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Classic Smash Cheeseburger
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Chicken Tikka Masala
Charred yogurt-marinated chicken folded into a silky, gently spiced tomato-cream sauce — the most ordered curry in…
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Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)
Delhi's murgh makhani: tandoori chicken finished in a sauce of tomatoes, butter and cream, balanced with a whisper…
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Pad Thai
The real thing is sour, salty and only lightly sweet — a world away from the ketchup-orange version. Tamarind, palm…
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Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani
Hyderabadi dum biryani, where marinated chicken and part-cooked rice are layered raw and sealed to steam in their…
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Birria Tacos
Jalisco's chilli-braised beef, shredded into tortillas that have been dipped in the scarlet fat from the braise…
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Authentic Guacamole
The Mexican original is made in a molcajete and contains no garlic, no cumin and no soured cream — just avocado…
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Katsu Curry
A breaded cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with Japanese curry sauce — thicker, sweeter and darker than an Indian…
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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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Carolina Pulled Pork
Pork shoulder rubbed and cooked low for six hours until it pulls apart in strands, dressed the Carolina way with a…
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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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Southern Fried Chicken
Buttermilk-brined chicken in a craggy, well-seasoned crust, fried in a cast-iron skillet. The double dredge and a…
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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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Lasagna Bolognese
A proper lasagne alla Bolognese is a study in patience: a three-hour ragù, a nutmeg-scented besciamella and…
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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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Dal Makhani
Black urad lentils and kidney beans simmered overnight, then finished with butter and cream until the dal is almost…
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Phở Bò (Beef Noodle Soup)
A clear, aromatic broth simmered for four hours with charred ginger and onion and a bundle of toasted spices, poured…
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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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Jollof Rice
Rice cooked in a reduced pepper and tomato base until the grains are stained deep orange and a smoky crust forms at…
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Steamed Pork Dumplings
Juicy jiaozi with a hand-rolled wrapper thick at the centre and thin at the edge — the shape that stops the base…
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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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BBQ Baby Back Ribs
Oven-baked ribs with a dry rub, a low three-hour cook and a final glaze under the grill. No smoker needed, and the…
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Chicken Pot Pie
Chicken and vegetables in a velvety sauce under an all-butter pastry lid that shatters when you break through it…
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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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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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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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Loaded Nachos
The real thing, not a pile of chips with sauce poured over: every chip laid out individually, each one bearing its…
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Philly Cheesesteak
Thinly shaved ribeye, sweated onions and melted cheese crammed into a soft hoagie roll. The debate over Cheez Whiz…
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Horiatiki Greek Salad
A real horiatiki has no lettuce in it: just tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, onion, olives and a slab of feta, dressed…
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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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Breakfast
Crispy Hash Browns
Grated potato squeezed bone dry, pressed into a pan of butter and left completely alone until a solid golden crust…
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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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Chicken Teriyaki
Real teriyaki is a technique, not a bottled sauce: chicken pan-fried until the skin crackles, then glazed in a…
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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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Roast Beef and Yorkshire Puddings
A rib of beef roasted to a rosy centre, rested properly, and carved thick, with Yorkshire puddings risen tall in…
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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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Swedish Meatballs
Small, tender meatballs in a creamy pan gravy, served with lingonberry jam and mashed potato. The bread-and-cream…
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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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Aloo Paratha
Wholewheat flatbread stuffed with spiced mashed potato and griddled in ghee until blistered. The Punjabi breakfast…
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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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Ahi Poke Bowl
Cubed raw tuna dressed in soy, sesame and sweet onion over rice. Hawaiian in origin and Japanese in influence, and…
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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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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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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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Tortilla Española
Potatoes and onion confited slowly in olive oil, then bound in egg and cooked until the centre is barely set and…
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Wonton Noodle Soup
Prawn and pork wontons in a clear, dried-flounder broth with springy thin egg noodles. Cantonese, and the noodles go…
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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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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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Quick Meals
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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Scallion Pancakes
Layered flatbreads made from a hot-water dough, rolled with oil and spring onion, coiled and flattened so they fry…
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Tom Yum Goong
The hot-and-sour prawn soup that defines Thai cooking: lemongrass, galangal and lime leaf simmered into a broth…
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Gỏi Cuốn (Fresh Spring Rolls)
Rice paper rolls packed with prawns, pork, herbs and vermicelli, served cold with peanut dipping sauce. Nothing is…
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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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Irish Stew
Lamb neck, potatoes and onions simmered slowly in stock with nothing else in the pot. The potatoes on top stay…
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Turkish Lentil Soup
Red lentils cooked to nothing with onion, carrot and potato, blended smooth and finished with a spoonful of chilli…
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Dinner
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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Beef Empanadas
Argentinian empanadas with a juicy, gently spiced beef filling, olives and egg, baked in a short pastry that stays…
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Xiao Long Bao
Shanghai soup dumplings: pleated parcels holding pork and a mouthful of hot broth, created by folding chilled aspic…
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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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Yakisoba
Wheat noodles fried on a griddle with cabbage, pork and a thick fruity brown sauce, finished with aonori, bonito…
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Baja Fish Tacos
Baja-style tacos with beer-battered white fish, a lime crema and shredded cabbage for crunch. Twenty minutes from…
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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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Oyakodon
Chicken and egg over rice — the name means "parent and child" — simmered together in a sweet-savoury dashi until the…
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Lunch
Chole Bhature
Punjab's great weekend breakfast: dark, tangy chickpeas served with balloon-like fried bread. The chana is blackened…
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Dinner
Galbi (Korean Short Ribs)
Beef short ribs butterflied thin, marinated in soy, pear and sesame, and grilled over fire until the sugars char…
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Seekh Kebab
Spiced minced lamb moulded onto skewers and cooked over coals, kept juicy by fat, papaya paste and a rest in the…
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Dinner
Beef Barbacoa
Beef cheek or chuck braised for hours with dried chillies, cloves and bay until it shreds under a fork, in juices…
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Breakfast
Loaded Breakfast Burrito
Soft scrambled eggs, crisp potatoes, sausage and cheese rolled tight in a griddled tortilla. Built properly it holds…
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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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Classic Potato Salad
Waxy potatoes dressed while still warm so they drink in the vinegar, then finished cold with mayonnaise, celery, egg…
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Dinner
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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Dinner
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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Dinner
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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Dinner
Moussaka
Layers of roasted aubergine, spiced lamb ragù and a thick béchamel enriched with egg yolks and kefalotyri, baked…
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Dinner
Potato and Cheese Pierogi
Tender dumplings filled with potato and farmer's cheese, boiled and then fried in butter with onions. A weekend…
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Dinner
Red-Braised Pork Belly
Red-braised pork belly: cubes of belly caramelised in melted rock sugar, then braised in soy and Shaoxing wine until…
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Dinner
Khao Soi
Northern Thailand's coconut curry noodle soup, with soft egg noodles beneath and a nest of crisp fried ones on top…
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Dinner
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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Dinner
Jamaican Curry Goat
Goat browned and stewed for hours with Jamaican curry powder, thyme and scotch bonnet until it falls off the bone…
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Dinner
