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A breaded cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with Japanese curry sauce — thicker, sweeter and darker than an Indian…
Roasted, mashed, fried and folded into everything. 140 recipes on the site call for potatoes.
A breaded cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with Japanese curry sauce — thicker, sweeter and darker than an Indian…
Pork loin beaten thin, breadcrumbed and fried in a shallow pool of butter and oil so the coating puffs away from the…
Chuck browned properly, then braised low with red wine, stock and root vegetables until the meat gives way under a…
Beer batter that shatters, chips with a fluffy interior, and a proper mushy pea and tartare sauce alongside. The…
Properly made samosas have a blistered, flaky shell that stays crisp for hours — the result of a stiff dough…
Lamb mince in a rich gravy under a piped mash with crisp golden ridges. Made with beef it is a cottage pie; the…
Grated potato squeezed bone dry, pressed into a pan of butter and left completely alone until a solid golden crust…
Gruyère and Vacherin melted into white wine with a little cornflour and kirsch, kept just below a simmer and eaten…
Wholewheat flatbread stuffed with spiced mashed potato and griddled in ghee until blistered. The Punjabi breakfast…
Mumbai's great street dish: a mash of vegetables cooked down on a giant griddle with a distinctive spice blend…
Potatoes and onion confited slowly in olive oil, then bound in egg and cooked until the centre is barely set and…
Waxy potatoes simmered in garlicky cream and baked until the top is bronzed and the layers have fused into something…
Minced beef in a rich gravy under a mash topping forked into ridges and browned. Cottage pie is beef; shepherd's pie…
Potatoes fried until properly crusted, then peppers, onions and whatever else is in the fridge, with eggs cracked in…
The bistro standard done properly: a hard-seared steak rested under herb butter, with twice-fried chips that stay…
Lamb neck, potatoes and onions simmered slowly in stock with nothing else in the pot. The potatoes on top stay…
Fried twice in beef dripping — once low to cook, once hot to crisp — and served in a paper cone with mayonnaise.
Potatoes roasted in a pool of lemon juice, olive oil and stock until the liquid has gone and what is left is a…
A true gulyás is a soup, not a stew: beef, onions and a great deal of sweet Hungarian paprika simmered with potatoes…
A chicken breast wrapped around a core of garlic and herb butter, breadcrumbed and fried so the butter is still…
Potato gnocchi baked under tomato sauce and mozzarella until the top blisters and the cheese pulls. From the…
Soft scrambled eggs, crisp potatoes, sausage and cheese rolled tight in a griddled tortilla. Built properly it holds…
Twice-cooked potatoes with a shattering exterior and a fluffy interior, under a smoky brava sauce that carries…
Waxy potatoes dressed while still warm so they drink in the vinegar, then finished cold with mayonnaise, celery, egg…
Layers of roasted aubergine, spiced lamb ragù and a thick béchamel enriched with egg yolks and kefalotyri, baked…
Tender dumplings filled with potato and farmer's cheese, boiled and then fried in butter with onions. A weekend…
Goat browned and stewed for hours with Jamaican curry powder, thyme and scotch bonnet until it falls off the bone…
The golden crust at the bottom of the rice pot, made deliberately: parboiled basmati steamed over a layer of yoghurt…
A spiced potato fritter in a soft bun with three chutneys and fried green chillies. Mumbai's street sandwich, sold…
A paper-thin, tangy fermented crêpe wrapped around spiced potato, with coconut chutney and sambar alongside. South…
Duck legs cured in salt overnight, then cooked submerged in their own fat until the meat gives at a touch. A…
The mildest and most aromatic Thai curry, carrying Persian and Indian influence in its cinnamon, cardamom and…
A Savoyard mountain bake of potatoes, lardons and onions buried under a whole halved Reblochon, which melts down…
A proper white chowder — thickened with potato starch and a light roux rather than a bucket of cream — with sweet…
Paneer and potato dumplings, deep fried until golden, resting in a rich cashew and tomato gravy. The centrepiece of…
Corn dough shells filled with potato and shredded beef, deep fried until the outside is crackly and deep yellow…
Pillowy potato gnocchi that float rather than sink, dressed in nothing more than nut-brown butter and crisped sage…
A deep crimson beetroot soup with a sour edge from vinegar and a sweetness from slow-cooked roots, finished with a…
Good sausages, buttery mash and a proper onion gravy built from slow-caramelised onions and stock rather than a…
Beef skirt, potato, swede and onion, all raw, sealed in shortcrust and baked for nearly an hour so everything cooks…
A dry curry of potato and cauliflower, roasted rather than stewed so the edges caramelise and the florets stay…
Tuscan bread soup: cannellini beans, cavolo nero and soffritto cooked down, thickened with stale bread and then…
Grated potato pressed into a pan and fried slowly in butter until a deep golden crust forms on both sides and the…
A big, generous vegetable soup built on a slow soffritto and thickened by the beans themselves rather than cream…
Diced potato, carrot, egg, pickle and ham bound in mayonnaise. Known as Russian salad almost everywhere else, and…
A Provençal summer vegetable soup finished at the table with pistou — basil, garlic and olive oil pounded to a…
A composed salad, not a tossed one: each element dressed and arranged separately so every forkful is deliberate…
Warm potatoes dressed in a bacon, vinegar and stock dressing rather than mayonnaise — sharper, lighter, and much…
Haggis baked in its skin, served with mashed swede and mashed potato and a whisky cream sauce poured over the lot.
