There are two ways to get tender squid: a very quick sauté or a very long simmer. This simple yet impressive recipe uses the former method. We call for a Thai or serrano chile because they're easier to find...

Barbecue expert Steven Raichlen shares his recipe for a whole roasted pig with fragrant Balinese spices, including lemongrass, ginger, galangal, turmeric, and hot chiles.

This spicy sweet-and-sour grilled chicken is the best we've had to date. It's got enough heat to titillate your taste buds, but not so much that kids will steer clear.

This starchy side dish gets a kick of heat from cayenne pepper, fresh chiles, and hot red pepper flakes.

Chili is often flavored with dried Mexican chiles, but this chili recipe requires no special ingredients beyond chipotle chiles in adobo, which are available at most supermarkets these days. They add a nice...

On their own, roasted mushrooms are golden, buttery, and delicious, but we’ve gone a step further and jazzed them up by showering them with a blanket of crunchy, chile-flecked breadcrumbs....

This quintessential Kerala vegetable curry marries many of the best ingredients of the region: coconut, curry leaves, green chiles, and a host of tropical vegetables. All the vegetables are cut into batons...

No offense to salsa, but come on, who doesn’t love a gooey, cheesy bean dip, bubbling hot like lava from the broiler?

I grew up on green beans thoren, and while I’ll never tire of its crunchy deliciousness, I think adding corn makes it even better. And even though people don’t often associate stir-fries with Indian cooking, this dish is a favorite in Kerala. It’s a combination of diced vegetables and coconut, but the key is moistening the coconut so it can soak up the ground spices first. This recipe is part of our menu for Sadhya, a South Indian feast....

Pachadis are lightly cooked South Indian salads, often involving yogurt. This was my grandmother’s recipe, and it remains a feature of my core repertoire because it’s so simple and unusual at...