Cardamom

With only a handful of ingredients and ten minutes of hands-on time, you'll have a beautifully impressive dessert that's creamy and cardamom-spiked.

You don’t need a tagine, a conical earthenware pot typically from Morocco, to make this warming, fragrant, tender lamb stew.

We helped our snickerdoodles get party-ready by upping the spices and adding texture with toffee, cornflakes, and a sparkly finish.

Imagine a mash-up of cinnamon toast, bread pudding, and pie.

Roasted lamb shoulder that’s meltingly tender and then finished under the broiler until crisp and golden brown.

On the rare occasion you need an “excuse” to use up fruit before it goes bad, well, that’s what crumbles are for.

Molokhia, a braised chicken and greens dish popular in Lebanon and Egypt, inspired this riff on chicken soup.

This chaider recipe is our warm, spiced-up, wintery alternative to bulletproof coffee. It’s a sweet mash-up of masala chai flavors and mulled cider, with an unexpected buttery finish to smooth it all out.

Feel free to use whatever fresh chile you can find, but remember that this sauce is supposed to pack some heat.

Hemp milk makes the fastest, creamiest alt-milk with very little waste, but any nondairy milk works.

This recipe is inspired by the flavors found in the traditional Ayurvedic Indian drink haldi doodh, made with milk, turmeric, and honey. It's also gluten- and dairy-free.

We went through 125 crepes testing this crepe cake recipe—so we learned a lot.

Too many morning buns for your crowd? This recipe halves easily.

The butter sauce for this recipe was developed in the early 20th century in Delhi as a way to soften leftover tandoori chicken with tomatoes, butter, and cream.

There’s no substitute for quince, which is closely related to apples and pears. If you can’t find it fresh, look for a high-quality quince jam from a Middle Eastern market.

The best way to describe the results of this tea cakes recipe? The most tender cinnamon cake doughnut you ever had, in muffin form.

A super-easy, no-mixer-needed cookie dough recipe that doesn’t dirty any bowls and leaves plenty of time for the fun stuff—baking, decorating, and eating dough scraps, of course.

The semolina bakes into a crunchy layer on the top and bottom but stays moist and delicate within.

Freshness counts. Buy prime tomatoes when they’re in season. And, if possible, grind whole green cardamom pods rather than using powdered.

An egg white is the secret ingredient that helps this savory granola form crunchy clusters. Use these spiced seeds to top our Grilled Brined Vegetables.

This clever pour-over dessert proves that, yes, it will affogato.

Cardamom may be expensive, so put the spice to good use in these 15 recipes.

This chai is definitively ginger-forward. Feel free to add a little more maple syrup if you like it on the sweeter side. This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.

Strawberries and cream…and cardamom. The cooling spice and cucumbers give berries an element of intrigue.