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50 min · serves 6
Spanish-Style Daliya and Potato Tortilla
A thick egg bake with softened potato and cooked daliya folded through, using the low-and-slow potato technique tortilla is built on.
vegetariangluten free
35 min · serves 4
Sri Lankan-Style Daliya Coconut Mallum
Daliya finished with grated coconut and a hard tempering of mustard seed and curry leaf, the technique that defines a Sri Lankan mallum.
vegetarianvegangluten free
40 min · serves 12
Swedish-Style Sesame Crispbread
A thin, docked flatbread baked until it snaps clean, the kind that is meant to keep for weeks in a tin.
vegetarianvegan
40 min · serves 4
Thai Red Lentil Coconut Curry
Red lentils simmered straight in coconut milk with curry paste bloomed in the fat that separates off the top.
vegetarianvegangluten free
15 min · serves 4
Thai Sesame Cucumber Salad
Salted, drained cucumber tossed in a sharp sesame dressing, the salting step being the one nobody wants to bother with and shouldn't skip.
vegetarianvegangluten free
55 min · serves 6
Turkish Red Lentil Koftesi
Cooked red lentils bound with fine semolina and pressed in the palm, eaten cool in lettuce leaves with lemon.
vegetarianvegan
40 min · serves 16
Turkish Sesame Halva Blocks
Tahini and cooked sugar folded just enough to leave the flaky strands that define a good halva.
vegetariangluten free
60 min · serves 8
Turkish Sesame Simit Rings
Twisted bread rings dipped in grape molasses before their sesame crust, which is what makes them lacquer rather than merely stick.
vegetarianvegan
35 min · serves 4
Turkish Tarhana-Style Semolina Soup
A sour, thick winter soup approximated with semolina and yoghurt when no fermented tarhana is to hand.
vegetarian
45 min · serves 6
Ukrainian-Style Daliya Filling for Dumplings
A savoury mashed daliya and cheese filling in the spirit of varenyky, spoonable on its own or folded into dumpling dough.
vegetarian
65 min · serves 6
Uzbek-Style Daliya Plov with Carrots
Carrots cut into thick matchsticks and cooked down until sweet, the base that gives Uzbek plov its distinctive orange-tinted depth.
vegetarianvegangluten free
50 min · serves 4
Vietnamese Daliya and Herb Spring Rolls
Rice paper rolls filled with seasoned daliya and a wall of raw herbs, dipped in a sesame-thickened peanut sauce.
vegetarianvegan