Cajun chicken pasta
Make a crowd-pleasing pasta dish for dinner. We’ve taken inspiration from creamy alfredo sauce with Cajun-style seasoning to add a bit of punch.
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Blackened Shrimp Tacos
These blackened shrimp tacos feature a marinated coleslaw topping, are simple to prepare, and come together fast for a weeknight dinner the whole family will enjoy. Serve with rice, beans or both.
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Mexican Street Corn Deviled Eggs
These Mexican street corn deviled eggs have all the fresh flavors of your favorite street food, and everybody loves deviled eggs, so these are guaranteed to please.
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Chilaquiles with Homemade Tomato Sauce
These chilaquiles with homemade tomato sauce will bring back your experiences of breakfast in Mexico. Fried tortilla wedges are cooked briefly in a homemade tomato-chile sauce, and topped with a fr...
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The Best Easy Shrimp Enchiladas
I'm calling these the best easy shrimp enchiladas, and they are, without a doubt, the best shrimp enchiladas you will ever taste, thanks to my secret ingredient, canned lobster bisque. They are ric...
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Esquites with Frozen Corn
Esquites with frozen corn have all the flavor you love from Mexican street corn, but also the ease and convenience of using frozen corn. These are not spicy, but feel free to add cayenne pepper or ...
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Teriyaki Steak Quesadillas
These teriyaki steak quesadillas are filled with teriyaki-marinated, sautéed skirt steak, cheese, and broccoli.
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Slow Cooker Pozole
An easy pozole recipe made in the slow cooker. You can add another can of hominy if your slow cooker is large. I prefer hot enchilada sauce with salsa, but the regular kind will do. Traditional Mex...
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Marranitos (Mexican Pig-Shaped Cookies)
Marranitos (or cochinos, or puerquitos, as are they are called in some Mexican-American communities) are often called Gingerbread Pigs, although they don't actually have ginger in them. The flavor ...
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Buñuelos
Buñuelos are deep-fried dough fritters. This recipe makes a pile of these delicious Mexican treats; sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar for a crowd-pleasing treat during the holidays or any time of the y...
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Chicken Marsala Fettuccine
Chicken marsala over fettucine is a wonderfully rich Italian-American dish. Think chicken cutlets, mushrooms, and spinach cooked in a creamy Marsala wine sauce served over pasta—the ultimate comf...
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Italian Easter Grain Pie
This Italian grain pie is a real treat for Easter. It's also known as pastiera. The filling is made with wheat berries, ricotta cheese, eggs, and candied citrus. Store leftovers in the refrigerator.
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Uova in Purgatorio (Eggs in Purgatory)
This traditional Italian recipe for eggs in purgatory gently poaches eggs in a delicious homemade tomato sauce flavored with garlic and capers. This hearty dish makes a very tasty breakfast, brunch...
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Easy and Delicious Homemade Ricotta Cheese
A lovely creamy cheese which is very easy to make! Even my sister who refused to eat the cheese at first ended up loving it! This is a fail-safe recipe in our household, I have made it time and tim...
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Sicilian Homemade Ricotta Cheese
This is a recipe for my Sicilian grandmother's creamy homemade ricotta cheese. Great as a spread on fresh bread or add as a topping to fresh Pasta.
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Lemon Tiramisu
Lemon tiramisu is made with lemon curd, lemon syrup, and mascarpone cheese. Leftovers keep in the refrigerator for 3 days.
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Panettone
Panettone is an Italian Christmas bread that's loaded with candied fruit. This homemade recipe bakes the dough in festive paper panettone molds for a gorgeous Christmas gift.
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Cioccolata Calda (Hot Chocolate Italian-Style)
Hot chocolate Italian-style is one of the most amazing treats in the world! You have to try this pudding-like chocolate decadence! Add some Irish cream, cinnamon, and whipped cream for a fun variat...
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Pasta e Ceci (Italian Chickpea and Pasta Stew)
Pasta e Ceci, or Italian chickpea and pasta stew, is an Italian classic, and the star in my favorite Italian movie, "I Soliti Sospetti", where the Usual Suspects try to steal money from a bank vaul...
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Chicken Fra Diavolo
This chicken fra diavolo is chicken thighs in my version of fra diavolo sauce, the spicy Italian pepper and tomato sauce with fresh herbs and white wine, usually used with seafood. We like spicy, a...
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Classic Italian Pastina Soup
This classic Italian pastina soup has all the flavors you'd expect from homemade chicken soup.
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Lazy Wonton Soup
For this lazy wonton soup, you skip making filled wontons, and drop pork meatballs and quartered wonton wrappers right into the gingery, flavorful broth. This recipe is SO delicious!
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Sesame Chicken with Broccoli
This stir-fried sesame chicken with broccoli has the classic, sweet, slightly spicy flavor you expect, but is also loaded with fresh broccoli florets. Serve with white or brown rice, or your favori...
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Shrimp with Broccoli in Garlic Sauce
I wanted to recreate my favorite Chinese shrimp and broccoli takeout dish. After several attempts, here is the result! Serve over hot cooked rice.
