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Chicken Tikka Masala
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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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Silky Hummus
Silky, pourable hummus with far more tahini than most recipes dare, whipped for five minutes with ice water. Peeling…
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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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Shakshuka
Eggs poached in a smoky, cumin-scented pepper and tomato sauce, served straight from the pan with bread for…
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Tonkotsu Ramen
The milky, collagen-heavy pork broth that made Hakata famous, boiled hard for eight hours until the fat and gelatine…
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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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Egg Fried Rice
The test of any wok cook: separate grains, wisps of egg through every mouthful, and that faint smoky note from the…
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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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Korean Fried Chicken
Double-fried until the crust is glassy and stays crisp under the sauce, then glazed in sticky sweet-hot gochujang…
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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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Hearty Beef Stew
Chuck browned properly, then braised low with red wine, stock and root vegetables until the meat gives way under a…
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Chicken Shawarma
All the flavour of a shawarma spit from an oven tray: thighs marinated in warm spices and yogurt, roasted hard, then…
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Caesar Salad
The original Tijuana Caesar: whole romaine leaves, a dressing built on egg yolk, anchovy and garlic, and croutons…
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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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Chicken Katsu Curry
Japan's favourite comfort food: a panko-crusted chicken cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with a thick, gently…
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Chicken Karaage
Japan's definitive fried chicken: thigh meat marinated in soy, sake and ginger, dusted in potato starch and fried…
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Beef Bourguignon
Julia Child put this Burgundian beef stew on every home cook's bucket list, and it earns the effort: beef braised…
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Kung Pao Chicken
Sichuan's most travelled dish, done properly: velveted chicken, blistered dried chillies, the numbing buzz of…
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Chicken Noodle Soup
Built from a whole chicken so the broth carries real body, with the noodles cooked separately so they never turn to…
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Paella Valenciana
The Valencian original, with chicken, rabbit and beans rather than seafood, cooked flat in a wide pan until a…
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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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Ultimate Avocado Toast
Good bread, properly toasted, with avocado seasoned far more aggressively than instinct suggests. The difference…
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Bibimbap
A bowl of rice topped with individually seasoned vegetables, marinated beef, a fried egg and gochujang, mixed…
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Chicken Korma
The mildest of the great Mughlai curries and the most technically demanding: chicken in a pale, fragrant sauce built…
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Buffalo Chicken Dip
Shredded chicken, cream cheese, ranch and hot sauce baked until bubbling. Invented in Buffalo, adopted by every…
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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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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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Garlic Butter Naan
Blistered, chewy naan cooked in a screaming-hot cast-iron pan and brushed with garlic butter. Yogurt in the dough is…
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Beef and Broccoli
The most useful stir-fry in the repertoire: velveted beef, crisp-tender broccoli and a savoury oyster sauce gravy…
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Crispy Falafel
Made only from soaked dried chickpeas — never tinned, never cooked — so the outside shatters and the inside stays…
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Beef Stroganoff
Strips of seared beef in a mustard and soured cream sauce with mushrooms, done in twenty-five minutes. It is a fast…
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Garlic Naan
A yoghurt-enriched flatbread slapped onto the wall of a tandoor, or in a home kitchen onto the underside of the…
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Beef Bulgogi
Thinly sliced beef marinated in soy, pear and sesame, then seared fast so it caramelises without stewing. Twenty…
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Shepherd's Pie
Lamb mince in a rich gravy under a piped mash with crisp golden ridges. Made with beef it is a cottage pie; the…
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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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French Onion Soup
Forty-five minutes of patient caramelisation turns four pounds of onions into something meltingly sweet and mahogany…
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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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Chili con Carne
A long-simmered chilli built on toasted whole spices and a hit of dark chocolate, with the beef cut into cubes…
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Slow-Braised Carnitas
Pork shoulder braised in its own fat with orange and bay until it falls apart, then crisped under a hot grill so…
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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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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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Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry
The dish every Chinese household cooks and no restaurant bothers to: eggs scrambled soft, tomatoes cooked down to a…
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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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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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Cheese Fondue
Gruyère and Vacherin melted into white wine with a little cornflour and kirsch, kept just below a simmer and eaten…
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Chicken Souvlaki
Lemon, oregano and olive oil is all a good souvlaki marinade needs. Grill it hard so the edges char, then pile into…
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Chicken Adobo
Chicken braised in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic and bay until the sauce reduces to a dark glaze. The Philippines'…
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Sweet and Sour Pork
Cantonese gu lou yuk with a genuinely crisp coating and a sauce balanced by real pineapple and rice vinegar rather…
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Sesame Chicken
Orange chicken's darker, nuttier sibling: the same shattering fried crust in a soy and honey glaze thickened with…
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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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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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Herb-Butter Roast Turkey
A dry-brined, herb-buttered turkey that comes out with crisp skin and breast meat that is actually juicy…
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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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Louisiana Jambalaya
Louisiana rice cooked in one pot with the holy trinity, andouille sausage, chicken and prawns. The Creole version…
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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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Chicken Lo Mein
Soft egg noodles tossed rather than fried, coated in a glossy soy and oyster sauce with chicken and crisp…
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Mission-Style Burrito
San Francisco's contribution to world food: a steamed flour tortilla wrapped around rice, beans, meat, cheese, salsa…
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Pesto alla Genovese
Genoese pesto made the traditional way, with basil bruised rather than blitzed, so the sauce stays emerald green…
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Tzatziki