Rice, meat and fried vegetables layered in a pot and flipped out whole at the table so it stands as a cake. The name…
Potato and onion blended into a smooth base, with finely shredded couve and a slice of chouriço added at the last…
The Goan original, descended from a Portuguese pork dish preserved in wine and garlic. Vinegar, not just chilli, is…
Blanched and raw vegetables, tofu, tempeh and boiled egg under a warm peanut sauce, with prawn crackers on top…
Shredded chicken in a creamy, mildly spicy sauce thickened with bread and walnuts, coloured yellow by ají amarillo…
Mashed potato beaten with buttery kale or cabbage and spring onions, with a well of melted butter in the middle of…
A half wheel of cheese melted under heat and scraped onto plates of boiled potatoes, pickles and cured meats, one…
A quarter loaf of white bread hollowed out and filled with Durban mutton curry, with the scooped-out bread on the…
Octopus boiled until tender, sliced into coins, and dressed with olive oil, coarse salt and a heavy dusting of…
Salt cod shredded and folded through straw-thin fried potatoes and softly scrambled egg. Named after a Lisbon tavern…
Finnish salmon soup: potatoes and leek in a light stock, cream stirred in, salmon poached off the heat, and dill…
The dish the French call their national plate: beef and marrow bones simmered for hours with whole winter…
Smoked haddock, potato and onion in a thick milk soup from the Moray coast. Four ingredients, and all of them have…
Bogotá chicken and potato soup, thickened by three kinds of potato breaking down at different rates, with guascas…
Cold layers of yellow potato mashed with lime and ají amarillo, packed around a chicken or crab filling and turned…
Beef and potatoes simmered in dashi, soy and mirin until the potatoes have soaked up the broth and started to fall…
Danish pork and veal meatballs, flattened into ovals and fried in butter until brown on both sides, served with…
Half raw grated potato, half mash, bound with flour and buttermilk and fried into pancakes with crisp edges and a…
Sour rye soup made from a fermented starter, with white sausage, potatoes, marjoram and a halved boiled egg…
Welsh lamb and root vegetable broth, traditionally eaten in two courses: the broth first, then the meat and…
Ethiopian cabbage, carrot and potato stewed gently with turmeric and ginger until everything is soft and golden —…
Brisket simmered for three hours until a fork slides in without resistance, with the vegetables added in the order…
Floury potatoes, a ricer, and butter before milk. The order matters more than the quantities, and it is the reason…
Parboiled hard, shaken until furred, and roasted in smoking-hot oil. The ragged surface is the whole point, and it…
Dry skin, oil and salt, and a wire rack rather than foil. Seventy minutes for a skin that crackles and an interior…
Grated potato and onion, wrung out hard, bound with egg and a spoonful of the potato's own starch, and fried until…
Three meats, an onion, some peppercorns and water, in a low oven for three and a half hours. There is nothing else…
Belgian mash with vegetables crushed through it rather than blended in, so it stays coarse and flecked. A side dish…
Brown lentils and mushrooms cooked down with red wine and Marmite into something dark enough to carry a mash lid…
Fried potato cubes tossed off the heat with a raw paste of garlic, coriander and chilli. The point is that the…
Vine leaves rolled around rice, tomato, parsley and mint, packed tight into a pot and cooked in lemon and oil. The…
Spiced lamb pressed flat into a tray, layered with potato and tomato and baked in one dish. The weeknight answer to…
Chicken and potatoes roasted hard in lemon, garlic and olive oil until the edges blacken. Four ingredients doing all…
Potato and lamb stewed in tomato with coriander and garlic until the potatoes start to break and thicken the pot…
Potatoes roasted hard with cumin, coriander and a lot of garlic until the edges go almost black. Sold from carts by…
Vegetables cut large and roasted together in a tomato sauce until everything is soft enough to eat with a spoon…
Peppers, tomato, courgette, potato and onion fried separately, then chopped together on a board with fried eggs…
Warm potato salad with harissa, capers and olives and no mayonnaise anywhere. Dressed while hot so the potato takes…
Lamb and vegetables in a red harissa broth, with the couscous steamed over the pot so it takes the vapour. The…
The Tunisian fish plate: grilled fish with fried peppers, potatoes, a salad, tastira and harissa, all on one dish…
A small fried bread roll split and packed with tuna, potato, olives, egg and harissa. Sold everywhere, eaten…
Garlic pounded to a cream and emulsified with olive oil, sometimes with a yolk to help it. Provence eats it with…
Salt cod beaten with potato, garlic, oil and milk into a warm purée. Nîmes makes it without potato and everyone else…
Leek and potato soup enriched with cream and served cold. Invented in New York by a French chef, which the French…
The hot original that vichyssoise is a chilled version of: leeks, potatoes, water and butter. Julia Child called it…
