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130 recipes

Sharlotka — Russian Apple Sponge Cake with eggs, plain flour and apples — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Sweet Dishes

Sharlotka — Russian Apple Sponge Cake

The Russian home cake that appears the moment apples come into season: a whisked sponge poured over sliced apples and baked until golden. There is no butter and no mixer required beyond a whisk, and the lift comes entirely from eggs beaten with sugar. Tart apples keep it from turning cloying.

55 min210 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Käsespätzle with flour, eggs and Emmental cheese — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Käsespätzle

Swabia's answer to macaroni cheese: fresh egg noodles layered hot with two kinds of grated cheese and buried under slowly caramelised onions. There is no sauce and no oven required — the cheese melts on the residual heat of the noodles, which is exactly why the layering has to happen fast.

50 min680 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Omurice (Japanese Omelette Rice) with rice, eggs and chicken — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Breakfast and Brunch

Omurice (Japanese Omelette Rice)

Japan's diner classic: ketchup-fried chicken rice packed into an oval and wrapped in a thin, barely-set omelette. The move that separates good omurice from sour, soggy rice is frying the ketchup in the hot pan before it ever touches the rice, and the egg is finished off the heat while it still looks underdone.

25 min620 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

Zwiebelkuchen (German Onion Tart) with onion, flour and sour cream — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Zwiebelkuchen (German Onion Tart)

Zwiebelkuchen is a savoury onion tart from the wine villages of southern Germany (Swabia, the Palatinate, Baden, Franconia), eaten through September and October with Federweisser, the cloudy young wine that is still fermenting in the glass. Underneath the topping is yeast dough rather than pastry, a thin bread base pressed into a sheet pan, which is how it is sold at the autumn wine festivals. On top goes well over a kilo of onions sweated until they collapse, bound with sour cream and eggs, seasoned with caraway and studded with smoked bacon. The dough needs about an hour to rise before any of that begins, so the timing below does not include it.

80 min350 kcal12 serves

Katsudon (Japanese Pork Cutlet Rice Bowl) with pork, eggs and panko — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Katsudon (Japanese Pork Cutlet Rice Bowl)

Katsudon is a Japanese rice bowl (donburi) topped with tonkatsu, a breaded fried pork cutlet that's simmered briefly in sweet dashi broth with onion and set with egg. The name joins katsu, the cutlet, and donburi, the bowl. You slice the cutlet, give it about a minute in a small pan of broth, pour the egg over and slide the lot onto rice. Part of the crust stays crunchy and part goes silky where the broth reaches it, and that contrast is the whole appeal. Japanese students eat it before exams and athletes before a match, because katsu sounds like the verb "to win."

40 min780 kcal2 serves

💪High protein

Oyakodon (Japanese Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl) with chicken, eggs and dashi — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Oyakodon (Japanese Chicken and Egg Rice Bowl)

Oyakodon is a Japanese rice bowl (donburi) of chicken and onion simmered in sweet-savoury dashi broth, finished with softly set egg and served over rice. The name means "parent and child": chicken and egg in one bowl, which is either charming or a little dark depending on your mood. It's the easiest donburi to get right at home, and the one I make when there's nothing in the fridge but chicken thighs, eggs and rice. The egg goes in at the very end and sets into soft, barely cooked curds, and the whole thing takes about fifteen minutes.

20 min550 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

Japanese Souffle Pancakes with eggs, flour and milk — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Breakfast and Brunch

Japanese Souffle Pancakes

Japanese souffle pancakes (スフレパンケーキ, sometimes sold as fluffy or jiggly pancakes) are the tall, wobbly pancakes of Japanese cafés, made from eggs, a little flour and milk, and lifted mostly by whipped egg-white meringue. I'll be honest: they're finicky, and the first batch you make will probably be a bit lopsided. They rise so high because the batter is really a meringue with a small amount of yolk batter folded through, cooked low and slow under a lid with a splash of water for steam. Get the meringue right and everything else follows.

35 min320 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Ajitama (Japanese Ramen Eggs) with eggs, soy sauce and mirin — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanEasy

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Ajitama (Japanese Ramen Eggs)

Ajitama, short for ajitsuke tamago (味玉, 味付け玉子) and also called nitamago or simply ramen eggs, are Japanese soft-boiled eggs marinated in soy sauce and mirin until the whites turn light brown and savoury-sweet while the yolks stay jammy. In Japan they are the standard topping on a bowl of ramen. The eggs boil for 6 minutes 30 seconds, go straight into ice water, then get peeled and left in a cold marinade of soy sauce, mirin, water and a splash of sake. Hands-on work takes about 20 minutes. After that the eggs sit in the fridge for 4 to 12 hours and the marinade does the rest.

20 min90 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Oden (Japanese Simmered Hot Pot with Daikon and Fish Cakes) with daikon, eggs and chikuwa — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanAdvanced

Soups

Oden (Japanese Simmered Hot Pot with Daikon and Fish Cakes)

Oden is a Japanese one-pot of daikon, boiled eggs, konnyaku and fish cakes such as chikuwa, satsuma-age and ganmodoki, all simmered slowly in a clear dashi seasoned with light soy sauce, mirin and salt. Written おでん and read the same way in every region, its broth changes colour from region to region. The pale kombu-and-katsuobushi broth used here, seasoned with light soy sauce, is closer to the Kansai habit — light usukuchi soy is the everyday soy of Kyoto and Osaka — while classic Kanto oden is simmered with regular dark koikuchi soy and comes out a deeper brown. Today both versions turn up all over Japan. Convenience stores across Japan start selling it from simmering vats in mid-September, long before real winter arrives, because the smell alone is enough to make people want a bowl. Nothing here is quick-cooked. Daikon needs a pre-boil before it ever touches the broth, and the whole pot tastes better the day after it is made, once it has cooled down and been reheated so the flavor has time to soak all the way through.

150 min305 kcal4 serves

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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