Thick strained yogurt, grated cucumber squeezed dry, garlic, dill and good olive oil. Made properly it is dense…
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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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Moroccan Chicken Tagine
Chicken braised with preserved lemon, olives and warm spices until it falls off the bone, in a sauce reduced to a…
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Gratin Dauphinois
Waxy potatoes simmered in garlicky cream and baked until the top is bronzed and the layers have fused into something…
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Shrimp and Grits
Lowcountry breakfast turned into dinner: prawns in a bacon and stock pan sauce over grits cooked slowly with cream…
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Cottage Pie
Minced beef in a rich gravy under a mash topping forked into ridges and browned. Cottage pie is beef; shepherd's pie…
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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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Provençal Ratatouille
The Provençal original, in which each vegetable is cooked separately before they are married — the only way to get…
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Creamy Tomato Soup
Roasting the tomatoes first concentrates them into something far deeper than a stovetop soup, and a splash of cream…
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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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Chicken Chow Mein
Springy egg noodles tossed with chicken and vegetables in a savoury brown sauce, with a few noodles crisped against…
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Steak Frites
The bistro standard done properly: a hard-seared steak rested under herb butter, with twice-fried chips that stay…
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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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Crispy Spring Rolls
Shatteringly crisp vegetable spring rolls with a filling that stays crunchy inside the wrapper. Cooling the filling…
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Steak and Ale Pie
Beef shin braised in dark ale until it falls apart, under a lid of rough puff pastry baked until the top is…
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Greek Lemon Potatoes
Potatoes roasted in a pool of lemon juice, olive oil and stock until the liquid has gone and what is left is a…
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Chicken Tagine with Olives
Chicken cooked slowly with preserved lemon, green olives, ginger and saffron until the sauce reduces to a thick…
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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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Melanzane alla Parmigiana
Layers of fried aubergine, tomato, basil and mozzarella baked until the edges catch and the middle sets into…
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Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
Everything in gumbo rests on the roux: flour and fat cooked patiently to the colour of milk chocolate, then built…
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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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Pork Gyros
Marinated pork shaved off a home-built stack, wrapped in pita with tzatziki, tomato, onion and — this is not…
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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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Classic Meatloaf
A meatloaf that slices cleanly and stays moist, built on a panade and free-formed on a tray rather than steamed in a…
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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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Hungarian Goulash
A true gulyás is a soup, not a stew: beef, onions and a great deal of sweet Hungarian paprika simmered with potatoes…
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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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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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Chicken Kiev
A chicken breast wrapped around a core of garlic and herb butter, breadcrumbed and fried so the butter is still…
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Gnocchi alla Sorrentina
Potato gnocchi baked under tomato sauce and mozzarella until the top blisters and the cheese pulls. From the…
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Shish Taouk
Chicken cubes marinated in yoghurt, garlic and lemon with a little tomato purée, grilled hard and served with toum…
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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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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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Tomato Bruschetta
Charred bread rubbed hard with raw garlic, doused in olive oil, and piled with tomatoes that have been salted just…
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Patatas Bravas
Twice-cooked potatoes with a shattering exterior and a fluffy interior, under a smoky brava sauce that carries…
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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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Lamb Kofta Kebabs
Spiced lamb worked until it turns sticky, moulded around skewers and grilled hard so the outside chars while the…
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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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Moules Marinières
Mussels steamed open in white wine, shallots and parsley in under ten minutes. The broth they release is the sauce…
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Lomo Saltado
Peru's great fusion dish: beef stir-fried in a wok with onion, tomato and soy sauce, served with both chips and…
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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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Moussaka
Layers of roasted aubergine, spiced lamb ragù and a thick béchamel enriched with egg yolks and kefalotyri, baked…
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Spaghetti alle Vongole
Clams opened in white wine and garlic, their liquor emulsified with olive oil and pasta water into a sauce that…
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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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Char Siu Pork
Cantonese barbecue pork with a sticky, deeply burnished glaze and rings of red at the edge. It takes forty minutes…
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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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Lu Rou Fan
Finely diced pork belly braised in soy, five spice and fried shallots until it becomes a glossy, gelatinous sauce…
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Ropa Vieja
Flank steak simmered until it shreds, then stewed in a sofrito of peppers, onions, olives and cumin until the sauce…
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Milanesa Napolitana
A breaded beef cutlet topped with ham, tomato sauce and melted cheese — Buenos Aires by way of Milan, and eaten with…
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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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Andalusian Gazpacho
A cold Andalusian soup of raw tomatoes, cucumber, pepper and bread blitzed with sherry vinegar and olive oil until…
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Dinner
Refried Beans
Pinto beans simmered with onion and then mashed into their own broth in hot lard until they are creamy, glossy and…
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Healthy
Lemon Herb Quinoa Salad
Quinoa cooked until the germs uncoil, cooled, and tossed with herbs, cucumber, tomato and a sharp lemon dressing…
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Healthy
Cobb Salad
A composed salad from the Brown Derby in Hollywood: neat rows of chicken, bacon, avocado, egg, tomato and blue…
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Dinner
Pasta e Fagioli
Pasta and beans, cooked together so the pasta starch thickens the broth into something between a soup and a stew…
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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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Appetizers
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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Healthy
Roasted Vegetable Buddha Bowl
Roasted vegetables, a grain, a pulse and something green in one bowl, held together by a tahini dressing loosened…
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Dinner
Sloppy Joes
Beef mince cooked down in a sweet-sharp tomato sauce and spooned onto a soft bun, engineered to be eaten with both…
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Dinner
Duck Confit
Duck legs cured in salt overnight, then cooked submerged in their own fat until the meat gives at a touch. A…
