Spring

A lemony, herby bean salad with lots of crunch from sliced snap peas is good. But when it's piled on top of garlic-rubbed, ricotta-spread toast, it's even better.

This stew recipe is all about those lovingly cooked and seasoned dried beans and the glorious (vegan!) broth they create.

Master the classic highball cocktail using these 11 easy, refreshing recipes.

Featuring an asparagus stir-fry, bright green crispy rice pilaf, and more.

Properly-poached chicken breast is truly a thing of beauty—juicy, tender, and a blank canvas for big flavors.

An ode to an underrated bonafide spring ingredient.

Don’t worry about removing all of the melon seeds in this take on the popular Mexican street snack—they’re edible and add a little crunch.

Dinners like this minimum effort, maximum payoff dish are your biggest ally while on vacation.

The trick to this citrusy stir-fry is to get your pan roaring hot before adding the ingredients.

It’s so pretty, you almost won’t want to eat it.

It’s worth planning ahead for this vibrant, springy pilaf recipe that’s made all the better by day-old rice.

Alison Roman knows the best spring breaks are those spent putting together minimum effort, maximum reward dishes that blur the lines between lunch and dinner, lazy and ambitious.

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Recipes to celebrate the (real) arrival of spring.

A little bit lighter and a whole lot greener than your average meatball

For this soup recipe, we skipped browning the meatballs and poached them instead. This will keep them very tender and their flavor light, which is ideal for this seasonal dish.

With leeks, fennel, sugar snap peas, and English peas, this soup is perfect for ushering in spring.

Like a light jacket, this vegetable-packed soup is an April staple.

There's no better large-format meat: A leg of lamb is fatty, flavorful, and crowd-pleasing, plus its size makes it hard to overcook.

A main and a side all in one: As the chicken fat renders, it bastes the vegetables for a built-in side dish.

Our best tip for cooking fish for a crowd? Slow-roast a single large fish fillet instead of making several small ones—it ensures that the fish is buttery and delicious.

This dish is a perfect choice for those blustery but bright early spring days: It's comforting from the simple-but-flavorful broth and bright from the crunchy fresh topping.

Toum, an intense garlic sauce usually paired with shawarma, is used as both a marinade and a condiment in this Lebanese chicken dish.

Just because the weather's warming up doesn't mean you have to put away the soup pot. These spring soup recipes are light, refreshing, and make the best of the season's produce.