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Chicken Tikka Masala
Charred yogurt-marinated chicken folded into a silky, gently spiced tomato-cream sauce — the most ordered curry in…
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Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)
Delhi's murgh makhani: tandoori chicken finished in a sauce of tomatoes, butter and cream, balanced with a whisper…
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Pad Thai
The real thing is sour, salty and only lightly sweet — a world away from the ketchup-orange version. Tamarind, palm…
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Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani
Hyderabadi dum biryani, where marinated chicken and part-cooked rice are layered raw and sealed to steam in their…
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Birria Tacos
Jalisco's chilli-braised beef, shredded into tortillas that have been dipped in the scarlet fat from the braise…
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Authentic Guacamole
The Mexican original is made in a molcajete and contains no garlic, no cumin and no soured cream — just avocado…
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Hyderabadi Biryani
Marinated raw lamb layered under half-cooked rice and sealed with dough, so the meat and rice cook together in…
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Carolina Pulled Pork
Pork shoulder rubbed and cooked low for six hours until it pulls apart in strands, dressed the Carolina way with a…
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Tacos al Pastor
Chilli-and-achiote-marinated pork, shaved off a vertical spit and served with pineapple, onion and coriander. This…
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Orange Chicken
The most ordered dish in American Chinese restaurants: craggy fried chicken tossed in a bright, sticky sauce built…
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Dal Makhani
Black urad lentils and kidney beans simmered overnight, then finished with butter and cream until the dal is almost…
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Phở Bò (Beef Noodle Soup)
A clear, aromatic broth simmered for four hours with charred ginger and onion and a bundle of toasted spices, poured…
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Jollof Rice
Rice cooked in a reduced pepper and tomato base until the grains are stained deep orange and a smoky crust forms at…
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Steamed Pork Dumplings
Juicy jiaozi with a hand-rolled wrapper thick at the centre and thin at the edge — the shape that stops the base…
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Dinner
Kung Pao Chicken
Sichuan's most travelled dish, done properly: velveted chicken, blistered dried chillies, the numbing buzz of…
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Thai Green Curry
Cracking the coconut cream until the oil separates, then frying the paste in it, is the step that turns a flat curry…
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Chicken Enchiladas Rojas
Corn tortillas rolled around shredded chicken, blanketed in a red chilli sauce made from whole dried chillies rather…
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Breakfast
Ultimate Avocado Toast
Good bread, properly toasted, with avocado seasoned far more aggressively than instinct suggests. The difference…
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Punjabi Samosas
Properly made samosas have a blistered, flaky shell that stays crisp for hours — the result of a stiff dough…
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Dinner
Miso Ramen
Sapporo-style ramen: a miso tare whisked into rich pork or chicken broth, stir-fried pork and vegetables piled on…
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Quick Meals
Spaghetti Aglio e Olio
Four ingredients, twelve minutes, and one of the great late-night dishes of the world. The whole thing turns on how…
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Lunch
Crispy Falafel
Made only from soaked dried chickpeas — never tinned, never cooked — so the outside shatters and the inside stays…
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Loaded Nachos
The real thing, not a pile of chips with sauce poured over: every chip laid out individually, each one bearing its…
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Paneer Tikka
Cubes of paneer marinated in spiced yoghurt, threaded with peppers and onion, and charred hard under a grill until…
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Chicken Satay
Chicken marinated in turmeric and lemongrass, threaded onto skewers, grilled over charcoal, and served with a peanut…
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Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup
Taiwanese braised beef noodle soup: shin and tendon cooked for hours in a broth built on soy, doubanjiang and…
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General Tso's Chicken
The Chinese-American classic: crackling battered chicken in a sticky, tangy, faintly sweet sauce with a lick of…
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Lamb Rogan Josh
Kashmiri lamb braised in a yoghurt gravy stained deep red by Kashmiri chilli, scented with fennel and dried ginger…
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Beef Rendang
Beef simmered in coconut milk and spice paste for four hours until the liquid has gone entirely and the meat fries…
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Palak Paneer
Cubes of golden-fried paneer suspended in a vividly green spinach gravy. The trick to that colour is blanching and…
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Breakfast
Nasi Lemak
Rice steamed in coconut milk with pandan, served with sambal, fried anchovies and peanuts, cucumber and a boiled or…
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Breakfast
Chilaquiles Verdes
Fried tortilla chips simmered briefly in salsa verde until they soften at the edges but keep a bite at the centre…
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Thai Red Curry
Chicken and vegetables in a coconut curry built by cracking the cream, frying the paste in the separated oil, and…
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Chimichurri Steak
Thick steak grilled over fire and served under a green sauce of parsley, oregano, garlic and vinegar. Argentina's…
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Enchiladas Verdes
Corn tortillas dipped in a charred tomatillo salsa, rolled around shredded chicken and baked under more salsa, crema…
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Lunch
Pulled Pork Sandwiches
Pork shoulder rubbed, slow-roasted for seven hours until it shreds under a fork, tossed in a vinegar sauce and piled…
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Breakfast
Aloo Paratha
Wholewheat flatbread stuffed with spiced mashed potato and griddled in ghee until blistered. The Punjabi breakfast…
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Ahi Poke Bowl
Cubed raw tuna dressed in soy, sesame and sweet onion over rice. Hawaiian in origin and Japanese in influence, and…
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Pork Gyoza
Pan-fried pork dumplings with a lacy crisp base and a juicy, cabbage-sweet filling. The steam-fry technique gives…
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Dinner
Tandoori Chicken
A double marinade — first in lemon and salt, then in spiced yogurt — gets flavour deep into the meat before it hits…
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Pad Kra Pao (Thai Basil Chicken)
Thailand's most-eaten dish: minced pork fried hard with garlic and chillies, tossed with holy basil, and served over…
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Bánh Mì
