Katsu Curry
A breaded cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with Japanese curry sauce — thicker, sweeter and darker than an Indian…
Sweetness in a stock, a slaw or a cake. 136 recipes on the site call for carrots.
A breaded cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with Japanese curry sauce — thicker, sweeter and darker than an Indian…
The Anchor Bar original, baked rather than fried using a baking powder trick that makes the skin crackle like it…
A proper lasagne alla Bolognese is a study in patience: a three-hour ragù, a nutmeg-scented besciamella and…
Chuck browned properly, then braised low with red wine, stock and root vegetables until the meat gives way under a…
Japan's favourite comfort food: a panko-crusted chicken cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with a thick, gently…
Julia Child put this Burgundian beef stew on every home cook's bucket list, and it earns the effort: beef braised…
Built from a whole chicken so the broth carries real body, with the noodles cooked separately so they never turn to…
Chicken and vegetables in a velvety sauce under an all-butter pastry lid that shatters when you break through it…
A bowl of rice topped with individually seasoned vegetables, marinated beef, a fried egg and gochujang, mixed…
Shredded chicken, cream cheese, ranch and hot sauce baked until bubbling. Invented in Buffalo, adopted by every…
Lamb mince in a rich gravy under a piped mash with crisp golden ridges. Made with beef it is a cottage pie; the…
A properly spiced carrot cake, moist from oil and crushed pineapple, with walnuts for bite and a tangy cream cheese…
A rib of beef roasted to a rosy centre, rested properly, and carved thick, with Yorkshire puddings risen tall in…
A dry-brined, herb-buttered turkey that comes out with crisp skin and breast meat that is actually juicy…
A crackling baguette filled with pâté, mayonnaise, cold cuts or grilled pork, pickled carrot and daikon, cucumber…
Mumbai's great street dish: a mash of vegetables cooked down on a giant griddle with a distinctive spice blend…
Red lentils cooked down with cumin and turmeric until they collapse entirely into a thick, golden soup, finished…
Soft egg noodles tossed rather than fried, coated in a glossy soy and oyster sauce with chicken and crisp…
Napa cabbage salted, coated in a chilli and fermented seafood paste, and left to ferment until it fizzes. Two days…
Minced beef in a rich gravy under a mash topping forked into ridges and browned. Cottage pie is beef; shepherd's pie…
Springy egg noodles tossed with chicken and vegetables in a savoury brown sauce, with a few noodles crisped against…
Shatteringly crisp vegetable spring rolls with a filling that stays crunchy inside the wrapper. Cooling the filling…
Beef shin braised in dark ale until it falls apart, under a lid of rough puff pastry baked until the top is…
Lamb neck, potatoes and onions simmered slowly in stock with nothing else in the pot. The potatoes on top stay…
Red lentils cooked to nothing with onion, carrot and potato, blended smooth and finished with a spoonful of chilli…
Seasoned rice and a row of cooked fillings rolled in seaweed, brushed with sesame oil and cut into coins. Korea's…
Wheat noodles fried on a griddle with cabbage, pork and a thick fruity brown sauce, finished with aonori, bonito…
Arroz rojo: rice toasted in oil until it smells nutty, then simmered in a tomato and garlic broth until every grain…
Flank steak simmered until it shreds, then stewed in a sofrito of peppers, onions, olives and cumin until the sauce…
Steamed rice and lentil cakes, sour from natural fermentation and light as a sponge, served with a tamarind-sharp…
Pasta and beans, cooked together so the pasta starch thickens the broth into something between a soup and a stew…
Cabbage and carrot in a dressing balanced between mayonnaise, vinegar and sugar. The technique that matters is…
Chewy sweet potato noodles tossed with individually stir-fried vegetables and a sesame-soy dressing. Naturally…
A deep crimson beetroot soup with a sour edge from vinegar and a sweetness from slow-cooked roots, finished with a…
Vietnamese fried spring rolls wrapped in rice paper rather than wheat wrappers, which gives a blistered, bubbly…
Tuscan bread soup: cannellini beans, cavolo nero and soffritto cooked down, thickened with stale bread and then…
Hanoi's great lunch: charred pork patties and belly slices floating in a warm sweet-sour dipping broth, with cold…
Godamba roti chopped on a hot griddle with vegetables, egg and curry, in a rhythm of metal blades that you can hear…
El Salvador's thick stuffed corn cakes, filled with cheese, beans or chicharrón and griddled until blistered, served…
A big, generous vegetable soup built on a slow soffritto and thickened by the beans themselves rather than cream…
Diced potato, carrot, egg, pickle and ham bound in mayonnaise. Known as Russian salad almost everywhere else, and…
A Provençal summer vegetable soup finished at the table with pistou — basil, garlic and olive oil pounded to a…
Wheat noodles tossed with pork, prawns, chicken and vegetables in a soy and oyster sauce broth the noodles absorb as…
Broken rice with a marinated grilled pork chop, shredded pork skin, a steamed egg meatloaf and a fried egg, all…
France's great white stew: veal poached with aromatics, the broth turned into a velouté enriched with cream and egg…
The Antioquian platter: beans, rice, chicharrón, chorizo, minced beef, a fried egg, plantain, avocado and an arepa…
A quarter loaf of white bread hollowed out and filled with Durban mutton curry, with the scooped-out bread on the…
Cross-cut veal shanks braised until the meat collapses and the marrow turns to butter, finished with a raw hit of…
Beef marinated in vinegar and wine for three days, then braised and served with a sweet-sour gravy thickened with…
Finnish salmon soup: potatoes and leek in a light stock, cream stirred in, salmon poached off the heat, and dill…
