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Tag: ingredient IQ

Brown ceramic saucepan full of cooked brown rice, with a wooden spoon nestled beneath the rice
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How to Cook the Perfect Pot of Brown Rice Every Time

Brown rice has been a staple food in diets worldwide for over 5,000 years—and for good reason. The whole grain is packed…

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Agar agar flakes next to vegan panna cotta on a blue table
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What Is Agar, and How Do You Use It?

Ever since a 17th-century Japanese innkeeper discovered some leftover seaweed soup had gelled overnight (or so the legend goes), agar has been…

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Mixed Quinoa Spoons Wooden Kitchen Table Top View
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Ingredient IQ: How to Cook with Quinoa

Here’s everything you need to know about using the ancient grain quinoa in a modern-day kitchen, from different varieties to best ways…

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Sliced zucchini on a cutting board with whole zucchini and squash blossoms off to the side at an angle
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Everything You Need to Know About Zucchini

Zucchini is an ultra-versatile vegetable. Read on for everything you need to know about the beloved summer bumper crop, including how to…

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What Are Hearts of Palm?

Hearts of palm are the delicate white stalks harvested from the inner cores of palm trees. The tender veggies have been consumed…

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Different types of edible seaweed shown on small white plates
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Sea Vegetables 101: A Quick-Start Guide to Cooking with Seaweed

Sea vegetables, or edible seaweed, have been a staple ingredient in Japan, Korea, and China for millennia. Read on to learn more…

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A whole bulb of the root vegetable jicama, on a light blue background, with matchstick-cut slices of peeled jicama beside it
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What Is Jicama? How to Enjoy the Refreshing, Juicy Root Vegetable

Jicama—also called Chinese yam, yam bean root, Mexican potato, fon goot, or sicama—is a root vegetable native to Mexico and Central America….

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Bowl of sliced red and white onions, with whole red and white onions off to the side
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A Cook’s Guide to 6 Types of Onions and How to Use Them

It’s hard to imagine a world without onions. The pungent members of the allium family (which also includes  shallots, leeks, garlic, and…

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A flat-lay shot of a plate with some ground fonio flour on it, a wooden spoon, and a small bowl with fonio grains in it
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Fonio: the Ancient West-African Grain That’s Healthy, Sustainable, and Quick-Cooking

If you haven’t heard of fonio until recently (or now), you’re not alone. For decades, the tiny seeds cultivated in West Africa…

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chia seeds in a blue bowl with a handle, with some spilling out underneath and around the bowl onto a gray background
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Everything You Need to Know About Chia Seeds

Tiny but mighty, neutral-tasting chia seeds boast a long culinary history, an impressive nutritional profile, and a host of uses in plant-based…

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Freekeh grains in a wooden spoon and scattered across a black table
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What Is Freekeh?

A staple grain in the Mediterranean basin, Middle East, and parts of Africa, freekeh is a type of wheat harvested when it’s…

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Collard Greens on a dish towel and cutting board
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What Are Collard Greens, and How Do You Cook Them?

Collard greens, or collards, are a leafy green vegetable like lettuce, Swiss chard, and spinach. Along with mustard greens, turnips, and cabbage,…

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