A crackling baguette filled with pâté, mayonnaise, cold cuts or grilled pork, pickled carrot and daikon, cucumber…
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Jamaican Jerk Chicken
Chicken marinated overnight in scotch bonnet, allspice and thyme, then cooked slowly over indirect heat until the…
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Pav Bhaji
Mumbai's great street dish: a mash of vegetables cooked down on a giant griddle with a distinctive spice blend…
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Piri Piri Chicken
Spatchcocked chicken marinated in a fiery bird's eye chilli, garlic and vinegar sauce, grilled hard and basted…
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Nasi Goreng
Indonesian fried rice built on kecap manis and terasi, topped with a fried egg and prawn crackers. Every household…
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Spiced Red Lentil Soup
Red lentils cooked down with cumin and turmeric until they collapse entirely into a thick, golden soup, finished…
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Pasta Puttanesca
Tomatoes, anchovies, olives, capers and chilli — a sauce built entirely from the store cupboard in the time the…
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Napa Cabbage Kimchi
Napa cabbage salted, coated in a chilli and fermented seafood paste, and left to ferment until it fizzes. Two days…
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Dinner
Hainanese Chicken Rice
A whole chicken poached gently and plunged into ice, with rice cooked in the poaching stock and rendered chicken…
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Breakfast
Breakfast Hash
Potatoes fried until properly crusted, then peppers, onions and whatever else is in the fridge, with eggs cracked in…
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Baking
Skillet Cornbread
Batter poured into a screaming hot skillet of bacon fat, which sets a crust the instant it hits. The Southern style…
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Scallion Pancakes
Layered flatbreads made from a hot-water dough, rolled with oil and spring onion, coiled and flattened so they fry…
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Tom Yum Goong
The hot-and-sour prawn soup that defines Thai cooking: lemongrass, galangal and lime leaf simmered into a broth…
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Gỏi Cuốn (Fresh Spring Rolls)
Rice paper rolls packed with prawns, pork, herbs and vermicelli, served cold with peanut dipping sauce. Nothing is…
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Lunch
Turkish Lentil Soup
Red lentils cooked to nothing with onion, carrot and potato, blended smooth and finished with a spoonful of chilli…
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Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken
Marinated chicken chunks coated in sweet potato starch, fried twice, and tossed with salt, white pepper and fried…
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Beef Empanadas
Argentinian empanadas with a juicy, gently spiced beef filling, olives and egg, baked in a short pastry that stays…
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Dinner
Curry Laksa
Curry laksa: a coconut and spice paste soup with two kinds of noodle, prawns, tofu puffs and cockles, finished with…
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Chana Masala
A punchy North Indian chickpea curry, sour with amchur and tamarind and darkened by a long-fried onion base…
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Mexican Red Rice
Arroz rojo: rice toasted in oil until it smells nutty, then simmered in a tomato and garlic broth until every grain…
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Mapo Tofu
Silken tofu in a fierce, oily red sauce of fermented broad bean paste, minced pork and Sichuan peppercorn. Fifteen…
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Chole Bhature
Punjab's great weekend breakfast: dark, tangy chickpeas served with balloon-like fried bread. The chana is blackened…
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Dinner
Galbi (Korean Short Ribs)
Beef short ribs butterflied thin, marinated in soy, pear and sesame, and grilled over fire until the sugars char…
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Seekh Kebab
Spiced minced lamb moulded onto skewers and cooked over coals, kept juicy by fat, papaya paste and a rest in the…
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Dinner
Beef Barbacoa
Beef cheek or chuck braised for hours with dried chillies, cloves and bay until it shreds under a fork, in juices…
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Tteokbokki
Chewy rice cakes simmered in a sweet-hot gochujang sauce until it clings. Korea's favourite street snack, and it…
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Peruvian Ceviche
Firm white fish cured for ten minutes in lime juice with chilli, red onion and coriander, served immediately with…
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Dal Tadka
Yellow lentils simmered soft, then finished with a tadka — whole spices bloomed in ghee and poured over at the last…
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Pad See Ew
Wide rice noodles charred in a screaming wok with dark soy, egg and Chinese broccoli. The dish is defined by wok…
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Elote — Mexican Street Corn
Charred corn slathered in crema and mayonnaise, rolled in salty cotija and dusted with chilli and lime. It is the…
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Dinner
Red-Braised Pork Belly
Red-braised pork belly: cubes of belly caramelised in melted rock sugar, then braised in soy and Shaoxing wine until…
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Khao Soi
Northern Thailand's coconut curry noodle soup, with soft egg noodles beneath and a nest of crisp fried ones on top…
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Sundubu Jjigae
Silken tofu stew, arriving at the table in a stone pot still boiling violently, with a raw egg cracked in at the…
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Jamaican Curry Goat
Goat browned and stewed for hours with Jamaican curry powder, thyme and scotch bonnet until it falls off the bone…
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Dinner
Cioppino
San Francisco's Italian-American fishermen's stew — crab, clams, mussels, prawns and firm fish in a tomato and wine…
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Jamón Croquetas
A very thick béchamel studded with jamón, chilled overnight, rolled, crumbed and fried so the outside is crisp and…
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Dinner
Rice and Peas
Rice cooked in coconut milk with kidney beans, thyme, spring onion and a whole scotch bonnet left in and lifted out…
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Breakfast
Idli Sambar
Steamed rice and lentil cakes, sour from natural fermentation and light as a sponge, served with a tamarind-sharp…
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Lunch
Vada Pav
A spiced potato fritter in a soft bun with three chutneys and fried green chillies. Mumbai's street sandwich, sold…
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Misal Pav
Sprouted moth beans in a thin, fiery gravy, topped with farsan, raw onion and coriander, with a slick of red rassa…
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Breakfast
Masala Dosa
A paper-thin, tangy fermented crêpe wrapped around spiced potato, with coconut chutney and sambar alongside. South…
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Gambas al Ajillo
Prawns sizzled in olive oil with a great deal of garlic and dried chilli, served bubbling in the same dish with…
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Healthy
Tom Kha Gai
The gentler sibling of tom yum: coconut milk smooths the sourness into something creamy and fragrant, with chicken…
