Afghan

Enjoy these delicious Afghan aushak (leek dumplings) with a vegan tomato meat sauce and garlic yogurt sauce. They’re traditionally served as an entree, but make a great appetizer as well! Aushak (also commonly transliterated as ashak) are Afghan dumplings filled with an oniony mixture. They’re kind of like ravioli, if your ravioli was filled with …

This Afghan kidney bean curry, known as lubya/lubia/lobia depending on how the language is transliterated, is one of my favorite meals. I first had the dish at a local Afghan restaurant and can’t get enough of it! Imagine buttery soft kidney beans simmered in a curry base bursting with the rich flavors of coriander and …

So, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of tikka, and it’s likely you know what a kebab is, but you should probably stop everything right now and make these Afghan cauliflower and tofu tikka kebab skewers!

I’m sharing another Afghan recipe today, for delicious stuffed bread. Bolani is an Afghan stuffed flatbread, not too different from the Indian stuffed parathas I grew up with. Except that parathas have layers of fat worked into the dough, and while you can stuff the breads whatever veggie or lentil filling you desire, the most …

Every good cook needs an arsenal of sauce recipes to take their dishes to that next level in terms of flavor. Every culture has their own versions, from mole and salsa in Mexico, to Europe’s mustard and America’s ketchup. There’s Korean gochujang and Chinese hoisin. Greek tzatziki, Japanese ponzu, and seemingly endless versions of hot sauce …