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Eggs poached in a smoky, cumin-scented pepper and tomato sauce, served straight from the pan with bread for…
Roasted until the skins blister, or raw and sweet. 95 recipes on the site call for peppers.
Eggs poached in a smoky, cumin-scented pepper and tomato sauce, served straight from the pan with bread for…
Rice cooked in a reduced pepper and tomato base until the grains are stained deep orange and a smoky crust forms at…
Thinly shaved ribeye, sweated onions and melted cheese crammed into a soft hoagie roll. The debate over Cheez Whiz…
A real horiatiki has no lettuce in it: just tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, onion, olives and a slab of feta, dressed…
Cubes of paneer marinated in spiced yoghurt, threaded with peppers and onion, and charred hard under a grill until…
A long-simmered chilli built on toasted whole spices and a hit of dark chocolate, with the beef cut into cubes…
Chicken and vegetables in a coconut curry built by cracking the cream, frying the paste in the separated oil, and…
Cantonese gu lou yuk with a genuinely crisp coating and a sauce balanced by real pineapple and rice vinegar rather…
Mumbai's great street dish: a mash of vegetables cooked down on a giant griddle with a distinctive spice blend…
Louisiana rice cooked in one pot with the holy trinity, andouille sausage, chicken and prawns. The Creole version…
Spatchcocked chicken marinated in a fiery bird's eye chilli, garlic and vinegar sauce, grilled hard and basted…
The Provençal original, in which each vegetable is cooked separately before they are married — the only way to get…
Roasting the tomatoes first concentrates them into something far deeper than a stovetop soup, and a splash of cream…
Potatoes fried until properly crusted, then peppers, onions and whatever else is in the fridge, with eggs cracked in…
Everything in gumbo rests on the roux: flour and fat cooked patiently to the colour of milk chocolate, then built…
A true gulyás is a soup, not a stew: beef, onions and a great deal of sweet Hungarian paprika simmered with potatoes…
Peru's great fusion dish: beef stir-fried in a wok with onion, tomato and soy sauce, served with both chips and…
Chicken braised in a sauce of onions and a great deal of sweet Hungarian paprika, finished with soured cream and…
Flank steak simmered until it shreds, then stewed in a sofrito of peppers, onions, olives and cumin until the sauce…
A cold Andalusian soup of raw tomatoes, cucumber, pepper and bread blitzed with sherry vinegar and olive oil until…
Roasted vegetables, a grain, a pulse and something green in one bowl, held together by a tahini dressing loosened…
Beef mince cooked down in a sweet-sharp tomato sauce and spooned onto a soft bun, engineered to be eaten with both…
Thin rice vermicelli stained yellow with curry powder, tossed with prawns, char siu and egg. Despite the name it is…
Sliced döner laid over cubes of pide bread, drenched in a light tomato sauce, with browned butter poured over at the…
Chewy sweet potato noodles tossed with individually stir-fried vegetables and a sesame-soy dressing. Naturally…
Fried rice with pineapple, cashews and a curry-scented edge, served in the hollowed shell if you are feeling…
Bahian fish stew of coconut milk, tomato, peppers and coriander, cooked in a clay pot and finished with dendê palm…
Turkish scrambled eggs cooked slowly into a base of peppers and tomatoes until just set — soft, saucy and eaten…
Godamba roti chopped on a hot griddle with vegetables, egg and curry, in a rhythm of metal blades that you can hear…
Sichuan's huiguorou: pork belly simmered whole, cooled, sliced paper-thin and returned to a searing wok with…
Jamaica's national dish: ackee, a fruit whose cooked flesh looks and behaves remarkably like scrambled egg, sautéed…
Paper-thin Turkish flatbread spread with spiced minced lamb and baked in a fierce oven for four minutes. Rolled up…
Wheat noodles tossed with pork, prawns, chicken and vegetables in a soy and oyster sauce broth the noodles absorb as…
The Levantine bread salad: crisp fried pita, cucumber, tomato, radish and herbs, dressed with sumac and pomegranate…
Merguez browned first, then eggs poached in a tomato and pepper sauce built on harissa and caraway. Hotter and…
Boat-shaped flatbreads with the edges rolled and pinched around a filling of spiced lamb or cheese and egg, baked…
A half wheel of cheese melted under heat and scraped onto plates of boiled potatoes, pickles and cured meats, one…
Aubergines split and stuffed with onion, garlic and tomato, then braised in a great deal of olive oil and served at…
Toasted pearl couscous with roast vegetables, herbs, lemon and a handful of toasted almonds. Good hot, better at…
Portuguese seafood rice, wetter than a paella and served in the pot, built on a tomato and coriander refogado with…
Peeled black-eyed beans blended with peppers and onion, seasoned and steamed in leaves or tins until it sets into a…
A South African relish of onions, peppers, carrot and beans cooked hard with curry powder and chilli — served with…
Tunisian grilled salad: peppers, tomatoes, onion and garlic charred over flame, peeled and chopped rough with…
Turkish fine bulgur salad worked through with pepper paste, pomegranate molasses and a great deal of parsley, eaten…
A properly built quesadilla: cheese against the tortilla on both sides so it welds shut, filling in a thin layer…
Eggs started on the hob and finished under a grill, with the vegetables cooked properly first so they do not water…