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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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Dinner
Coq au Vin
Chicken braised in red wine with lardons, mushrooms and pearl onions — the rustic cousin of bourguignon, and faster…
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Dinner
Singapore Noodles
Thin rice vermicelli stained yellow with curry powder, tossed with prawns, char siu and egg. Despite the name it is…
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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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Dinner
İskender Kebab
Sliced döner laid over cubes of pide bread, drenched in a light tomato sauce, with browned butter poured over at the…
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Dinner
Nihari
Beef shank stewed overnight in a spice-heavy gravy thickened with wheat flour, finished with ginger, chilli and…
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Coxinha
Shredded chicken and cream cheese wrapped in a dough made from chicken stock and flour, shaped like a teardrop…
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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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Holiday Specials
Beef Wellington
Fillet of beef wrapped in mushroom duxelles and prosciutto, encased in puff pastry and baked until the pastry is…
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Dinner
Tartiflette
A Savoyard mountain bake of potatoes, lardons and onions buried under a whole halved Reblochon, which melts down…
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Dinner
Beef Chow Fun
Wide rice noodles seared in a smoking wok with velveted beef, beansprouts and chives. Judged on wok hei and on…
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Dinner
Japchae
Chewy sweet potato noodles tossed with individually stir-fried vegetables and a sesame-soy dressing. Naturally…
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Lunch
Cuban Sandwich
Roast pork, ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and mustard pressed in Cuban bread until the cheese melts and the crust…
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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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Colombian Empanadas
Corn dough shells filled with potato and shredded beef, deep fried until the outside is crackly and deep yellow…
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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
Thai Pineapple Fried Rice
Fried rice with pineapple, cashews and a curry-scented edge, served in the hollowed shell if you are feeling…
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Dinner
Pasta alla Norma
Catania's great pasta: fried aubergine folded into a bright tomato sauce and finished with salty ricotta salata…
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Dinner
Shahi Paneer
Paneer in a pale, fragrant gravy of cashews, cream and melon seeds, scented with cardamom and rose. Mughlai cooking…
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Baba Ganoush
Aubergine charred directly over a flame until the skin is black and the flesh collapses, then whipped with tahini…
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Healthy
Ukrainian Borscht
A deep crimson beetroot soup with a sour edge from vinegar and a sweetness from slow-cooked roots, finished with a…
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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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Appetizers
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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Dinner
Cochinita Pibil
Yucatán pork marinated in achiote and bitter orange, wrapped in banana leaves and cooked slowly until it falls into…
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Appetizers
Chả Giò
Vietnamese fried spring rolls wrapped in rice paper rather than wheat wrappers, which gives a blistered, bubbly…
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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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Healthy
Kimchi Jjigae
The best possible use for kimchi that has gone too sour to eat raw: simmered with pork belly and tofu into a…
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Healthy
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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Dinner
Dakgalbi
Chicken and cabbage stir-fried at the table in a gochujang marinade on a huge flat pan, with rice cakes and sweet…
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Healthy
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
Doro Wat
Ethiopia's national dish: chicken stewed in an enormous quantity of onions cooked down without any fat, then built…
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Appetizers
Yakitori Chicken Skewers
Charcoal-grilled chicken skewers lacquered in a tare that gets richer every time you use it. The Japanese izakaya…
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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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Dinner
Pastitsio
Greek baked pasta: tubes of bucatini standing on end under spiced lamb and a thick béchamel set with egg and cheese…
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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
Mapo Eggplant
Aubergine fried until it collapses, then simmered in doubanjiang, garlic and Sichuan pepper. The vegetarian cousin…
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Quick Meals
Pork Shogayaki
Thin pork loin fried fast and finished in a ginger, soy and mirin sauce that reduces to a glaze in under a minute…
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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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Healthy
Minestrone Soup
A big, generous vegetable soup built on a slow soffritto and thickened by the beans themselves rather than cream…
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Holiday Specials
Feijoada Brasileira
Brazil's national dish: black beans slow-cooked with an armoury of smoked and salted pork, served with rice, collard…
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Healthy
Tuscan Panzanella
A Tuscan salad built to use up stale bread: torn crusts soaked in tomato juice and vinegar until they turn silky…
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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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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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Baking
Lahmacun
Paper-thin Turkish flatbread spread with spiced minced lamb and baked in a fierce oven for four minutes. Rolled up…
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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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Dinner
Soupe au Pistou
A Provençal summer vegetable soup finished at the table with pistou — basil, garlic and olive oil pounded to a…
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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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Dinner
Pancit Canton
Wheat noodles tossed with pork, prawns, chicken and vegetables in a soy and oyster sauce broth the noodles absorb as…
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Lunch
Tinga Tostadas
Crisp fried tortillas topped with chicken tinga — shredded chicken in a smoky chipotle and tomato sauce — with…
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Lunch
Salade Niçoise
A composed salad, not a tossed one: each element dressed and arranged separately so every forkful is deliberate…
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Healthy
Fattoush Salad
The Levantine bread salad: crisp fried pita, cucumber, tomato, radish and herbs, dressed with sumac and pomegranate…
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Lunch
Lángos
Deep-fried yeasted flatbread, stretched thin in the middle, rubbed with raw garlic and covered with soured cream and…
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Appetizers
Moutabal
Aubergine charred whole over a flame until it collapses, then whipped with tahini, lemon and garlic into a smoky…
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Breakfast
Merguez Shakshuka
Merguez browned first, then eggs poached in a tomato and pepper sauce built on harissa and caraway. Hotter and…
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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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Appetizers
Greek Keftedes
Greek meatballs bound with bread soaked in wine, scented with mint and oregano, and fried until dark. Eaten hot with…
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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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Healthy
Caldo Verde
Potato and onion blended into a smooth base, with finely shredded couve and a slice of chouriço added at the last…
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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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Dinner