Cioppino
San Francisco's Italian-American fishermen's stew — crab, clams, mussels, prawns and firm fish in a tomato and wine…
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Dinner
Chicken Paprikash
Chicken braised in a sauce of onions and a great deal of sweet Hungarian paprika, finished with soured cream and…
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Appetizers
Jamón Croquetas
A very thick béchamel studded with jamón, chilled overnight, rolled, crumbed and fried so the outside is crisp and…
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Dinner
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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Dinner
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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Dinner
Rice and Peas
Rice cooked in coconut milk with kidney beans, thyme, spring onion and a whole scotch bonnet left in and lifted out…
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Healthy
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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Appetizers
Beer-Battered Onion Rings
Thick onion rings in a beer batter that fries into a light, blistered shell. The carbonation and the alcohol both do…
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Breakfast
Arepas
Griddled corn cakes made from pre-cooked maize flour, split open and stuffed. Venezuelans and Colombians both claim…
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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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Breakfast
Idli Sambar
Steamed rice and lentil cakes, sour from natural fermentation and light as a sponge, served with a tamarind-sharp…
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Dinner
Chicken Fried Steak
Tenderised beef, double-dredged and fried like chicken, under a peppery milk gravy made in the same pan. Texas…
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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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Quick Meals
Gyudon
Thinly sliced beef and onion simmered for four minutes in dashi, soy and mirin, then tipped over rice. Japan's…
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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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Breakfast
Masala Dosa
A paper-thin, tangy fermented crêpe wrapped around spiced potato, with coconut chutney and sambar alongside. South…
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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
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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Lunch
Wonton Soup
Silky wontons with a prawn and pork filling floating in a clear, restorative broth. The wrappers are so thin they…
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Healthy
Tom Kha Gai
The gentler sibling of tom yum: coconut milk smooths the sourness into something creamy and fragrant, with chicken…
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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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Healthy
Miso Soup
The five-minute soup that anchors every Japanese meal: a clean dashi broth, silken tofu, wakame and miso whisked in…
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Healthy
Creamy Coleslaw
Cabbage and carrot in a dressing balanced between mayonnaise, vinegar and sugar. The technique that matters is…
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Healthy
Tabbouleh
A Lebanese tabbouleh is a parsley salad with a little bulgur in it, not the other way round. Chopped by hand…
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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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Dinner
Sinigang na Baboy
Pork belly and vegetables in a broth soured with tamarind, sharp enough to make you sit up, eaten with rice and a…
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Appetizers
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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Dinner
Massaman Beef Curry
The mildest and most aromatic Thai curry, carrying Persian and Indian influence in its cinnamon, cardamom and…
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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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Appetizers
Beef Suya
Thin beef skewers coated in yaji, a spice mix built on ground peanuts, chilli and ginger, grilled over coals and…
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Dinner
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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Lunch
New England Clam Chowder
A proper white chowder — thickened with potato starch and a light roux rather than a bucket of cream — with sweet…
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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
Omurice
A Japanese diner classic: ketchup-seasoned chicken rice wrapped in a thin omelette, either folded neatly or, in the…
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Appetizers
Char Siu Bao
Cantonese steamed barbecue pork buns: a snow-white, faintly sweet dough that bursts open at the top to reveal sticky…
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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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Appetizers
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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Dinner
Toad in the Hole
Sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding batter until the sides climb the tin and the whole thing arrives dramatically…
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Quick Meals
Tuna Melt
Tuna mayonnaise under melted cheese on griddled bread, in the diner tradition. The tuna is dressed with celery and…
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Dinner
Ghormeh Sabzi
The Persian herb stew: several bunches of herbs fried down almost to black, with lamb, kidney beans and dried limes…
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Appetizers
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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Quick Meals
Cheese Quesadillas
A properly made quesadilla is about the cheese pull and the crisp, blistered tortilla — nothing more. Ten minutes…
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Dinner
Bratwurst with Sauerkraut
Bratwurst simmered in beer and onions and then browned, served on sauerkraut cooked down with apple and caraway.
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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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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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Dinner
Käsespätzle
Soft egg noodles scraped straight into boiling water, then layered with grated cheese and topped with fried onions…
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Lunch
Hot and Sour Soup
Sharp with black vinegar, hot with white pepper rather than chilli, and thickened to that distinctive silky body…
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Dinner
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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Appetizers
Spanakopita
Spinach and feta between shattering layers of filo, brushed generously with olive oil and butter. The trick is…
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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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Dinner
Bangers and Mash with Onion Gravy
Good sausages, buttery mash and a proper onion gravy built from slow-caramelised onions and stock rather than 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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Lunch
Cornish Pasty
Beef skirt, potato, swede and onion, all raw, sealed in shortcrust and baked for nearly an hour so everything cooks…
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Healthy
Larb Gai
Minced chicken tossed with toasted rice powder, lime, fish sauce and a great deal of mint and shallot. Isaan…
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Dinner
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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Dinner
Egusi Soup
Ground melon seeds cooked in palm oil with leafy greens, meat and stockfish until they set into rich, savoury curds…
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Dinner
Ragù Napoletano
Naples' answer to bolognese, and nothing like it: whole cuts of beef and pork simmered in tomato for four hours…
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Dinner
Carbonnade Flamande
Beef braised in Belgian brown ale with onions, a spoonful of brown sugar and a slice of mustard-spread bread stirred…
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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
Risotto alla Milanese
The saffron risotto that Milan built its reputation on: bone-marrow rich, sunset gold, and finished with a violent…
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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
Joojeh Kabab
Chicken marinated overnight in saffron, lemon and grated onion, grilled over coals and basted with saffron butter as…
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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
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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Healthy
Mujadara
Lentils and rice cooked together under a mountain of onions fried almost to the point of burning. A dish of the poor…
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Appetizers
Haemul Pajeon
A large, shaggy pancake of spring onions and seafood, fried until the edges are lacy and crisp. Eaten on rainy days…
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Lunch
Pupusas
El Salvador's thick stuffed corn cakes, filled with cheese, beans or chicharrón and griddled until blistered, served…
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Dinner
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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Appetizers
Vegetable Pakoras
Onion, potato and spinach bound in a spiced gram flour batter and fried into craggy, shatteringly crisp clusters…
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Appetizers
Takoyaki
Osaka's street-food icon: molten batter spheres with a nugget of octopus at the centre, turned with a skewer in a…
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Holiday Specials
Olivier Salad
Diced potato, carrot, egg, pickle and ham bound in mayonnaise. Known as Russian salad almost everywhere else, and…
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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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Lunch
Smørrebrød
Dense rye bread, buttered to the edges, built up with one main topping and a short list of things that agree with…
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Dinner
Pelmeni
Small Siberian dumplings with a thin wheat wrapper and a raw meat filling, boiled and eaten with soured cream…
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Lunch
Sabich
Pitta stuffed with fried aubergine, boiled egg, hummus, salad, pickles, amba and a great deal of tahini…
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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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Breakfast
Loco Moco
Rice, a hamburger patty, brown gravy and a fried egg, stacked in that order. Hawaii's answer to a plate lunch, and…
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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
Warm German Potato Salad
Warm potatoes dressed in a bacon, vinegar and stock dressing rather than mayonnaise — sharper, lighter, and much…
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Breakfast
Century Egg Congee
Rice cooked in eight times its volume of stock until the grains collapse into a silken porridge, served with century…
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Dinner
Haggis, Neeps and Tatties
Haggis baked in its skin, served with mashed swede and mashed potato and a whisky cream sauce poured over the lot.
