Mason Jar Pantry Meals Around the World

Every cuisine on earth already solved this problem.How do you eat well in February? Dry it, store it, add water later. The answers look different - a jar of dal, a sack of bulgur, a string of chillies, a block of dried bonito - but they are the same answer, and they mean the world's food was built for a shelf.Dal was a pantry meal three thousand years before anyone owned a fridge.55 complete meals from twenty countries, layered dry into jars.- South and Southeast Asia - dal tadka with a sizzling tempering, chana masala, khichdi, Sri Lankan coconut dal, Thai red curry noodles, tom yum, a pho spice bundle, massaman.- The Middle East and North Africa - Moroccan harira, Egyptian koshari, Lebanese mujadara, Persian adas polo with dried lime, Turkish red lentil soup, freekeh pilaf, Tunisian lablabi.- East Asia - miso ramen, shoyu ramen, Japanese curry rice, ochazuke, doenjang jjigae, hot and sour soup, congee, dan dan noodles.- The Mediterranean and Eastern Europe - Greek fasolada and fakes, avgolemono, Spanish lentejas, pasta e ceci, Tuscan farro soup, caldo verde, Hungarian goulash soup, grochówka, kasha.- Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America - Ethiopian misir wot and shiro wot, West African groundnut stew, jollof, waakye, Jamaican rice and peas, arroz con gandules, feijoada.Fourteen pages before the first recipe- Spice blends to make yourself - berbere, baharat, ras el hanout, garam masala, za'atar, hawaij and shichimi, with real proportions. A jar of each turns plain lentils and rice into food from five continents, at a fraction of supermarket prices.- Umami without a fridge - dashi, miso powder, doenjang, dried shiitake, soy powder and tomato powder, and the one rule that governs all of them.- A timing table for 21 grains, pulses and noodles, because most failures are…