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Cumin Recipes

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

56 recipes

Samsa (Uzbek Lamb Pastries) with lamb, onion and flour — Uzbekistan recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Samsa (Uzbek Lamb Pastries)

Samsa are Uzbek baked pastries with a crisp, layered dough and a juicy filling of hand-chopped lamb and onion. The layering is built by rolling butter into thin sheets of dough, which creates flaky, oven-crisped pastry without a drop of yeast. The golden rule: chop the meat with a knife, never mince it, and use as much onion as meat.

120 min380 kcal12 serves

White Chicken Chili with chicken breast, great northern beans and green chiles — USA recipe

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Soups

White Chicken Chili

White chicken chili is the pale, creamy answer to the red beef kind — shredded chicken and white beans in a broth built on green chiles, cumin, and oregano, thickened by pureeing part of the beans rather than by flour. Cream cheese stirred in at the end makes it velvety without turning it into soup-with-cream. It's mild enough for a weeknight, and the bowl gets finished at the table with lime, coriander, and a handful of grated cheese.

55 min480 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Anticuchos de Corazón with beef heart and ají panca paste — Peru recipe

🇵🇪PeruMedium

Meat Dishes

Anticuchos de Corazón

Anticuchos are skewers of beef heart marinated in ají panca, garlic, cumin and vinegar, then grilled over charcoal. They belong to the street corners of Lima, where the anticucheras set up braziers in the evening and serve them with a boiled potato, a piece of corn and a chilli sauce. The dish traces back to colonial Peru, when enslaved workers were given the offcuts that the Spanish kitchens discarded and applied a spiced-and-skewered technique to the heart, the cut closest in texture to muscle meat. Heart is dense, lean and mild rather than strong-tasting, and the entire difficulty lies in trimming it properly and taking it off the fire early. Marinating time comes on top of the stated time.

45 min420 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

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

Lebanese Falafel with dried chickpeas, flat leaf parsley and fresh cilantro — Lebanon recipe

🇱🇧LebanonAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Lebanese Falafel

Good falafel cracks under the teeth, then gives way to a moist, coarse green centre that tastes of chickpeas, parsley and warm cumin. This Lebanese-style version starts with dried chickpeas and needs no flour or egg. Eat it straight from the fryer with tahini, pickles and warm flatbread.

1540 min395 kcal4 serves

🌱Vegan💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Georgian Khinkali with wheat flour, ground beef and ground pork — Georgia recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Georgian Khinkali

Khinkali are large Georgian dumplings built to hold seasoned meat and its own hot broth. The dough must be sturdy enough to pleat without tearing, yet thin enough to eat around the thick top knot. They are boiled, showered with black pepper and eaten by hand while the broth is still hot.

150 min610 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

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

🇱🇧LebanonAdvanced

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

Chicken Quesadilla with flour tortillas, chicken and Monterey Jack cheese — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Chicken Quesadilla

Flour tortillas folded over spiced shredded chicken, peppers, and melted cheese, then toasted in a dry pan until golden and crisp. The trick to a quesadilla that doesn't leak is restraint: don't overfill it, and put cheese against both halves of the tortilla so it fuses shut into one crisp, molten package.

25 min550 kcal2 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

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