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Appetizers
Sicilian Caponata
Sicilian sweet-and-sour aubergine with celery, olives and capers, finished with vinegar and sugar. Served at room…
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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
Avgolemono Soup
A silky Greek chicken and rice soup thickened with an egg and lemon emulsion rather than cream. Sharp, restorative…
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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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Dinner
Maqluba
Rice, meat and fried vegetables layered in a pot and flipped out whole at the table so it stands as a cake. The name…
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Baking
Turkish Pide
Boat-shaped flatbreads with the edges rolled and pinched around a filling of spiced lamb or cheese and egg, baked…
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Healthy
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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Lunch
Kake Udon Noodle Soup
Thick, bouncy udon in a clear kake broth of dashi, soy and mirin — restorative, restrained and on the table in…
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Lunch
Zaru Soba
Buckwheat noodles rinsed in ice water and served cold on a bamboo mat with a small cup of concentrated dipping…
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Lunch
Boston Baked Beans
Navy beans baked for six hours with molasses, salt pork and mustard until the sauce is dark and thick and the beans…
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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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Holiday Specials
Peking Duck
Lacquered, glass-crisp skin carved off a duck that has been air-dried for a full day, wrapped in thin pancakes with…
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Dinner
Blanquette de Veau
France's great white stew: veal poached with aromatics, the broth turned into a velouté enriched with cream and egg…
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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
Colcannon
Mashed potato beaten with buttery kale or cabbage and spring onions, with a well of melted butter in the middle of…
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Dinner
Raclette
A half wheel of cheese melted under heat and scraped onto plates of boiled potatoes, pickles and cured meats, one…
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Appetizers
Bitterballen
A stiff beef ragout chilled solid, rolled into balls, breadcrumbed and deep fried until the outside is crisp and the…
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Dinner
Fesenjan
Chicken or duck braised in a sauce of ground walnuts and pomegranate molasses that cooks down over hours into…
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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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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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Appetizers
Dolmades
Vine leaves rolled around rice, herbs, onion and pine nuts, packed tight in a pot and simmered under a plate with…
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Dinner
Osaka Okonomiyaki
The Osaka savoury pancake — cabbage bound with a dashi batter, griddled thick, then covered in sweet-sharp sauce…
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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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Holiday Specials
Lamb Mandi
Yemeni lamb steamed over spiced rice until it falls off the bone, then finished with a piece of burning charcoal…
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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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Appetizers
Pulpo a la Gallega
Octopus boiled until tender, sliced into coins, and dressed with olive oil, coarse salt and a heavy dusting of…
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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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Holiday Specials
Sauerbraten
Beef marinated in vinegar and wine for three days, then braised and served with a sweet-sour gravy thickened with…
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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
Chapli Kebab
Flat Peshawari patties of coarse beef with tomato, pomegranate seed and coriander seed, shallow fried in beef fat…
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Dinner
Nigerian Pepper Soup
A thin, fiercely hot broth built on a blend of West African spices, with goat, fish or chicken and almost nothing…
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Dinner
Buta no Kakuni
Pork belly simmered for two and a half hours in dashi, soy and sake until a chopstick passes through it without…
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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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Appetizers
Agedashi Tofu
Silken tofu dusted in potato starch, deep fried until the outside is a thin crackling shell, and served in warm…
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Appetizers
Sopes
Thick masa discs with a pinched rim, griddled then lightly fried, and piled with beans, meat, lettuce, crema and…
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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
Pot-au-Feu
The dish the French call their national plate: beef and marrow bones simmered for hours with whole winter…
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Appetizers
Coquilles Saint-Jacques
Scallops poached in wine, folded into a mushroom velouté, piped back into their shells under Gruyère and browned. A…
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Lunch
Cullen Skink
Smoked haddock, potato and onion in a thick milk soup from the Moray coast. Four ingredients, and all of them have…
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Dinner
Musakhan
Palestinian roast chicken on flatbread soaked in olive oil, with a great quantity of sumac-stained onions and…
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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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Appetizers
Causa Limeña
Cold layers of yellow potato mashed with lime and ají amarillo, packed around a chicken or crab filling and turned…
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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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Dinner
Nyama Choma
Goat or beef rubbed with salt and grilled slowly over low coals for an hour or more, then chopped on a board and…
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Appetizers
Sicilian Arancini
Sicilian rice balls with a molten mozzarella and ragù heart, breadcrumbed and fried until they shatter…
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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
Baked Kibbeh
Bulgur and lamb pounded to a paste, layered around a spiced filling of more lamb and pine nuts, scored into diamonds…
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Dinner
Nikujaga
Beef and potatoes simmered in dashi, soy and mirin until the potatoes have soaked up the broth and started to fall…
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Dinner
Bigos
The Polish hunter's stew: sauerkraut and fresh cabbage cooked down for hours with several kinds of pork, dried…
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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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Appetizers
Vitello Tonnato
Cold poached veal under a sauce of tuna, anchovy and capers blended into mayonnaise. It sounds wrong on paper and is…
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Dinner
Svíčková
Beef sirloin larded with bacon and pot-roasted on a bed of root vegetables, the whole lot blended into a thick cream…
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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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Appetizers
Kelewele
Ripe plantain cut into cubes, tossed with ginger, chilli, cloves and anise, and deep fried until the edges…
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Lunch
Salade Lyonnaise
Bitter leaves, a hot bacon dressing poured over so they half-wilt, croutons fried in the same fat, and a poached egg…
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Dinner
Lion's Head Meatballs
Enormous pork meatballs braised in a light broth with cabbage, so tender they barely hold together. From Huaiyang…
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Dinner
Frikadeller
Danish pork and veal meatballs, flattened into ovals and fried in butter until brown on both sides, served with…
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Appetizers
Lo Bak Go
Grated daikon bound with rice flour and studded with dried shrimp, Chinese sausage and mushroom, steamed into a loaf…
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Appetizers
Toast Skagen
Prawns folded into dill mayonnaise with a squeeze of lemon, piled on a round of butter-fried bread and topped with…
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Dinner
Sarmale
Pickled cabbage leaves rolled around pork, rice and dill, layered in a pot with smoked meat and cooked slowly for…
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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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Lunch
Moin Moin
Peeled black-eyed beans blended with peppers and onion, seasoned and steamed in leaves or tins until it sets into a…
