Chicken Tikka Masala
Charred yogurt-marinated chicken folded into a silky, gently spiced tomato-cream sauce — the most ordered curry in…
Fresh root and dried powder. 613 recipes on the site call for ginger.
Ginger is in 613 recipes from 43 cuisines, among them 345 dinners, 85 appetisers and small plates, 30 drinks and 30 lunches. The cuisines that use it most here are Indian (175), Chinese (137), American (62) and Japanese (46). Of these, 130 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Rye and Ginger (2 min), Shirley Temple (3 min) and Cinderella Mocktail (5 min). For 220, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 364 easy, 207 medium and 42 hard.
As written, 242 are vegetarian, 115 vegan, 231 gluten-free and 384 dairy-free. Another 14 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.
Charred yogurt-marinated chicken folded into a silky, gently spiced tomato-cream sauce — the most ordered curry in…
Delhi's murgh makhani: tandoori chicken finished in a sauce of tomatoes, butter and cream, balanced with a whisper…
Hyderabadi dum biryani, where marinated chicken and part-cooked rice are layered raw and sealed to steam in their…
The milky, collagen-heavy pork broth that made Hakata famous, boiled hard for eight hours until the fat and gelatine…
Marinated raw lamb layered under half-cooked rice and sealed with dough, so the meat and rice cook together in…
Double-fried until the crust is glassy and stays crisp under the sauce, then glazed in sticky sweet-hot gochujang…
The most ordered dish in American Chinese restaurants: craggy fried chicken tossed in a bright, sticky sauce built…
Black urad lentils and kidney beans soaked overnight, simmered for hours, then finished with butter and cream until…
A clear, aromatic broth simmered for four hours with charred ginger and onion and a bundle of toasted spices, poured…
Japan's favourite comfort food: a panko-crusted chicken cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with a thick, gently…
Japan's definitive fried chicken: thigh meat marinated in soy, sake and ginger, dusted in potato starch and fried…
Rice cooked in a reduced pepper and tomato base until the grains are stained deep orange and a smoky crust forms at…
Juicy jiaozi with a hand-rolled wrapper thick at the centre and thin at the edge — the shape that stops the base…
Sichuan's most travelled dish, done properly: velveted chicken, blistered dried chillies, the numbing buzz of…
Properly made samosas have a blistered, flaky shell that stays crisp for hours — the result of a stiff dough…
The mildest of the great Mughlai curries and the most technically demanding: chicken in a pale, fragrant sauce built…
Sapporo-style ramen: a miso tare whisked into rich pork or chicken broth, stir-fried pork and vegetables piled on…
Black tea boiled with milk, sugar and whole spices until it is strong enough to stand up to all three. Not tea with…
The most useful stir-fry in the repertoire: velveted beef, crisp-tender broccoli and a savoury oyster sauce gravy…
Thinly sliced beef marinated in soy, pear and sesame, then seared fast so it caramelises without stewing. Twenty…
Cubes of paneer marinated in spiced yoghurt, threaded with peppers and onion, and charred hard under a grill until…
Taiwanese braised beef noodle soup: shin and tendon cooked for hours in a broth built on soy, doubanjiang and…
The Chinese-American classic: crackling battered chicken in a sticky, tangy, faintly sweet sauce with a lick of…
Real teriyaki is a technique, not a bottled sauce: chicken pan-fried until the skin crackles, then glazed in a…
A properly spiced carrot cake, moist from oil and crushed pineapple, with walnuts for bite and a tangy cream cheese…
Beef simmered in coconut milk and spice paste for four hours until the liquid has gone entirely and the meat fries…
Cubes of golden-fried paneer suspended in a vividly green spinach gravy. The trick to that colour is blanching and…
Rice steamed in coconut milk with pandan, served with sambal, fried anchovies and peanuts, cucumber and a boiled or…
A silky custard pie with proper spice and a blind-baked base that stays crisp. Cooking the purée down first…
Wholewheat flatbread stuffed with spiced mashed potato and griddled in ghee until blistered. The Punjabi breakfast…
Cubed raw tuna dressed in soy, sesame and sweet onion over rice. Hawaiian in origin and Japanese in influence, and…
Orange chicken's darker, nuttier sibling: the same shattering fried crust in a soy and honey glaze thickened with…
Pan-fried pork dumplings with a lacy crisp base and a juicy, cabbage-sweet filling. The steam-fry technique gives…
A double marinade — first in lemon and salt, then in spiced yogurt — gets flavour deep into the meat before it hits…
Chicken marinated overnight in scotch bonnet, allspice and thyme, then cooked slowly over indirect heat until the…
Mumbai's great street dish: a mash of vegetables cooked down on a giant griddle with a distinctive spice blend…
Soft egg noodles tossed rather than fried, coated in a glossy soy and oyster sauce with chicken and crisp…
Prawn and pork wontons in a clear, dried-flounder broth with springy thin egg noodles. Cantonese, and the noodles go…
Napa cabbage salted, coated in a chilli and fermented seafood paste, and left to ferment until it fizzes. Two days…
Chicken braised with preserved lemon, olives and warm spices until it falls off the bone, in a sauce reduced to a…
A whole chicken poached gently and plunged into ice, with rice cooked in the poaching stock and rendered chicken…
Springy egg noodles tossed with chicken and vegetables in a savoury brown sauce, with a few noodles crisped against…
Shatteringly crisp vegetable spring rolls with a filling that stays crunchy inside the wrapper. Cooling the filling…
Cut-out gingerbread that holds a sharp edge, tastes strongly of spice and molasses, and stays chewy rather than…
Marinated chicken chunks coated in sweet potato starch, fried twice, and tossed with salt, white pepper and fried…
Shanghai soup dumplings: pleated parcels holding pork and a mouthful of hot broth, created by folding chilled aspic…
A punchy North Indian chickpea curry, sour with amchur and tamarind and darkened by a long-fried onion base…
Wheat noodles fried on a griddle with cabbage, pork and a thick fruity brown sauce, finished with aonori, bonito…