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Quick Meals
Penne all'Arrabbiata
Angry pasta, and rightly so: garlic bloomed slowly in olive oil, dried chilli, and tomatoes cooked hard enough to…
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Nihari
Beef shank stewed overnight in a spice-heavy gravy thickened with wheat flour, finished with ginger, chilli and…
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Sinigang na Baboy
Pork belly and vegetables in a broth soured with tamarind, sharp enough to make you sit up, eaten with rice and a…
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Dinner
Dan Dan Noodles
Chengdu street noodles: a pool of chilli oil, sesame paste and black vinegar at the bottom of the bowl, topped with…
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Beef Suya
Thin beef skewers coated in yaji, a spice mix built on ground peanuts, chilli and ginger, grilled over coals and…
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Dinner
Malai Kofta
Paneer and potato dumplings, deep fried until golden, resting in a rich cashew and tomato gravy. The centrepiece of…
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Queso Fundido
Melted cheese in a hot skillet with chorizo and roasted chillies, brought to the table still bubbling and scooped…
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Lunch
Jamaican Beef Patty
A flaky turmeric-yellow pastry folded around spiced beef filling, crimped and baked until the edges are crisp and…
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Quick Meals
Cheese Quesadillas
A properly made quesadilla is about the cheese pull and the crisp, blistered tortilla — nothing more. Ten minutes…
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Appetizers
Salt and Pepper Squid
Squid in a light cornflour crust, flash fried and tossed with chilli, garlic and toasted salt and pepper. A…
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Pan con Tomate
Toasted bread rubbed with a cut tomato and garlic, dressed with olive oil and salt. Four ingredients, and the…
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Dinner
Char Kway Teow
Flat rice noodles fried at ferocious heat with prawns, Chinese sausage, cockles, egg and chives. Judged entirely on…
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Lunch
Hot and Sour Soup
Sharp with black vinegar, hot with white pepper rather than chilli, and thickened to that distinctive silky body…
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Dinner
Moqueca Baiana
Bahian fish stew of coconut milk, tomato, peppers and coriander, cooked in a clay pot and finished with dendê palm…
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Breakfast
Huevos Rancheros
Fried eggs on crisped tortillas under a warm, smoky ranchero sauce, with black beans and avocado. The Mexican…
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Rajma Masala
Kidney beans simmered in a thick onion-tomato masala until the gravy is dark and the beans give under a spoon…
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Labneh with Za'atar
Yoghurt strained through cloth for a day until it is thick enough to hold a spoon upright, spread on a plate, pooled…
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Larb Gai
Minced chicken tossed with toasted rice powder, lime, fish sauce and a great deal of mint and shallot. Isaan…
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Dinner
Egusi Soup
Ground melon seeds cooked in palm oil with leafy greens, meat and stockfish until they set into rich, savoury curds…
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Aloo Gobi
A dry curry of potato and cauliflower, roasted rather than stewed so the edges caramelise and the florets stay…
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Lunch
Ribollita
Tuscan bread soup: cannellini beans, cavolo nero and soffritto cooked down, thickened with stale bread and then…
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Dinner
Bún Chả
Hanoi's great lunch: charred pork patties and belly slices floating in a warm sweet-sour dipping broth, with cold…
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Dinner
Xinjiang Cumin Lamb
Xinjiang's signature: lamb seared hard in a smoking wok with whole cumin seed, chilli flakes and nothing much else…
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Dinner
Khinkali
Large pleated Georgian dumplings with a soupy meat filling, held by the twisted knot and eaten in one go, with the…
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Dinner
Kottu Roti
Godamba roti chopped on a hot griddle with vegetables, egg and curry, in a rhythm of metal blades that you can hear…
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Dinner
Lechon Kawali
Pork belly simmered until tender, dried overnight in the fridge and then deep fried so the skin blisters into…
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Healthy
Som Tam (Green Papaya Salad)
Green papaya pounded with garlic, chilli, lime, palm sugar and fish sauce in a clay mortar. Bruising rather than…
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Healthy
Baingan Bharta
Whole aubergines charred over an open flame until the skin blisters and the flesh collapses, then mashed into a…
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Haemul Pajeon
A large, shaggy pancake of spring onions and seafood, fried until the edges are lacy and crisp. Eaten on rainy days…
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Lunch
Pupusas
El Salvador's thick stuffed corn cakes, filled with cheese, beans or chicharrón and griddled until blistered, served…
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Dinner
Kashmiri Rogan Josh
The Kashmiri classic: lamb braised in a brick-red gravy coloured by Kashmiri chillies and perfumed with fennel…
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Dinner
Bhindi Masala
Okra fried dry with onion and spices so it stays crisp rather than turning slimy. The entire recipe is a set of…
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Dinner
Bún Bò Huế
Central Vietnam's spicy beef and pork noodle soup: a lemongrass and shrimp paste broth, thick round rice noodles…
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Dinner
Twice-Cooked Pork
Sichuan's huiguorou: pork belly simmered whole, cooled, sliced paper-thin and returned to a searing wok with…
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Breakfast
Ackee and Saltfish
Jamaica's national dish: ackee, a fruit whose cooked flesh looks and behaves remarkably like scrambled egg, sautéed…
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Vegetable Pakoras
Onion, potato and spinach bound in a spiced gram flour batter and fried into craggy, shatteringly crisp clusters…
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Drinks
Michelada
Beer, lime, hot sauce and Worcestershire over ice in a chilli-salt-rimmed glass. Mexico's answer to the Bloody Mary…
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Holiday Specials
Pork Tamales
Masa whipped with lard until it floats, wrapped around chilli-braised pork in corn husks and steamed until it sets…
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Dinner
Keema Matar
Minced lamb browned hard and simmered with peas in a tight, dry masala. A weeknight dish across North India and…
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Quick Meals
Bifana
Thin pork steaks marinated in white wine, garlic and paprika, cooked fast in the marinade and piled into a crusty…
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Dinner
Haleem
Wheat, barley, lentils and meat cooked for hours and then pounded together until the whole pot becomes one smooth…
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Provoleta
A thick disc of provolone cooked in a cast iron pan until the bottom is a crust and the middle is molten, scattered…
