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Black peppercorns Recipes

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12 recipes

Creamy Pea Soup with peas, onion and butter — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceAdvanced

Soups

Creamy Pea Soup

Pea puree soup is a classic dish appreciated for its rich flavor, nutrition and ease of preparation. Made from dried peas, rich in vegetable protein and fiber.

110 min275 kcal4 serves

Ukha with salmon, potato and carrot — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Soups

Ukha

The quintessential Russian fish soup — a clear, golden broth made from salmon bones and fillet with vegetables. The secret touch is a splash of vodka at the end, which enhances the fish aroma and makes the broth crystal clear.

70 min250 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Sauerkraut Shchi with beef, sauerkraut and potato — Russia recipe

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Soups

Sauerkraut Shchi

The soul of Russian cuisine — a rich, dark soup made from braised sauerkraut and beef on the bone, slow-cooked for hours. Gets better overnight, develops incredible depth of flavor. The only soup that improves with freezing.

240 min350 kcal8 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Pho Bo (Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup) with beef, rice noodles and ginger — Vietnam recipe

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Soups

Pho Bo (Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup)

Vietnam's most iconic dish — a crystal-clear, deeply aromatic beef broth simmered for hours with charred onion, ginger, and whole spices, served over rice noodles with paper-thin beef, fresh herbs, lime, and chili. The broth is everything.

210 min400 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Béarnaise Sauce with egg yolks, butter and tarragon — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceEasy

Sauces and Dips

Béarnaise Sauce

Béarnaise is hollandaise's sophisticated sibling — a rich, silky French butter sauce flavored with a tarragon-and-shallot reduction in white wine vinegar, then emulsified with egg yolks. The classic pairing with grilled steak, but equally stunning on roasted vegetables, fish, or eggs Benedict.

20 min200 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Chai Latte with black tea, cardamom and cinnamon — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaMedium

Beverages

Chai Latte

Black tea simmered with whole spices, strained, and finished with hot frothed milk.

20 min180 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Cacio e Pepe with spaghetti, Pecorino Romano and black peppercorns — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyEasy

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Cacio e Pepe

Three ingredients: pasta, Pecorino Romano, black pepper. No butter. No cream. No olive oil. The sauce is a natural emulsion of finely grated cheese and starchy pasta water — the starch prevents the cheese proteins from clumping and turning the whole thing into a grainy mess. Cacio e Pepe originated with the shepherds of Lazio, who carried dried pasta, hard cheese, and pepper because they lasted for weeks without refrigeration. It became a Roman trattoria staple, and now it is one of the most searched pasta recipes in the world. Its difficulty is entirely about temperature control and starch: get those two right and it takes fifteen minutes.

20 min520 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Duck Confit (Confit de Canard) with duck legs, coarse sea salt and duck fat — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Duck Confit (Confit de Canard)

Confit de canard is the defining dish of Gascony, the south-west corner of France where ducks are raised for foie gras and the region's most celebrated cooking technique is confit — from confire, to preserve. Duck legs are cured overnight in salt, pepper, thyme, and juniper, then submerged in duck fat and cooked at a barely trembling 100°C (210°F) for two and a half hours until the meat becomes impossibly tender and slides from the bone. The result is stored under its fat blanket in the refrigerator — the traditional method of preservation before refrigeration — where it continues to develop flavor over days or weeks. To serve, the legs are pulled from the fat and placed skin-side-down in a cold pan, then brought to high heat until the skin crackles and blisters to a dark, shattering gold. The interior stays fall-apart tender. The reserved duck fat is one of the finest cooking fats in the world — use it to fry potatoes.

1440 min620 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Birria Tacos with Consommé (Mexican Quesabirria with Beef and Chile Broth) with beef chuck roast, beef short ribs and guajillo chiles — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Birria Tacos with Consommé (Mexican Quesabirria with Beef and Chile Broth)

Birria tacos with consommé are crispy red corn tortillas filled with shredded chile-braised beef and melted cheese, served with a small bowl of the rich red braising broth for dipping. The dish originated in the Mexican state of Jalisco as a goat stew (birria de chivo); the modern beef quesabirria taco version exploded from food trucks in Tijuana around 2018 and became the most viral Mexican street food of the early 2020s. Three dried chiles do the heavy lifting: guajillo for fruity tang and red colour, ancho for raisiny earthiness, and a couple of chiles de árbol for heat. Active work is 30 minutes, the braise handles 3 hours of transformation. Serves 6 with 16 tacos and consommé to dip.

210 min750 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Shurpa with lamb on the bone, chickpeas and carrots — Uzbekistan recipe

🇺🇿UzbekistanAdvanced

Soups

Shurpa

A slow-simmered Uzbek lamb soup of bone-in lamb, chickpeas, and large chunks of vegetables in a clear, fragrant broth. Seasoned with cumin and coriander, it is served with plenty of cilantro and flatbread, the broth often drunk alongside the meat and vegetables.

120 min350 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free

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

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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

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beef potato carrot peas onion salmon dill sauerkraut rice noodles ginger egg yolks shallot