The dish the French call their national plate: beef and marrow bones simmered for hours with whole winter…
Beef and potatoes simmered in dashi, soy and mirin until the potatoes have soaked up the broth and started to fall…
Cold poached veal under a sauce of tuna, anchovy and capers blended into mayonnaise. It sounds wrong on paper and is…
Beef sirloin larded with bacon and pot-roasted on a bed of root vegetables, the whole lot blended into a thick cream…
White beans simmered with carrot, celery and tomato in a great deal of olive oil. Often called the national dish of…
Salmon and white fish poached at the last minute in a creamy soup built on fish stock, root vegetables and a splash…
Welsh lamb and root vegetable broth, traditionally eaten in two courses: the broth first, then the meat and…
The great slow-cooked bean casserole of southwest France: white beans, confit duck, sausage and pork built into…
Chicken breast cooked hard in a dry pan, sliced over rice with edamame and a lemon-tahini dressing, built to put a…
Brown lentils and toasted walnuts cooked down with soffritto, tomato and a long simmer into something with the depth…
A South African relish of onions, peppers, carrot and beans cooked hard with curry powder and chilli — served with…
Ethiopian cabbage, carrot and potato stewed gently with turmeric and ginger until everything is soft and golden —…
Salvadoran lightly fermented cabbage slaw with carrot, onion and oregano — the sharp, crunchy thing served with…
Brisket simmered for three hours until a fork slides in without resistance, with the vegetables added in the order…
A three-hour ragù with milk in it, finished with the pasta rather than ladled over it. Not the twenty-minute version…
Thick, orange and unapologetic, with half the broccoli blended into the base and half left in pieces. The cheese…
A ham hock and a bag of split peas turned into something thick enough to stand a spoon in. No stock needed: the hock…
The shells are the recipe. They are roasted, simmered into a stock, and that stock is reduced hard before any cream…
Carrots boiled just past raw, then dressed hot with cumin, garlic and lemon so they take the flavour right through…
Halloumi griddled until it squeaks and blisters, wrapped with a lemony slaw and a garlic yoghurt. Twenty minutes…
Prawns seared 90 seconds a side in a chilli and lime rub, with a crunchy cabbage slaw and a chipotle crema…
Three meats, an onion, some peppercorns and water, in a low oven for three and a half hours. There is nothing else…
Belgian mash with vegetables crushed through it rather than blended in, so it stays coarse and flecked. A side dish…
Brown lentils and mushrooms cooked down with red wine and Marmite into something dark enough to carry a mash lid…
Firm tofu pressed, crumbed in panko and baked crisp, over a proper katsu sauce built from onions cooked down for…
Cannellini beans, kale and a whole head of garlic softened into a broth thickened by mashing a ladleful of the…
Raw grated carrot dressed with a loosened tahini sauce and a lot of lemon. A five-minute salad that gets on the…
Red lentil soup finished with cumin, lemon and fried bread. The default first course at every Egyptian table in…
Vegetables cut large and roasted together in a tomato sauce until everything is soft enough to eat with a spoon…
Carrots boiled soft, crushed with harissa, garlic and caraway, and eaten cold with bread. The name means "your…
Lamb and vegetables in a red harissa broth, with the couscous steamed over the pot so it takes the vapour. The…
Hand-rolled semolina pearls the size of peppercorns, cooked in a lamb and vegetable broth. Larger than couscous…
Grated carrot in a lemon and mustard dressing with parsley. Two minutes of work, and the only variable that matters…
Green lentils dressed hot with mustard vinaigrette and shallot. Puy lentils if you can, because they hold their…
Ham set in a parsley jelly made from its own cooking stock, from Burgundy. Turned out and sliced, and the parsley…
Anchovies melted into olive oil with garlic and served warm for dipping raw vegetables into. Three ingredients and…
The Gascon soup of cabbage, beans and preserved duck, thick enough that the spoon should stand up in it. A meal, not…
Braised beef minced by hand under a potato purée and baked. The French version predates the English one and is made…
A whole chicken stuffed and poached with vegetables, the broth served first and the meat after. Henri IV wanted…
Lamb braised with the first vegetables of spring, each added at its own moment. The vegetables are the point, not a…
Beef marinated in red wine with orange peel and cooked for three and a half hours. Provence rather than Burgundy —…
Lamb shoulder cooked for seven hours until it can be served with a spoon. No knife on the table, which is the…
Monkfish in a sauce of tomato, brandy and shellfish stock. Armoricaine after Brittany, though half of France still…
Hard vegetables blanched and packed under vinegar and oil. Every Italian household has a jar and no two agree on…
The Bologna ragù, which contains almost no tomato and cooks for three hours. Served on fresh egg tagliatelle and…
Tiny filled pasta in clear capon broth, and nothing else. Emilia at Christmas, and the broth matters as much as the…
Wild boar marinated in red wine and stewed for three hours, on wide ribbons. Tuscany, and juniper is what makes it…
Naples' onion ragù, in which four kilos of onions cook down for four hours with a piece of beef until they turn…
Beef braised for three hours in a bottle of Barolo until the wine has gone almost black and the meat gives way to a…
Several cuts of meat boiled in the same broth and carved at the table with a green sauce. Piedmont and Emilia both…
Oxtail braised four hours with an absurd amount of celery, finished with pine nuts and raisins. The dish the Roman…
Tripe in tomato with mint and a heavy shower of pecorino. Saturday lunch in Rome, and the mint is not optional.
