2,114 crema recipes

From-scratch black bean chili with oven-roasted cumin and oregano, jalapenos, and charred red pepper. Served over goat cheese with sour cream and warm tortillas.

Enchilada bean bake layers corn tortillas with mashed beans simmered in red wine and spices, cottage cheese-yogurt cream, and cheddar. A lighter vegetarian Mexican casserole.

Tuna casserole with dill cream sauce, peas, and golden biscuit topping. A cozy one-dish bake using pantry staples that comes together in under an hour.

Penne with chunky eggplant tomato sauce, garlic, red pepper flakes, and fresh parsley. A simple, hearty Italian pasta ready in 45 minutes with no cream or cheese needed.

Final assembly of a three-layer tiramisu torte with mascarpone filling, whipped cream piping, and chocolate-covered coffee beans. The Italian dessert classic reimagined as a layer cake.

Tender crepes filled with crab, mushrooms, and scallions in a white wine cream sauce, baked until heated through and broiled golden. French-inspired elegance in 45 minutes.

Silky Chinese almond pudding made with rice flour, almond powder, and sliced dates. Served warm with a melted ice cream consistency, this elegant dessert comes together in 30 minutes.

A self-saucing brownie pudding cake that creates its own hot chocolate sauce as it bakes. Cocoa batter topped with brown sugar and hot water transforms into cake on top, gooey pudding underneath. Serve warm with ice cream.

Grilled bananas cooked in their peels until caramelized and soft, split open and topped with powdered sugar, sour cream, and toasted coconut. A two-ingredient grill dessert.

Linguine with white clam sauce made from fresh littleneck clams steamed open in white wine, their briny liquor simmered with garlic and chili into a glossy, no-cream sauce. Restaurant-style linguine alle vongole.

Fresh mango halves dusted with powdered sugar sear face-down in a hot skillet until golden and caramelized for a 5-minute dessert that's elegant over ice cream.

Yogurt primavera tosses tender-crisp peas, carrots, zucchini, squash, and mushrooms in a low-fat yogurt-Parmesan sauce. A bright lighter-than-cream pasta for any weeknight.

This isn't cream of garlic soup, but it has a creamy texture. As Julia says, "Because the garlic is boiled, its after-effects are at a minimum, and its flavor becomes exquisite, aromatic and almost undefinable."

Sorbet Caribe blends frozen bananas with fresh and frozen pineapple juice and shredded coconut into a creamy tropical sorbet. No sugar added, no ice cream maker needed.

Two-ingredient coconut pie crust made with shredded coconut and butter, baked golden and crisp. A no-flour, no-rolling crust for pudding pies or ice cream.

Strawberry yogurt freeze: three ingredients, no ice cream maker. Strawberry yogurt frozen in cubes, blended with fresh strawberries and orange zest into a soft-scoop frozen treat.