Spaghetti Carbonara
Real Roman carbonara has no cream in it — just eggs, Pecorino, guanciale and black pepper emulsified into a glossy…
Belly, shoulder and chop, from Sunday roasts to street food. 140 recipes on the site call for pork.
Real Roman carbonara has no cream in it — just eggs, Pecorino, guanciale and black pepper emulsified into a glossy…
Pork loin beaten thin, breadcrumbed and fried in a shallow pool of butter and oil so the coating puffs away from the…
The milky, collagen-heavy pork broth that made Hakata famous, boiled hard for eight hours until the fat and gelatine…
Pork shoulder rubbed and cooked low for six hours until it pulls apart in strands, dressed the Carolina way with a…
Chilli-and-achiote-marinated pork, shaved off a vertical spit and served with pineapple, onion and coriander. This…
A proper lasagne alla Bolognese is a study in patience: a three-hour ragù, a nutmeg-scented besciamella and…
Juicy jiaozi with a hand-rolled wrapper thick at the centre and thin at the edge — the shape that stops the base…
Sapporo-style ramen: a miso tare whisked into rich pork or chicken broth, stir-fried pork and vegetables piled on…
Pork shoulder braised in its own fat with orange and bay until it falls apart, then crisped under a hot grill so…
Small, tender meatballs in a creamy pan gravy, served with lingonberry jam and mashed potato. The bread-and-cream…
Pork shoulder rubbed, slow-roasted for seven hours until it shreds under a fork, tossed in a vinegar sauce and piled…
Flaky buttermilk biscuits split open under a peppery sausage gravy. A Southern breakfast built on cheap ingredients…
Cantonese gu lou yuk with a genuinely crisp coating and a sauce balanced by real pineapple and rice vinegar rather…
Pan-fried pork dumplings with a lacy crisp base and a juicy, cabbage-sweet filling. The steam-fry technique gives…
Thailand's most-eaten dish: minced pork fried hard with garlic and chillies, tossed with holy basil, and served over…
A crackling baguette filled with pâté, mayonnaise, cold cuts or grilled pork, pickled carrot and daikon, cucumber…
Prawn and pork wontons in a clear, dried-flounder broth with springy thin egg noodles. Cantonese, and the noodles go…
Pounded thin, breaded loosely and fried in a generous amount of fat so the coating puffs away from the meat. That…
Rice paper rolls packed with prawns, pork, herbs and vermicelli, served cold with peanut dipping sauce. Nothing is…
Shanghai soup dumplings: pleated parcels holding pork and a mouthful of hot broth, created by folding chilled aspic…
Wheat noodles fried on a griddle with cabbage, pork and a thick fruity brown sauce, finished with aonori, bonito…
Marinated pork shaved off a home-built stack, wrapped in pita with tzatziki, tomato, onion and — this is not…
Sausages, bacon, eggs, black pudding, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans and toast, all arriving hot at the same moment. The…
A meatloaf that slices cleanly and stays moist, built on a panade and free-formed on a tray rather than steamed in a…
Silken tofu in a fierce, oily red sauce of fermented broad bean paste, minced pork and Sichuan peppercorn. Fifteen…
The Roman classic from Amatrice: guanciale rendered until crisp, tomatoes cooked down in the rendered fat, and…
Red-braised pork belly: cubes of belly caramelised in melted rock sugar, then braised in soy and Shaoxing wine until…
Silken tofu stew, arriving at the table in a stone pot still boiling violently, with a raw egg cracked in at the…
Cantonese barbecue pork with a sticky, deeply burnished glaze and rings of red at the edge. It takes forty minutes…
Finely diced pork belly braised in soy, five spice and fried shallots until it becomes a glossy, gelatinous sauce…
Silky wontons with a prawn and pork filling floating in a clear, restorative broth. The wrappers are so thin they…
