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Cornstarch Recipes

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27 recipes

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

Chicken Stir-Fry with Vegetables with chicken, soy sauce and garlic — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Chicken Stir-Fry with Vegetables

Chicken thighs and whatever vegetables you have, cooked over maximum heat in a soy-sesame-ginger sauce. The fastest way to clear the fridge without the result tasting like leftovers. Done in 20 minutes if the prep is ready.

25 min350 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

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

Bang Bang Shrimp with shrimp, panko and mayonnaise — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Bang Bang Shrimp

Crunchy panko-coated shrimp under a creamy, spicy sauce of mayonnaise, sweet chili and sriracha, a popular American appetizer. This version is cooked in the air fryer with a fraction of the usual oil: 8 minutes per batch for a shatteringly crisp coating, then the sauce goes on right before serving.

20 min320 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry with chicken breast, broccoli and soy sauce — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Meat Dishes

Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry

Thin strips of chicken and broccoli florets cooked fast in a hot pan, then coated in a glossy brown sauce built on soy, oyster sauce, ginger, and garlic. Ready in 25 minutes, high in protein.

25 min320 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick

Peach Crumble with peaches, all purpose flour and rolled oats — UK recipe

🇬🇧UKMedium

Sweet Dishes

Peach Crumble

Juicy peaches under a rough, buttery oat-and-nut topping that shatters when you push a spoon through it. The filling thickens as it bakes, the crumble goes golden, and the whole thing smells like summer in the oven.

55 min340 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Waffles (Crispy Outside, Fluffy Inside) with flour, cornstarch and buttermilk — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Breakfast and Brunch

Waffles (Crispy Outside, Fluffy Inside)

These are crisp-edged American buttermilk waffles with a fluffy, tender crumb inside, leavened with baking powder and baking soda rather than yeast. Two tricks set this batter apart from a basic mix: cornstarch swapped in for some of the flour for extra crunch, and whipped egg whites folded in at the end for lift. Buttermilk reacts with the baking soda to create extra bubbles, so the batter puffs into pockets of steam the moment it hits the hot iron. The result is a waffle with real structure — crisp ridges that hold syrup without going soggy, and a tender interior that pulls apart in layers.

30 min380 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte) with eggs, morello cherries and Kirschwasser — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyAdvanced

Sweet Dishes

Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte)

Three layers of light chocolate sponge cake brushed with Kirschwasser, filled with thickened sour cherry compote and softly whipped cream, then covered in cream and finished with chocolate shavings and whole cherries. The German legal definition of Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte requires the kirsch flavor to be clearly noticeable — the spirit is not decorative, it is structural to the flavor. The sponge is an egg-separated génoise: egg whites whipped to stiff peaks and folded in last, keeping the crumb light despite the cocoa. The assembled cake should rest overnight in the fridge; it tastes significantly better the next day.

150 min520 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Bánh Xèo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crêpes) with rice flour, turmeric and coconut milk — Vietnam recipe

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Bánh Xèo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crêpes)

Golden turmeric crêpes fried until shatteringly crisp, filled with pork belly, shrimp, mung bean, and bean sprouts — then folded and eaten wrapped in lettuce with mint and cilantro, dipped in nước chấm. The name means 'sizzling cake': the xèo is the sound the rice flour batter makes the instant it hits the smoking-hot oil. Without that sound, the pan is not hot enough. Getting the crêpe genuinely crisp rather than soft and chewy requires three things: a thin batter, very hot oil, and patience — the crêpe needs 4 to 5 minutes undisturbed before it is ready to fold.

50 min380 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Smashed Gyoza with ground pork, gyoza wrappers and napa or green cabbage — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanAdvanced

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Smashed Gyoza

A viral riff on pan-fried gyoza that skips the folding entirely. A ball of seasoned pork filling drops into a hot oiled pan, a gyoza wrapper is pressed over the top, and the whole thing is smashed flat with the bottom of a glass. Result: maximum pan contact, a shatteringly crisp wrapper, and a golden-crusted pork patty — all in one piece. No pleating, no steaming step, no technique barrier. Eat open-faced with soy-vinegar dipping sauce, or fold like a taco.

30 min310 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Japanese Cheesecake (Cotton Soufflé Cheesecake) with cream cheese, eggs and caster sugar — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanAdvanced

Sweet Dishes

Japanese Cheesecake (Cotton Soufflé Cheesecake)

A cloud-light hybrid of cheesecake and soufflé: cream cheese melted into a smooth batter, egg whites whipped to soft peaks and folded in, baked in a water bath at low temperature. The result jiggles when you shake the tin. Not sweet in the American sense — lightly tangy from cream cheese with a breath of lemon. First created at the Plaza Hotel in Osaka. Best warm from the oven for the jiggle, or chilled overnight when it becomes denser and creamier.

100 min260 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Tofu in Chili Bean Sauce) with silken tofu, doubanjiang and fermented black beans — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Tofu in Chili Bean Sauce)

Mapo tofu is the definitive Sichuan dish — cubes of silken tofu suspended in a glossy scarlet sauce of fermented chili bean paste and black beans, studded with crisp bits of pork and finished with freshly ground Sichuan peppercorn. The result is má là: the tingling numbness of the peppercorn against the burn of chili. Soft, fiery, and deeply savoury, it's built in minutes and eaten straight over steaming rice.

40 min380 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

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