Ají de Gallina
Shredded chicken in a creamy, mildly spicy sauce thickened with bread and walnuts, coloured yellow by ají amarillo…
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Dinner
Gołąbki
Cabbage leaves rolled around pork, beef and rice, then braised in tomato until the leaves are soft enough to cut…
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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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Dinner
Francesinha
Porto's sandwich: steak, sausage and ham between bread, wrapped in melted cheese and flooded with a beer and tomato…
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Lunch
Soto Ayam
Indonesian turmeric chicken soup with a fragrant spice paste, served over noodles and rice with sambal, fried…
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Dinner
Bandeja Paisa
The Antioquian platter: beans, rice, chicharrón, chorizo, minced beef, a fried egg, plantain, avocado and an arepa…
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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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Healthy
Mul Naengmyeon
Chewy buckwheat noodles in an icy beef and radish broth, with pear, cucumber, sliced beef and half a boiled egg. The…
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Dinner
Osso Buco alla Milanese
Cross-cut veal shanks braised until the meat collapses and the marrow turns to butter, finished with a raw hit of…
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Healthy
Imam Bayildi
Aubergines split and stuffed with onion, garlic and tomato, then braised in a great deal of olive oil and served at…
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Dinner
Bacalhau à Brás
Salt cod shredded and folded through straw-thin fried potatoes and softly scrambled egg. Named after a Lisbon tavern…
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Healthy
Samgyetang
A whole small chicken stuffed with glutinous rice, ginseng, jujube and garlic, simmered until the broth turns milky…
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Dinner
Bobotie
Curried minced beef with dried fruit under a set savoury custard, baked with bay leaves standing in the top. South…
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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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Healthy
Harira Soup
The Moroccan soup traditionally eaten to break the fast during Ramadan: lentils, chickpeas and tomato thickened with…
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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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Healthy
Israeli Couscous Salad
Toasted pearl couscous with roast vegetables, herbs, lemon and a handful of toasted almonds. Good hot, better at…
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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
Ajiaco
Bogotá chicken and potato soup, thickened by three kinds of potato breaking down at different rates, with guascas…
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Breakfast
Trinidadian Doubles
Two pieces of soft fried bara sandwiching curried chickpeas, with tamarind, cucumber chutney and pepper sauce…
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Appetizers
Pissaladière
Nice's answer to pizza: a bread base under a thick layer of onions cooked down for an hour until they are sweet and…
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Dinner
Fabada Asturiana
Enormous creamy fabes beans stewed with chorizo, morcilla and pork shoulder until the broth turns orange with…
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Lunch
Ash Reshteh
A thick Persian soup of beans, lentils, greens and noodles, finished with fried mint oil, crisp onions and kashk.
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Healthy
Fasolada
White beans simmered with carrot, celery and tomato in a great deal of olive oil. Often called the national dish of…
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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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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
Marseille Bouillabaisse
Marseille's great fisherman's stew: a saffron and fennel broth built from the bones and heads, poured over firm…
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Lunch
Żurek
Sour rye soup made from a fermented starter, with white sausage, potatoes, marjoram and a halved boiled egg…
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Dinner
Ugali and Sukuma Wiki
Stiff maize meal cooked until it pulls away from the pan, served with collard greens fried with onion and tomato…
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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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Dinner
Cassoulet de Toulouse
The great slow-cooked bean casserole of southwest France: white beans, confit duck, sausage and pork built into…
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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
Chicken and Rice Protein Bowl
Chicken breast cooked hard in a dry pan, sliced over rice with edamame and a lemon-tahini dressing, built to put a…
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Healthy
Baked Salmon and Quinoa Bowl
Salmon roasted just to the point of flaking, over quinoa with roasted broccoli and a dill-yoghurt sauce — a bowl…
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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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Dinner
Yoghurt-Marinated Chicken Skewers
Chicken thigh marinated in yoghurt, lemon and oregano, then grilled hard until the edges char. The yoghurt does the…
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Lunch
Roasted Tomato and Basil Soup
Tomatoes roasted until they collapse and caramelise at the edges, blended with garlic and basil. No sugar, because…
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Dinner
Lentil and Walnut Ragù
Brown lentils and toasted walnuts cooked down with soffritto, tomato and a long simmer into something with the depth…
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Dinner
Spiced Lamb Lettuce Cups
Lamb mince fried hard with cumin, cinnamon and Aleppo pepper, spooned into cold lettuce cups with pickled onion — 31…
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Lunch
Chicken Caesar Lettuce Cups
Caesar without the croutons: chicken breast seared hard, tossed in an anchovy and Parmesan dressing and served in…
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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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Lunch
Seared Tuna Niçoise
Tuna steak seared rare, over green beans, egg, olives and tomato with an anchovy vinaigrette — the Niçoise without…
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Dinner
Chicken Cauliflower Fried Rice
Cauliflower blitzed to rice grains and fried hard with chicken thigh, egg and spring onion — the wok dish without…
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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
Zapiekanka
A halved baguette covered in fried mushrooms and cheese, grilled until melting, and finished with a stripe of…
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Healthy
Atakilt Wat
Ethiopian cabbage, carrot and potato stewed gently with turmeric and ginger until everything is soft and golden —…
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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
Porotos Granados
The Chilean summer stew of fresh cranberry beans, sweetcorn and pumpkin, thickened with grated corn and scented with…
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Healthy
Zaalouk
Moroccan cooked salad of aubergine and tomato reduced down with garlic, paprika and cumin until it is thick enough…
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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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Baking
Garlic Confit Focaccia
A cold-fermented focaccia with a head of garlic confited in olive oil and folded through the dough, so the flavour…
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Dinner
Chicken Alfredo
Seared chicken over fettuccine in a sauce built from butter, cream and a great deal of real Parmigiano, emulsified…
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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
Chicken Marsala
Floured cutlets, a pan full of browned mushrooms and a sauce reduced from dry Marsala and stock until it is glossy…
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Dinner
Chicken Piccata
Sharp, bright and finished in twenty minutes: thin cutlets in a lemon and caper sauce that gets its body from butter…
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Holiday Specials
Prime Rib Roast
A standing rib roast cooked low until the whole joint is one shade of pink, then blasted at the end for the crust…
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Dinner
Corned Beef and Cabbage
Brisket simmered for three hours until a fork slides in without resistance, with the vegetables added in the order…
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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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Lunch