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Breakfast
Century Egg Congee
Rice cooked in eight times its volume of stock until the grains collapse into a silken porridge, served with century…
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Healthy
Egyptian Koshari
Egypt's national street dish: layers of rice, lentils and pasta under a spiced tomato sauce, garlic vinegar and a…
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Baking
Turkish Pide
Boat-shaped flatbreads with the edges rolled and pinched around a filling of spiced lamb or cheese and egg, baked…
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Healthy
Salmorejo
Córdoba's thicker, richer answer to gazpacho: tomatoes, bread, garlic and a great deal of olive oil blended into a…
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Dinner
Cơm Tấm
Broken rice with a marinated grilled pork chop, shredded pork skin, a steamed egg meatloaf and a fried egg, all…
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Dinner
Goan Lamb Vindaloo
The Goan original, descended from a Portuguese pork dish preserved in wine and garlic. Vinegar, not just chilli, is…
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Healthy
Gado-Gado
Blanched and raw vegetables, tofu, tempeh and boiled egg under a warm peanut sauce, with prawn crackers on top…
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Dinner
Kerala Fish Curry
Meen curry from the Malabar coast: fish poached in a coconut milk gravy sharpened with kudampuli, the smoky sour…
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Appetizers
Aguachile
Raw prawns cured in minutes in lime juice blitzed with green chilli and coriander, layered with cucumber and red…
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Lunch
Bunny Chow
A quarter loaf of white bread hollowed out and filled with Durban mutton curry, with the scooped-out bread on the…
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Dinner
Shui Zhu Fish
White fish poached in a chilli and Sichuan pepper broth, buried under dried chillies and garlic, and finished by…
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Holiday Specials
Lamb Mandi
Yemeni lamb steamed over spiced rice until it falls off the bone, then finished with a piece of burning charcoal…
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Dinner
Chapli Kebab
Flat Peshawari patties of coarse beef with tomato, pomegranate seed and coriander seed, shallow fried in beef fat…
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Dinner
Nigerian Pepper Soup
A thin, fiercely hot broth built on a blend of West African spices, with goat, fish or chicken and almost nothing…
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Dinner
Orecchiette con Cime di Rapa
Puglia on a plate: little ear-shaped pasta cooked with broccoli rabe in the same water, then tossed with anchovy…
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Appetizers
Sopes
Thick masa discs with a pinched rim, griddled then lightly fried, and piled with beans, meat, lettuce, crema and…
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Dinner
Pozole Rojo
Mexico's celebratory hominy stew: pork simmered until tender in a brick-red guajillo broth, served with a table full…
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Dinner
Arroz de Marisco
Portuguese seafood rice, wetter than a paella and served in the pot, built on a tomato and coriander refogado with…
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Dinner
Cá Kho Tộ
Fish steaks braised in a clay pot with caramel sauce, fish sauce and black pepper until the liquid reduces to a…
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Dinner
Sri Lankan Fish Curry
Fish simmered in coconut milk with roasted curry powder, goraka and curry leaves — dark, sour and considerably…
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Dinner
Nyama Choma
Goat or beef rubbed with salt and grilled slowly over low coals for an hour or more, then chopped on a board and…
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Appetizers
Kelewele
Ripe plantain cut into cubes, tossed with ginger, chilli, cloves and anise, and deep fried until the edges…
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Appetizers
Lo Bak Go
Grated daikon bound with rice flour and studded with dried shrimp, Chinese sausage and mushroom, steamed into a loaf…
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Dinner
Sambal Goreng Tempeh
Tempeh fried until crisp then tossed through a sweet-hot sambal of chilli, shallot and palm sugar until every piece…
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Dinner
Ayam Masak Merah
Chicken fried and then simmered in a red chilli and tomato gravy sweetened with a little sugar and finished with…
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Lunch
Moin Moin
Peeled black-eyed beans blended with peppers and onion, seasoned and steamed in leaves or tins until it sets into a…
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Holiday Specials
Mole Poblano
Puebla's legendary sauce: more than twenty ingredients — chillies, nuts, seeds, spices, dried fruit and chocolate —…
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Dinner
Molokhia
Jute leaves cooked to a green, silky stew with garlic and coriander fried in ghee and stirred in at the last second…
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Lunch
Waakye
Rice and beans cooked together with dried sorghum leaves, which turn the whole pot a deep reddish brown, served with…
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Dinner
Mici
Skinless grilled sausages of beef and lamb, worked with garlic, bicarbonate of soda and stock until springy, and…
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Lunch
Callaloo
Dasheen leaves cooked down with okra, coconut milk and crab or salt meat until they collapse into a thick, dark…
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Dinner
Lobio
Red kidney beans stewed with onion, coriander, walnuts and blue fenugreek, mashed slightly and eaten hot from a clay…
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Dinner
Tofu and Edamame Stir-Fry
Firm tofu pressed, cornflour-crusted and fried hard, then tossed with edamame and greens in a garlic-ginger sauce…
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Breakfast
Savoury Cottage Cheese Bowl
Cottage cheese with tomato, cucumber, olive oil and plenty of black pepper — eight minutes, no cooking, and 26 g of…
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Lunch
Grilled Halloumi and Herb Salad
Halloumi griddled until it blisters, over a salad of herbs, cucumber and tomato with lemon and olive oil —…
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Dinner
Garlic Prawns with Courgette Noodles
Prawns cooked hard in garlic, chilli and olive oil, tossed through courgette ribbons that never see a pan — 38 g of…
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Breakfast
Baked Eggs with Spinach and Feta
Eggs baked into a bed of garlicky spinach with feta crumbled over, straight from oven to table in the pan — 34 g of…
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Quick Meals
Ful Medames
Slow-cooked fava beans crushed with garlic, lemon, cumin and a great deal of olive oil — Egypt eats it for…
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Quick Meals
Chakalaka
A South African relish of onions, peppers, carrot and beans cooked hard with curry powder and chilli — served with…
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Quick Meals
Malawach
Yemenite-Jewish laminated flatbread fried in a dry pan until the layers separate and blister, served with grated…
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Healthy
Kachumbari
Kenya’s everyday salad: tomato, onion and chilli with lime and coriander, salted and drained so it stays crisp…
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Healthy
Curtido