Lamb, barley and root vegetables cooked into one thick pot until a spoon stands up in it. The soup that stands in…
Pea and ham soup thick enough to be named after the fog. A ham hock, a bag of split peas and almost nothing else.
Anglo-Indian curried soup, invented in Madras for officers who wanted a soup course and were given pepper water…
Four hours of oxtail reduced to something almost black, thickened by nothing but its own gelatine. The best use of…
Lamb and onions under a lid of sliced potato that browns while everything beneath it goes to nothing. Two and a half…
Beef braised three hours with suet dumplings dropped on top for the last twenty minutes, where they steam rather…
A gammon joint boiled in cider with a white sauce full of parsley. Old-fashioned in the best way and the source of a…
Rabbit braised with bacon and cider until it falls off the bone, then baked under pastry. The most-eaten meat in…
Open-topped pork and prawn dumplings in a yellow wrapper, finished with a dot of roe. The other half of the dim sum…
Thick wheat noodles under a dark salty pork sauce and a heap of raw shredded vegetables that you mix in yourself at…
Fried rice with prawns, char siu and egg, where every grain is separate and coated in yolk. The version everything…
Egg noodles tossed with shredded vegetables over a high flame. The Indian Chinese restaurant staple, and fifteen…
Fried rice with a spoonful of red schezwan sauce through it. Nothing to do with Sichuan, everything to do with the…
Vegetables and part-cooked rice layered with saffron milk and fried onion, then sealed and steamed. The dum method…
Semolina roasted and steamed with mustard seed, curry leaf and vegetables. Ready in twenty-five minutes and the…
Pleated Himalayan dumplings of finely chopped cabbage and carrot, steamed and eaten with a fiery tomato chutney.
Flour and butter cooked slowly to a nutty brown and spiced. Make it once and the shop-bought blocks stop being…
Glass noodles tossed with egg, prawns and vegetables in a light soy dressing. Twenty-seven minutes and lighter than…
Grilled lemongrass pork over cold rice vermicelli with herbs, pickle and nuoc cham poured over. A hot and cold bowl…
Beef shin stewed with lemongrass, star anise and annatto until it falls apart, with carrots cut thick. Eaten with…
A whole chuck joint browned and cooked three and a half hours with carrots and potatoes until it falls into pieces…
Cabbage and carrot salted, drained and dressed. Fifteen minutes of work and it is the draining that makes it good.
Whatever vegetables are about, cooked long and slow with beans and a little pasta. Under an hour, and it improves…
Minced beef and pork cooked three hours in milk, wine and a little tomato. Not the red mince sauce, and worth the…
Whatever is in the fridge, cut evenly and cooked hard for four minutes in a sauce that clings. Twenty-five minutes…
Grated carrot cooked down in milk and ghee until it is dark, glossy and barely a vegetable any more. North India's…
Thin pork and vegetable spring rolls, rolled pencil-thin and fried hard. Filipino parties are counted in these.
Beef simmered gently in broth with root vegetables and served in it, with apple horseradish alongside. Vienna's.
Yellow lentil soup, smooth as cream, with a hard squeeze of lemon at the end. The first thing you are given in Egypt.
Squid scored, cut and stir-fried in gochujang with onion and courgette. Thirty-five minutes, and the squid cooks in…
Poached chicken torn into shreds with cabbage, herbs and a sharp fish sauce dressing. Forty minutes, mostly cooling.
Mixed vegetables in a dark, fiercely hot masala of roasted coconut and dried chilli from western Maharashtra.
Cooked rice fried on a griddle with pav bhaji masala and vegetables. Twenty minutes and unmistakably Bombay.
Thin beef rolled around bacon, onion and pickle, browned and braised two hours into its own gravy.