Broccoli Cheddar Soup
Thick, orange and unapologetic, with half the broccoli blended into the base and half left in pieces. The cheese…
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Lunch
Split Pea and Ham Soup
A ham hock and a bag of split peas turned into something thick enough to stand a spoon in. No stock needed: the hock…
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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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Dinner
Lobster Bisque
The shells are the recipe. They are roasted, simmered into a stock, and that stock is reduced hard before any cream…
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Breakfast
Vegetable Frittata
Eggs started on the hob and finished under a grill, with the vegetables cooked properly first so they do not water…
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Dinner
Crispy Roast Potatoes
Parboiled hard, shaken until furred, and roasted in smoking-hot oil. The ragged surface is the whole point, and it…
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Holiday Specials
Green Bean Casserole
The Thanksgiving standard rebuilt from ingredients rather than tins: a real mushroom velouté, blanched beans that…
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Holiday Specials
Sage and Onion Stuffing
Dried bread, a great deal of butter, onions cooked properly and enough stock that the middle stays soft while the…
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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
Buttermilk Ranch Dressing
Real buttermilk, fresh herbs and no packet. Ten minutes to make and it needs an hour in the fridge before it tastes…
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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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Dinner
Creamed Spinach
The steakhouse side: spinach wrung dry, folded into a nutmeg-scented béchamel and finished with Parmigiano…
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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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Dinner
Tuna Noodle Casserole
Rebuilt without the tin of soup: a proper mushroom béchamel, egg noodles cooked short, and a buttered crumb top with…
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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
Migas Extremeñas
Stale bread torn small, dampened, and fried slowly in garlic oil with chorizo and peppers until every piece is crisp…
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Breakfast
Eggs Florentine
Poached eggs on wilted spinach and a toasted muffin under blender hollandaise. The hollandaise takes ninety seconds…
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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
Cauliflower Mash
Steamed rather than boiled, then blitzed with butter and cream cheese until it is genuinely smooth. Not a substitute…
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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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Quick Meals
Garlic Butter Steak Bites
Cubes of sirloin seared hard in a smoking pan, then tossed off the heat in garlic butter. Ten minutes from fridge to…
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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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Dinner
Pabellón Criollo
Venezuela's national plate: shredded beef, black beans, white rice and fried sweet plantain, served side by side and…
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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 Cauliflower Steaks
Thick slabs cut through the core so they hold together, roasted hard until the cut faces caramelise, then dressed…
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Healthy
Kale Caesar Salad
Kale massaged with the dressing an hour ahead so it softens without wilting, under a proper anchovy Caesar and…
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Healthy
Cuban Black Bean Soup
Dried beans, a sofrito built on cumin and green pepper, and a ham of smoke from nothing but paprika. Thick enough to…
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Healthy
Greek Stuffed Peppers
Gemista, the Greek summer dish: peppers roasted before they are filled, so they are sweet and collapsing rather than…
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Healthy
Sweet Potato and Black Bean Tacos
Sweet potato roasted with chipotle until the edges char, black beans warmed with lime, and a quick pickled onion for…
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Healthy
Moroccan Carrot Salad
Carrots boiled just past raw, then dressed hot with cumin, garlic and lemon so they take the flavour right through…
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Healthy
Green Goddess Salad
Everything chopped to the size of a pea and bound in a herb dressing thick enough to cling, eaten with a spoon or a…
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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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Quick Meals
Black Pepper Beef
Velveted beef seared hard with peppers and onion in a sauce built on a great deal of coarsely cracked black pepper…
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Quick Meals
Garlic Mushroom Toast
Mushrooms cooked hard in a dry pan until they squeak and brown before any fat goes in, then finished with garlic…
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Lunch
Australian Meat Pie
A shortcrust base and a puff lid over a thick, dark beef filling that has been cooked and then cooled before it goes…
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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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Dinner
Lentil Shepherd's Pie
Brown lentils and mushrooms cooked down with red wine and Marmite into something dark enough to carry a mash lid…
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Dinner
Mushroom Stroganoff
Mushrooms browned hard in three batches, then a paprika and mustard sauce finished with cashew cream. The sourness…
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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
Pulled Jackfruit Tacos
Young green jackfruit shredded and cooked down in a chipotle and orange braise until the edges catch, which is where…
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Dinner
Butternut Mac and Cheese
A sauce of butternut squash, cashews and potato, blended smooth with nutritional yeast and mustard. It is orange, it…
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Dinner
Tofu Katsu Curry
Firm tofu pressed, crumbed in panko and baked crisp, over a proper katsu sauce built from onions cooked down for…
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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
Makdous
Baby aubergines boiled soft, stuffed with walnuts, garlic and chilli, then packed under olive oil. A preserve rather…
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Toum
Garlic and oil beaten to a stiff white emulsion with nothing else in it but lemon and salt. No egg, no dairy — the…
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Balila
Warm chickpeas in their own liquor with cumin, garlic and lemon. Sold from carts for breakfast and about as simple…
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Maghmour
Aubergine and chickpeas stewed down in tomato and garlic until everything collapses. Often called Lebanese moussaka…
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Loubieh bi Zeit
Green beans braised soft in tomato and olive oil. Not blanched, not crisp — cooked until they give completely, which…
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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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Appetizers
Salatet Raheb
The monk's salad: aubergine burned over a flame until it collapses, then chopped rough with tomato, onion and lemon…
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Appetizers
Carrot and Tahini Salad
Raw grated carrot dressed with a loosened tahini sauce and a lot of lemon. A five-minute salad that gets on the…
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Dinner
Kibbeh Labaniyeh
Kibbeh balls poached in a stabilised yogurt sauce with garlic and dried mint. Warm, sour, and completely unlike the…
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Dinner
Shish Barak
Tiny meat dumplings pinched into rings and cooked in the same garlic-and-mint yogurt. Fiddly enough that it is 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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Dinner
Djaj Mhammar
Chicken and potatoes roasted hard in lemon, garlic and olive oil until the edges blacken. Four ingredients doing all…
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Dinner
Bamia bi Lahme
Okra and lamb stewed in tomato with a lot of coriander and garlic. Cooked long enough that the okra gives up…
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Dinner
Fasolia bi Lahme
White beans and lamb stewed with tomato and a great deal of garlic and coriander. The everyday winter pot, eaten…
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Dinner
Koussa Mahshi
Small courgettes cored and filled with rice and lamb, cooked upright in tomato. Coring them without going through…
