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25 min · serves 4
Polish-Style Toasted Daliya Groats
Daliya toasted dry before it ever meets water, the same technique that gives Polish buckwheat groats their nutty depth.
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55 min · serves 5
Portuguese Lentil and Rice Soup
A plain, sustaining soup where a slick of good oil poured in at the table does most of the flavouring.
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20 min · serves 12
Roasted Sesame Tahini
Two ingredients and a patient blender turn roasted sesame seeds into a pourable tahini that beats anything from a jar.
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40 min · serves 4
Romanian-Style Daliya Mamaliga Bowl
A polenta-style bowl using fine daliya instead of cornmeal, stirred constantly the way mamaliga demands.
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45 min · serves 4
Russian-Style Daliya Kasha with Mushrooms
Daliya cooked kasha-style with well-browned mushrooms, where getting a proper sear on the mushrooms is most of the work.
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25 min · serves 2
Scottish-Style Savoury Daliya Porridge
A savoury porridge in the traditional Scottish style, where sugar has no place and salt is stirred in from the start.
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75 min · serves 8
Seeded Flaxseed Crackers
Whole flax seeds gel in water and bind themselves into a shatteringly crisp cracker with no flour at all.
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65 min · serves 4
Semolina Gnocchi alla Romana
Set semolina cut into discs and baked until the edges crisp, nothing like the potato dumpling of the same name.
vegetarian
70 min · serves 6
Senegalese-Style Tomato Daliya
A one-pot tomato daliya borrowing the layered vegetable technique of thiebou djeun, with the grain finished until it takes on a crust at the base.
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25 min · serves 12
Sesame Chilli Salsa Macha
A crunchy Mexican chilli oil where sesame seeds carry the texture and the oil never gets hot enough to scorch the chillies.
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25 min · serves 8
Spanish Sesame and Almond Picada
The pounded paste Catalan cooks stir into a stew at the last minute to thicken and sharpen it at once.
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110 min · serves 6
Spanish Smoked Paprika Field Pea Stew
White field peas stand in for chickpeas in a smoky, slow potaje built on paprika and good oil.
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