Category: roasting

Mom’s Chicken With Turmeric Tahini, Chickpeas, and Onions

This easy sheet-pan dinner exudes exotic aromas and makes an exciting colorful presentation. It smells like the butter chicken I get from my favorite Indian restaurant. As it roasts, the sauce sets up on the chicken, giving you a thick, crunchy-on-the-edges, chewy-moist-in-the-middle texture—amazing. Serves 4 1 (3 1/2- to 4-pound) chicken, cut into parts, or…


Paying Homage to a San Francisco Cafe’s Roast Chicken

For our own take on Zuni Cafe’s roast chicken with bread salad, we started by butterflying a whole chicken and salting it overnight so it would cook quickly and evenly and be juicy and well-seasoned. Before roasting the chicken in a 475-degree oven, we covered the bottom of a skillet with bread cubes that we…


Add Some Spice to Your Meal With These Cumin-Roasted Potatoes

Seasoning potatoes with cumin and smoked paprika makes this side dish irresistible. It’s the perfect dish to accompany your favorite breakfast scramble, sandwich, or a baby green salad. To cook these potatoes to perfection, par cook the potatoes in boiling water, then toss them in oil and a spice mixture of cumin seed, fennel seed,…


Hot Honey Butter Smashed Potatoes Hit All the Right Notes

I could probably make smashed potatoes several times a week and never get bored of them. Tiny, parboiled potatoes that are crushed into a smattering of crispy deliciousness? Sign me up. I am an artist and smashed potatoes are my preferred medium. This hot honey variation, in a lot of ways, speaks to my personality….


Roast Chicken With Sausages and Potatoes

Roast chicken, seasoned simply with salt, pepper, lemon juice, and herbs, is perhaps the epitome of effortless cooking. For six people, look for an organic or free-range oven roaster (5 to 7 pounds) or two smaller birds (3 to 4 pounds), knowing that either way you will have some leftovers. I started adding hot Italian…


Sheet Pan Comfort: A One-Pan Chicken Dinner

How do you define comfort food? For me, it’s a meal or dish that is easy to make and undemanding, yet deeply flavorful and homey, as though it has been tended to for hours to reap delicious results. Sheet pan recipes often fall into this category. A sheet pan dish is simply that—a complete meal…