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Wonder Sauce

Sauces

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS Our inspiration was tare—a Japanese term for an all-purpose dipping sauce used for yakitori, noodles, sushi, even hot pot dishes. But ask anyone how to make it, and you’ll never get a straight answer. It’s essentially thickened soy sauce and sugar with anything else to make...

Creamless Creamy Tomato Soup

Main Courses, Soups, Vegan

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS We wanted a creamy tomato soup recipe that would have velvety smoothness and a bright tomatoey taste, without added cream. We started with canned tomatoes because they had better flavor than supermarket tomatoes and were already peeled. Finding that butter muted the tomato...

Chinese Barbecued Pork

Main Courses

Char siu is usually bought from stores and restaurants that specialize in such meat dishes, but our version is actually "barbecued" in the oven, making these lacquered strips of pork easier to make at home than they might seem.

Thick-Cut Oven Fries

Side Dishes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS When traditional French fries are fried, water is rapidly driven out of the starch cells at the surface of the potato, leaving behind tiny cavities. It's these cavities that create a delicate, crispy crust. Since oven fries don't heat fast enough for air pockets to form, we...