Hot Vegetable Recipes Posts

How To: Cut a carrot

Learn the proper technique for peeling and cutting a carrot without getting frustrated or shaving off too much of the carrot. This may seem like a mundane task, but you'd be surprised how helpful these tips are.

How To: Properly skewer vegetables for grilling

Vegetable kebabs are an easy and delicious way to grill your veggies. These tips will help you prepare and skewer the vegetables perfectly. Soak the bamboo skewers in water so they won't burn on the grill. It is best to put like vegetables on the same skewers and even better to double skewer them.

How To: Prepare Middle Eastern dishes

In this series of cooking videos you'll learn how to make Middle Eastern dishes that include falafel, fried eggplant, Chumous salad, Israeli salad, Techina salad, and pita bread from scratch. Expert Rachel Dayan shares these recipes and demonstrates how to make them in easy to follow step-by-step instructions.

How To: Make roasted asparagus in the oven

Slim stalks of asparagus just scream of spring. Blanching or steaming has long been the cooking method of choice for these tender spears, though all that moisture can leach out the bright green color and make asparagus stringy, even mushy. Roasting or grilling asparagus concentrates the sweet, green-ness of the vegetable and adds a crispy, caramelized crunch that makes it irresistible.

How To: Freeze beans

Love to cook beans from scratch but hate to wait for them to soak? Well, sorry to say, you still have to soak them. But by soaking an extra-large batch in advance, then storing the pre-soaked beans in zip-top bags in the freezer, they'll be ready to cook at a moment's notice.

How To: Roast vegetables

One of the best ways to warm up a winter meal is to serve a big platter of richly caramelized roasted vegetables. Our favorite combination is a jumble of parsnips, fennel, carrots, red or Yukon gold potatoes, whole garlic cloves and the secret ingredient -- lemon slices. The lemons caramelize and lend a brightness to the other veggies, but should be removed before serving. Cut the veggies into (mostly) uniform pieces and toss with olive oil, coarse salt, pepper and maybe a few herbs (fresh ro...

How To: Roast chiles on the grill

Roasted chiles make a deliciously zippy addition to soups, stews, eggs, enchiladas -- just about anything. They can be roasted outdoors on a grill, over a gas flame or under the broiler. Turn them until the skin is charred and blistered on all sides, making sure not to char the flesh. Drop the still-hot chiles into a brown paper or plastic bag to allow the collected steam to loosen the skins, about 15 minutes. Once cool enough to touch, peel off the skins and remove the stems and seeds.

How To: Make Vada Pav

A unique breakfast food from India, Vada Pav is a quick and easy meal. Made with fresh chanti and then seasoned with fresh chili, curry leaves, mustard oil and gram flour this is served on a fresh bun. Vada Pav is also a kid friendly meal and vegetarian delight.

How To: Make easy cheesy potatoes

You can use any cheese in this dish, of course, but a nice sharp cheddar is the way to go. Chef John used a beautiful hunk of English Farmhouse Cheddar and it was great. Especially with the apple and shallot reduction that went over the pork loin he served with these potatoes and used low fat 1% milk for this dish.

How To: Make vegetable dumplings

Chef Michael Schulson shares his favorite recipe for vegetable dumplings.Fill a medium pot with water and bring to a boil over high heat. Add salt and return to a boil. Add edamame and cook until tender, about 10 minutes.Drain edamame and transfer to the bowl of a food processor along with heavy cream, butter, remaining 1 teaspoon salt, and truffle oil, if using. Process until smooth. Make vegetable dumplings.

How To: Stir fry vegetables

The key to stir-fry is having a very hot pan and very thinly sliced vegetables that will cook on contact. I like to cook my stir-fry in a wok, an Asian frying pan. Woks are great because they give you a large surface area. You can make a stir-fry in a typical skillet, but the problem is that if you pile the vegetables on top of each other they will steam instead of fry.