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Copycat Panda Express Chow Mein
You can make this Panda Express menu favorite at home in less time than it’d take you to load in the car and hit the drive thru. Even better, you can customize our copycat chow mein easily by add...
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Chicken in Black Bean Sauce
Chicken in black bean sauce is delicious and simple to make at home for a restaurant-style Chinese stir-fry dish with lots of garlic, bell peppers, and bean sprouts.
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Chinese Tea Leaf Eggs
Tea eggs are one of my favorite dishes and traditional lucky food to make for the Lunar New Year. These hard-boiled eggs are subtly flavored with anise and have a deep brown hue from black tea and ...
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Asian Orange Chicken
This orange chicken recipe is sticky, sweet, and delicious. It tastes similar to the orange chicken from a popular Chinese restaurant in the mall! It's easier to make than you think for delicious t...
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Perfect Pot Stickers
These pot stickers made with homemade dough and filled with ground pork, ginger, garlic, and cabbage are so versatile — you can fill them with anything you want and as full as you want. The dumpl...
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Golden Butter Rice
This golden butter rice, flavored with ginger and turmeric, is a forgotten way of cooking butter rice. It isn't cooked rice with butter stirred in, it really is rice cooked in butter. This is my fa...
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Paneer
This easy paneer recipe is great for vegetarians. You can add paneer to your favorite curry or dish. Homemade paneer is softer and lighter than the tofu-like consistency of paneer found in many Ind...
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Chickpea Tikka Masala
Chickpea tikka masala is a classic Indian curry where chickpeas are cooked in a flavorful creamy sauce. Serve over basmati rice or with naan.
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Chicken Bhuna
Chicken bhuna is an Indian curry with delicious fried onions and aromatic herb and spices that tastes fantastic! Enjoy with freshly cooked basmati rice and naan bread.
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Keema Aloo (Ground Beef and Potatoes)
This keema aloo curry is by far my favorite Indian recipe. Inspired by my mom, who still makes this for me to this day. If you want to try something a little different, I guarantee you will love th...
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Tandoori Chicken
Try this authentic tandoori chicken that's marinated in yogurt and spices, then cooked on the grill instead of a clay oven so you can make it at home. Serve with long-grain basmati rice, grilled ve...
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Green Onion Garlic Naan Bread
I am going to show you how to make naan Chef John-style—when I want it fast and I don't want to use yeast and wait for a dough to rise but I also want it just as good as if I did. While I origina...
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Chef John's Mulligatawny Soup
I'm showing you my take on what is considered one of the world's greatest soups. Which was invented, I hear, because British soldiers in India weren't able to start a meal without soup. This is inc...
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Slow Cooker Butter Chicken
Butter chicken is one of my favorite Indian dishes. It's easy to prep for the slow cooker in the morning to come home to the wonderful aroma of warm Indian spices... I love it! Serve with basmati r...
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Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)
This butter chicken recipe is so delicious, flavorful, and easy to prepare at home. My entire family loves this curry. Serve over warm basmati rice along with some naan bread for a delicious Indian...
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Traditional Sauerbraten
For this sauerbraten, I found two slightly different handwritten versions of my Grandmother's recipe. Born in Nekkar am Rhein in 1904, she naturally learned to cook traditional German meals as a yo...
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German Apple Cake
German apple cake is a moist, dense cake that keeps well. It has been a family favorite for 20 years. Serve with a dusting of confectioners' sugar or topped with a cream cheese frosting.
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Sausage and Sauerkraut
This sauerkraut and sausage recipe is from a sweet old German lady I used to attend church with. Allow for plenty of time to prepare and cook this dish. It is definitely worth the time and effort! ...
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German Beef Rouladen
This beef rouladen recipe is another great German dish that reminds me of my mom's wonderful cooking. Enjoy this unique and delicious dish!
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Spaghetti Ice Cream Sundae (Spaghettieis)
Spaghettieis is a popular German ice cream confection made to look just like a plate of spaghetti, featuring vanilla ice cream "noodles," strawberry sauce, and white chocolate shavings.
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Pfeffernusse Cookies
Pfeffernüsse are German Christmas cookies spiced with black pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, and other spices. I have searched far and wide for a recipe that mimics my favorite, store-bought version of...
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Crispy Roasted Chicken
This roasted half chicken is inspired by Brathähnchen, commonly served in Bavarian biergartens, small shops, and food carts. You can serve this oven-roasted chicken with many side dishes, but favo...
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Wiener Schnitzel
This wiener schnitzel is an easy German recipe and one of our favorites. Boneless pork chops can also be substituted for veal and taste excellent!
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Old German Honey Cookies
I got this recipe for honey cookies from my grandmother who got it from her grandmother. She had to translate it and then figure out the measurements. The original recipe called for "enough flour t...
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Jägerschnitzel
This jägerschnitzel is a delicious dish I ordered again and again when I was stationed in Germany with the Army. It is best served with French fries to clean up the remaining gravy and a nice gard...
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Chef John's Beef Rouladen
For something that looks and tastes as impressive as this beef rouladen, it's actually one of the simplest stuffed meat recipes I know. You can pretty much use any cheap cut of beef; I used round s...
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