Salvadoran lightly fermented cabbage slaw with carrot, onion and oregano — the sharp, crunchy thing served with…
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Healthy
Salade Méchouia
Tunisian grilled salad: peppers, tomatoes, onion and garlic charred over flame, peeled and chopped rough with…
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Healthy
Oi Muchim
Korean cucumber salad: sliced, salted, squeezed and tossed with gochugaru, garlic and sesame — sharp, hot and…
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Quick Meals
Honey Garlic Chicken
Chicken thighs seared hard and glazed in a four-ingredient sauce that reduces to a lacquer in the time it takes to…
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Dinner
Baked Ziti
Ziti layered with a quick tomato sauce, ricotta and two more cheeses, baked until the top blisters. The pasta comes…
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Dinner
Penne alla Vodka
The pink sauce, done properly: tomato purée cooked hard until it darkens, vodka to carry the aromatics, and cream…
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Dinner
Chicken Tortilla Soup
A brothy Mexican soup with real depth: dried chillies toasted and blended into the base, chicken poached in it and…
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Appetizers
Spinach and Artichoke Dip
Hot, thick and properly cheesy, with every drop of water squeezed out of the spinach first. That one step is the…
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Appetizers
Quick Refrigerator Pickles
Cucumbers in a hot brine, in the fridge, ready by dinner. Not preserved and not shelf-stable — just crisp, sharp and…
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Lunch
Meatball Sub
Baked meatballs simmered in a quick tomato sauce, loaded into a roll that has been toasted with cheese first so it…
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Quick Meals
Shrimp Scampi
Prawns, garlic, white wine, lemon and a great deal of butter, over linguine, in twenty minutes. The prawns come out…
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Quick Meals
Garlic Butter Shrimp
Eight minutes from the fridge to the table. Prawns seared in a screaming pan, then finished in garlic butter with…
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Breakfast
Green Shakshuka
The green version: eggs baked into a pan of wilted greens, leek and herbs rather than tomato, with feta and a lemony…
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Dinner
Courgette Lasagne
Courgette planks salted, griddled and used in place of pasta, under a proper ragù and a béchamel. The griddling is…
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Breakfast
Baked Avocado Eggs
An egg baked in the hollow of an avocado half, which sounds like a magazine idea and works because of one…
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Dinner
Singapore Chilli Crab
Singapore's national dish: whole crab wok-fried in a sweet, sour, savoury chilli gravy thickened with egg, eaten…
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Lunch
Pan con Pollo
The Salvadoran chicken sandwich: chicken braised in a relajo of toasted spices, pulled, and piled into a crusty roll…
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Healthy
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup
Squash roasted until it is caramelising at the edges before anything is blended, with the onions and garlic roasted…
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Healthy
Italian Chopped Salad
Salami, provolone, chickpeas and pepperoncini chopped small under a red wine vinaigrette sharp enough to stand up to…
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Quick Meals
Tuna and Caper Pasta
Store-cupboard pasta that tastes like it took an hour: tuna in oil, capers, chilli and lemon, emulsified with pasta…
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Quick Meals
Sesame Peanut Noodles
Cold noodles in a peanut, sesame and black vinegar sauce, thinned with hot noodle water so it coats instead of…
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Quick Meals
Quick Chickpea Curry
A tin of chickpeas, a tin of tomatoes and a proper spice base, done in half an hour. The onions do not get twenty…
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Quick Meals
Grilled Halloumi Wrap
Halloumi griddled until it squeaks and blisters, wrapped with a lemony slaw and a garlic yoghurt. Twenty minutes…
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Quick Meals
Sardines on Toast
Tinned sardines mashed with lemon, chilli and parsley on charred sourdough. Fifteen minutes, about two pounds a…
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Dinner
Chakhokhbili
Chicken cooked with no liquid at all beyond what the tomatoes and onions give up, then finished with a great deal of…
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Appetizers
Chana Chaat
Chickpeas tossed with raw onion, tomato, chaat masala and tamarind, assembled in ten minutes and eaten within…
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Dinner
Griddled Aubergine Parmigiana
Aubergine slices salted, then griddled rather than fried, layered with a long-simmered tomato sauce and two cheeses…
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Dinner
Coconut Dal
Sri Lankan parippu: red lentils cooked soft in coconut milk with turmeric, finished with a tempering of mustard…
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Dinner
Tuscan White Bean Stew
Cannellini beans, kale and a whole head of garlic softened into a broth thickened by mashing a ladleful of the…
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Appetizers
Muhammara
Roasted red peppers and walnuts ground to a coarse paste with pomegranate molasses and chilli. Aleppo’s dip rather…
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Appetizers
Batata Harra
Fried potato cubes tossed off the heat with a raw paste of garlic, coriander and chilli. The point is that the…
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Appetizers
Hummus Beiruti
The rougher city version: chickpeas left coarse, cut through with parsley, chilli and pickle. Made to be eaten as a…
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Dinner
Samke Harra
Whole fish under a tahini, chilli and coriander sauce, from Tripoli. The sauce is loosened with the fish stock and…
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Appetizers
Besara
Broad beans cooked to a purée with an enormous quantity of green herbs, poured out flat and topped with fried onion…
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Appetizers
Egyptian Tahina
The Egyptian tahini sauce, thinner and sharper than the Levantine one, cut with vinegar as well as lemon and always…
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Appetizers
Betengan Mekhalel
Small aubergines boiled, stuffed with garlic, chilli and pepper, and kept under oil and vinegar. Sharper and hotter…
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Appetizers
Batates Mohammara
Potatoes roasted hard with cumin, coriander and a lot of garlic until the edges go almost black. Sold from carts by…
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Dinner
Bamia Masreya
The Egyptian okra stew: smaller pods than the Levantine version, more tomato, and finished with a hit of fried…
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Lunch
Kishk Masri
A thick soup of yogurt and flour cooked out slowly and poured over fried bread and onions. Sour, savoury and…
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Dinner
Hawawshi
Flatbread stuffed with spiced minced beef and baked hard until the bread crisps and the fat soaks into it…
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Dinner
Fattah
Layers of fried bread, rice and slow-cooked lamb under a sharp garlic and vinegar tomato sauce. The dish of Eid and…
