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Buttermilk Recipes

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8 recipes

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Salads

Caesar Salad

Romaine hearts tossed in a punchy dressing of raw egg yolk, anchovies, garlic, and Parmesan, topped with golden croutons fried in olive oil. When made from scratch, it bears no resemblance to the bottled-dressing version.

23 min510 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

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Meat Dishes

Fried Chicken

A classic American dish that has become an icon of Southern cooking. Pieces of chicken on the bone, covered with a crispy, golden brown breading.

45 min225 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

🇫🇷FranceAdvanced

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Chocolate Cake

A melt-in-your-mouth cake with rich chocolate flavor, delicate cocoa aroma and velvety texture — a true work of art that will win the hearts of even the most sophisticated gourmets.

120 min800 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian

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Breakfast and Brunch

Fluffy American Pancakes

Tall, cloud-like pancakes with crispy golden edges and a soft, pillowy center — the quintessential American breakfast. The secret is buttermilk and letting the batter rest.

25 min380 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

🇧🇪BelgiumMedium

Breakfast and Brunch

Waffles (Crispy Outside, Fluffy Inside)

The secret to waffles that shatter when you bite into them but stay soft and airy inside is a combination most recipes skip: cornstarch in the dry mix for crunch, and whipped egg whites folded in at the end for lift. Buttermilk reacts with the baking soda to create extra bubbles in the batter, giving you pockets of steam that puff up the moment they hit the hot iron. The result is a waffle with real architecture — crisp ridges that hold syrup without going soggy, and a tender interior that pulls apart in layers.

30 min380 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Iceberg Lettuce Salad with Blue Cheese and Herbs

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Salads

Iceberg Lettuce Salad with Blue Cheese and Herbs

Iceberg gets dismissed as the lettuce with nothing to say, which misses the point entirely: it isn't there for flavour, it's there for cold and crunch. Cut into thick wedges and left whole, it stays icy and snapping under a thick buttermilk and blue cheese dressing that would flatten any softer leaf. Chives, dill, cherry tomatoes, and raw red onion do the talking. It's a steakhouse salad that needs both a fork and a knife.

25 min290 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

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Appetizers and Sandwiches

Onion Ring Chips

Onion rings cut thin and baked instead of deep-fried, so they crisp all the way through and eat like a chip rather than a side dish. Panko and parmesan do the crunching, and a 15-minute stint in the freezer before baking is what keeps the coating on the onion instead of on the tray.

40 min215 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Strawberry Shortcake with Buttermilk Biscuits

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Strawberry Shortcake with Buttermilk Biscuits

American strawberry shortcake is built on warm, craggy buttermilk biscuits rather than sponge cake. The biscuits split cleanly around juicy macerated berries and softly whipped cream, so every serving has crisp edges, tender crumbs, and plenty of strawberry syrup.

75 min465 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

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