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Dinner
Malfouf Mahshi
Cabbage leaves rolled tight around rice and lamb, packed in layers with garlic and dried mint. The winter cousin of…
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Dinner
Yakhnet Batata
Potato and lamb stewed in tomato with coriander and garlic until the potatoes start to break and thicken the pot…
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Dinner
Kousa bil Laban
Stuffed courgettes finished in the garlic and mint yogurt rather than tomato. Milder than the tomato version and, in…
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Appetizers
Ta'ameya
Egypt's falafel, and a genuinely different thing from the Levantine one: split broad beans rather than chickpeas, a…
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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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Lunch
Shorbet Ads
Red lentil soup finished with cumin, lemon and fried bread. The default first course at every Egyptian table in…
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Appetizers
Salata Baladi
The chopped country salad that arrives with everything: tomato, cucumber, onion and pepper cut small, dressed with…
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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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Baba Ghanoug Masri
The Egyptian version, which is a salad rather than a purée: charred aubergine chopped rough and mixed with tomato…
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Torshi
The pink pickled turnips that come free with every plate of ta'ameya in Egypt. Beetroot does the colouring; the…
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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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Dinner
Torly
Vegetables cut large and roasted together in a tomato sauce until everything is soft enough to eat with a spoon…
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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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Dinner
Mahshi Cromb
Cabbage leaves rolled thin around a herb-heavy rice filling with no meat in it, packed flat and cooked in tomato…
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Dinner
Kofta Masreya
Minced beef and lamb on skewers with onion, parsley and a lot of black pepper, grilled hard over coals or under a…
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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
Harissa
Dried chillies rehydrated and pounded with garlic, caraway and coriander seed into a coarse red paste. Nothing like…
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Breakfast
Lablabi
Chickpeas in a cumin and garlic broth poured over torn stale bread, with a raw egg cracked in and stirred through…
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Appetizers
Omek Houria
Carrots boiled soft, crushed with harissa, garlic and caraway, and eaten cold with bread. The name means "your…
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Lunch
Hlelem
A thick soup of hand-broken noodles, three kinds of bean and a lot of greens, red with harissa. Winter food from the…
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Quick Meals
Ojja
Eggs broken into a fierce harissa and tomato sauce with merguez and left barely set. Fifteen minutes, one pan, and…
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Dinner
Kamounia
Liver or beef stewed slowly with an aggressive quantity of cumin — kamoun — until the sauce is dark and thick. One…
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Dinner
Felfel Mahchi
Long green peppers stuffed with spiced meat and rice and braised in a red sauce until the skins blister and slip…
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Dinner
Kabkabou
Fish braised with preserved lemon, olives, tomato and saffron, from the coast. The sauce is finished around the fish…
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Dinner
Complet Poisson
The Tunisian fish plate: grilled fish with fried peppers, potatoes, a salad, tastira and harissa, all on one dish…
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Dinner
Hout Mechoui
Whole fish grilled over coals with nothing on it but oil and salt, served with tastira and lemon. The restraint is…
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Dinner
Madfouna
Lamb and chard buried under a lid of dough and baked, so the meat steams in its own juices. Madfouna means buried…
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Appetizers
Rillettes de Porc
Pork shoulder cooked for hours in its own fat until it can be pulled to threads, packed into a pot and sealed. A…
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Appetizers
Terrine de Campagne
A coarse country pâté of pork, liver and fat baked in a bain-marie and pressed overnight. Rustic on purpose — you…
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Jambon Persillé
Ham set in a parsley jelly made from its own cooking stock, from Burgundy. Turned out and sliced, and the parsley…
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Escargots à la Bourguignonne
Snails baked under garlic and parsley butter until it bubbles over the shells. The butter is the recipe; the snails…
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Tapenade
Black olives, capers, anchovy and garlic pounded to a rough paste. Named for the capers — tapena — which everyone…
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Anchoïade
Anchovies melted into olive oil with garlic and served warm for dipping raw vegetables into. Three ingredients and…
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Aïoli
Garlic pounded to a cream and emulsified with olive oil, sometimes with a yolk to help it. Provence eats it with…
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Brandade de Morue
Salt cod beaten with potato, garlic, oil and milk into a warm purée. Nîmes makes it without potato and everyone else…
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Appetizers
Œufs en Meurette
Eggs poached in red wine and served on fried bread under a sauce made from the same wine. Burgundy taking the…
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Lunch
Garbure
The Gascon soup of cabbage, beans and preserved duck, thick enough that the spoon should stand up in it. A meal, not…
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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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Dinner
Poulet Basquaise
Chicken braised with peppers, tomato and piment d'Espelette from the Basque country. The peppers are cooked down to…
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Dinner
Poule au Pot
A whole chicken stuffed and poached with vegetables, the broth served first and the meat after. Henri IV wanted…
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Dinner
Navarin d'Agneau
Lamb braised with the first vegetables of spring, each added at its own moment. The vegetables are the point, not a…
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Dinner
Daube Provençale
Beef marinated in red wine with orange peel and cooked for three and a half hours. Provence rather than Burgundy —…
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Dinner
Poulet Rôti
Roast chicken with butter under the skin and lemon inside, started on its side. The French method turns the bird…
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Dinner
Gigot d'Agneau
Leg of lamb studded with garlic and anchovy and roasted pink over potatoes that catch the juices. The anchovy is not…
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Dinner
Épaule d'Agneau de 7 Heures
Lamb shoulder cooked for seven hours until it can be served with a spoon. No knife on the table, which is the…
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Dinner
Moules Frites
Mussels steamed open in white wine with shallots, and chips fried twice. The mussel liquor is the sauce and should…
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Dinner
Lotte à l'Armoricaine
Monkfish in a sauce of tomato, brandy and shellfish stock. Armoricaine after Brittany, though half of France still…
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Dinner
Fondue Savoyarde
Three cheeses melted into white wine with garlic and kirsch. The cornflour is not cheating — it is what stops the…
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Dinner
Aligot
Potato purée beaten with fresh tomme until it becomes elastic enough to lift in ropes. From the Aubrac, and the…
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Dinner
Truffade
Sliced potatoes fried slowly in fat and folded with fresh tomme until they form a single cake. The Auvergne cousin…
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Lunch
Pipérade
Peppers, tomatoes and onions cooked down to a jam with Espelette, then eggs stirred through. Basque, and often eaten…
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Dinner
Gratin de Courgettes
Courgettes cooked down with rice and bound with egg and cheese, from Provence. The rice is cooked in the courgette…
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Baking
Fougasse
Provençal bread slashed into a leaf shape and stretched so the cuts open. More crust than crumb, which is the point.
