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Cold water Recipes

25 recipes with cold water for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

25 recipes

Apple Pie with apple, butter and sugar — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Apple Pie

Apple pie is so popular in the United States that it has become a symbol of American cuisine and culture. Often served at Thanksgiving and other holidays as a favourite homemade dessert.

90 min580 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Blancmange with milk, sugar and gelatin — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceEasy

Sweet Dishes

Blancmange

Blancmange is an exquisite French dessert — a delicate and light jelly made of milk or cream thickened with gelatin, garnished with toasted almonds and fresh berries.

20 min350 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Eggs Benedict with eggs, butter and bacon — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Breakfast and Brunch

Eggs Benedict

The crown jewel of American brunch — perfectly poached eggs on toasted English muffins with Canadian bacon, blanketed in a velvety, lemony hollandaise sauce. Elegant yet achievable at home.

30 min520 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick🥑Keto💪High protein

Pelmeni (Russian Meat Dumplings) with wheat flour, minced meat and onions — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Pelmeni (Russian Meat Dumplings)

Classic Siberian dumplings filled with seasoned minced meat, boiled until tender and served with butter, sour cream, or broth. The unleavened dough is rolled thin and sealed into a characteristic ear shape.

150 min400 kcal8 serves

Mango Pudding (Thai Style) with mango, gelatin and heavy cream — Thailand recipe

🇹🇭ThailandEasy

Sweet Dishes

Mango Pudding (Thai Style)

A light, silky chilled pudding bursting with the flavor of ripe mango. Made with fresh mango purée, cream, and gelatin, it sets into a smooth, gently sweet dessert. Lemon juice keeps the color vivid. Garnish with a sprig of mint and serve cold.

20 min160 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Pistachio Cream Tart with flour, butter and pistachio cream — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Sweet Dishes

Pistachio Cream Tart

A buttery shortcrust pastry case filled with pistachio pastry cream and topped with whipped cream, crushed pistachios and a drizzle of pistachio cream. The pastry cream is the main event — dense, sweet and deeply nutty. Bake the shell ahead, fill when cool.

55 min460 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Tahini Sauce with tahini, lemon and garlic — Israel recipe

🇮🇱IsraelEasy

Sauces and Dips

Tahini Sauce

Simple tahini sauce — sesame paste thinned with water, brightened with lemon and garlic. Five minutes, no cooking. The trick is adding water gradually until it goes from thick paste to pourable silk.

5 min80 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌱Vegan

Teriyaki Sauce with soy sauce, mirin and sake — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanEasy

Sauces and Dips

Teriyaki Sauce

A glossy, deeply savory-sweet glaze built from soy sauce, mirin, sake, and sugar, thickened with a cornstarch slurry until it coats a spoon. Homemade teriyaki takes ten minutes and tastes nothing like the bottled kind — the fresh garlic and ginger give it a brightness that disappears completely in shelf-stable versions. I keep a jar in the fridge and use it on everything from grilled chicken to roasted vegetables.

10 min60 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Hollandaise Sauce with egg yolks, butter and lemon juice — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceEasy

Sauces and Dips

Hollandaise Sauce

A warm, buttery emulsion of egg yolks, clarified butter, and lemon juice whisked over gentle heat until it holds its own weight on a spoon. Hollandaise is one of the five French mother sauces, and its reputation for being difficult is vastly overblown — the only real rule is keep the heat low. I make this every weekend for eggs Benedict and it takes me about twelve minutes from cold butter to finished sauce.

15 min180 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Classic Homemade Lemonade with fresh lemon juice and granulated white sugar — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAEasy

Beverages

Classic Homemade Lemonade

Three ingredients and a pitcher. Freshly squeezed lemons, sugar dissolved into a proper syrup so it actually blends, and cold water added gradually until the balance is exactly right.

15 min115 kcal6 serves

⚡Quick🌱Vegan🌿Vegetarian

Horchata (Mexican Rice Drink) with long grain white rice, cinnamon sticks and water — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoEasy

Beverages

Horchata (Mexican Rice Drink)

Horchata is a sweet rice drink from Mexico: long-grain rice and cinnamon soaked overnight, blended, strained and finished with milk and a little sugar. It shares its name with Spanish horchata de chufa, which is made from tiger nuts rather than rice — two different drinks under one word. Most of the work happens while you sleep and finishing it takes about fifteen minutes, plus an hour to chill; the result is cold and milky without being heavy, with a clean cinnamon finish.

15 min180 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌿Vegetarian

Homemade Ayran (Yogurt Drink) with plain full fat yogurt and cold water — Turkey recipe

🇹🇷TurkeyEasy

Beverages

Homemade Ayran (Yogurt Drink)

Plain yogurt whisked with cold water and a pinch of salt until smooth and frothy. Ayran is one of the oldest and simplest drinks in Turkish and Central Asian cuisines — nothing more than diluted salted yogurt, yet the result is cooling, tangy, and genuinely thirst-quenching in a way that sweet drinks aren't. The foam is not decoration: the vigorous whisking or blending aerates the yogurt and gives the drink its characteristic light texture.

5 min90 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

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