Stovetop Recipes

Sauté, simmer, and pan-fry your way through a whole range of stovetop dishes and desserts, from soups and quick-cooking proteins to velvety pudding and rich caramel.

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Serious Eats' Halal Cart-Style Chicken and Rice With White Sauce 

Take the Halal cart home with you.
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Easy Dulce de Leche

How to make dulce de leche from a can of sweetened condensed milk.
Stovetop

Filipino-Style Chicken Adobo

Salty, savory, and incandescent with acidity, chicken adobo is a stellar addition to your weeknight recipe rotation.
Stovetop

Sweet and Sour Sauce

Toss it on fried chicken to make the best sweet and sour chicken you'll ever eat.
Stovetop

Sous Vide Steaks

Perfectly even edge-to-edge cooking and foolproof results.
Stovetop

The Best Slow-Cooked Bolognese Sauce

A few unexpected ingredients and an oven-based technique produce a supremely rich, silky Bolognese.
Stovetop

Sinigang na Baboy (Filipino Pork in Sour Tamarind Soup)

A rich, tart pork and vegetable stew with layers of sour and savory flavor.
Stovetop

Pancit Palabok (Filipino Noodles With Smoky Pork and Seafood Sauce)

Tons of seafood flavor is packed into the sauce of this classic Filipino noodle dish.
Stovetop

New Orleans–Style Red Beans and Rice

Red beans and rice are good right away, but they're even better the next day.
Stovetop

Reverse-Seared Steak

You have to try to mess up this easy method of cooking a steak.
Stovetop

Indian Village Chicken Curry

An intensely spicy, flavorful, and satisfying rustic chicken curry.
Stovetop

Butter-Basted, Pan-Seared Thick-Cut Steaks

Perfectly cooked butter-basted steak, with a deep brown crust flavored with aromatics.
Stovetop

Tonkatsu or Chicken Katsu (Japanese Breaded Pork or Chicken Cutlets)

Juicy cutlets with crisp, golden-brown bread crumbs and sweet-and-savory sauce.
Stovetop

Crispy, Crunchy, Golden Shredded Hash Browns

The secret to extra-crunchy hash browns: cooking your potatoes in the microwave first.
Stovetop

Basic Crepe Batter

A simple crepe batter that'll allow you to whip up French crepes for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
Stovetop

Classic Steak au Poivre

Divide the pepper, then conquer this recipe.
Stovetop

The Best Chili Ever

This chili brings together a rich, complex chili flavor; a robust beefy character; and creamy, tender beans that stay intact.
Stovetop

Cajun Gumbo With Chicken and Andouille Sausage

Thick, hearty, loaded with flavor, and entirely customizable.
Stovetop

3-Ingredient Stovetop Macaroni and Cheese

So easy, it's practically done before you start.
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Chicken Massaman Curry With Wheat Beer and Potatoes

Warming, without the burn.
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XO Sauce

It'll be hard not to put this sauce in and on everything.
Stovetop

Pan-Seared Duck Breast

Crispy skin and tender pink meat in a bright, citrusy sauce.
Stovetop

Perfect Steamed Boiled Eggs

For the most evenly cooked, tender hard-boiled eggs, forget the boiling water.
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Mexican Street Corn Salad (Esquites)

The off-the-cob version of Mexican grilled corn.
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Getting crispy pan-roasted fish skin is all about learning to manage heat and moisture.
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This tofu has a tender center surrounded by a well-seasoned, impressively crisp crust.
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The Food Lab's Complete Guide to Pan-Seared Steaks

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