Pork belly and vegetables in a broth soured with tamarind, sharp enough to make you sit up, eaten with rice and a…
Chengdu street noodles: a pool of chilli oil, sesame paste and black vinegar at the bottom of the bowl, topped with…
Fillet of beef wrapped in mushroom duxelles and prosciutto, encased in puff pastry and baked until the pastry is…
A Savoyard mountain bake of potatoes, lardons and onions buried under a whole halved Reblochon, which melts down…
Soft-boiled eggs wrapped in seasoned sausage meat, breadcrumbed and fried until the crust is deep gold and the yolk…
A proper white chowder — thickened with potato starch and a light roux rather than a bucket of cream — with sweet…
Roast pork, ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and mustard pressed in Cuban bread until the cheese melts and the crust…
Cantonese steamed barbecue pork buns: a snow-white, faintly sweet dough that bursts open at the top to reveal sticky…
Sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding batter until the sides climb the tin and the whole thing arrives dramatically…
Yucatán pork marinated in achiote and bitter orange, wrapped in banana leaves and cooked slowly until it falls into…
Vietnamese fried spring rolls wrapped in rice paper rather than wheat wrappers, which gives a blistered, bubbly…
The best possible use for kimchi that has gone too sour to eat raw: simmered with pork belly and tofu into a…
Good sausages, buttery mash and a proper onion gravy built from slow-caramelised onions and stock rather than a…
Naples' answer to bolognese, and nothing like it: whole cuts of beef and pork simmered in tomato for four hours…
Hanoi's great lunch: charred pork patties and belly slices floating in a warm sweet-sour dipping broth, with cold…
Large pleated Georgian dumplings with a soupy meat filling, held by the twisted knot and eaten in one go, with the…
Pork belly simmered until tender, dried overnight in the fridge and then deep fried so the skin blisters into…
Pork shoulder rubbed with coarse Hawaiian salt and liquid smoke, wrapped in banana leaf and cooked for eight hours…
Thin pork loin fried fast and finished in a ginger, soy and mirin sauce that reduces to a glaze in under a minute…
The ancestor of both carbonara and amatriciana: guanciale, pecorino and black pepper, with no egg and no tomato…
Central Vietnam's spicy beef and pork noodle soup: a lemongrass and shrimp paste broth, thick round rice noodles…
Brazil's national dish: black beans slow-cooked with an armoury of smoked and salted pork, served with rice, collard…
Sichuan's huiguorou: pork belly simmered whole, cooled, sliced paper-thin and returned to a searing wok with…
Masa whipped with lard until it floats, wrapped around chilli-braised pork in corn husks and steamed until it sets…
Small Siberian dumplings with a thin wheat wrapper and a raw meat filling, boiled and eaten with soured cream…
Thin pork steaks marinated in white wine, garlic and paprika, cooked fast in the marinade and piled into a crusty…
Wheat noodles tossed with pork, prawns, chicken and vegetables in a soy and oyster sauce broth the noodles absorb as…
Rice cooked in eight times its volume of stock until the grains collapse into a silken porridge, served with century…
Greek meatballs bound with bread soaked in wine, scented with mint and oregano, and fried until dark. Eaten hot with…
Broken rice with a marinated grilled pork chop, shredded pork skin, a steamed egg meatloaf and a fried egg, all…
Navy beans baked for six hours with molasses, salt pork and mustard until the sauce is dark and thick and the beans…
Veal escalopes under a sage leaf and a slice of prosciutto, pan-fried and finished with a white wine butter sauce…
Cabbage leaves rolled around pork, beef and rice, then braised in tomato until the leaves are soft enough to cut…