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Holiday Specials
Mole Poblano
Puebla's legendary sauce: more than twenty ingredients — chillies, nuts, seeds, spices, dried fruit and chocolate —…
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Dinner
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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Lunch
Ploughman's Lunch
Not cooking so much as assembly: a wedge of sharp cheddar, good bread, pickled onions, chutney, apple and butter…
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Dinner
Welsh Cawl
Welsh lamb and root vegetable broth, traditionally eaten in two courses: the broth first, then the meat and…
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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
Pastel de Choclo
A beef and chicken filling under a thick layer of ground fresh corn and basil, baked in earthenware and sprinkled…
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Lunch
Waakye
Rice and beans cooked together with dried sorghum leaves, which turn the whole pot a deep reddish brown, served with…
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Dinner
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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Appetizers
Tunisian Brik
A sheet of malsouka pastry folded around tuna, capers, parsley and a whole raw egg, then deep fried so the yolk is…
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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
Harees
Wheat and meat cooked together for hours and then beaten into a smooth, savoury porridge, finished with ghee and…
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Lunch
Tuna and White Bean Salad
Tinned tuna and cannellini beans dressed with lemon, olive oil and red onion — the Tuscan store-cupboard lunch, and…
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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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Breakfast
Savoury Cottage Cheese Bowl
Cottage cheese with tomato, cucumber, olive oil and plenty of black pepper — eight minutes, no cooking, and 26 g of…
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Breakfast
Egg and Cottage Cheese Muffins
Baked egg muffins bound with cottage cheese and packed with spinach and cheddar — six to a batch, 42 g of protein a…
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Lunch
Grilled Halloumi and Herb Salad
Halloumi griddled until it blisters, over a salad of herbs, cucumber and tomato with lemon and olive oil —…
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Appetizers
Smoked Mackerel Pâté
Smoked mackerel beaten with cottage cheese, lemon and horseradish into a coarse pâté — twelve minutes, no cooking…
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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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Breakfast
Smoked Salmon Scrambled Eggs
Eggs scrambled slowly over low heat until barely set, with smoked salmon folded in off the heat and plenty of dill —…
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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
Flammkuchen
Alsatian tarte flambée: a cracker-thin base with no yeast, spread with crème fraîche and covered with onion and…
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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
Kachumbari
Kenya’s everyday salad: tomato, onion and chilli with lime and coriander, salted and drained so it stays crisp…
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Healthy
Curtido
Salvadoran lightly fermented cabbage slaw with carrot, onion and oregano — the sharp, crunchy thing served with…
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Healthy
Salade Méchouia
Tunisian grilled salad: peppers, tomatoes, onion and garlic charred over flame, peeled and chopped rough with…
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Healthy
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
Kısır
Turkish fine bulgur salad worked through with pepper paste, pomegranate molasses and a great deal of parsley, eaten…
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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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Dinner
Juicy Baked Chicken Breast
The answer to the driest thing in the fridge: a brief brine, a hot oven and a thermometer. Twenty minutes, and the…
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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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Quick Meals
Chicken Quesadilla
A properly built quesadilla: cheese against the tortilla on both sides so it welds shut, filling in a thin layer…
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Dinner
Salisbury Steak
Seasoned beef patties browned hard and simmered in a deep onion and mushroom gravy. Diner food done properly, which…
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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
Spaghetti Bolognese
A three-hour ragù with milk in it, finished with the pasta rather than ladled over it. Not the twenty-minute version…
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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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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
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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Dinner
Creamed Spinach
The steakhouse side: spinach wrung dry, folded into a nutmeg-scented béchamel and finished with Parmigiano…
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Lunch
Tuna Salad Sandwich
Tuna in oil rather than brine, drained but not squeezed dry, with celery for crunch and enough lemon to keep it from…
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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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Holiday Specials
Honey Glazed Ham
A gammon joint simmered in cider, then scored, studded and glazed in a hot oven until the honey lacquers and…
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Holiday Specials
Roast Goose
The Christmas bird before turkey took over: dark, rich meat under skin that crackles, and about a litre of the best…
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Holiday Specials
Bread Sauce
Milk infused with onion, clove and bay, then thickened with nothing but breadcrumbs. Older than gravy, better than…
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Holiday Specials
Potato Latkes
Grated potato and onion, wrung out hard, bound with egg and a spoonful of the potato's own starch, and fried until…
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Breakfast
Kedgeree
Smoked haddock, curried rice and soft-boiled eggs — a Victorian breakfast borrowed from khichri and improved by the…
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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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Baking
Cloud Bread
Three ingredients whipped and baked into light, flexible rounds that stand in for a roll. Not bread in any real…
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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
Farro and Roasted Vegetable Salad
Nutty grains against sweet roasted vegetables, with the dressing going onto the farro while it is still warm so it…
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Healthy
Nasu Dengaku
Aubergine halves scored, roasted until collapsing, then lacquered with a sweet-salty miso glaze under the grill…
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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
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
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
Smashed Chickpea Sandwich
Chickpeas crushed with tahini, lemon and capers into something with the texture of a tuna mayo but none of the fish…
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Quick Meals
Scallion Oil Noodles
Shanghai’s cong you ban mian: spring onions fried slowly in oil until they are dark and brittle, the oil they leave…
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Dinner
Lecsó
Hungarian peppers and tomatoes stewed down in lard or oil with a great deal of paprika, until the peppers collapse…
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Dinner
Karelian Hot Pot
Three meats, an onion, some peppercorns and water, in a low oven for three and a half hours. There is nothing else…
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Dinner
Kjøttkaker
Norwegian meat cakes: coarse beef bound with potato starch and milk, fried and then simmered in their own brown…
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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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Appetizers
Chana Chaat
Chickpeas tossed with raw onion, tomato, chaat masala and tamarind, assembled in ten minutes and eaten within…
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Dinner
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
Warak Enab
Vine leaves rolled around rice, tomato, parsley and mint, packed tight into a pot and cooked in lemon and oil. The…
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Appetizers
Shanklish Salad
A dry, sharp, thyme-rolled cheese crumbled over tomato and onion and dressed with oil. Shanklish is aged to the…
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Appetizers
Sambousek
Half-moon pastries of spiced lamb and pine nuts, fried until blistered. The dough is made with oil rather than…
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Appetizers
Spinach Fatayer
Triangular spinach pies, sharp with sumac and lemon, sealed so they hold their shape. The filling is never cooked…
