowd-pleaser.

Don’t be tempted to disturb the gnocchi when browning—the hands-off approach is key to letting them develop a deep brown color on one side. This recipe is from Oberlin, one of Bon Appétit's Hot 10, America's Best New Restaurants 2016.