Stale bread torn small, dampened, and fried slowly in garlic oil with chorizo and peppers until every piece is crisp…
Venezuela's national plate: shredded beef, black beans, white rice and fried sweet plantain, served side by side and…
The Salvadoran chicken sandwich: chicken braised in a relajo of toasted spices, pulled, and piled into a crusty roll…
Nutty grains against sweet roasted vegetables, with the dressing going onto the farro while it is still warm so it…
Dried beans, a sofrito built on cumin and green pepper, and a ham of smoke from nothing but paprika. Thick enough to…
Gemista, the Greek summer dish: peppers roasted before they are filled, so they are sweet and collapsing rather than…
Velveted beef seared hard with peppers and onion in a sauce built on a great deal of coarsely cracked black pepper…
Hungarian peppers and tomatoes stewed down in lard or oil with a great deal of paprika, until the peppers collapse…
Roasted red peppers and walnuts ground to a coarse paste with pomegranate molasses and chilli. Aleppo’s dip rather…
The chopped country salad that arrives with everything: tomato, cucumber, onion and pepper cut small, dressed with…
The Egyptian version, which is a salad rather than a purée: charred aubergine chopped rough and mixed with tomato…
Small aubergines boiled, stuffed with garlic, chilli and pepper, and kept under oil and vinegar. Sharper and hotter…
Flatbread stuffed with spiced minced beef and baked hard until the bread crisps and the fat soaks into it…
Alexandrian liver: beef liver cut into strips and cooked in seconds with chilli, garlic and cumin. The whole dish…
The soft white brined cheese of Damietta, cubed with tomato, cucumber and oil into a breakfast salad. Salty enough…
Tomato, cucumber, pepper and onion cut very small and dressed with olive oil and lemon. The Tunisian cut is finer…
Peppers, tomato, courgette, potato and onion fried separately, then chopped together on a board with fried eggs…
Lamb and vegetables in a red harissa broth, with the couscous steamed over the pot so it takes the vapour. The…
Eggs broken into a fierce harissa and tomato sauce with merguez and left barely set. Fifteen minutes, one pan, and…
Long green peppers stuffed with spiced meat and rice and braised in a red sauce until the skins blister and slip…
The Tunisian fish plate: grilled fish with fried peppers, potatoes, a salad, tastira and harissa, all on one dish…
Whole fish grilled over coals with nothing on it but oil and salt, served with tastira and lemon. The restraint is…
Chicken braised with peppers, tomato and piment d'Espelette from the Basque country. The peppers are cooked down to…
Peppers, tomatoes and onions cooked down to a jam with Espelette, then eggs stirred through. Basque, and often eaten…
A salade niçoise pressed into a round loaf until the bread soaks up the dressing. Bagnat means bathed, and the…
Hard vegetables blanched and packed under vinegar and oil. Every Italian household has a jar and no two agree on…
Chicken, potatoes and peppers stewed with beer and chilli in one enormous plate, with wide hand-pulled noodles slid…
Potato, aubergine and green pepper each fried separately then brought together in a garlicky sauce. Dongbei, and the…
Tofu triangles fried until golden and puffed, then braised with pork and doubanjiang. What Sichuan households cook…
Tofu, peppers, aubergine and chillies stuffed with a fish and pork paste, fried and then simmered in a clear soup…
Lotus root sliced thin, rinsed of its starch and fried for barely two minutes, so it stays as crisp as an apple.
Potato cut into matchsticks, rinsed of starch and fried for ninety seconds so it stays crunchy. Sour, hot, and…
Paneer and peppers tossed in a coarse, freshly pounded coriander-and-chilli masala. Drier and sharper than the…
Battered paneer tossed with peppers and onion in a dark, glossy soy and chilli sauce. Indo-Chinese, and the one…
Egg noodles tossed with shredded vegetables over a high flame. The Indian Chinese restaurant staple, and fifteen…
Fried rice with a spoonful of red schezwan sauce through it. Nothing to do with Sichuan, everything to do with the…
Sweetcorn bound with mayonnaise under a lid of grilled mozzarella. A side dish that arrives bubbling and never comes…
A thick, sweet red curry finished with kaffir lime and crushed peanuts. Drier than the other Thai curries, and richer.
Marinated chicken and peppers cooked hard in a dry pan and brought to the table still spitting. The sizzle is the…
Minced beef in a sweet-sharp tomato sauce, spooned onto soft buns. Thirty minutes, one pan, and no packet mix.
Hand-minced lamb with tail fat and red pepper, pressed onto flat skewers and grilled over charcoal. Named for the…
Dumplings the size of a fingernail under garlic yoghurt and paprika butter. Eighty minutes, most of it folding.
Aubergines fried whole, split down the middle and filled with spiced lamb, then baked in tomato. The name means…
Fried aubergine and courgette under a garlicky tomato sauce, served cold. Nothing to do with the egg dish of a…
Whatever is in the fridge, cut evenly and cooked hard for four minutes in a sauce that clings. Twenty-five minutes…
Paneer charred under a grill first, then folded into a tomato gravy. The char is what separates it from every other…
Cooked rice fried on a griddle with pav bhaji masala and vegetables. Twenty minutes and unmistakably Bombay.
Soft rolls split and griddled in butter with a spiced onion and tomato mixture pressed into them. Twenty-five minutes.
Corned beef and potato pressed into a hot pan and left alone until a crust forms. Forty minutes and one flip.