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Recipes

All of our recipes have gone through our one-of-a-kind testing process. Browse for inspiration or filter to find the best recipes for your taste, style, or diet.

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    Lime-Glazed Salmon and Crispy Rice Salad

    If you’ve tried to glaze salmon only to have the glaze slide right off and burn, this recipe will show you how to do it right.

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    Browned Butter Shortbread

    Toasty, buttery, sweet, salty, perfect.

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    Best Blueberry Muffins

    The best guarantee of a great blueberry muffin is to start with great blueberries. We wanted a recipe that would work even with the watery supermarket kind.

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    Quinoa Taco Salad

    To rework taco salad to be more nutritious but still hearty, we replaced the beef with quinoa.

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    Lazy Strawberry Sonker

    Sonker has spent too much time in the shadows. We wanted to give this Appalachian original its due.

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    Chicken Milanese Caprese

    This recipe combines two Italian favorites—Parmesan-crusted chicken Milanese and caprese salad—into one supersatisfying dish.

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    Pork Tenderloin and Peach Kebabs with Brown Rice Salad

    Pork and peaches were made for each other . . . and for the grill.

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    Antipasto Farro Salad with Arugula

    Central Italy’s popular grain is worthy of a place at your table.

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    Triple Berry Slab Pie with Ginger-Lemon Streusel

    Our berry slab pie is guaranteed to elicit oohs and aahs before the first slice is even cut. And no one will know it's a cinch to prepare.

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    Pasta alla Vodka

    As we pondered the secret to this sauce's unrelenting popularity, we settled on three defining traits: its rich, creamy texture; its satisfying smoothness; and its complex, savory depth.

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    Chicken Piccata Meatballs

    These meatballs deliver the brightness of piccata from the inside out.

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    Air-Fryer Spiced Chicken Kebabs with Vegetable and Bulgur Salad

    For this recipe, we used skewers to raise the vegetables and chicken in the air fryer, allowing heat to circulate around them to generate better browning and charring for both.

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    Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies

    We set out to achieve a cookie that was crisp at the edges, chewy in the middle, and full of rich toffee flavor. The result? One of our most popular recipes of all time.

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    Blueberry Cream Pie

    This just might be the best blueberry pie you’ll ever eat.

  • RecipeMake Ahead

    Bacon and Gruyère Egg Bites

    To make this popular portable breakfast, we smoothed out protein-rich cottage cheese in the blender, then whisked in eggs to create a creamy custard and added shredded Gruyère cheese and cooked chopped bacon for texture and flavor.

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    Mixed Berry Scones

    What does an antique store in rural western Massachusetts have to offer the test kitchen? Inspiration for big, bold, berry-filled scones.

  • RecipeMake Ahead

    Modern Gâteau Fraisier (French Strawberry Cake)

    Gâteau fraisier pays homage to peak-season berries with layers of golden cake and billowy cream. Our nouveau version packs the same appeal into a lighter, more failproof package.

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    Mediterranean Dinner Salad with Chicken

    This light yet substantial salad is chock-full of different flavors, textures—even temperatures.

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    Chocolate Lava Cake for a Crowd

    Individual-size chocolate lava cakes are a classic restaurant dessert: Moist chocolate cake surrounds a fudgy, molten center that acts like a sauce when the cake is cut open.

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    Best Buttermilk Pancakes

    We found the secret to buttermilk pancakes that cook up fluffy from batch to batch.

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    Easy Pancakes

    Put down the box mix. You've got everything you need to make tall, fluffy pancakes in minutes. No special ingredients or equipment required.

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    Fried Rice with Shrimp, Lime, and Peanuts

    This bold and tangy stir-fry elevates—and celebrates—leftover rice.

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    Egyptian Barley Salad

    We set out to develop a recipe for a vibrantly spiced pearl barley salad with the right balance of sweetness, tang, and nuttiness.

  • RecipeMake Ahead

    Best Ground Beef Chili

    Ground beef chili is convenient, but its texture is often dry and grainy. With this recipe, you don't have to sacrifice flavor for convenience.

  • RecipeVegetarian

    Light and Airy Focaccia

    With its bronzed crust, pillowy crumb, and licks of fruity olive oil and crunchy salt, focaccia is easy to love. It’s also easy to make.

  • RecipeFor Two

    Easy Strawberry Shortcakes for Two

    An ideal dessert for two.

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    Supercrunchy Buttermilk Fried Chicken

    Some styles are battered, others are dredged. For the crispiest, crunchiest, all-around yummiest fried chicken, do both.

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    Crisp Breaded Chicken Cutlets with Parmesan (Chicken Milanese)

    Breaded cutlets promise a moist, tender interior and crunchy, crisp exterior. But to get there, you have to follow the rules.

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    Cast Iron Raspberry-Ginger Buttermilk Cake

    A simple, rustic berry cake that shines on any table

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    Classic Chewy Oatmeal Cookies

    We wanted to improve the classic recipe from the Quaker canister. Our method is chewier, moister, and easier to make.

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    One-Pot Shrimp Piccata Pasta

    Improve your scampi game with this lively mash-up of two classic dishes.

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    MLTs (Mushroom, Lettuce, and Tomato Sandwiches)

    Meet the BLT's equally splendid (and vegetarian) cousin.

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    Strawberry Galette

    Looking for a simple spring dessert with outsize flavor and impact? Read on.

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    Farro Salad with Asparagus, Sugar Snap Peas, and Tomatoes

    We were sold on this nutty grain even before we realized how fast and easy it is to cook.

  • RecipeMake Ahead

    Preserved Lemons

    Lemons that have been preserved in salt have a bright citrus flavor, balanced by brininess and sourness, that can add depth and nuance to all sorts of dishes, perhaps most famously to Moroccan tagines.

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    Loaded Skillet Hash Browns

    Impress your guests with these Waffle House–inspired crispy potatoes.