Dairy Free

Pro tip: Viva brand paper towels are used at Rintaro specifically for insulating the cod from its salty cure and will absorb moisture without falling apart.

This genius method encases several thin slices of pork in an especially crunchy coating. The meat stays super juicy during the quick frying time.

This entire Italian-inspired dinner is cooked on two baking sheets, making clean-up a breeze.

"Oven-fried" fish fingers, coated in panko and pumpkin seeds, are the perfect taco filling.

This popular dish can be found on the menu at virtually every Korean restaurant in Manhattan. The beef is topped with various accompaniments such as a few raw garlic slices, kimchi (assorted spicy pickles), and steamed white rice, then wrapped in lettuce and eaten with your hands.

When lacquered with a rich, complex sauce and roasted, chicken becomes a delicious crowd-pleaser. There's enough chipotle here to make your lips hum, but not so much as to overshadow the balancing act created by the other ingredients—toasty garlic, onions, and ketchup, plus a kiss of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Buying slab bacon rather than sliced allows you to cut it into the perfect size and shape.

Puffed and pulverized wild rice is the new breadcrumb, coating any meaty white fish you like in a nutty, crispy exterior.

In this classic dish, native to the Yucatàn peninsula, warm corn tortillas are dunked into a pumpkin seed salsa, rolled up with crumbled hard-boiled eggs, and topped with a duo of sauces: more pumpkin seed and tomato salsa to boot.

Brining these fries in a salt-and-cabbage solution seasons them and, as they start to lightly ferment, infuses them with a slight tang. Think salt-and-vinegar chips and you get the right idea.

Dried fruit is the secret to moist low-fat baked goods. These cupcakes have such a rich, chocolaty flavor, you would never know there were dates in the batter if you hadn't baked them yourself.

Make this super luscious hummus and you'll never go back to store-bought.

This spicy and sweet powerhouse seasoning blend packs layers of flavor onto grilled flank steak.

You might think the braised pork belly is too sweet on its own. But paired with the sour kimchi and salty roe, it comes into eye-opening balance.

Watching frozen bananas and peanut butter blend into ice cream seems like magic; pull out this trick at your next dinner party. Adding grape jelly makes it irresistible to kids and adults.