Potato

The beloved Korean stir-fried chicken dish dakgalbi is spicy, sweet, aromatic, and comforting—and it comes together in a few easy steps and one pan.

Crispy roasted sweet potato wedges get tossed in a sweet and nutty tahini dressing in this quick vegetarian weeknight dinner.

A steamed-then-mashed sweet potato adds creamy sweetness and extra nutrients to this cozy oatmeal that can be easily customized to fit dietary preferences. 

“Like Jamaica itself, this is a mash-up of cultures and flavors and ideas—all together in one delicious savory pie,” says chef Tiffany-Anne Parkes.

This recipe is based on a traditional dish of the Ohlone tribe indigenous to California’s East Bay.

Tearing the sweet potatoes creates more surface area to char and glaze. (It’s also fun.)

If making bread has long intimidated you, start here. Parathas come in many shapes, textures, and flavors across Asia—they are perfect for dipping into dals and stews or eating alongside assorted condiments. This take, which Priya Krishna learned from her aunt Rachna, is really simple: a basic wheat-based dough stuffed with silky spiced potatoes.

Trinidadian chickpeas and potato suspended in a delicious mash.

Brad Leone’s go-to charred, smashed, and miso-garlic-butter–tossed grilled potatoes.

One bite of these deliciously crispy fish and potato cakes and you’ll never look at crab cakes quite the same way again.

A colorful hash filled with tender sweet potatoes, chewy farro, and crispy brussels sprouts.

Carrots, beets, and potatoes have way more to offer.

When you just can't deal with scrubbing, peeling, grating, or boiling. 

Olives and superfast pickled onions balance out creamy-crispy potatoes and roast cod.

Crispy, creamy, chewy, bright, and about a dozen other wonderful (see?) adjectives apply to this easy dinner.

Instead of icing, this spiced loaf from Elizabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson’s ‘Tartine: A Classic Revisited’ is blanketed in a fluffy vanilla meringue.

With custardy insides and charred exteriors, these sweet potatoes are everything you always wish roasted sweet potatoes could be. A crunchy mixture of toasted nuts and seeds provides pops of texture and spice, and a cooling lemony yogurt sauce cuts through the richness. 

Hash can be good—let me prove it. 

Obe Ata is a Nigerian sauce that incorporates floral habanero chiles and bell peppers. This recipe uses obe ata as the base for a spicy, warming chicken and sweet potato stew. 

Colorful, crunchy, and incredibly easy, you can pull this bright Indian dish together in 20 minutes or less.

It all comes down to Butterballs and MSG.

Ridiculously, impossibly creamy mashed potatoes with a patatas bravas-inspired topping.

When you mix hot sauce with butter, it turns into a spicy, creamy spread that’s perfect for melting atop burnished sweet potato halves, bringing them to life.

Lessons learned through a perfect meal.