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Lunch
Pan Bagnat
A salade niçoise pressed into a round loaf until the bread soaks up the dressing. Bagnat means bathed, and the…
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Appetizers
Bagna Cauda
A hot bath of anchovy, garlic and oil kept warm at the table for dipping raw vegetables into. Piedmont in November…
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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
Carciofi alla Romana
Artichokes braised upside down in oil, water and a great deal of mint until they can be cut with a spoon. Roman…
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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
Culurgiones
Sardinian parcels of potato, mint and pecorino, closed with a pleat that looks like an ear of wheat. The pleat takes…
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Dinner
Strozzapreti alla Boscaiola
Hand-rolled twists in a boscaiola of mushrooms, sausage and cream. The name means priest-stranglers and nobody has a…
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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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Dinner
Pappardelle al Cinghiale
Wild boar marinated in red wine and stewed for three hours, on wide ribbons. Tuscany, and juniper is what makes it…
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Dinner
Trofie al Pesto
Ligurian twists with potato and green beans cooked in the same water, all dressed in pesto. The potato is not a…
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Dinner
Pizzoccheri della Valtellina
Buckwheat ribbons layered with cabbage, potato and melting cheese under browned butter and sage. Alpine food, and…
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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
Testaroli al Pesto
A thin pancake cooked on a hot stone, cut into diamonds and dipped in boiling water. Arguably the oldest pasta in…
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Dinner
Brasato al Barolo
Beef braised for three hours in a bottle of Barolo until the wine has gone almost black and the meat gives way to a…
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Dinner
Bollito Misto
Several cuts of meat boiled in the same broth and carved at the table with a green sauce. Piedmont and Emilia both…
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Dinner
Coda alla Vaccinara
Oxtail braised four hours with an absurd amount of celery, finished with pine nuts and raisins. The dish the Roman…
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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
Porchetta
Pork belly wrapped around loin, packed with fennel and rosemary, roasted until the skin shatters. Umbria and Lazio…
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Dinner
Polpette al Sugo
Meatballs cooked in the sauce rather than before it, so the sauce takes on the meat and the meat stays soft. The…
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Dinner
Involtini di Manzo
Thin beef rolled around cheese, parsley and garlic, then braised in tomato until it can be cut with a spoon. Sicily…
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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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Lunch
Bagnùn di Acciughe
A thin anchovy and tomato soup from the Ligurian coast, eaten by fishermen out of the pot with hard biscuit. Half an…
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Dinner
Peperonata
Peppers and onions cooked down slowly in their own liquid until they collapse into something sweet and jammy. Hot…
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Lunch
Mulligatawny Soup
Anglo-Indian curried soup, invented in Madras for officers who wanted a soup course and were given pepper water…
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Dinner
Roast Lamb with Mint Sauce
A leg of lamb studded with garlic and rosemary, pink in the middle, with a mint sauce sharp enough to cut it…
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Dinner
Stuffed Marrow
A marrow hollowed out, filled with spiced mince and baked with cheese on top. What the allotment demands every…
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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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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
Zhajiangmian
Thick wheat noodles under a dark salty pork sauce and a heap of raw shredded vegetables that you mix in yourself at…
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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
Braised Beef Brisket
Brisket and daikon braised for three hours in a chu hou and bean paste sauce until the tendon has gone to jelly. The…
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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
Mei Cai Kou Rou
Pork belly fried, sliced, packed face-down over preserved mustard greens and steamed for two hours, then turned out…
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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
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
Di San Xian
Potato, aubergine and green pepper each fried separately then brought together in a garlicky sauce. Dongbei, and the…
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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
Choy Sum in Oyster Sauce
Choy sum blanched in oiled salted water and dressed in warmed oyster sauce. Three minutes, and the oil in the water…
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Dinner
Home-Style Tofu
Tofu triangles fried until golden and puffed, then braised with pork and doubanjiang. What Sichuan households cook…
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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
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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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
Hakka Noodles
Egg noodles tossed with shredded vegetables over a high flame. The Indian Chinese restaurant staple, and fifteen…
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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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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
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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Appetizers
Vegetable Momos
Pleated Himalayan dumplings of finely chopped cabbage and carrot, steamed and eaten with a fiery tomato chutney.
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Quick Meals
Kimchi Fried Rice
Cold rice fried hard with sour kimchi and topped with a fried egg. Twenty-five minutes, and better the older the…
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Dinner
Budae Jjigae
Army base stew: kimchi, gochujang, sausage, tinned meat and instant noodles in one bubbling pan. Invented from…
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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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Dinner
Bossam
Pork belly boiled with aromatics until it slices clean, wrapped in lettuce with salted shrimp and radish. No frying…
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Appetizers
Moo Ping
Pork shoulder marinated in coconut milk and white pepper, threaded on bamboo and grilled over charcoal. Bangkok…
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Quick Meals
Pad Woon Sen
Glass noodles tossed with egg, prawns and vegetables in a light soy dressing. Twenty-seven minutes and lighter than…
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Lunch
Bún Thịt Nướng
Grilled lemongrass pork over cold rice vermicelli with herbs, pickle and nuoc cham poured over. A hot and cold bowl…
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Dinner
Bò Kho
Beef shin stewed with lemongrass, star anise and annatto until it falls apart, with carrots cut thick. Eaten with…
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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
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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Lunch
Sopa de Fideo
Thin noodles toasted golden in oil, then simmered in a tomato broth. Thirty minutes, and it is what Mexican children…
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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
Pot Roast
A whole chuck joint browned and cooked three and a half hours with carrots and potatoes until it falls into pieces…
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Dinner
Sloppy Joe Skillet
Minced beef in a sweet-sharp tomato sauce, spooned onto soft buns. Thirty minutes, one pan, and no packet mix.
