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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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Margherita Pizza
The Neapolitan original: a blistered, cloud-edged crust under nothing more than San Marzano tomatoes, milky fior di…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Paella Valenciana
The Valencian original, with chicken, rabbit and beans rather than seafood, cooked flat in a wide pan until a…
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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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Crispy Falafel
Made only from soaked dried chickpeas — never tinned, never cooked — so the outside shatters and the inside stays…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pasta Puttanesca
Tomatoes, anchovies, olives, capers and chilli — a sauce built entirely from the store cupboard in the time the…
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The Perfect BLT
Three ingredients, no room for error: bacon fried to the exact point of crispness, tomatoes salted and drained, and…
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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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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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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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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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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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Melanzane alla Parmigiana
Layers of fried aubergine, tomato, basil and mozzarella baked until the edges catch and the middle sets into…
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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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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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Full English Breakfast
Sausages, bacon, eggs, black pudding, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans and toast, all arriving hot at the same moment. The…
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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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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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Chole Bhature
Punjab's great weekend breakfast: dark, tangy chickpeas served with balloon-like fried bread. The chana is blackened…
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Gnocchi alla Sorrentina
Potato gnocchi baked under tomato sauce and mozzarella until the top blisters and the cheese pulls. From the…
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Shish Taouk
Chicken cubes marinated in yoghurt, garlic and lemon with a little tomato purée, grilled hard and served with toum…
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Tomato Bruschetta
Charred bread rubbed hard with raw garlic, doused in olive oil, and piled with tomatoes that have been salted just…
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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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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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Bucatini all'Amatriciana
The Roman classic from Amatrice: guanciale rendered until crisp, tomatoes cooked down in the rendered fat, and…
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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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Moussaka
Layers of roasted aubergine, spiced lamb ragù and a thick béchamel enriched with egg yolks and kefalotyri, baked…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Caprese Salad
Three ingredients in the colours of the Italian flag, which means there is nowhere to hide. Ripe tomatoes at room…
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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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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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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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Penne all'Arrabbiata
Angry pasta, and rightly so: garlic bloomed slowly in olive oil, dried chilli, and tomatoes cooked hard enough to…
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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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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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Coxinha
Shredded chicken and cream cheese wrapped in a dough made from chicken stock and flour, shaped like a teardrop…
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Chicken Milanese
Chicken breast beaten thin, breaded and fried in butter until the crust is deep gold. Milanese in method, and the…
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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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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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Pasta alla Norma
Catania's great pasta: fried aubergine folded into a bright tomato sauce and finished with salty ricotta salata…
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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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Pan con Tomate
Toasted bread rubbed with a cut tomato and garlic, dressed with olive oil and salt. Four ingredients, and the…
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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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Huevos Rancheros
Fried eggs on crisped tortillas under a warm, smoky ranchero sauce, with black beans and avocado. The Mexican…
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Menemen
Turkish scrambled eggs cooked slowly into a base of peppers and tomatoes until just set — soft, saucy and eaten…
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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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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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Ribollita
Tuscan bread soup: cannellini beans, cavolo nero and soffritto cooked down, thickened with stale bread and then…
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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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Joojeh Kabab
Chicken marinated overnight in saffron, lemon and grated onion, grilled over coals and basted with saffron butter as…
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Som Tam (Green Papaya Salad)
Green papaya pounded with garlic, chilli, lime, palm sugar and fish sauce in a clay mortar. Bruising rather than…
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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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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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Pupusas
El Salvador's thick stuffed corn cakes, filled with cheese, beans or chicharrón and griddled until blistered, served…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sabich
Pitta stuffed with fried aubergine, boiled egg, hummus, salad, pickles, amba and a great deal of tahini…
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Tinga Tostadas
Crisp fried tortillas topped with chicken tinga — shredded chicken in a smoky chipotle and tomato sauce — with…
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Salade Niçoise
A composed salad, not a tossed one: each element dressed and arranged separately so every forkful is deliberate…
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Fattoush Salad
The Levantine bread salad: crisp fried pita, cucumber, tomato, radish and herbs, dressed with sumac and pomegranate…
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Sicilian Caponata
Sicilian sweet-and-sour aubergine with celery, olives and capers, finished with vinegar and sugar. Served at room…
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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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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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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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Salmorejo
Córdoba's thicker, richer answer to gazpacho: tomatoes, bread, garlic and a great deal of olive oil blended into a…
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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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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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Bandeja Paisa
The Antioquian platter: beans, rice, chicharrón, chorizo, minced beef, a fried egg, plantain, avocado and an arepa…
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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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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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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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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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Chapli Kebab
Flat Peshawari patties of coarse beef with tomato, pomegranate seed and coriander seed, shallow fried in beef fat…
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Harira Soup
The Moroccan soup traditionally eaten to break the fast during Ramadan: lentils, chickpeas and tomato thickened with…
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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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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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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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Bigos
The Polish hunter's stew: sauerkraut and fresh cabbage cooked down for hours with several kinds of pork, dried…
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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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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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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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Completo Italiano
