Sauté

This savory wild rice dish is the ultimate gluten-free stuffing, doubling as a holiday-appropriate grain salad with lots of fresh herbs.

Why make a marinade and a dressing when you can make one tangy, spicy-sweet sauce that works as both?

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

Date syrup gives this savory, nutty eggplant salad the perfect amount of sweetness.

Crispy fried garlic on top, garlic oil leftover, and rice fried up in all of it. Garlic heaven.

Top this sweet and spicy hash recipe with eggs for breakfast or fold it into tortillas for a taco with some sour cream and hot sauce on top and you’ve got dinner.

Applying the classic steakhouse butter-basting technique to slabs of butternut squash turns it into a hearty vegetarian main.

An herb-laced riff on aglio e olio, quick and easy.

A simple sauce of juicy, bursty cherry tomatoes (aka nature’s Gushers) that comes together in around 15 minutes.

Combining nduja, a spreadable spicy salami, with lobster is transformative, taking this basic pasta Pomodoro to the next level.

Treat scallops to the flavorful oil left behind when you cook chorizo—it’s basically liquid gold.

The dressing and assembled ingredients alone make this salad a star. But the extra effort of cooking the vegetables is worth it we promise!

Traditional panzanella is amped up by frying thick slices of bread in olive oil on only one side, achieving a combination of crisp and soft that soaks up all the tomato juices without getting soggy.

Perfect crisped skin and a nutty pan sauce make fish feel downright luxurious.

Sautéed squash eventually gets jammy and saucy if cooked long enough, ideal as a way to coat big pieces of pasta.

All the things that you love about elote (Mexican grilled corn), now in a convenient tossed-together form.

This versatile peak-of-summer condiment can be served on top of white rice, pasta, toast, steamed fish, steak, or roast chicken.

There’s so much more you can do with your farmers’ market basil than making pesto!

A refreshingly fruity twist on a traditional Cobb salad.

These easier-than-easy shrimp tacos are packed with flavor, and ideal for busy weeknights.

This is a weeknight pantry curry that comes together in the time it takes to boil water for the rice noodles. Fast!

We’ve got bursting, jammy cherry tomatoes that make their own sauce, and chili oil that upends the typical Italian flavor profile.

This one goes out to all the peanut sauce fans out there.

Who says clam sauce is only good for pasta? Not this buttery corn-studded dish.