Southeast Asian

This creamy, spicy-sweet dip pairs with leftover rotisserie chicken, jammy eggs, cucumber spears, and roasted sweet potatoes for the perfect desk-friendly lunch.

Nam prik is a delicious chile-based dip found all over Thailand. Here's our healthyish take on it.

The hardest part of this recipe is tracking down Thai tea mix (or waiting for it to arrive in the mail)—but it’s worth it.

This Vietnamese-inspired marinade, packed with fish sauce, brown sugar, and chiles, hits all the notes.

If you’re not set up for grilling or the weather doesn’t permit, a cast-iron grill pan will also do the trick for making these spicy, gingery, umami-packed meatballs.

This shakshuka-inspired dish is green because it forgoes the traditional tomatoes and red peppers for spinach and kale.

Welcome to your newest go-to summer marinade, featuring some spicy sambal, brown sugar and coconut milk to balance out the heat, and lots of fresh ginger and lime juice.

No searing! No chopping! One baking dish!

Olive oil works great in stir-fry recipes; its sharp grassy notes complement flavors like lemongrass and basil.

Instead of just using plain rice, make your own medley! Try a mix of white rice, millet, and/or quinoa, which all cook in about the same time. You can also sub kale for the Napa cabbage.

The honey lends a sweet, caramelize-y twist to this quick curry, but if you want to up the heat, add a big pinch of cayenne pepper. Have some thick, crusty bread handy to scoop up all the extra sauce, or serve alongside a pile of rice for a low-maintenance comfort food dinner.

The secret's in the (store-bought) sauce.

This all-purpose sauce will go with any protein and doubles as a great dressing for summer salads.

This colorful cold noodle salad is infinitely riffable.

A creamy, flavorful noodle soup that you'll crave all year—the secret's in the laksa paste.

Larb is hailed as the national dish of Laos. Traditionally the salad starts with extremely finely chopped lean meat or fish and is seasoned with lime juice, chiles, fish sauce, and toasted ground rice. This recipe calls for ground lamb, a fattier protein than what’s usually used, and subs ground peanuts as a nod to the texture of the rice.

When shaken with a lot of ice and a splash of sweetener, espresso forms a creamy froth on top and becomes infinitely more exciting.

This aromatic Vietnamese-inspired dish calls for pounding the chicken breasts to a uniform thinness, which eliminates any dryness.

This peanut satay sauce, along with pickled carrots, red chiles, cilantro, and crushed peanuts, helps make up the Banh Mi Dog.

You can substitute any crisp vegetables and small pieces of protein, just make sure not to overstuff or the wrappers will split.