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One-Pot Lemon Asparagus Pasta with Shrimp with large shrimp, asparagus and linguine — Mediterranean recipe

🌊MediterraneanAdvanced

Fish and Seafood Dishes

One-Pot Lemon Asparagus Pasta with Shrimp

Pasta cooked directly in broth with lemon, garlic and white wine, so the starch that normally washes down the drain becomes the sauce. Asparagus and shrimp go in at the very end — two minutes, no more — so they stay bright and barely cooked. The whole thing comes together in one pan in half an hour. Works just as well with salmon or scallops if shrimp isn't your thing.

30 min520 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Lemon Marry Me Chicken with chicken thighs, heavy cream and sun dried tomatoes in oil — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Lemon Marry Me Chicken

The original Marry Me Chicken gets a lemon treatment — zest and juice cut through the cream sauce and make the whole thing taste lighter than it has any right to. Sun-dried tomatoes, parmesan, garlic, a splash of white wine, fresh thyme. One skillet, one sauce, chicken thighs that stay juicy because they finish in the oven. Serve it over pasta, rice, or just with bread to drag through the sauce.

35 min550 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Pasta all'Amatriciana with bucatini or spaghetti, guanciale and tomatoes — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyEasy

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Pasta all'Amatriciana

One of four classic Roman pastas, and the only one with a tomato sauce. Bucatini or spaghetti with guanciale, San Marzano tomatoes, a touch of chilli, and Pecorino Romano. The dish comes from Amatrice — a small mountain town in Lazio — and was brought to Rome by shepherds who traded in the city. It predates the tomato: the earlier version, Pasta alla Gricia, is the same dish without the tomatoes. The key is in the guanciale: cured pork cheek with a higher fat content than pancetta, it renders into the pan and flavors the tomato sauce with a deep, porky richness that no substitute fully replicates. The rules here are strict — no garlic, no onion, no herbs — because the dish doesn't need them.

30 min560 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Creamy Tuscan Chicken Pasta with chicken, penne and double cream — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Creamy Tuscan Chicken Pasta

Pan-seared chicken in a rich garlic cream sauce with sun-dried tomatoes, baby spinach, and Parmesan — all done in one skillet in 30 minutes. This dish is inspired by the flavors of Tuscany and loosely connected to Florentine sauce (cream, white wine, spinach), with sun-dried tomatoes added for the characteristic sweet-concentrated punch. It is not a traditional Italian dish but an Italian-American one — popularised in American restaurants and home kitchens. What makes it work is the layering: the chicken fond in the pan, the oil from the sun-dried tomatoes for the sauce base, the pasta water to bind everything. Done right, it is genuinely restaurant-quality.

30 min650 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Beef Wellington with beef tenderloin, mushrooms and prosciutto — UK recipe

🇬🇧UKAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Beef Wellington

Beef Wellington is Britain's most dramatic showpiece dish: a center-cut beef tenderloin, seared hard on all sides, coated in Dijon mustard, wrapped in a layer of mushroom duxelles and prosciutto di Parma, then encased in all-butter puff pastry and baked until the pastry is shatteringly golden. When sliced at the table, the cross-section reveals a ring of dark, caramelized crust, a layer of earthy black duxelles, a veil of prosciutto, and a core of perfectly pink medium-rare beef. Popularised by Gordon Ramsay as a signature of his three-Michelin-star kitchen, it has become the standard-bearer of British fine dining and the ultimate dinner-party centrepiece. The name is disputed — some attribute it to the Duke of Wellington, others argue it is simply the British reworking of a French filet en croûte.

120 min680 kcal6 serves

💪High protein

Lobster Bisque (Bisque de Homard) with lobster, butter and onion — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceAdvanced

Soups

Lobster Bisque (Bisque de Homard)

Bisque de homard is the most luxurious soup in the classical French repertoire: a deeply orange, velvety-smooth cream soup built entirely on the flavor extracted from lobster shells. The technique is methodical — the shells are roasted hard in butter until they smell nutty and oceanic, the aromatics are sweated, cognac is added and often flambéed, white wine and fish stock are added, and the whole mixture simmers for 30 to 40 minutes to extract every molecule of flavor from the shells. The stock is then strained, blended, passed through a fine sieve, enriched with double cream, and mounted with cold butter to a glossy, coating consistency. A swirl of cream and a few morsels of lobster meat garnish each bowl. Nothing is wasted: the shells that look like kitchen scraps become the foundation of one of the most complex, satisfying soups in existence.