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Appetizers
Maghmour
Aubergine and chickpeas stewed down in tomato and garlic until everything collapses. Often called Lebanese moussaka…
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Appetizers
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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Appetizers
Fried Kibbeh
Torpedoes of bulgur and lean lamb, hollowed by hand, filled with spiced mince and pine nuts, and fried. The hardest…
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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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Dinner
Kafta bil Sanieh
Spiced lamb pressed flat into a tray, layered with potato and tomato and baked in one dish. The weeknight answer to…
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Dinner
Kibbeh bil Sanieh
Two layers of bulgur and lamb around a middle of spiced mince and pine nuts, scored into diamonds and baked. 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
Sayadieh
Fish poached, set aside, and its stock used to cook rice under a mountain of onions taken almost to black. Tripoli…
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Dinner
Sfiha Baalbakieh
Small open-topped meat pies from Baalbek, the meat sharp with pomegranate molasses and tomato. Open, not sealed, and…
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Quick Meals
Arayes
Pitta stuffed with raw spiced lamb and grilled until the bread crisps and the fat from the meat soaks into it…
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Dinner
Riz a Djaj
Chicken poached with whole spices, its broth used for the rice, the meat pulled and piled back on top with toasted…
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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
Sheikh el Mahshi
Aubergines split, stuffed with lamb and pine nuts, and baked in tomato. The name means "the chief of stuffed…
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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
Freekeh with Chicken
Green wheat, harvested young and roasted over fire, cooked like a pilaf under poached chicken. It tastes of smoke…
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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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Appetizers
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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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
Macarona Bechamel
Penne bound in béchamel over a layer of spiced mince, baked until the top sets into a sliceable crust. Egypt by way…
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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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Dinner
Sayadeya Masreya
The Egyptian fisherman’s rice: fish fried rather than poached, rice cooked in the frying oil and stock, and the…
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Dinner
Hamam Mahshi
Pigeon stuffed with freekeh and roasted, the most special-occasion dish in the Egyptian repertoire. Small birds…
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Dinner
Mombar
Sausage casings filled with spiced rice and mince, boiled and then fried until they blister. Fiddly, cheap, and one…
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Appetizers
Renga
Smoked herring flaked and dressed with lemon, oil and raw onion, eaten at Sham el-Nessim with spring onions and…
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Dinner
Goulash Masri
Filo layered over spiced mince and baked in a tray, cut into squares. Nothing to do with Hungarian goulash — the…
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Appetizers
Gebna Domiati Salad
The soft white brined cheese of Damietta, cubed with tomato, cucumber and oil into a breakfast salad. Salty enough…
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Appetizers
Batarekh
Grey mullet roe, salted and pressed and dried into a hard amber block, sliced paper-thin with oil and lemon. Egypt…
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Appetizers
Slata Tounsia
Tomato, cucumber, pepper and onion cut very small and dressed with olive oil and lemon. The Tunisian cut is finer…
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Lunch
Kafteji
Peppers, tomato, courgette, potato and onion fried separately, then chopped together on a board with fried eggs…
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Appetizers
Salata Blankit
Warm potato salad with harissa, capers and olives and no mayonnaise anywhere. Dressed while hot so the potato takes…
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Appetizers
Doigts de Fatma
Fatma's fingers: malsouka pastry rolled around cheese, parsley and meat and fried into crisp cigars. The same pastry…
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Lunch
Chorba Frik
Lamb and freekeh soup thickened by the grain itself, sharpened with harissa and finished with a great deal of…
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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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Dinner
Couscous Tunisien
Lamb and vegetables in a red harissa broth, with the couscous steamed over the pot so it takes the vapour. 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
Marqa Hlouwa
Lamb stewed with quince, prunes and cinnamon into something sweet against the harissa. Made for Eid, and the…
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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
Mermez
Lamb and chickpeas in a thin red broth with a lot of onion, poured over bread or couscous. The plainest of the…
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Dinner
Tajine Tunisien
Nothing like a Moroccan tagine: this is a baked omelette thick with chicken, cheese and parsley, cut into squares…
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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
Rouz Jerbi
The rice of Djerba: steamed rather than boiled, mixed through with lamb, herbs and spinach until it is green and…
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Dinner
Osbane
Sausage casings filled with rice, offal, herbs and a great deal of chard, simmered and then sliced into a stew. The…
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Dinner
Berkoukes
Hand-rolled semolina pearls the size of peppercorns, cooked in a lamb and vegetable broth. Larger than couscous…
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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
Poireaux Vinaigrette
Whole leeks poached until completely soft, pressed, and dressed while warm with a mustard vinaigrette. Served cold…
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Appetizers
Carottes Râpées
Grated carrot in a lemon and mustard dressing with parsley. Two minutes of work, and the only variable that matters…
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Appetizers
Salade de Lentilles
Green lentils dressed hot with mustard vinaigrette and shallot. Puy lentils if you can, because they hold their…
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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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Appetizers
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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Appetizers
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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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
Vichyssoise
Leek and potato soup enriched with cream and served cold. Invented in New York by a French chef, which the French…
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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
Hachis Parmentier
Braised beef minced by hand under a potato purée and baked. The French version predates the English one and is made…
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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
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
Carbonade Flamande
Beef braised in dark beer with a slice of mustard-spread bread laid on top, which dissolves and thickens the sauce…
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Dinner
Choucroute Garnie
Sauerkraut cooked in riesling with a collection of pork and sausages piled on top. Alsace, and the sauerkraut should…
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Dinner
Magret de Canard
Duck breast started in a cold dry pan so the fat renders out slowly and the skin turns to glass. Fifteen minutes…
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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
Steak Tartare
Raw beef chopped by hand and seasoned at the table with capers, shallot, mustard and egg yolk. Chopped, never minced.
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Dinner
Entrecôte Marchand de Vin
Sirloin with a red wine and shallot sauce built in the pan the steak came out of. Marchand de vin means wine…
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Quick Meals
Rognons à la Moutarde
Lamb kidneys seared hard and finished in a mustard cream sauce. Fifteen minutes, and the kidneys must leave the pan…
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Quick Meals
Foie de Veau Lyonnaise
Calf liver with onions cooked slowly to sweetness and a splash of vinegar at the end. Lyon does it best and does not…
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Dinner
Bouchée à la Reine
Puff pastry cases filled with chicken, sweetbreads and mushrooms in a cream sauce. Named for Queen Marie…
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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
Sole Normande
Sole poached in cider and cream with mussels and prawns. Normandy, so cider and cream rather than wine and butter.
