Baking
31 recipes
Dabo Kolo Spiced Crunchy Bites
Ethiopian snack of stiff berbere-spiced dough rolled into thin ropes, cut into pellets and baked dry until hard and crunchy. Keeps for weeks in a sealed jar.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Creamed butter with both white and brown sugar, chopped chocolate instead of chips, and a rest in the refrigerator before baking. Crisp at the edge, soft through the middle.
Caribbean Sweet Potato Pudding
Hand-grated sweet potato baked slowly with coconut milk, dark brown sugar and warm spice into a dense, moist pudding. Fine cornmeal stands in for wheat flour and gives it a sliceable body.
Buttermilk Oven-Fried Chicken
Chicken pieces brined in seasoned buttermilk, pressed into a paprika-spiked crumb coating and roasted on a rack at high heat. The crust crisps without a pot of frying oil.
Black Bean and Sweet Potato Enchiladas
Corn tortillas rolled around roasted sweet potato and black beans, baked under a chile-spiced tomato sauce and Monterey Jack. Mashing the filling keeps the rolls from falling apart.
Bibingka Coconut Rice Cake
A rice flour and coconut milk batter baked in a banana leaf until set, then buttered, sugared, and browned under the broiler. Soft and slightly chewy, finished with grated coconut.
Baklava
Thirty sheets of filo brushed with butter around a cinnamon-walnut layer, baked until brittle, then soaked in cooled lemon and honey syrup. It needs a night uncovered to set properly.