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This week’s menus include Grilled Pork Kebabs, Crispy Salt and Pepper Shrimp, and Meatless "Meat" Sauce for dinner in about an hour.
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Grilled Pork Kebabs with Barbecue Glaze starts with 1-inch chunks of pork tenderloin that we salt briefly to help retain moisture. We then add cornstarch to a barbecue glaze to help it cling to the meat. Grilling the kebabs briefly over a hot fire creates flavorful char and keeps the meat juicy. We toss the cabbage for our Sweet and Tangy Coleslaw with salt and sugar before microwaving it for one minute. In seconds, the cabbage sheds the same amount of liquid that it would release in 3 hours at room temperature. Cooling down the cabbage is easy: We simply chill the dressing in the freezer and then refrigerate the finished slaw before serving.
Printable Shopping Lists: Grilled Pork Kebabs and Sweet and Tangy Coleslaw
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Crispy Salt and Pepper Shrimp features crunchy fried shell-on shrimp with a spicy, sweet, and savory coating. To keep the shrimp shells crispy and crunchy rather than tough, we use relatively small shrimp (31 to 40 per pound), which have thinner shells than large shrimp, and cook them in small batches in very hot oil. For our Chinese Restaurant-Style Rice, we first rinse the grains to remove some of their surface starch. We then start cooking the rice in boiling water, which provides enough agitation to release the remaining starch, resulting in just the right amount of stickiness.
Printable Shopping Lists: Crispy Salt and Pepper Shrimp and Restaurant-Style Rice
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Meatless “Meat” Sauce with Chickpeas and Mushrooms is a savory, unctuous tomato-meat sauce—without the meat. Cremini mushrooms and tomato paste provide savoriness. Chopped chickpeas add bulk and a meatlike texture. Extra-virgin olive oil, plus classic Italian aromatics—garlic, dried oregano, and red pepper flakes—round out the flavors. Our Green Leaf and Radicchio Salad with Grapefruit and Fennel combines soft, mineral-y green leaf lettuce with bitter, crunchy radicchio. Sweet, peppery grapefruit and grassy fennel both balance the bitterness of the radicchio and add brightness.
Printable Shopping Lists: Meatless “Meat” Sauce and Green Leaf and Radicchio Salad
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