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Updated May 09, 2017
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From grilled oysters with spicy tarragon butter to eggplant and goat-cheese sandwiches with tomato tarragon, here are some amazing tarragon recipes.
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Spaghetti Squash Salad with Pine Nuts and Tarragon

Spaghetti Squash Salad with Pine Nuts and Tarragon
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Spaghetti squash, which separates into spaghetti-like strands when cooked, is an excellent base for this easy salad. The recipe would also be good with roasted cubes of butternut squash.

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Poached Red Snapper with Papaya and Mango Sauce Vierge

Poached Red Snapper with Papaya and Mango Sauce Vierge
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"Brazilians eat rich and heavy," Eric Ripert says. "I wanted something light and healthy." His idea was to poach a local fish and top it with a tropical version of what he calls sauce vierge, replacing the pickles, capers and tomatoes he would typically use with papaya, mango and ginger.

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Spinach, Feta, and Tarragon Frittata

Spinach, Feta, and Tarragon Frittata
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The combination of flavors here is pure genius. Tarragon is classic with both spinach and eggs, and a touch of sharp feta cheese accents the trio beautifully. Use these same ingredients to make superb omelets.

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Fettuccine with Mushrooms, Tarragon, and Goat-Cheese Sauce

Fettuccine with Mushrooms, Tarragon, and Goat-Cheese Sauce
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The delectably rich-tasting sauce that clings to each strand of fettuccine here requires no cooking. Just combine goat cheese, Parmesan, milk, and some of the still-hot pasta-cooking water, and it's done.

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Blue-Cheese Tarragon Dressing

Blue-Cheese Tarragon Dressing
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Blue cheese dressing doesn't have to be the gunk served with chicken wings at dive bars. Melissa Rubel Jacobson makes her splendid, refined version with red wine vinegar and plenty of fresh tarragon.

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Tagliatelle with Mussels and Tarragon

Tagliatelle with Mussels and Tarragon
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This simple, strikingly black-and-white seafood pasta gets a double hit of anise flavor from Pernod and fresh tarragon.

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Tarragon Lemonade

Tarragon Lemonade
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Gabriel Frasca and Amanda Lydon offer infused lemonades on the lunch menu at Straight Wharf. Frasca prefers his lemonade at "face-puckering levels"—hold back on the sugar. But this version has a gentle sweetness, like a tarragon-zapped lemon drop. Give it a try with other summer herbs, too, like fresh mint.

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Grilled Oysters with Spicy Tarragon Butter

Grilled Oysters with Spicy Tarragon Butter
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Bubba Hiers, brother of TV cook Paula Deen, serves fantastic grilled Gulf Coast oysters smothered in butter and Parmesan cheese at Uncle Bubba's Seafood and Oyster House in Savannah. Bobby Flay modifies the recipe by topping his oysters with a blend of butter, tarragon and hot sauce, then returning them to the grill so the butter melts into little pools in the shells.

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Green Bean-and-Tomato Salad with Tarragon Dressing

Green Bean-and-Tomato Salad with Tarragon Dressing
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This supersimple bean-and-tomato salad, tossed with a tarragon-flavored dressing, is perfect for summertime picnics, like the kind Paul Virant's mother would prepare when he was a child. "She would make tomato salad, potato salad and fried chicken the night before, so we'd have everything ready the next day," he says.

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Roasted Lobsters with Verjus and Tarragon

Roasted Lobsters with Verjus and Tarragon
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Verjus, a cooking liquid pressed from unripe grapes, is a staple of classic French cooking; chefs love it today for its pleasant tang, which is much milder than vinegar. David Page uses verjus two ways here: to help baste the lobster as it roasts and to brighten a jalapeño-and-tarragon-inflected vinaigrette served over the sweet meat.

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Eggplant and Goat-Cheese "Sandwiches" with Tomato Tarragon Sauce

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Golden eggplant slices sandwich tangy, melting cheese, all set off by a fast tomato sauce flavored with the unusually complementary tarragon.

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    1 of 11 Spaghetti Squash Salad with Pine Nuts and Tarragon
    2 of 11 Poached Red Snapper with Papaya and Mango Sauce Vierge
    3 of 11 Spinach, Feta, and Tarragon Frittata
    4 of 11 Fettuccine with Mushrooms, Tarragon, and Goat-Cheese Sauce
    5 of 11 Blue-Cheese Tarragon Dressing
    6 of 11 Tagliatelle with Mussels and Tarragon
    7 of 11 Tarragon Lemonade
    8 of 11 Grilled Oysters with Spicy Tarragon Butter
    9 of 11 Green Bean-and-Tomato Salad with Tarragon Dressing
    10 of 11 Roasted Lobsters with Verjus and Tarragon
    11 of 11 Eggplant and Goat-Cheese "Sandwiches" with Tomato Tarragon Sauce

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