Garlic - quick and easy recipes - page 134

This alternative to basil and pine nut pesto is great on pizza, pasta, or straight from a spoon.

For this easy tahini dressing recipe, the sesame seeds paste combines with lemon juice, garlic, kosher salt, and olive oil. Use it to dress a hearty chicken salad with greens and cucumber.

For this easy Chinese chile garlic sauce recipe, adapted from Asian Dumplings, fresh red chiles combine with garlic and vinegar with a touch of sugar.

This classic recipe for savory mushroom, spinach, and Parmesan crêpes is perfect for an elegant brunch, lunch, or light vegetarian supper. Game Plan: You’ll need to make the batter for Basic Crêpes before you begin.

For this classic Louisiana bayou crawfish boil recipe, crawfish are poached in water with onion, lemon, bay leaf, and garlic. Game plan: Unless you bought them prepurged, the crawfish will have to be soaked in an ice chest full of fresh water for about 10 minutes before cooking, to clean their exterior and cause them to get rid of the swampy muck in their intestines. For more New Orleans-style inspiration, check out our Mardi Gras recipes.

Montreal steak seasoning combines the British love of beefsteaks with the French flair for seasoning. It’s excellent on steaks and potatoes.

Green cabbage, fresh corn, tomatillos, and cherry tomatoes: the perfect summer coleslaw recipe. A lime, garlic, and mustard dressing finish it off, along with a sprinkling of chopped cilantro.

Using raw chickpeas (soaked for at least 12 hours to soften) yields falafel with a great texture, soft on the inside, crunchy on the outside. Serve warm, with cucumber-yogurt sauce, tahini sauce, or harissa, and fresh pita bread. Game plan: Make a batch of Cucumber-Yogurt Sauce before you begin.

For these lavash wraps, falafel combines with tomato, cucumber, onion, and hummus, with a tahini-lemon dressing. Game plan: Make a batch of Classic Falafel before you begin.

Strained low-fat yogurt with fresh basil, lemon, and garlic, perfect as a dip for grilled okra or other veggies.

In this laidback crockpot version adapted from the Practical Stewardship blog, browned rice goes into the slow cooker along with tomatoes, broth, onion, garlic, bell peppers, and spices. Approximately 3 hours later, you’ve got a fluffy, deeply flavored side dish.

This rich, spicy turkey meatloaf, adapted from Cory Obenour of Blue Plate restaurant in San Francisco.

This healthy, reimagined taco salad recipe (adapted from Taste of Home) can be on the table in 30 minutes.

For this ground beef gyros recipe adapted from Food.com, spiced meat is stuffed into pitas with lettuce, tomato, and onion, served with yogurt sauce.

Fresh, tangy goat cheese and smoked paprika flavor this delicious baked white bean dip adapted from Chowhound community member Ali.

The idea for using filet mignon for this classic Vietnamese dish comes from The Slanted Door in San Francisco: cubed, tender beef, stir-fried briefly in a hot pan, before adding the ingredients to form a simple, flavorful sauce. Serve shaking beef on a bed of watercress with lime wedges and thinly sliced scallion or red onion.