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Baking
Garlic Bread
A baguette split, packed with garlic and parsley butter and baked until the edges crisp and the middle stays soft.
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Quick Meals
Pesto Pasta
Basil pounded with pine nuts and cheese, loosened with pasta water and tossed off the heat. Twenty-two minutes.
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Lunch
Minestrone
Whatever vegetables are about, cooked long and slow with beans and a little pasta. Under an hour, and it improves…
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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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Dinner
Lamb Kleftiko
Lamb shoulder sealed in parchment with lemon, oregano and potatoes and cooked three and a half hours. The parcel is…
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Dinner
Youvetsi
Beef baked with orzo in a cinnamon-scented tomato sauce until the pasta has drunk the lot. One dish, ninety minutes.
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Dinner
Adana Kebab
Hand-minced lamb with tail fat and red pepper, pressed onto flat skewers and grilled over charcoal. Named for the…
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Dinner
Manti
Dumplings the size of a fingernail under garlic yoghurt and paprika butter. Eighty minutes, most of it folding.
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Dinner
Karnıyarık
Aubergines fried whole, split down the middle and filled with spiced lamb, then baked in tomato. The name means…
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Appetizers
Şakşuka
Fried aubergine and courgette under a garlicky tomato sauce, served cold. Nothing to do with the egg dish of a…
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Appetizers
Albóndigas
Small pork and beef meatballs in an almond and saffron sauce. A tapas plate, and the sauce is thickened with bread…
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Dinner
Pollo al Ajillo
Chicken pieces fried hard with a great deal of garlic and finished with sherry. Fifty minutes and five ingredients…
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Quick Meals
Vegetable Stir-Fry
Whatever is in the fridge, cut evenly and cooked hard for four minutes in a sauce that clings. Twenty-five minutes…
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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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Lunch
Corn Chowder
Sweetcorn simmered in a thin broth with potato and finished with cream. Forty-five minutes, and the cobs go in the…
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Lunch
Chicken Caesar Wrap
Griddled chicken, cos lettuce and parmesan rolled in a warm tortilla with a proper anchovy dressing. Under half an…
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Quick Meals
Ground Beef Tacos
Minced beef cooked with real spices rather than a sachet, in corn tortillas with whatever you have. Twenty-five…
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Dinner
Spaghetti and Meatballs
Meatballs browned and finished in the sauce, over spaghetti. Italian-American, and none the worse for it.
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Dinner
Greek Chicken Traybake
Chicken thighs, potatoes, lemon and oregano in one tin for forty-five minutes. The tin does the work.
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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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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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Dinner
Kare-Kare
Oxtail simmered three hours and finished in a thick peanut sauce, eaten with salted shrimp paste on the side.
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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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Dinner
Chicken Inasal
Chicken marinated in calamansi, lemongrass and vinegar, then grilled under a constant basting of annatto oil.
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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
Ayam Goreng
Chicken simmered in turmeric and lemongrass, then fried, with the spiced poaching liquid fried alongside into crisp…
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Appetizers
Beef Satay
Beef marinated in lemongrass and turmeric, threaded thin and grilled fast over charcoal, with a peanut sauce made…
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Dinner
Hokkien Mee
Thick yellow noodles braised in dark soy with prawns, pork and cabbage until the sauce coats every strand. Kuala…
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Dinner
Stroganoff Sauce
Mushrooms, mustard and soured cream reduced into a sauce for beef or anything else. Forty minutes and no beef…
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Appetizers
Papa a la Huancaína
Boiled potatoes under a yellow chilli and cheese sauce, cold, with olives and egg. Thirty-five minutes.
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Appetizers
Anticuchos
Beef heart marinated in ají panca and vinegar, grilled hard over charcoal. Lima's street food, and the marinade is…
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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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Dinner
Shiro Wat
Toasted chickpea flour whisked into a spiced stew that thickens as you stir. On the table in half an hour.
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Dinner
Misir Wat
Red lentils cooked down with berbere until they go dark and glossy and the oil separates out. The dry onion start…
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Breakfast
Baleadas
A thick flour tortilla folded over refried beans, cream and crumbled cheese. Honduras's breakfast, and thirty minutes.
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Dinner
Moules Marinière
Mussels steamed open in white wine, shallot and parsley, in the time it takes to lay the table.
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Breakfast
Fattet Hummus
Crisp torn bread under warm chickpeas under garlicky yoghurt, finished with browned butter and pine nuts. Assembled…
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Dinner
Tteok Galbi
Short rib meat taken off the bone, chopped, seasoned and shaped back onto it, then grilled with a soy and pear glaze.
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Dinner
Dubu Jorim
Tofu slabs pan-fried until golden, then braised in soy and chilli until the sauce has almost gone. Thirty minutes.
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Dinner
Ojingeo Bokkeum
Squid scored, cut and stir-fried in gochujang with onion and courgette. Thirty-five minutes, and the squid cooks in…
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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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Breakfast
Bánh Cuốn
Rice batter steamed into sheets thinner than paper, rolled around pork and wood ear, with fried shallots over.
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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
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
French Dip
Thin roast beef in a roll with a cup of the roasting juices to dip it in. Forty-five minutes, and the jus is the…
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Appetizers
Pkhali
Vegetables blanched, squeezed and pounded with walnut, garlic and coriander into small mounds. Georgia's table…
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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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