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Bacalhau à Brás (Portuguese Salt Cod with Eggs and Potatoes) with salt cod, batata palha and eggs — Portugal recipe

🇵🇹PortugalMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Bacalhau à Brás (Portuguese Salt Cod with Eggs and Potatoes)

Bacalhau à Brás is the Lisbon dish of salt cod, matchstick potatoes and eggs. The cod is soaked and pulled into threads, the potatoes go in at the last moment, and the eggs work as a binder — creamy rather than scrambled.

40 min560 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Bifana (Portuguese Pork Sandwich) with pork loin and papo seco rolls — Portugal recipe

🇵🇹PortugalMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Bifana (Portuguese Pork Sandwich)

The bifana is the Portuguese sandwich of thin pork cutlets marinated in white wine with garlic, paprika and bay. The meat is fried, simmered in its own marinade and packed into a crusty roll with the sauce spooned over and a smear of mustard.

40 min480 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Frango Piri-Piri (Portuguese Grilled Chicken) with whole chicken, piri piri chillies and lemon — Portugal recipe

🇵🇹PortugalMedium

Meat Dishes

Frango Piri-Piri (Portuguese Grilled Chicken)

Frango piri-piri is spatchcocked chicken grilled under a marinade of hot chillies, garlic and smoked paprika. The bird is cut along the backbone and pressed flat, marinated for at least four hours, and glazed at the end with the portion of marinade that was boiled first.

60 min520 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Golabki Soup (Polish Cabbage Roll Soup) with ground pork, white cabbage and white rice — Poland recipe

🇵🇱PolandMedium

Soups

Golabki Soup (Polish Cabbage Roll Soup)

Golabki soup is the Polish cabbage roll taken apart and cooked in one pot. Ground pork, cabbage, rice and tomato give the same taste as the rolls, with no leaves to blanch and nothing to wrap. One hour instead of three.

60 min310 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Rassolnik with beef, pearl barley and pickled cucumbers — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Soups

Rassolnik

A hearty Russian sour soup built on meat broth, pearl barley, and brined cucumbers, with its signature tang coming from cucumber pickle brine stirred in at the end. Potatoes and a carrot-onion sauté round it out; sour cream and dill finish each bowl. The trick is sequencing — potatoes cook before anything sour goes in, and the barley cooks apart to keep the broth clear.

90 min210 kcal6 serves

Fresh Cabbage Shchi with beef, white cabbage and potatoes — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Soups

Fresh Cabbage Shchi

A light, clean Russian cabbage soup made with fresh white cabbage rather than sauerkraut — beef broth, potatoes, a fresh tomato base, and a carrot-onion sauté, finished with sour cream and dill. It's the summer counterpart to dark, sour sauerkraut shchi: quicker, brighter, and best eaten the day it's made.

60 min180 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Kartoffelsuppe (German Potato Soup) with potato, leek and carrot — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyAdvanced

Soups

Kartoffelsuppe (German Potato Soup)

Kartoffelsuppe is the everyday German potato soup: floury potatoes cooked down with Suppengrün, the standard bundle of carrot, celery root, leek and parsley sold in every German supermarket, and seasoned with marjoram rather than thyme. Sliced Bockwurst or Wiener sausages go in at the end. The potatoes do the thickening themselves, so there is no flour and no roux; mashing a third of them against the pot gives a body that flour would only make pasty. Thuringia blends the whole pot smooth, Saxony leaves the cubes whole, and this version sits between the two.

50 min520 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Rotkohl (German Braised Red Cabbage) with red cabbage, apple and onion — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Rotkohl (German Braised Red Cabbage)

Rotkohl is the braised red cabbage that sits next to almost every German roast from October onwards: shredded cabbage cooked down for an hour with apple, onion, vinegar and cloves until it goes glossy and deep purple. The vinegar is not only there for taste. The pigment in red cabbage works like a pH indicator, and without acid the pot turns a murky blue-grey, which is also why the same vegetable is called Blaukraut in Bavaria and Rotkohl in the north. It tastes better on the second day, so most households cook it the night before the roast and take one job off the table.

80 min150 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

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