Porto's sandwich: steak, sausage and ham between bread, wrapped in melted cheese and flooded with a beer and tomato…
The Antioquian platter: beans, rice, chicharrón, chorizo, minced beef, a fried egg, plantain, avocado and an arepa…
The Osaka savoury pancake — cabbage bound with a dashi batter, griddled thick, then covered in sweet-sharp sauce…
Pork belly simmered for two and a half hours in dashi, soy and sake until a chopstick passes through it without…
Mexico's celebratory hominy stew: pork simmered until tender in a brick-red guajillo broth, served with a table full…
The Polish hunter's stew: sauerkraut and fresh cabbage cooked down for hours with several kinds of pork, dried…
Enormous creamy fabes beans stewed with chorizo, morcilla and pork shoulder until the broth turns orange with…
Enormous pork meatballs braised in a light broth with cabbage, so tender they barely hold together. From Huaiyang…
Danish pork and veal meatballs, flattened into ovals and fried in butter until brown on both sides, served with…
Pickled cabbage leaves rolled around pork, rice and dill, layered in a pot with smoked meat and cooked slowly for…
The great slow-cooked bean casserole of southwest France: white beans, confit duck, sausage and pork built into…
A three-hour ragù with milk in it, finished with the pasta rather than ladled over it. Not the twenty-minute version…
A ham hock and a bag of split peas turned into something thick enough to stand a spoon in. No stock needed: the hock…
Baked meatballs simmered in a quick tomato sauce, loaded into a roll that has been toasted with cheese first so it…
Stale bread torn small, dampened, and fried slowly in garlic oil with chorizo and peppers until every piece is crisp…
Three meats, an onion, some peppercorns and water, in a low oven for three and a half hours. There is nothing else…
Pork shoulder cooked for hours in its own fat until it can be pulled to threads, packed into a pot and sealed. A…
A coarse country pâté of pork, liver and fat baked in a bain-marie and pressed overnight. Rustic on purpose — you…
Ham set in a parsley jelly made from its own cooking stock, from Burgundy. Turned out and sliced, and the parsley…
Chicken braised with peppers, tomato and piment d'Espelette from the Basque country. The peppers are cooked down to…
Sauerkraut cooked in riesling with a collection of pork and sausages piled on top. Alsace, and the sauerkraut should…
A poaching sausage baked inside brioche. Lyon, and the trick is that the sausage is cooked and cooled before it is…
The Bologna ragù, which contains almost no tomato and cooks for three hours. Served on fresh egg tagliatelle and…
Tiny filled pasta in clear capon broth, and nothing else. Emilia at Christmas, and the broth matters as much as the…
Piedmontese filled pasta pinched shut along a single strip, so a row of them comes off the sheet in one go. Plin…
Ridged saffron gnocchetti with a sausage and tomato sauce. Sardinia's everyday pasta, and the ridges exist to hold…
Hand-rolled twists in a boscaiola of mushrooms, sausage and cream. The name means priest-stranglers and nobody has a…
Naples' onion ragù, in which four kilos of onions cook down for four hours with a piece of beef until they turn…
Venetian rice and peas, looser than a risotto and eaten with a spoon. Served to the Doge every 25 April and still…
Oxtail braised four hours with an absurd amount of celery, finished with pine nuts and raisins. The dish the Roman…
Pork belly wrapped around loin, packed with fennel and rosemary, roasted until the skin shatters. Umbria and Lazio…
Meatballs cooked in the sauce rather than before it, so the sauce takes on the meat and the meat stays soft. The…
Pea and ham soup thick enough to be named after the fog. A ham hock, a bag of split peas and almost nothing else.