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Quick Meals
Kebda Eskandarani
Alexandrian liver: beef liver cut into strips and cooked in seconds with chilli, garlic and cumin. The whole dish…
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Dinner
Ferakh Mashwi
Chicken spatchcocked and grilled under a cumin, garlic and lemon paste until the skin blackens in patches. The…
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Appetizers
Renga
Smoked herring flaked and dressed with lemon, oil and raw onion, eaten at Sham el-Nessim with spring onions and…
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Appetizers
Harissa
Dried chillies rehydrated and pounded with garlic, caraway and coriander seed into a coarse red paste. Nothing like…
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Lunch
Soupe de Poisson
Whole small fish cooked down and forced through a mouli, served with rouille, croutons and grated cheese. Not…
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Appetizers
Insalata di Mare
Squid, prawns and mussels dressed with nothing but lemon, oil, garlic and parsley. Every element cooked separately…
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Appetizers
Giardiniera
Hard vegetables blanched and packed under vinegar and oil. Every Italian household has a jar and no two agree on…
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Dinner
Pici all'Aglione
Fat hand-rolled Tuscan spaghetti in a sauce of nothing but garlic, tomato and oil. Aglione is a giant sweet garlic…
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Lunch
Pasta e Ceci
Chickpeas and broken pasta cooked into a thick soup with rosemary. Roman, cheap, and better than the sum of its…
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Dinner
Busiate al Pesto Trapanese
Trapani's pesto: almonds instead of pine nuts, raw tomato instead of just basil. Made in a mortar and never cooked.
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Dinner
Fregola con Arselle
Toasted Sardinian pasta pearls cooked like a risotto with clams. The toasting is what separates fregola from couscous.
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Dinner
Risotto al Nero di Seppia
Rice blackened with cuttlefish ink, the cuttlefish itself cooked into it. Venice, and it should be genuinely black…
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Dinner
Trippa alla Romana
Tripe in tomato with mint and a heavy shower of pecorino. Saturday lunch in Rome, and the mint is not optional.
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Dinner
Cacciucco
Livorno's fish stew, with five kinds of fish for the five Cs in its name, over garlic-rubbed bread. Poor food that…
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Dinner
Brodetto all'Anconetana
The Adriatic answer to cacciucco, sharpened with vinegar instead of wine. Ancona claims thirteen kinds of fish and…
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Appetizers
Jellied Eels
Eel poached in a spiced stock that sets to a clear jelly as it cools. East London has eaten them from a bowl with…
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Appetizers
Pickled Onions
Small onions in spiced malt vinegar, sharp enough to make your eyes water. Six weeks in the jar and they will keep…
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Appetizers
Soused Herring
Herring fillets rolled and baked slowly in spiced vinegar, then left to go cold. Sharp, soft-boned, and a week in…
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Appetizers
Chicken Feet in Black Bean Sauce
Chicken feet deep-fried, soaked until they puff, then braised in black bean and steamed. Three stages, two days, and…
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Breakfast
Jianbing
A thin mung bean crepe with an egg cracked onto it, folded around a sheet of fried cracker, hoisin and coriander…
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Lunch
Rou Jia Mo
Chopped braised pork packed into a flatbread baked on a griddle. Xi'an has sold it for two thousand years and calls…
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Lunch
Liangpi
Cold wheat noodles made by washing the starch out of a dough, steamed into sheets and cut into wide slippery ribbons…
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Appetizers
Smashed Cucumber Salad
Cucumber hit with the flat of a cleaver until it splits, salted, drained and dressed in garlic and vinegar. Fifteen…
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Appetizers
Bang Bang Chicken
Poached chicken torn into shreds under a sesame and chilli sauce. Named for the stick used to beat the meat loose…
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Appetizers
Century Egg with Cold Tofu
Century eggs on cold silken tofu with soy, chilli oil and a great deal of coriander. Assembly only, five minutes…
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Appetizers
Red Oil Wontons
Pork wontons under a slick of red chilli oil, black vinegar and garlic. Sichuan's answer to the soup version, and…
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Dinner
Yuxiang Rousi
Shredded pork in a sweet, sour and hot sauce that contains no fish at all — the name refers to the seasonings…
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Dinner
La Zi Ji
Fried chicken pieces buried in a wok of dried chillies and Sichuan pepper, from which you hunt out the chicken…
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Dinner
Duo Jiao Yu Tou
A split fish head steamed under a mound of chopped salted red chillies. Hunan's signature, and it uses fresh pickled…
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Dinner
Three Cup Chicken
Chicken cooked down in equal parts sesame oil, soy sauce and rice wine until the sauce is a glaze, with a great…
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Dinner
Da Pan Ji
Chicken, potatoes and peppers stewed with beer and chilli in one enormous plate, with wide hand-pulled noodles slid…
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Dinner
Steamed Ribs with Black Bean
Bite-sized ribs marinated with fermented black beans and garlic, steamed for twenty-five minutes on a plate. Easier…
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Dinner
Ginger and Scallion Crab
Whole crab chopped through the shell, dusted in cornflour, flash-fried and tossed with a mountain of ginger and…
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Dinner
Steamed Whole Fish
A whole fish steamed for twelve minutes and finished with smoking oil poured over raw ginger and spring onion. The…
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Dinner
Dry-Fried Green Beans
Green beans fried until their skins blister and wrinkle, then tossed with minced pork, preserved vegetable and…
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Dinner
Stir-Fried Water Spinach
Water spinach thrown into a screaming wok with garlic and fermented bean curd, out again in ninety seconds. Hollow…
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Dinner
Yong Tau Foo
Tofu, peppers, aubergine and chillies stuffed with a fish and pork paste, fried and then simmered in a clear soup…
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Lunch
Hot Dry Noodles
Wuhan's breakfast: alkaline noodles blanched, oiled, cooled and then reheated to order under sesame paste, pickled…
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Lunch
Biang Biang Noodles
Belt-wide noodles pulled by hand and slapped on the counter, under chilli, garlic and a ladle of smoking oil. Named…
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Dinner
Vinegar Cabbage
Cabbage torn by hand rather than cut, fried hard with dried chilli and finished with black vinegar. Five minutes…
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Dinner
Stir-Fried Lotus Root
Lotus root sliced thin, rinsed of its starch and fried for barely two minutes, so it stays as crisp as an apple.
