37 Leek Recipes That Will Change Your Onion Outlook
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37 Leek Recipes That Will Change Your Onion Outlook

What happens when you taste these sweet leek-packed pastas, tarts, and soups? You melt.

绿色和白色嫩韭菜可以提升或香水e any dish that calls for onions, chives, shallots, or even garlic, but these leek recipes really help the allium shine. While there's nothing wrong with a basic white onion, leeks offer a delicate, subtly earthy flavor and freshness to whatever you're cooking, whether you're looking to fry, sauté, roast, poach, boil, or even burn them. Leeks can stand alone and absorb all the attention—think leek soup, cheesy leeks, roasted leeks, and mor). But know this: Before you start cooking, make sure your leeks are carefully cleaned and rinsed of grit. (A salad spinner can be handy for drying them off.) Read on for all the leek recipe inspiration you need.

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    Steamed Winter Veggie Bowls

    Steamingvegetables isn't the flashiest cooking technique, but it truly letsveggies become their best selves. Here, they get a little help from sherry vinegar, honey, and cayenne. File this dish under the best leek recipes to try whenever you get your hands on some nice ones at the market.

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    Braised Leeks, Peas, and Lettuce

    Braising may sound like a winter move, but this delicatespring braisewill bring something fresh and nuanced to your table. Have a salad another time, and cook your lettuce with leeks tonight.

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    Spring Greens and Leek Gratin

    The contents of this cast iron skillet demonstrate the best way to eat your greens: with creamy, cheesy leeks, of course!

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    Glazed Leeks With Pine Nut Salsa Verde

    This is a great side dish to help you get to know leeks more intimately. They're brought to life with a nutty, herby salsa verde and spiked with a little honey-sweetened sherry vinegar.

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    Leek and Potato Galette With Pistachio Crust

    Few things go together as well as humble leeks, potatoes, and goat cheese. But the ground pistachios in the crust make this galette truly luxe.

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    Leeks in Vinaigrette with Walnuts and Tarragon

    If you want to show off that you know your way around a leek, make this riff on a classic leeks in vinaigrette. Cooking the leeks in boiling salted water, like pasta, gets you where you want to go: to melty leek town.

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    Spring Pea Fish Chowder

    What makes this fish chowder sing is its leek backbone. Every bowl is fragrant with sweet alliums, and the broth is infused with their subtle flavor.

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    Charred Leeks With Honey and Vinegar

    Sometimes you want toburn your dinneron purpose. Alliums (plants in the onion family, such as leeks) are among the group of ingredients that really benefit from a good char on a grill. Their exteriors become potato chip-like, while their interiors become almost creamy.

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    Chicken and Rice With Leeks and Salsa Verde

    This one-skillet meal shows what leeks can do for chicken and rice, but it's the deeply savory anchovy-garlic-caper salsa, and the hit of lemon juice before serving that boosts this dish toward lift-off.

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    Leek-Top Baking-Sheet Hash

    This recipe highlights one of the most under-utilized greens: leek tops. If you're trying to get more bang for your buck andcut down on wastein the kitchen, keep this one in your back pocket.

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    Crispy Potato-Leek Kugel

    If you think about it, kugel is basically a giant tater tot. With the addition of leeks, this one really gives you a reason to celebrate.

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    Bubble and Squeak With Stilton

    Leeks add sweetness and flavor to the Stilton-spiked mix of leftover cooked potatoes, leftover cooked carrots, and leftover cooked brussels sprouts.

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    Creamy Potato and Leek Gratin

    Cutting leeks into large pieces gives them a presence equal to disks of potato, while cooking the vegetables separately before combining—the leeks are braised in butter, the spuds are simmered in milk and cream—preserves their distinct flavors.

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  • Ture Lillegraven
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    Halibut Confit With Leeks, Coriander, and Lemon

    Just when you thought you'd done everything with leeks, this recipe has you making a leek-infused oil.

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    Vegetable Stock

    This all-purpose, all-season stock recipe is a go-to for any vegetarian dish, so make a big batch and freeze it for later. You don't need to peel any of the vegetables; just wash them carefully.

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  • Christopher Baker
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    Olive Oil-Roasted Leeks

    How good are leeks? So good you only need olive oil to do them justice. This is the definitive dish among leek recipes and an easy add-on to your repertoire.

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