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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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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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Lunch
Frisée aux Lardons
Curly endive with hot bacon, a vinegar-deglazed dressing and a poached egg on top. The dressing is made in the bacon…
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Dinner
Tarte Flambée
Alsatian flatbread with fromage blanc, onion and bacon, baked in two minutes at the top of a furnace-hot oven. Thin…
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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
Saucisson en Brioche
A poaching sausage baked inside brioche. Lyon, and the trick is that the sausage is cooked and cooled before it is…
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Appetizers
Sarde in Saor
Fried sardines buried in sweet-sour onions with pine nuts and raisins. Venetian sailors' food, and it needs two days…
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Appetizers
Supplì
Roman rice croquettes with a piece of mozzarella at the centre that pulls into a thread when you bite it. Supplì al…
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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
Tagliatelle al Ragù
The Bologna ragù, which contains almost no tomato and cooks for three hours. Served on fresh egg tagliatelle and…
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Dinner
Tortellini in Brodo
Tiny filled pasta in clear capon broth, and nothing else. Emilia at Christmas, and the broth matters as much as the…
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Dinner
Malloreddus alla Campidanese
Ridged saffron gnocchetti with a sausage and tomato sauce. Sardinia's everyday pasta, and the ridges exist to hold…
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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
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
Pasta alla Genovese
Naples' onion ragù, in which four kilos of onions cook down for four hours with a piece of beef until they turn…
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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
Pasta con le Sarde
Sardines, wild fennel, raisins, pine nuts and saffron. Sicily's Arab inheritance on a plate, and the toasted…
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Dinner
Anelletti al Forno
Little pasta rings baked with ragù, peas and cheese into something you can cut in slices. Palermo eats it at room…
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Dinner
Risotto ai Funghi Porcini
Rice cooked in mushroom stock made from the soaking water of dried porcini. That water is the flavour and pouring it…
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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
Risi e Bisi
Venetian rice and peas, looser than a risotto and eaten with a spoon. Served to the Doge every 25 April and still…
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Dinner
Canederli
Bread dumplings with speck, from the Alto Adige, served in broth or with butter. The bread must be properly stale…
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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
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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Dinner
Torta Pasqualina
A Ligurian Easter pie of chard and ricotta with whole eggs baked inside, under many thin sheets of pastry. Cut…
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Lunch
Scotch Broth
Lamb, barley and root vegetables cooked into one thick pot until a spoon stands up in it. The soup that stands in…
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Lunch
London Particular
Pea and ham soup thick enough to be named after the fog. A ham hock, a bag of split peas and almost nothing else.
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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
Oxtail Soup
Four hours of oxtail reduced to something almost black, thickened by nothing but its own gelatine. The best use of…
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Appetizers
Jellied Eels
Eel poached in a spiced stock that sets to a clear jelly as it cools. East London has eaten them from a bowl with…
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Baking
Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
Hot water crust raised by hand around coarsely chopped pork, baked free-standing and filled with jelly through a…
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Baking
Sausage Rolls
Good sausagemeat in butter puff, glazed and seeded. Everything wrong with a shop sausage roll is the pastry, and…
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Appetizers
Piccalilli
Cauliflower, onion and cucumber in a sharp turmeric-yellow mustard sauce, made from vegetables kept deliberately…
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Appetizers
Pickled Onions
Small onions in spiced malt vinegar, sharp enough to make your eyes water. Six weeks in the jar and they will keep…
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Dinner
Lancashire Hotpot
Lamb and onions under a lid of sliced potato that browns while everything beneath it goes to nothing. Two and a half…
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Dinner
Steak and Kidney Pudding
Suet pastry lining a basin, filled with beef and kidney and steamed for four hours until the crust is translucent…
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Dinner
Liver and Bacon with Onion Gravy
Lamb's liver kept pink in the middle under a heap of onion gravy. Twenty minutes, and the reason to be careful is…
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Dinner
Faggots and Peas
Coarse offal meatballs wrapped in caul fat and baked in onion gravy, with mushy peas alongside. The Black Country's…
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Dinner
Beef Stew and Dumplings
Beef braised three hours with suet dumplings dropped on top for the last twenty minutes, where they steam rather…
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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
Roast Pork with Crackling
Loin of pork with crackling that shatters, and an apple sauce made sharp rather than sweet. The crackling is not…
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Dinner
Gammon with Parsley Sauce
A gammon joint boiled in cider with a white sauce full of parsley. Old-fashioned in the best way and the source of a…
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Dinner
Stargazy Pie
A Cornish fish pie with the heads of the pilchards poking through the crust to look at the sky. It sounds like a…
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Dinner
Fish Pie
White fish, smoked fish and prawns under mashed potato, in a sauce made from the milk the fish poached in. The mash…
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Appetizers
Soused Herring
Herring fillets rolled and baked slowly in spiced vinegar, then left to go cold. Sharp, soft-boned, and a week in…
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Dinner
Chicken and Leek Pie
Poached chicken and slow-cooked leeks under a proper pastry lid, in a sauce made from the poaching liquid. A pie…
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Dinner
Rabbit Pie
Rabbit braised with bacon and cider until it falls off the bone, then baked under pastry. The most-eaten meat in…
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Dinner
Stovies
Potatoes stewed in dripping with onions and whatever meat is left from Sunday, until the bottom catches slightly…
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Breakfast
Bubble and Squeak
Cold mash and cold greens pressed into a pan and fried until a crust forms on both sides. Named for the noise it…
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Dinner
Braised Red Cabbage
Red cabbage cooked down for over an hour with apple, vinegar and spice until it is sweet, sharp and dark. Better…
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Dinner
Pease Pudding
Yellow split peas boiled to a purée in ham stock and set firm enough to slice. Tyneside eats it cold in a stottie…
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Dinner
Rumbledethumps
Potato, swede and cabbage mashed together, topped with cheese and baked. The Scottish Borders answer to what to do…
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Dinner
Champ
Mashed potato beaten with spring onions steeped in hot milk, served with a well of butter melting in the middle…
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Dinner
Pan Haggerty
Potato, onion and cheese layered in a frying pan, cooked on the hob and finished under the grill. Northumberland…
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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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Lunch
Watercress Soup