A hot dog buried under diced tomato, mashed avocado and a mountain of mayonnaise. Chile's national street food, and…
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Mole Poblano
Puebla's legendary sauce: more than twenty ingredients — chillies, nuts, seeds, spices, dried fruit and chocolate —…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lunch
Seared Tuna Niçoise
Tuna steak seared rare, over green beans, egg, olives and tomato with an anchovy vinaigrette — the Niçoise without…
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Æggekage
A thick Danish egg cake cooked slowly in one pan and finished under the grill, topped with crisp bacon, tomatoes and…
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Chakalaka
A South African relish of onions, peppers, carrot and beans cooked hard with curry powder and chilli — served with…
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Malawach
Yemenite-Jewish laminated flatbread fried in a dry pan until the layers separate and blister, served with grated…
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Kachumbari
Kenya’s everyday salad: tomato, onion and chilli with lime and coriander, salted and drained so it stays crisp…
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Salade Méchouia
Tunisian grilled salad: peppers, tomatoes, onion and garlic charred over flame, peeled and chopped rough with…
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Zaalouk
Moroccan cooked salad of aubergine and tomato reduced down with garlic, paprika and cumin until it is thick enough…
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Kısır
Turkish fine bulgur salad worked through with pepper paste, pomegranate molasses and a great deal of parsley, eaten…
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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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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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Lunch
Club Sandwich
Three slices of toast, two fillings, four cocktail sticks. The architecture is the recipe: bacon and chicken get…
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Lunch
Meatball Sub
Baked meatballs simmered in a quick tomato sauce, loaded into a roll that has been toasted with cheese first so it…
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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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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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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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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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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
Tuna and Caper Pasta
Store-cupboard pasta that tastes like it took an hour: tuna in oil, capers, chilli and lemon, emulsified with pasta…
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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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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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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
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
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
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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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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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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Maghmour
Aubergine and chickpeas stewed down in tomato and garlic until everything collapses. Often called Lebanese moussaka…
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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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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
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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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
Koussa Mahshi
Small courgettes cored and filled with rice and lamb, cooked upright in tomato. Coring them without going through…
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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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Salata Baladi
The chopped country salad that arrives with everything: tomato, cucumber, onion and pepper cut small, dressed with…
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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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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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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
Mombar
Sausage casings filled with spiced rice and mince, boiled and then fried until they blister. Fiddly, cheap, and one…
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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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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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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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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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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
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
Complet Poisson
The Tunisian fish plate: grilled fish with fried peppers, potatoes, a salad, tastira and harissa, all on one dish…
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Dinner
Hout Mechoui
Whole fish grilled over coals with nothing on it but oil and salt, served with tastira and lemon. The restraint is…
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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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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
Navarin d'Agneau
Lamb braised with the first vegetables of spring, each added at its own moment. The vegetables are the point, not a…
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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
Quenelles de Brochet
Pike beaten with choux paste into weightless dumplings, poached and baked in a crayfish sauce. Lyon, and one of the…
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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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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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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
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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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
Culurgiones
Sardinian parcels of potato, mint and pecorino, closed with a pleat that looks like an ear of wheat. The pleat takes…
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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
Pici all'Aglione
Fat hand-rolled Tuscan spaghetti in a sauce of nothing but garlic, tomato and oil. Aglione is a giant sweet garlic…
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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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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
Busiate al Pesto Trapanese
Trapani's pesto: almonds instead of pine nuts, raw tomato instead of just basil. Made in a mortar and never cooked.
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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
Fregola con Arselle
Toasted Sardinian pasta pearls cooked like a risotto with clams. The toasting is what separates fregola from couscous.
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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
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
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
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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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
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
Coronation Chicken
Cold chicken in a curried, apricot-sweetened mayonnaise, invented for the 1953 coronation lunch. Ruined by every…
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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
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
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
Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
Anchovy, olive, caper and tomato cooked hard for twenty minutes. Nothing in it is fresh and it is one of the best…
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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
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
Şakşuka
Fried aubergine and courgette under a garlicky tomato sauce, served cold. Nothing to do with the egg dish of a…
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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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Lunch
Rasam
A thin, sour, peppery broth of tamarind and tomato, drunk from a cup or poured over rice. South India's answer to…
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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
Chicken Karahi
Chicken cooked hard in a wok with tomato, ginger and green chilli, and almost nothing else. No onion, no cream, no…
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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
Sfiha
Open lamb pies the size of a saucer, tart with pomegranate molasses. Baalbek makes them flat and thin.
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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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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
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
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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Dinner
Rouladen
Thin beef rolled around bacon, onion and pickle, browned and braised two hours into its own gravy.
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Breakfast
Jachnun
Buttered dough stretched thin, rolled up and baked overnight until it turns dark and sweet. Yemenite Jewish Saturday…
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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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