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43 recipes

Tacos al Pastor with pork shoulder, dried guajillo chiles and achiote paste — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Tacos al Pastor

Tacos al pastor are thin slices of pork in a chile-and-achiote adobo, cooked beside caramelised pineapple and tucked into small corn tortillas. A trompo gives the original its moving flame and shaved edges; at home, a very hot skillet and patient batches get close where it counts. The meat needs acid, a little sweetness and real char, not a pile of wet sauce.

525 min610 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Banana Cold Foam Coffee with ripe banana, whole milk and heavy cream — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Beverages

Banana Cold Foam Coffee

Cold espresso sits under a pale banana foam that tastes fruity without turning the drink into a smoothie. A briefly cooked banana syrup gives a clean flavor and keeps raw fruit pulp out of the coffee. The result is creamy on top, brisk underneath and easy to make without a café machine.

25 min165 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Oven-Roasted Chicken Shawarma with boneless chicken thighs, garlic and lemon juice — Lebanon recipe

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Meat Dishes

Oven-Roasted Chicken Shawarma

This home-oven shawarma trades the vertical spit for a fiercely hot sheet pan and a final pass under the broiler. The chicken thighs stay juicy while their thin edges blister and char, which gives the platter the roasted spice flavor people expect from shawarma. Serve it with warm pita, toum, pickles and chopped vegetables, or turn the same chicken into a rice bowl.

300 min515 kcal6 serves

💪High protein

Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecan Streusel with sweet potatoes, pecans and eggs — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecan Streusel

This sweet potato casserole has a soft, custardy center under a crisp pecan streusel. Roasting the potatoes instead of boiling them keeps the filling concentrated rather than watery, while modest sugar leaves room for their own caramel flavor. It belongs beside a holiday roast, but it is balanced enough to eat as a vegetable side rather than dessert.

110 min515 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Zimtsterne (German Cinnamon Star Cookies) with almonds, egg whites and cinnamon — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Zimtsterne (German Cinnamon Star Cookies)

Zimtsterne are star-shaped German Christmas cookies made without any flour: the dough is ground almonds, cinnamon and a meringue of egg whites and powdered sugar, and part of that same meringue becomes the white glaze on top. They come from Swabia in southern Germany and are chewy and soft inside, closer to marzipan than to a biscuit. They bake at a low 140°C so the glaze stays snow white. The 90 minutes cover whipping, cutting, glazing and two trays in the oven; the sticky dough also rests 45 minutes in the fridge before rolling. Makes about 40 stars, four to a serving, and they are naturally gluten-free.

90 min350 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Spekulatius (German Spiced Christmas Biscuits) with almonds, cinnamon and cardamom — Germany recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Spekulatius (German Spiced Christmas Biscuits)

Spekulatius are thin, crisp spiced shortcrust biscuits stamped with a picture before baking, known in the Netherlands and Belgium as speculaas and baked across the Rhineland and Westphalia for Sankt Nikolaus on 6 December. The dough is a butter shortcrust built around a home-mixed spice blend of cinnamon, clove, cardamom, nutmeg, ginger, allspice and white pepper, with ground almonds folded in for a short, sandy bite. Traditionally the picture comes from a carved wooden mould, a Model, but an embossed rolling pin or an ordinary cookie cutter gives the same biscuit without ever owning one. The 60 minutes here covers mixing, shaping and two trays in the oven; the dough itself needs to rest in the fridge overnight, and the biscuits only crisp up fully once they cool. Makes about 45 thin biscuits, five to a serving.

60 min345 kcal9 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Pumpkin Pie with pumpkin, eggs and evaporated milk — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Sweet Dishes

Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin pie is an American custard tart: a spiced pumpkin filling baked inside a blind-baked butter crust, the standard dessert on the American and Canadian Thanksgiving table since the 19th century. The filling is a true custard, egg and dairy set by heat rather than a starch-thickened paste, which is why it needs a slow second bake and a slow cool. Warm spices, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and clove, carry the pumpkin rather than mask it, and dark brown sugar adds a faint molasses note under the sweetness. This version works with a can of pumpkin purée or with pumpkin roasted and blended from scratch, useful outside the US where the canned kind is hard to find. Active work is under 40 minutes; the dough needs an hour to chill and the baked pie another two to three to cool before it holds a clean slice.

110 min370 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

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eggs rolled oats sweet potatoes lean ground turkey avocados cottage cheese honey almonds garlic onion apple cilantro