Hot water crust raised by hand around coarsely chopped pork, baked free-standing and filled with jelly through a…
Good sausagemeat in butter puff, glazed and seeded. Everything wrong with a shop sausage roll is the pastry, and…
Coarse offal meatballs wrapped in caul fat and baked in onion gravy, with mushy peas alongside. The Black Country's…
Loin of pork with crackling that shatters, and an apple sauce made sharp rather than sweet. The crackling is not…
Crystal-skinned prawn dumplings with at least ten pleats, steamed until the wrapper turns translucent. The dish a…
Open-topped pork and prawn dumplings in a yellow wrapper, finished with a dot of roe. The other half of the dim sum…
Shanghai buns with a crisp fried base and soup inside, cooked base-down in a covered pan and finished with sesame…
Chopped braised pork packed into a flatbread baked on a griddle. Xi'an has sold it for two thousand years and calls…
Pork wontons under a slick of red chilli oil, black vinegar and garlic. Sichuan's answer to the soup version, and…
Squares of pork belly tied with string and braised in Shaoxing wine and soy for three hours, until the fat is…
Shredded pork in a sweet, sour and hot sauce that contains no fish at all — the name refers to the seasonings…
Thick wheat noodles under a dark salty pork sauce and a heap of raw shredded vegetables that you mix in yourself at…
A whole chicken wrapped in lotus leaves, sealed in clay and baked for three hours, then broken open at the table…
Short ribs braised in Chinkiang vinegar and rock sugar until the sauce reduces to a lacquer. Shanghai, and it is…
Bite-sized ribs marinated with fermented black beans and garlic, steamed for twenty-five minutes on a plate. Easier…
Roast pork belly with skin blistered into a crackling you can hear from across the room, cut into cubes. Cantonese…
Pork belly fried, sliced, packed face-down over preserved mustard greens and steamed for two hours, then turned out…
Green beans fried until their skins blister and wrinkle, then tossed with minced pork, preserved vegetable and…
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…
Glutinous rice packed with pork belly and salted egg yolk into a bamboo-leaf pyramid, tied with string and boiled…
Winter melon simmered with pork ribs and dried shrimp until it turns translucent and takes on everything around it…
Lotus root and pork ribs simmered for two hours until the root goes floury and pulls into starchy threads when you…
Dried scallop and shrimp shredded and fried with chilli, ham and garlic until crisp. Invented in a Hong Kong hotel…
Thick wheat noodles under a black bean sauce of pork and diced vegetables. Korea's most-ordered delivery food, eaten…
Cold rice fried hard with sour kimchi and topped with a fried egg. Twenty-five minutes, and better the older the…
Pork belly boiled with aromatics until it slices clean, wrapped in lettuce with salted shrimp and radish. No frying…
A pork loin cutlet in panko, fried until the crust is pale gold and shattering. The cutlet behind katsu curry, done…
A clear chicken broth seasoned with a soy tare, with chashu pork, a marinated egg and thin curled noodles. The…
Pork shoulder marinated in coconut milk and white pepper, threaded on bamboo and grilled over charcoal. Bangkok…
A rice flour crêpe made yellow with turmeric, filled with pork and prawn and folded over beansprouts. It is torn up…
Grilled lemongrass pork over cold rice vermicelli with herbs, pickle and nuoc cham poured over. A hot and cold bowl…
Minced beef and pork cooked three hours in milk, wine and a little tomato. Not the red mince sauce, and worth the…
Small pork and beef meatballs in an almond and saffron sauce. A tapas plate, and the sauce is thickened with bread…
Meatballs browned and finished in the sauce, over spaghetti. Italian-American, and none the worse for it.
Thin pork and vegetable spring rolls, rolled pencil-thin and fried hard. Filipino parties are counted in these.
Pork face and belly boiled, grilled, chopped fine and served on a plate hot enough to keep frying it at the table.
Thick yellow noodles braised in dark soy with prawns, pork and cabbage until the sauce coats every strand. Kuala…
Pork shoulder in a scotch bonnet and allspice marinade, cooked slowly over smoke until the outside is black and the…
Green beans and pork stir-fried in red curry paste with no coconut milk at all. A dry curry, and thirty minutes.
Rice batter steamed into sheets thinner than paper, rolled around pork and wood ear, with fried shallots over.
A tomato and crab broth with floating clouds of crab and egg, over rice vermicelli. Sharper and lighter than phở.
Sausages, bacon, potato and onion layered in a pot and cooked slowly in stock until everything gives. Almost no…