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Kofta Kebab Skewers with ground lamb, onion and parsley — Lebanon recipe

🇱🇧LebanonMedium

Meat Dishes

Kofta Kebab Skewers

Kofta kebab is a Lebanese dish of seasoned ground lamb — mixed with grated onion, parsley, and warm spices, then pressed onto flat metal skewers. It belongs to the ground-meat branch of the wider kebab family found from Morocco to Central Asia, distinct from shish kebab, which threads whole cubes of marinated meat instead (see the tip below for that version). The kofta is grilled over direct high heat, ideally charcoal, until charred outside and just cooked through. The technique that separates good kofta from crumbly kofta is kneading the mixture until it turns cohesive and paste-like, and squeezing the grated onion completely dry before mixing it in.

60 min380 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Korean Fried Chicken with chicken, cornstarch and garlic — Korea recipe

🇰🇷KoreaAdvanced

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Korean Fried Chicken

Korean fried chicken, or yangnyeom chicken (양념치킨), is chicken fried twice — once to cook it, then again, hotter, to set a thin glassy crust — and tossed in a sticky sauce of gochujang, honey, garlic and soy. The double fry is the whole technique: it drives moisture out of the coating, so the crust stays crisp even under the glaze. In Korea it is the standard late-night takeaway, eaten with pickled radish and cold beer.

40 min320 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Krautpfanne (German Cabbage and Sausage Skillet) with smoked sausage, white cabbage and onion — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyMedium

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Krautpfanne (German Cabbage and Sausage Skillet)

Krautpfanne is a southern German one-pan supper: white cabbage cut into ribbons, onion and smoked sausage cooked down in lard with caraway and sweet paprika. Kraut is simply what cabbage is called in Bavaria, Swabia and Austria, and the pan takes its name from it. The sausage goes in first so that the fat it renders is what the cabbage cooks in, and the last few minutes happen with the lid off, which is where the browned edges come from. A spoonful of vinegar at the end keeps it from sitting heavy.

30 min430 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Lemon Butter Chicken with chicken, butter and lemon — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Lemon Butter Chicken

Chicken breasts pounded flat, pan-seared golden, then finished in a quick lemon butter pan sauce. Done in 25 minutes. The sauce comes together in the same skillet.

25 min380 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick

Lemon Marry Me Chicken with chicken thighs, heavy cream and sun dried tomatoes in oil — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

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Lemon Marry Me Chicken

The original Marry Me Chicken gets a lemon treatment — zest and juice cut through the cream sauce and make the whole thing taste lighter than it has any right to. Sun-dried tomatoes, parmesan, garlic, a splash of white wine, fresh thyme. One skillet, one sauce, chicken thighs that stay juicy because they finish in the oven. Serve it over pasta, rice, or just with bread to drag through the sauce.

35 min550 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Lomo Saltado with beef sirloin, ají amarillo and red onions — Peru recipe

🇵🇪PeruMedium

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Lomo Saltado

Lomo saltado is a beef stir-fry from the chifa kitchens of Peru, where Cantonese cooking technique met Peruvian ingredients from the late nineteenth century onward. Strips of sirloin are seared in a scorching pan, then joined by red onion, ají amarillo, tomato, soy sauce and vinegar, and the whole thing is finished with fried potatoes folded in at the last second. Serving it over rice puts two starches on one plate, which is exactly the point: the potato is Andean, the rice and the wok are Chinese, and the soy-and-vinegar pan sauce belongs to neither on its own. Everything depends on pan temperature, so all cutting and measuring is done before the burner is lit.

40 min690 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Lyulya Kebab (Azerbaijani Lamb Skewers) with ground lamb, lamb tail fat and onion — Azerbaijan recipe

🌍AzerbaijanAdvanced

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Lyulya Kebab (Azerbaijani Lamb Skewers)

Lyulya kebab is Azerbaijani ground-lamb skewers grilled over a mangal. The meat is kneaded long with grated onion and lamb tail fat until it turns dense and tacky — with no egg or bread, that kneading is what keeps it on the skewer. It grills to a browned crust and is served with sumac, pickled onion, and lavash.

95 min400 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Machanka (Belarusian Pork Sauce with Pancakes) with pork belly, sour cream and sausages — Belarus recipe

🇧🇾BelarusAdvanced

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Machanka (Belarusian Pork Sauce with Pancakes)

A traditional Belarusian dish — thick, rich pork and sausage sauce in sour cream, served hot over thin homemade pancakes. Hearty, warming, and deeply satisfying village food.

90 min400 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Marry Me Chicken with chicken, cream and parmesan — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

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Marry Me Chicken

Marry Me Chicken is an American skillet dish of chicken breasts in a cream sauce with sun-dried tomatoes, garlic and Parmesan, named for the joke that one plate is enough to get a proposal. It went round the world from US food blogs around 2016 and stayed because it needs one pan, twenty minutes of work and no unusual shopping. The breasts are seared to a golden crust, then finished in the oven in the sauce so they stay juicy.

35 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Martinsgans (German Roast Goose) with goose, apple and onion — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyAdvanced

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Martinsgans (German Roast Goose)

Martinsgans is the roast goose Germany eats around 11 November, the feast of St Martin, stuffed with apples, onions and mugwort and served with red cabbage and potato dumplings. The same bird reappears at Christmas, but November is when it belongs to a date. The method is slow and then fast: about three hours at 160 to 180°C for a 4.5 kg goose, breast down for the first hour so the back fat bastes the lean meat, then a short blast at 220°C with a brush of salted water to crisp the skin. The bird also gives up half a litre of clean fat along the way, which is a second ingredient rather than waste.

240 min820 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Massaman Curry with beef, potato and peanuts — Thailand recipe

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

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Massaman Curry

Thailand’s mildest and most complex curry — slow-braised beef with potato and roasted peanuts in a rich coconut milk sauce spiced with cinnamon, cardamom, and cumin. Voted the world’s best dish by CNN Travel in 2011. Not spicy — deep, sweet, and profoundly satisfying.

50 min380 kcal2 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Meat in French Style with pork neck or loin, hard cheese gouda or edam and tomatoes — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Meat in French Style

A beloved post-Soviet baked dish where tender pork cutlets are layered with onion, mushrooms, tomatoes and two kinds of cheese, then baked until the cheese forms a rich golden crust. An all-in-one festive dish that always impresses.

90 min520 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🥑Keto

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