Ingredients Grains Rye Rye Recipes By Food & Wine Editors Updated on March 14, 2018 Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos Photo: John Kernick You're most likely to find rye in either bread or whiskey. Rye gives pumpernickel its distinctive brown color and slightly tangy flavor. At home, the rye-related ingredients you might cook with will probably be rye flour or berries. Here, our best recipes featuring rye. 01 of 14 Blueberry Pie with Rye Crust © Con Poulos This sensational blueberry pie has small circles cut out of the rye crust, which not only looks dramatic but also allows moisture to evaporate from the fruit filling as it cooks, deepening the flavor. Go to Recipe 02 of 14 Layman's Rye Bread Baker Peter Endriss makes his rye with a wild yeast starter that gives the bread a wonderfully tangy and complex flavor and aroma. For home cooks, he suggests using cornichon or pickle juice instead. The idea was inspired by a recipe for Cucumber Pickle Juice Rye Loaf from Dan Lepard, author of The Handmade Loaf. Go to Recipe 03 of 14 Rye Crisps with Tomatoes and Sardines CON POULOS This recipe from Food & Wine's Justin Chapple makes the most of canned sardines. Chapple prepares a bright herb mayo to spread on rye crisps, then tops them with a cherry tomato salad and good-quality sardines. The juices from the tomatoes soften the rye crisps ever so slightly. Go to Recipe 04 of 14 Kale Caesar with Rye Croutons and Farro This reimagined Caesar salad substitutes kale for romaine, rye bread for the croutons and tofu for raw egg in the garlicky dressing. Go to Recipe 05 of 14 Scandinavian Rye Bread Master baker Lionel Vatinet makes this dense, super-flavorful bread with locally milled rye flour. Go to Recipe 06 of 14 Creamy Reuben Chowder with Rye Croutons This tangy chowder is like a Reuben sandwich on a spoon, with smoky sausage, sauerkraut and rye croutons. Go to Recipe 07 of 14 Cucumber-Rye Tea Sandwiches Little slices of party rye are a Southern favorite for tea sandwiches: "You don't see regular rye down here every day," Martha Hall Foose says. If party rye isn't available, use a cookie cutter to create rounds from regular bread slices. Go to Recipe 08 of 14 Pickled Fried Fish with Danish Rye Bread and Crème Fraîche Scandinavians brought the technique of pickling delicately fried seafood (a form of escabeche) to Minnesota and swapped the Midwest's freshwater catch for North Sea herring. Seasoning the fish with vinegar, sugar and spices adds great flavor and firms up the texture; it's an overnight process, so plan ahead. Go to Recipe 09 of 14 Rye Berry Bread Thinly sliced, toasted or not, this dense, hearty whole-grain bread is wonderful topped with smoked salmon, sour cream and chopped onions, or with bitter orange marmalade. Allow time for the sponge to sit overnight. Go to Recipe 10 of 14 Apple Rye Turnovers with Celery Seeds Jerry Traunfeld has been experimenting with rye flour for years; he loves the way it gives dough flavor and body. As these pastries illustrate, he has also been exploring ways to use celery seed in desserts. "It really complements the apple and rye," he says. Go to Recipe 11 of 14 Banana-Rye Muffins These muffins are extremely tender, mildly earthy from the rye flour, and are intensely perfumed with banana. Light or dark rye will work in this recipe; the dark type will impart a deeper and nuttier flavor. Go to Recipe 12 of 14 Caramelized-Apple Custard Tart with a Rye Crust © John Kernick This tart features silky-smooth, rich custard and caramelized apples in a tender, earthy rye-flour pastry crust. Go to Recipe 13 of 14 Raisin Rye Bread Lionel Vatinet developed this hearty bread--a good source of fiber--to satisfy his Eastern European customers. Go to Recipe 14 of 14 Rye and Crème Fraîche Strata with Smoked Salmon John Kernick In this playful riff on a bagel with cream cheese and lox, Food & Wine's Justin Chapple makes a custardy rye bread pudding with capers, then tops it with smoked salmon and red onion. It's warm, comforting and a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. Go to Recipe Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit