No need for a confession that you didn’t make them yourself.īlackened Chicken Tacos With Tango Sauce Recipe Here Carrot Chile Sauce // Tango // Brooklyn, NYĬarrots get no love. And that is where these hail from: traditional priest’s ears, perfect for cupping the rich sauces of southern Italy. Not so in the kitchens of spots like Hearth, Roberta’s, or Frankie’s Sputino, where chewy semolina flour is hand-rolled into perfect shapes. Raid even the best home cook’s pantry, and you’ll find store-bought boxes and plastic bags of brittle shells and snapped spaghetti. The water - salty as the sea! The sauce - fresh as summer morning! The pasta - well, for most, that’s where the secret ends. Cavatelli // Sfoglini Pasta Shop // Brooklyn, NY Top your favorite noodles and warm up winter with a burst of summer sun. Toast a few tablespoons in a bit of olive oil, then add in your pasta’s cooking water and simmer. The old way is heavy on the pork, but this one is deliciously vegan - all the savory roasted pepper and tomatoes, none of the pig parts. The most famous of them all is a spicy spread called ‘nduja. Hence the deep tradition of home-canned sauces to keep Calabrian pastas and casseroles bathed in the summer’s harvest all year long.
A good tomato - we mean a *really* good tomato - is at its best for a sun-warmed second, before it fades. Swimming with savory roasted tomatoes and sparkling sweet tamarind, it’s the perfect compliment to a traditional lamb pita: quickly char a slab of rump roast, slice it thin, and pile on grill-warmed bread with a scoop of yogurt and sprinkle of parsley.Ĭhar Grilled Lamb Wraps With Tomato Achaar Recipe HereĬavatelli with Tomato ‘Nduja & Pecorino Recipe Here Tomato ‘Nduja // City Saucery // Brooklyn, NY
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It’s ubiquitous there, but rare here, and Brooklyn Delhi’s founder had to stock her home kitchen with a suitcase full of street-swiped jars jars gleaned on trips back home to India - until she made her own. Hindi for pickled, the pantry staple of the sub-continent is a sweet-spicy-tart-aromatic mix of veggies and fruits, spices and chili peppers. What hot sauce is to southern tables or mayo to the midwest, achaar is to India.