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Summer Meat Slaw

This summer meat slaw is the most exciting thing to happen to coleslaw in centuries. You can use leftover pulled pork—I used kalua pork—or any cooked meat, and it is unlike any slaw you've ever had. Your summer cookouts will never be the same.

1h 40m 4

Roasted Lemon-Pepper Potatoes

If you've made and loved our Greek Lemon Chicken and Fondant Potatoes, then you will absolutely adore these lemon-pepper potatoes, since it's basically the best of those two recipes put together, minus the chicken. Tender on the inside and crusty on the outside, these potatoes make for an impressive side dish. The only problem is whatever main course you pair it with is in serious danger of being upstaged.

1h 32m 4

Slow-Cooked Green Beans

Why take something that normally takes 5 minutes to cook and cook it for 2 hours? Because it produces one of the most delicious things you'll ever taste. There's going to be a lot of juice, and that's what you dip your corn bread into.

2h 5m 4

How to Make Roasted Red Potatoes

This red skin potato recipe is a go-to side dish. You have to do only a few things, and if you do those things, we're talking intense potato side dish pleasure! The best roasted red potatoes start with a heavy roasting pan, a generous amount of olive oil, and enough time to roast the potatoes until dark and rich.

59 min 4

Chef John's Cottage Fries

While cottage fries may not get the same love as French fries, home fries, or steak fries, they more than hold their own against other potato side dishes.

52 min 4

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How to Make Farinata

Fainè, also called farinata, is nothing more than a simple garbanzo bean flour batter which is spiked with olive oil and salt and baked in a very hot oven. The surface gets crusty and the edges get crispy yet the inside stays moist and sort of creamy. The texture is easy to explain, but the taste, not so much. Very earthy, comforting, and satisfying.

1h 31m 4

"Special" Roasted Potatoes

This recipe for yellow potatoes turns out delicious and crusty. The secret step is boiling the potatoes in a salted, seasoned liquid. As a result, they absorb flavor and salt and, more importantly, cook on the surface, forming a great, crunchy texture in the oven.

1h 38m 4

Baked "Fried" Rice

This easy oven method for baked "fried" rice produces something very similar to classic fried rice, but you don't need leftover rice to make it. Just like rice pilaf, the grains of rice get coated in fat before absorbing the cooking liquid, ensuring plump, tender, separate grains with no sticky clumps. If using a different kind of rice or pan size, just adjust the cooking time. Garnish with green onions and serve with a runny poached egg on top if desired.

1h 6m 4

Smashed Cucumber Salad

This smashed cucumber salad is one of my all-time favorite cold summer side dishes. By crushing our cucumber before we cut it, we produce flavors that un-smashed cukes can't. The only decision you're going to have to make is how long to let the cucumbers marinate — half an hour or so or not at all. Perfect with grilled meat or shrimp.

1h 18m 4

Chef John's French Fries (How to Make)

Learn how to make French fries that are super crispy with this twice-fried method. I don't think most people realize that any decent French fry needs to be fried twice. The first frying is done at a lower temperature, which softens the potato and prepares the starchy surface for the second frying's crispification.

1h 5m 4

Roasted Delicata Squash

Delicata squash is roasted in the oven until tender and flavorful in this easy recipe. You don't have to peel delicata squash. Serve warm as a side dish or at room temperature as a snack with pumpkin spice aïoli.

1h 10m 4

Chef John's Jollof Rice

This is a foolproof recipe for cooking Jollof rice, West Africa's most popular dish. I like to serve it as a side with my West African-style grilled beef (Suya), but it can also be a main course.