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Appetizers
Wood Ear Salad
Rehydrated wood ear fungus in black vinegar, garlic and chilli oil. Almost no calories, no cooking to speak of, and…
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Dinner
Hot and Sour Potato Slivers
Potato cut into matchsticks, rinsed of starch and fried for ninety seconds so it stays crunchy. Sour, hot, and…
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Appetizers
Sichuan Chilli Oil
Hot oil poured over chilli flakes and spices in stages, so the sediment toasts without burning. Fifteen minutes, and…
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Appetizers
XO Sauce
Dried scallop and shrimp shredded and fried with chilli, ham and garlic until crisp. Invented in a Hong Kong hotel…
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Dinner
Paneer Butter Masala
Paneer in a glossy tomato and cashew gravy, finished with butter and cream. The restaurant dish people try to…
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Dinner
Matar Paneer
Paneer and peas in an onion-tomato gravy, the weeknight version of the butter masala and the one most Indian…
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Dinner
Kadai Paneer
Paneer and peppers tossed in a coarse, freshly pounded coriander-and-chilli masala. Drier and sharper than the…
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Breakfast
Paneer Bhurji
Crumbled paneer scrambled with onion, tomato and green chilli. Fifteen minutes, and the standard Indian answer to a…
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Appetizers
Chilli Paneer
Battered paneer tossed with peppers and onion in a dark, glossy soy and chilli sauce. Indo-Chinese, and the one…
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Appetizers
Gobi Manchurian
Cauliflower fried in a spiced batter and tossed in a dark garlic and soy sauce. Kolkata Hakka cooking, and the dish…
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Dinner
Schezwan Fried Rice
Fried rice with a spoonful of red schezwan sauce through it. Nothing to do with Sichuan, everything to do with the…
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Appetizers
Chicken 65
Small pieces of chicken in a red, curry-leaf-scented coating, fried hard and tossed with yoghurt and chilli. A…
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Appetizers
Chicken Lollipop
Chicken wings frenched into a lollipop, battered red and fried. Bar food across India, and the reason wing drumettes…
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Dinner
Chicken Chettinad
Chicken in a black, coconut-and-pepper masala from the Chettinad country of Tamil Nadu. One of the hottest curries…
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Dinner
Mutton Curry
Bone-in mutton browned hard and simmered ninety minutes in onion and whole spice, until the gravy is dark and the…
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Dinner
Egg Curry
Boiled eggs halved into a spiced onion and tomato gravy. The cheapest good curry there is, and on the table in…
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Breakfast
Egg Bhurji
Indian scrambled eggs with onion, tomato and green chilli, cooked hard and fast. Fifteen minutes, two pans of…
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Appetizers
Fish Tikka
Firm white fish in a yoghurt and carom seed marinade, charred at the edges. Thirty-five minutes and no tandoor…
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Dinner
Prawn Masala
Prawns in a quick coastal gravy of onion, tomato and curry leaf. Thirty-five minutes, and the prawns cook in four of…
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Dinner
Khichdi
Rice and split moong cooked soft together with turmeric and ghee. What Indian households eat when they are ill, and…
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Dinner
Vegetable Biryani
Vegetables and part-cooked rice layered with saffron milk and fried onion, then sealed and steamed. The dum method…
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Breakfast
Poha
Flattened rice rinsed, tossed with turmeric, mustard seed and peanuts, and eaten within ten minutes. Central India's…
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Breakfast
Upma
Semolina roasted and steamed with mustard seed, curry leaf and vegetables. Ready in twenty-five minutes and the…
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Breakfast
Medu Vada
Doughnut-shaped urad dal fritters, crisp outside and airy in. The hardest simple thing in a south Indian kitchen.
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Breakfast
Uttapam
A thick dosa batter poured small and pressed with onion, tomato and chilli. Softer than a dosa and easier to get…
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Dinner
Doenjang Jjigae
A soybean paste stew of courgette, potato and tofu, thick and deeply savoury. The everyday Korean stew, on the table…
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Appetizers
Gyeranjjim
Eggs beaten with water and steamed in an earthenware pot until they rise like a soufflé. Twenty minutes, and it…
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Dinner
Panang Curry
A thick, sweet red curry finished with kaffir lime and crushed peanuts. Drier than the other Thai curries, and richer.