The Gascon soup of cabbage, beans and preserved duck, thick enough that the spoon should stand up in it. A meal, not…
Braised beef minced by hand under a potato purée and baked. The French version predates the English one and is made…
Lamb braised with the first vegetables of spring, each added at its own moment. The vegetables are the point, not a…
Sauerkraut cooked in riesling with a collection of pork and sausages piled on top. Alsace, and the sauerkraut should…
Leg of lamb studded with garlic and anchovy and roasted pink over potatoes that catch the juices. The anchovy is not…
Mussels steamed open in white wine with shallots, and chips fried twice. The mussel liquor is the sauce and should…
Potato purée beaten with fresh tomme until it becomes elastic enough to lift in ropes. From the Aubrac, and the…
Sliced potatoes fried slowly in fat and folded with fresh tomme until they form a single cake. The Auvergne cousin…
A hot bath of anchovy, garlic and oil kept warm at the table for dipping raw vegetables into. Piedmont in November…
Sardinian parcels of potato, mint and pecorino, closed with a pleat that looks like an ear of wheat. The pleat takes…
Ligurian twists with potato and green beans cooked in the same water, all dressed in pesto. The potato is not a…
Buckwheat ribbons layered with cabbage, potato and melting cheese under browned butter and sage. Alpine food, and…
Four ingredients, twenty minutes on the stove, and better than almost anything more complicated. The soup to know by…
Lamb and onions under a lid of sliced potato that browns while everything beneath it goes to nothing. Two and a half…
White fish, smoked fish and prawns under mashed potato, in a sauce made from the milk the fish poached in. The mash…
Potatoes stewed in dripping with onions and whatever meat is left from Sunday, until the bottom catches slightly…
Potato, swede and cabbage mashed together, topped with cheese and baked. The Scottish Borders answer to what to do…
Mashed potato beaten with spring onions steeped in hot milk, served with a well of butter melting in the middle…
Potato, onion and cheese layered in a frying pan, cooked on the hob and finished under the grill. Northumberland…
Watercress cooked for ninety seconds and blended immediately, which is what keeps it the colour of a wet lawn…
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…
Potato cut into matchsticks, rinsed of starch and fried for ninety seconds so it stays crunchy. Sour, hot, and…
Flour and butter cooked slowly to a nutty brown and spiced. Make it once and the shop-bought blocks stop being…
The mildest of the Thai curries, yellow with turmeric and thick with potato. The one to cook for people who say they…
A whole chuck joint browned and cooked three and a half hours with carrots and potatoes until it falls into pieces…
Waxy potatoes dressed while still warm with mayonnaise, mustard and egg. Forty minutes, and it wants an hour in the…
Lamb shoulder sealed in parchment with lemon, oregano and potatoes and cooked three and a half hours. The parcel is…
Hollow crisp spheres filled with spiced water, potato and chickpea, eaten whole in one go. India's most-loved street…
Sweetcorn simmered in a thin broth with potato and finished with cream. Forty-five minutes, and the cobs go in the…
A potato baked until the skin is crisp and the inside floury, split and filled with butter, cheese, bacon and soured…
Chicken thighs, potatoes, lemon and oregano in one tin for forty-five minutes. The tin does the work.
Minced lamb and potato cooked down together until the mince is dry and catching. A Pakistani weeknight standard.
Grated potato pancakes fried crisp at the edges and soft in the middle. Forty minutes, and the squeezing is the…
Boiled potatoes under a yellow chilli and cheese sauce, cold, with olives and egg. Thirty-five minutes.
Beef heart marinated in ají panca and vinegar, grilled hard over charcoal. Lima's street food, and the marinade is…
Potatoes mashed with kale or endive and a well of gravy in the middle, with sausage laid across. Fifty minutes.
Thin potato pancakes fried in butter, with bacon and lingonberry. Sweden's Thursday, and forty minutes.
A spiced potato filling in a buttered roll with pomegranate, roasted peanuts and sev. Gujarat's answer to the vada…
Potato cubes fried until the corners shatter, tossed with chaat masala, lime and coriander. Thirty minutes.
Chips under beef chilli and melted cheese, eaten with a fork before the bottom layer surrenders. Forty-five minutes.
Corned beef and potato pressed into a hot pan and left alone until a crust forms. Forty minutes and one flip.
Mashed potato and flour rolled thin, cut into triangles and cooked on a dry griddle. Part of a Scottish fry-up.
Sausages, bacon, potato and onion layered in a pot and cooked slowly in stock until everything gives. Almost no…
Warm potato slices in a bacon, vinegar and stock dressing, with no mayonnaise anywhere near it.
Dumplings filled with potato and curd cheese, boiled and then fried in butter with onions. Poland's most-made dish.