Watercress cooked for ninety seconds and blended immediately, which is what keeps it the colour of a wet lawn…
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Lunch
Coronation Chicken
Cold chicken in a curried, apricot-sweetened mayonnaise, invented for the 1953 coronation lunch. Ruined by every…
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Appetizers
Siu Mai
Open-topped pork and prawn dumplings in a yellow wrapper, finished with a dot of roe. The other half of the dim sum…
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Appetizers
Cheung Fun
Sheets of rice batter steamed on a tray, rolled around prawns or beef and dressed in sweetened soy. The most…
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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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Appetizers
Sheng Jian Bao
Shanghai buns with a crisp fried base and soup inside, cooked base-down in a covered pan and finished with sesame…
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Breakfast
Jianbing
A thin mung bean crepe with an egg cracked onto it, folded around a sheet of fried cracker, hoisin and coriander…
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Lunch
Rou Jia Mo
Chopped braised pork packed into a flatbread baked on a griddle. Xi'an has sold it for two thousand years and calls…
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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
Drunken Chicken
Poached chicken steeped for a day in Shaoxing wine and its own jellied stock, then sliced cold. Shanghai in summer…
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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
Dongpo Rou
Squares of pork belly tied with string and braised in Shaoxing wine and soy for three hours, until the fat is…
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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
Beggar's Chicken
A whole chicken wrapped in lotus leaves, sealed in clay and baked for three hours, then broken open at the table…
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Dinner
White Cut Chicken
A whole chicken poached below a simmer and plunged into ice, served cold with a ginger and scallion oil. The most…
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Dinner
Soy Sauce Chicken
A whole chicken poached in a dark soy master stock until the skin is mahogany and glossy. The stock is kept and…
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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
Salt Baked Chicken
A chicken buried in three kilos of hot coarse salt and baked until it is cooked through by conducted heat alone…
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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
Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs
Short ribs braised in Chinkiang vinegar and rock sugar until the sauce reduces to a lacquer. Shanghai, and it is…
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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
Steamed Whole Fish
A whole fish steamed for twelve minutes and finished with smoking oil poured over raw ginger and spring onion. The…
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Dinner
Dry-Fried Green Beans
Green beans fried until their skins blister and wrinkle, then tossed with minced pork, preserved vegetable and…
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Dinner
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
Yong Tau Foo
Tofu, peppers, aubergine and chillies stuffed with a fish and pork paste, fried and then simmered in a clear soup…
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Lunch
Hot Dry Noodles
Wuhan's breakfast: alkaline noodles blanched, oiled, cooled and then reheated to order under sesame paste, pickled…
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Lunch
Biang Biang Noodles
Belt-wide noodles pulled by hand and slapped on the counter, under chilli, garlic and a ladle of smoking oil. Named…
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Dinner
Yangzhou Fried Rice
Fried rice with prawns, char siu and egg, where every grain is separate and coated in yolk. The version everything…
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Dinner
Claypot Rice
Rice cooked in a clay pot with sausage and chicken laid on top, until a crisp golden crust forms on the base that…
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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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Lunch
West Lake Beef Soup
A thick clear soup of minced beef and egg white with a great deal of coriander. Hangzhou, and it takes twenty…
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Lunch
Egg Drop Soup
Stock thickened lightly and finished with beaten egg poured in a thread so it sets into ribbons. Ten minutes, four…
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Lunch
Winter Melon Soup
Winter melon simmered with pork ribs and dried shrimp until it turns translucent and takes on everything around it…
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Lunch
Lotus Root and Pork Rib Soup
Lotus root and pork ribs simmered for two hours until the root goes floury and pulls into starchy threads when you…
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Appetizers
Sichuan Chilli Oil
Hot oil poured over chilli flakes and spices in stages, so the sediment toasts without burning. Fifteen minutes, and…
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Appetizers
XO Sauce
Dried scallop and shrimp shredded and fried with chilli, ham and garlic until crisp. Invented in a Hong Kong hotel…
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Dinner
Paneer Butter Masala
Paneer in a glossy tomato and cashew gravy, finished with butter and cream. The restaurant dish people try to…
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Dinner
Matar Paneer
Paneer and peas in an onion-tomato gravy, the weeknight version of the butter masala and the one most Indian…
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Dinner
Kadai Paneer
Paneer and peppers tossed in a coarse, freshly pounded coriander-and-chilli masala. Drier and sharper than the…
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Breakfast
Paneer Bhurji
Crumbled paneer scrambled with onion, tomato and green chilli. Fifteen minutes, and the standard Indian answer to a…
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Appetizers
Chilli Paneer
Battered paneer tossed with peppers and onion in a dark, glossy soy and chilli sauce. Indo-Chinese, and the one…
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Appetizers
Gobi Manchurian
Cauliflower fried in a spiced batter and tossed in a dark garlic and soy sauce. Kolkata Hakka cooking, and the dish…
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Dinner
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 Lollipop
Chicken wings frenched into a lollipop, battered red and fried. Bar food across India, and the reason wing drumettes…
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Dinner
Chicken Chettinad
Chicken in a black, coconut-and-pepper masala from the Chettinad country of Tamil Nadu. One of the hottest curries…
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Dinner
Mutton Curry
Bone-in mutton browned hard and simmered ninety minutes in onion and whole spice, until the gravy is dark and the…
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Dinner
Egg Curry
Boiled eggs halved into a spiced onion and tomato gravy. The cheapest good curry there is, and on the table in…
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Breakfast
Egg Bhurji
Indian scrambled eggs with onion, tomato and green chilli, cooked hard and fast. Fifteen minutes, two pans of…
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Appetizers
Fish Tikka
Firm white fish in a yoghurt and carom seed marinade, charred at the edges. Thirty-five minutes and no tandoor…
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Dinner
Prawn Masala
Prawns in a quick coastal gravy of onion, tomato and curry leaf. Thirty-five minutes, and the prawns cook in four of…
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Dinner
Vegetable Biryani
Vegetables and part-cooked rice layered with saffron milk and fried onion, then sealed and steamed. The dum method…
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Breakfast
Poha
Flattened rice rinsed, tossed with turmeric, mustard seed and peanuts, and eaten within ten minutes. Central India's…
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Breakfast
Upma
Semolina roasted and steamed with mustard seed, curry leaf and vegetables. Ready in twenty-five minutes and the…
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Breakfast
Uttapam
A thick dosa batter poured small and pressed with onion, tomato and chilli. Softer than a dosa and easier to get…
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Appetizers
Vegetable Momos
Pleated Himalayan dumplings of finely chopped cabbage and carrot, steamed and eaten with a fiery tomato chutney.