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Dinner
Crying Tiger Beef
Grilled beef sliced across the grain and served with nam jim jaew, a roasted rice and chilli dipping sauce. The…
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Dinner
Phở Gà
Chicken pho: a clear broth of charred ginger and onion with poached chicken and flat rice noodles. Lighter than the…
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Dinner
Carne Asada
Skirt steak in a lime and orange marinade, grilled fast over the fiercest heat and sliced across the grain. Twenty…
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Appetizers
Pico de Gallo
Tomato, onion, chilli, coriander and lime, chopped small and salted. Fifteen minutes, no cooking, and it improves…
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Appetizers
Salsa Verde
Tomatillos and green chilli charred under a grill and blitzed with coriander and lime. Twenty-five minutes and…
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Dinner
Chile Relleno
A poblano stuffed with cheese, dipped in whipped egg and fried, then sat in a thin tomato broth. The hardest easy…
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Dinner
Menudo
Tripe simmered three hours with hominy in a red chilli broth. Mexico's Sunday morning cure, and there is no fast…
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Dinner
Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
Anchovy, olive, caper and tomato cooked hard for twenty minutes. Nothing in it is fresh and it is one of the best…
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Lunch
Rasam
A thin, sour, peppery broth of tamarind and tomato, drunk from a cup or poured over rice. South India's answer to…
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Appetizers
Coconut Chutney
Fresh coconut ground with green chilli and roasted gram, finished with a mustard seed tempering. The thing every…
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Appetizers
Pani Puri
Hollow crisp spheres filled with spiced water, potato and chickpea, eaten whole in one go. India's most-loved street…
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Appetizers
Dhokla
A steamed savoury sponge of gram flour, sharp with lemon and sweet with a sugar tempering. Gujarat's teatime, and…
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Appetizers
Bhel Puri
Puffed rice tossed at the last second with chutneys, onion, potato and sev. Bombay beach food, and it must be eaten…
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Dinner
Chicken Karahi
Chicken cooked hard in a wok with tomato, ginger and green chilli, and almost nothing else. No onion, no cream, no…
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Dinner
Aloo Keema
Minced lamb and potato cooked down together until the mince is dry and catching. A Pakistani weeknight standard.
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Appetizers
Pol Sambol
Fresh coconut pounded with dried chilli, red onion and lime until it turns coral pink. Fifteen minutes and no cooking.
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Dinner
Sri Lankan Dhal Curry
Red lentils simmered with coconut milk, turmeric and a curry leaf tempering. The dish that appears at every Sri…
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Appetizers
Lumpiang Shanghai
Thin pork and vegetable spring rolls, rolled pencil-thin and fried hard. Filipino parties are counted in these.
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Appetizers
Sisig
Pork face and belly boiled, grilled, chopped fine and served on a plate hot enough to keep frying it at the table.
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Dinner
Jerk Pork
Pork shoulder in a scotch bonnet and allspice marinade, cooked slowly over smoke until the outside is black and the…
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Lunch
Jamaican Beef Patties
Turmeric pastry folded round spiced minced beef and baked. The colour comes from the pastry, not the filling.
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Appetizers
Sfiha
Open lamb pies the size of a saucer, tart with pomegranate molasses. Baalbek makes them flat and thin.
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Breakfast
Khai Jiao
A Thai omelette dropped into deep hot oil so it puffs and crisps at the edges. Thirteen minutes, and it goes on rice.
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Dinner
Pad Prik King
Green beans and pork stir-fried in red curry paste with no coconut milk at all. A dry curry, and thirty minutes.
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Lunch
Gỏi Gà
Poached chicken torn into shreds with cabbage, herbs and a sharp fish sauce dressing. Forty minutes, mostly cooling.
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Dinner
Paneer Tikka Masala
Paneer charred under a grill first, then folded into a tomato gravy. The char is what separates it from every other…
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Dinner
Dal Palak
Yellow lentils cooked soft and finished with spinach and a garlic tempering. Forty-five minutes and it is a whole…
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Dinner
Veg Kolhapuri
Mixed vegetables in a dark, fiercely hot masala of roasted coconut and dried chilli from western Maharashtra.
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Dinner
Tawa Pulao
Cooked rice fried on a griddle with pav bhaji masala and vegetables. Twenty minutes and unmistakably Bombay.
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Appetizers
Masala Pav
Soft rolls split and griddled in butter with a spiced onion and tomato mixture pressed into them. Twenty-five minutes.
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Appetizers
Samosa Chaat
A samosa crushed under chickpea curry, yoghurt and three chutneys. Twenty-five minutes if the samosas are bought.
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Appetizers
Aloo Chaat
Potato cubes fried until the corners shatter, tossed with chaat masala, lime and coriander. Thirty minutes.
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Appetizers
Dahi Vada
Lentil dumplings soaked soft, squeezed and drowned in sweetened yoghurt with two chutneys. Cold, and best made a few…
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Drinks
Jaljeera
Cumin, mint, tamarind and black salt in cold water. Fifteen minutes, no cooking, and it tastes like nothing else.
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Drinks
Chaas
Yoghurt thinned with water and seasoned with cumin, ginger and curry leaf. Ten minutes, and it is what an Indian…
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Dinner
Lanzhou Beef Noodle Soup
A clear beef broth over hand-pulled noodles with white radish, coriander and a spoonful of chilli oil. Two and a…
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Appetizers
Chili Cheese Fries
Chips under beef chilli and melted cheese, eaten with a fork before the bottom layer surrenders. Forty-five minutes.
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Lunch
Sopa de Tortilla
A chilli and tomato broth with crisp tortilla strips added at the table so they keep their crunch. Forty-five minutes.
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Dinner
Camarones a la Diabla
Prawns in a red chilli sauce hot enough to justify the name, made from soaked guajillo and chipotle. Thirty-five…
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Appetizers
Esquites
Corn cut off the cob and fried, then dressed with mayonnaise, lime, chilli and cheese and eaten from a cup with a…
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Desserts
Paletas
Fresh fruit blended with a little sugar and lime and frozen in moulds. Fifteen minutes of work and no cooking.
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