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Apple cider vinegar Recipes

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17 recipes

Coleslaw with apple, carrot and celery — USA recipe

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Salads

Coleslaw

Shredded cabbage and carrots dressed in a tangy, slightly sweet mayo-based dressing with a kick of vinegar. The secret is salting the cabbage first to draw out water — otherwise it turns soggy within an hour.

18 min160 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Meatloaf with ground beef, onion and breadcrumbs — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Meatloaf

Meatloaf is a traditional American dish — ground meat mixed with breadcrumbs, eggs and spices, baked into a loaf shape and topped with a tomato glaze.

63 min700 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Spare Ribs with pork ribs, brown sugar and ketchup — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Spare Ribs

Spare ribs are large, meaty pork ribs sold as whole racks; here they get a dry rub, bake in foil until tender, then go on the grill with a tangy barbecue sauce. The rubbed ribs rest in the fridge for at least an hour (or overnight) before baking.

195 min410 kcal10 serves

💪High protein

BBQ Pulled Pork with pork shoulder, apple cider vinegar and BBQ sauce — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

BBQ Pulled Pork

Southern-style slow-roasted pork shoulder, rubbed with a smoky spice blend and cooked low and slow until it falls apart into tender, juicy strands. Served on brioche buns with homemade coleslaw. Count on about 30 minutes of hands-on work and 4–5 hours in the oven; the rub needs an overnight rest in the fridge, and the meat an hour at room temperature before roasting and 30 minutes under foil after.

300 min650 kcal8 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Mike's Hot Honey with honey, red pepper flakes and apple cider vinegar — USA recipe

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Sauces and Dips

Mike's Hot Honey

A homemade version of the cult American condiment — pure liquid honey infused with red chili flakes and a touch of apple cider vinegar. Sweet, spicy, and perfectly balanced. Drizzle it on pizza, fried chicken, cheese boards, or roasted vegetables.

20 min60 kcal16 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

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

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Meat Dishes

Krautpfanne (German Cabbage and Sausage Skillet)

Krautpfanne is a German one-pan supper: white cabbage cut into ribbons, onion and smoked sausage cooked down in lard with caraway and sweet paprika. Kraut is what cabbage is called in southern and eastern Germany and in 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. Two tablespoons of vinegar at the end keep it from sitting heavy.

30 min430 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Fall Veggie Hot Honey Bowl with sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts and lean ground turkey — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Fall Veggie Hot Honey Bowl

Roasted sweet potato and Brussels sprouts, ground turkey with warm autumn spices, cottage cheese, avocado, and a maple Dijon drizzle — or hot honey if you want to keep it simple. The Brussels sprouts are the key: roasted cut-side down at high heat, they caramelize at the edges and become nutty and faintly sweet.

40 min495 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Hot Honey Cottage Cheese Beef Bowl with lean ground beef, cottage cheese and honey — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Hot Honey Cottage Cheese Beef Bowl

Ground beef glazed in spicy-sweet hot honey, served over jasmine rice with a cold scoop of cottage cheese on top. The cottage cheese melts just enough from the heat of the beef to form a creamy layer. One pan. 25 minutes.

25 min480 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Vegan Chili with kidney beans, black beans and chipotle — USA recipe

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Soups

Vegan Chili

Three kinds of beans and a rich, dark, smoky tomato-based sauce built on chipotle peppers, bloomed spices, and a small amount of cocoa powder. This is the version of vegan chili that wins cook-offs. The cocoa sounds unusual until you taste what it does — it deepens the existing flavors without adding any sweetness or chocolate flavor, the same way it works in a mole. The chipotle gives smoke. The long simmer gives body. A splash of apple cider vinegar at the end lifts everything. Make it the day before if you can.

55 min390 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

BBQ Baby Back Ribs (2-2-1 Method) with baby back ribs, brown sugar and smoked paprika — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

BBQ Baby Back Ribs (2-2-1 Method)

Baby back ribs are the most tender and lean rack cut in American barbecue — they come from where the pork loin meets the spine, producing shorter, curved bones with a generous layer of back loin meat. The 2-2-1 method — a modification of the classic 3-2-1 for the smaller baby back rack — divides the cook into three stages: 2 hours of open smoking to build bark and absorb smoke, 2 hours wrapped tightly in foil with butter, honey, and apple juice to braise the collagen into gelatin until the meat pulls cleanly from the bone, and 1 final hour unwrapped to set the BBQ sauce glaze into a lacquered, sticky finish. Temperature is 225°F (107°C) throughout. The result is ribs where the meat pulls cleanly from the bone with a gentle tug, carrying a deep smoke ring, complex bark, and the sweet-savory caramelized BBQ glaze. The rubbed racks rest for 30 minutes before cooking (or overnight in the fridge); that wait is not counted in the cooking time.

320 min730 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Texas Smoked Brisket with whole packer brisket, coarse kosher salt and black pepper — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Texas Smoked Brisket

Texas smoked brisket is the most technically demanding and most celebrated dish in American barbecue. A whole packer brisket — the entire chest muscle of the steer, comprising two overlapping muscles (the lean flat and the fatty point) — is seasoned with little more than coarse salt and cracked black pepper (the Dalmatian rub), smoked over post oak at 225 °F (107 °C) for 12 to 16 hours, wrapped in pink butcher paper when the bark is set, and rested for at least 1 hour, better 2, before slicing. The seasoned brisket sits in the fridge overnight before it goes on the smoker. What separates Texas brisket from all other regional styles is its radical simplicity: no sugar in the rub, no sauce (the bark carries all the flavor), no foil (butcher paper preserves the bark while allowing moisture to breathe). The result — when done correctly — is a brisket with a jet-black bark, a visible smoke ring beneath, and meat that is simultaneously deeply smoky, heavily rendered with melted intramuscular fat, and yielding enough that a probe thermometer slides in with the resistance of room-temperature butter.

960 min650 kcal12 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Homemade BBQ Sauce (Sweet, Smoky & Tangy) with ketchup, apple cider vinegar and brown sugar — USA recipe

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Sauces and Dips

Homemade BBQ Sauce (Sweet, Smoky & Tangy)

Kansas City-style BBQ sauce is a thick, sweet and tangy American sauce made from ketchup, molasses, brown sugar and cider vinegar, simmered for 15 to 20 minutes. It balances four flavors: sweet (brown sugar and molasses), sour (apple cider vinegar), savory (Worcestershire sauce and garlic), and smoky (smoked paprika). Unlike most sauces, which are built by reducing a complex stock, BBQ sauce is assembled from pantry staples and simmered just long enough for the flavors to merge and the raw edge of the vinegar to round out. The result is a thick, glossy, mahogany-coloured sauce that clings to ribs, glazes chicken, and tastes of concentrated American summer. The key adjustable levers: more brown sugar for sweetness, more vinegar for tang, more smoked paprika (or a small amount of liquid smoke) for smokiness, cayenne for heat. This recipe makes approximately 480 ml (2 cups) — enough for one full rack of ribs with extra for dipping.

25 min40 kcal16 serves

⚡Quick

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