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Dinner
Jjajangmyeon
Thick wheat noodles under a black bean sauce of pork and diced vegetables. Korea's most-ordered delivery food, eaten…
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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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Appetizers
Gyeranjjim
Eggs beaten with water and steamed in an earthenware pot until they rise like a soufflé. Twenty minutes, and it…
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Dinner
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
Korean Corn Cheese
Sweetcorn bound with mayonnaise under a lid of grilled mozzarella. A side dish that arrives bubbling and never comes…
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Dinner
Shoyu Ramen
A clear chicken broth seasoned with a soy tare, with chashu pork, a marinated egg and thin curled noodles. The…
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Dinner
Ebi Fry
Panko prawns fried straight rather than curled, served with tartare. A Japanese diner classic and the reason for the…
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Dinner
Japanese Curry Roux
Flour and butter cooked slowly to a nutty brown and spiced. Make it once and the shop-bought blocks stop being…
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Dinner
Thai Yellow Curry
The mildest of the Thai curries, yellow with turmeric and thick with potato. The one to cook for people who say they…
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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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Dinner
Crying Tiger Beef
Grilled beef sliced across the grain and served with nam jim jaew, a roasted rice and chilli dipping sauce. The…
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Dinner
Bánh Xèo
A rice flour crêpe made yellow with turmeric, filled with pork and prawn and folded over beansprouts. It is torn up…
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Dinner
Phở Gà
Chicken pho: a clear broth of charred ginger and onion with poached chicken and flat rice noodles. Lighter than the…
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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
Chicken Fajitas
Marinated chicken and peppers cooked hard in a dry pan and brought to the table still spitting. The sizzle is the…
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Appetizers
Pico de Gallo
Tomato, onion, chilli, coriander and lime, chopped small and salted. Fifteen minutes, no cooking, and it improves…
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Appetizers
Salsa Verde
Tomatillos and green chilli charred under a grill and blitzed with coriander and lime. Twenty-five minutes and…
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Dinner
Chile Relleno
A poblano stuffed with cheese, dipped in whipped egg and fried, then sat in a thin tomato broth. The hardest easy…
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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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Lunch
Potato Salad
Waxy potatoes dressed while still warm with mayonnaise, mustard and egg. Forty minutes, and it wants an hour in the…
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Lunch
Coleslaw
Cabbage and carrot salted, drained and dressed. Fifteen minutes of work and it is the draining that makes it good.
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Lunch
Egg Salad
Hard-boiled eggs chopped rough with mayonnaise, mustard and chives. Twenty minutes, and the texture depends entirely…
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Lunch
Tuna Salad
Tinned tuna with celery, red onion and mayonnaise. Ten minutes, and the celery is not optional.
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Lunch
Chicken Salad
Poached or leftover chicken with grapes, celery and toasted pecans in a light mayonnaise dressing. Fifteen 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
Ragù alla Bolognese
Minced beef and pork cooked three hours in milk, wine and a little tomato. Not the red mince sauce, and worth the…
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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
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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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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Appetizers
Bhel Puri
Puffed rice tossed at the last second with chutneys, onion, potato and sev. Bombay beach food, and it must be eaten…
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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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Dinner
Loaded Baked Potato
A potato baked until the skin is crisp and the inside floury, split and filled with butter, cheese, bacon and soured…
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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
Aloo Keema
Minced lamb and potato cooked down together until the mince is dry and catching. A Pakistani weeknight standard.
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Appetizers
Pol Sambol
Fresh coconut pounded with dried chilli, red onion and lime until it turns coral pink. Fifteen minutes and no cooking.
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Dinner
Sri Lankan Dhal Curry
Red lentils simmered with coconut milk, turmeric and a curry leaf tempering. The dish that appears at every Sri…
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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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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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Breakfast
Placki Ziemniaczane
Grated potato pancakes fried crisp at the edges and soft in the middle. Forty minutes, and the squeezing is the…
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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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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
Tafelspitz
Beef simmered gently in broth with root vegetables and served in it, with apple horseradish alongside. Vienna's.
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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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Dinner
Stoofvlees
Beef braised in dark Belgian ale with a slice of mustard-spread bread stirred in to thicken it. Three hours.
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Dinner
Mansaf
Lamb cooked in fermented yoghurt, spread over rice and flatbread with toasted nuts. Jordan's national dish, and a…
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Appetizers
Sfiha
Open lamb pies the size of a saucer, tart with pomegranate molasses. Baalbek makes them flat and thin.
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Lunch
Shorbat Adas
Yellow lentil soup, smooth as cream, with a hard squeeze of lemon at the end. The first thing you are given in Egypt.
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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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Lunch
Zosui
Rice simmered in dashi with egg stirred through. Thirty minutes, and what Japanese households make from yesterday's…
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Dinner
Katsudon
A pork cutlet simmered for ninety seconds in dashi and onion with egg poured over, slid onto rice. Forty minutes.
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Appetizers
Hiyayakko
Cold tofu with ginger, spring onion and soy. Ten minutes, four ingredients, and it depends entirely on the tofu.
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Breakfast
Khai Jiao
A Thai omelette dropped into deep hot oil so it puffs and crisps at the edges. Thirteen minutes, and it goes on rice.
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Desserts
Khanom Krok
Coconut pancakes cooked in a dimpled pan, crisp underneath and molten in the middle, served two stuck together.
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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
Bún Riêu
A tomato and crab broth with floating clouds of crab and egg, over rice vermicelli. Sharper and lighter than phở.
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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
Dabeli
A spiced potato filling in a buttered roll with pomegranate, roasted peanuts and sev. Gujarat's answer to the vada…
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Appetizers
Samosa Chaat
A samosa crushed under chickpea curry, yoghurt and three chutneys. Twenty-five minutes if the samosas are bought.
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Appetizers
Aloo Chaat
Potato cubes fried until the corners shatter, tossed with chaat masala, lime and coriander. Thirty minutes.
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Breakfast
Bombay Sandwich
Green chutney, sliced vegetables and butter between white bread, pressed on a griddle and buried in sev. Twenty-five…
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Dinner
Lanzhou Beef Noodle Soup
A clear beef broth over hand-pulled noodles with white radish, coriander and a spoonful of chilli oil. Two and a…
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Appetizers
Chili Cheese Fries
Chips under beef chilli and melted cheese, eaten with a fork before the bottom layer surrenders. Forty-five minutes.
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Lunch
Shrimp Po Boy
Fried prawns in a light baguette with lettuce, tomato and remoulade. New Orleans, and "dressed" means all four.
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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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Dinner
Patty Melt
A burger patty between rye bread with caramelised onion and Swiss cheese, griddled like a toastie. Thirty-five…
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Breakfast
Cheesy Grits
Coarse cornmeal cooked slowly in milk and stock until creamy, finished with butter and cheese. Thirty minutes.
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Breakfast
Corned Beef Hash
Corned beef and potato pressed into a hot pan and left alone until a crust forms. Forty minutes and one flip.
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Dinner
Dublin Coddle
Sausages, bacon, potato and onion layered in a pot and cooked slowly in stock until everything gives. Almost no…
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Dinner
Rouladen
Thin beef rolled around bacon, onion and pickle, browned and braised two hours into its own gravy.
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Lunch
German Potato Salad
Warm potato slices in a bacon, vinegar and stock dressing, with no mayonnaise anywhere near it.
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Appetizers
Obatzda
Ripe Camembert mashed with butter, paprika and beer into a spread for pretzels. Fifteen minutes and no cooking.
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Dinner
Pierogi Ruskie
Dumplings filled with potato and curd cheese, boiled and then fried in butter with onions. Poland's most-made dish.
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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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Appetizers
Esquites
Corn cut off the cob and fried, then dressed with mayonnaise, lime, chilli and cheese and eaten from a cup with a…
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