90 min520 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Roasted Leg of Lamb with Meyer Lemon with boneless leg of lamb, Meyer lemon and garlic — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Roasted Leg of Lamb with Meyer Lemon

A whole leg of lamb in a 200°C oven for an hour and a half produces something that doesn't need much explaining — deeply browned crust, interior somewhere between rose and pink, pan juices worth mopping up with bread. What Meyer lemon does here that regular lemon can't quite pull off is this: the floral quality in the zest sits in the herb paste and works on the lamb for hours, going slightly sweet as it roasts, adding a brightness that cuts the richness without turning acidic. If you can't find Meyer lemon, use half regular lemon zest and half mandarin — the point is less tartness, more perfume. The paste goes inside the rolled roast and outside. Inside matters more. That's where the flavor lives between slices.

120 min520 kcal8 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Asparagus Risotto with Lemon, Dill and Goat Cheese with arborio, asparagus and vegetable — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Asparagus Risotto with Lemon, Dill and Goat Cheese

Spring asparagus, fresh dill, a hit of lemon, and a pile of goat cheese stirred in at the end — this is risotto that actually tastes like the season. The technique is the same as any risotto: soften aromatics, toast the rice until it smells nutty, add wine, add warm stock ladle by ladle, stir often enough to keep it moving. Where this version diverges is the finish. Goat cheese instead of the usual Parmesan-only approach gives a tang that cuts through the starchiness; dill, stirred in off the heat, stays bright and grassy. The asparagus goes in two ways: the stalks get folded into the risotto in the last few minutes so they stay slightly firm, and the tips get reserved and sautéed separately so they have some color and texture for the top.

45 min480 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Beurre Blanc (Classic French Loire Valley White Butter Sauce) with unsalted European butter, dry white wine and shallots — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceEasy

Sauces and Dips

Beurre Blanc (Classic French Loire Valley White Butter Sauce)

Beurre blanc (literally 'white butter') is the classic French Loire Valley butter sauce, invented around 1890 by Clémence Lefeuvre in Saint-Julien-de-Concelles near Nantes. It is a warm emulsion of cold butter whisked into a reduction of dry white wine, white wine vinegar, and finely chopped shallots. The traditional partner is brochet (Loire pike), but it works with any delicate white fish, scallops, lobster, asparagus, and poached eggs. The sauce is silky, pale-yellow, slightly tangy, with the discreet sweetness of shallot behind a creamy butter front. Vegetarian, gluten-free, keto-friendly. Active work 15 minutes, no make-ahead. Yields about 250 ml, serves 6 with fish or vegetables.

15 min250 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Cioppino with Dungeness crab, clams and mussels — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Soups

Cioppino

A San Francisco seafood stew of Italian-American origin: Dungeness crab, clams, mussels, shrimp, and white fish simmered in a tomato-and-white-wine broth scented with fennel and garlic. Born as a fishermen's communal pot, it is served with sourdough for soaking up the broth.

50 min360 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Spaghetti alle Vongole with Manila clams, spaghetti and dry white wine — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyEasy

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Spaghetti alle Vongole

A Neapolitan pasta of spaghetti tossed with fresh clams, garlic, olive oil, a splash of dry white wine, and parsley. Made in bianco, with no tomato and no cheese, the sauce is built only from the clam liquor emulsified with the pasta starch.

30 min470 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Arroz de Marisco (Portuguese Seafood Rice) with carolino rice, prawns and clams — Portugal recipe

🇵🇹PortugalMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Arroz de Marisco (Portuguese Seafood Rice)

Arroz de marisco is the Portuguese rice cooked in a stock drawn from prawn heads and shells, with clams and mussels opening in the pot. The rice goes in unwashed and the dish is served loose and brothy — malandrinho, never dry like a paella.

60 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

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