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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

Smash Burger with ground beef, American cheese and brioche — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Smash Burger

A smash burger is a thin burger made by pressing a loose ball of cold ground beef flat onto a very hot griddle, so that most of the patty turns into crust. Instead of forming a shaped patty and handling it gently, you place a loose ball of cold 80/20 ground beef on a screaming-hot cast-iron griddle or skillet, then press it flat instantly with maximum force. The entire physics of the burger changes: the thin patty achieves near-total surface contact with the hot metal, triggering the Maillard reaction across the full face of the burger rather than just the edges. The result is a hamburger that is almost entirely crust — dark, crispy, lacey-edged, deeply savory — with a thin, juicy interior. American cheese, with its uniquely high moisture content and engineered melt point, is not optional. No other cheese melts completely in the 30 to 45 seconds available between flip and serve.

25 min720 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

Deviled Eggs with Chipotle with eggs, mayonnaise and chipotle — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Deviled Eggs with Chipotle

Deviled eggs are one of the easiest appetisers to make badly and one of the most satisfying to get right. The filling needs to be smooth — not grainy, not lumpy — and seasoned assertively enough that you taste it rather than just fat. Chipotle peppers in adobo sauce do two things at once: they add smokiness and heat, and the sauce itself adds a tomato-tinged depth that plain hot sauce doesn't. The lime brings brightness. This is not a subtle dish, which is exactly the point at a table that also has glazed ham and couscous salad.

35 min110 kcal12 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Spinach and Artichoke Dip with cream cheese, sour cream and spinach — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Sauces and Dips

Spinach and Artichoke Dip

Hot, cheesy, and straightforward — this is the version that disappears first at any party. Cream cheese is the base, mozzarella provides the gooeyness, parmesan does the seasoning work, and sour cream keeps the whole thing from being too dense. The two non-negotiables: squeeze the frozen spinach until your hands ache, and let the cream cheese reach room temperature before you try to mix anything. Watery spinach ruins the texture. Cold cream cheese makes a lumpy mess. Everything else is flexible.

35 min290 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Esquites (Mexican Street Corn Salad with Cotija, Lime, and Chili) with corn, cotija cheese and mexican crema — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Salads

Esquites (Mexican Street Corn Salad with Cotija, Lime, and Chili)

Esquites (from Nahuatl ízquitl, "toasted corn"; also sold as elote en vaso, "corn in a cup") is a Mexican street snack of charred corn kernels dressed with mayo, Mexican crema, lime juice, jalapeño, red onion, cilantro and crumbled cotija, then dusted with chili powder or Tajín. It is the off-the-cob version of elote: the same flavours, eaten with a spoon. Street vendors across Mexico sell it in small cups. The method rests on one move: charring the corn until about half the kernels show black spots, which turns boiled corn with mayonnaise into something smoky and layered. Ready in 20 minutes; serves 6 as a snack or 4 as a side for grilled meat and tacos.

20 min220 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Crab Stick Salad with crab sticks, canned corn and cooked rice — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Salads

Crab Stick Salad

A simple Russian salad of diced crab sticks and sweet corn with hard-boiled eggs, cooled rice, and fresh cucumber, bound with a light mayonnaise dressing. It is folded gently, chilled, and finished with green onion and dill, a New Year favourite.

30 min250 kcal6 serves

⚡Quick

Herring Under a Fur Coat with salted herring, beets and potatoes — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Salads

Herring Under a Fur Coat

A layered Russian holiday salad of salted herring hidden under potato, carrot, egg, and a bright top layer of beet, with mayonnaise between each tier. It is assembled in a ring and chilled overnight so the layers meld; the beet fur coat gives the salad its name.

60 min280 kcal8 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Mimosa Salad with canned fish, hard cheese and butter — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Salads

Mimosa Salad

A delicate Russian layered salad of mashed canned fish, potato, carrot, cheese, and frozen grated butter, bound with mayonnaise. It is topped with a soft bloom of crumbled egg yolk that gives it its name, and chilled overnight so the layers meld.

45 min330 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Iceberg Lettuce Salad with Blue Cheese and Herbs with iceberg lettuce, blue cheese and buttermilk — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Salads

Iceberg Lettuce Salad with Blue Cheese and Herbs

Iceberg gets dismissed as the lettuce with nothing to say, which misses the point entirely: it isn't there for flavour, it's there for cold and crunch. Cut into thick wedges and left whole, it stays icy and snapping under a thick buttermilk and blue cheese dressing that would flatten any softer leaf. Chives, dill, cherry tomatoes, and raw red onion do the talking. It's a steakhouse salad that needs both a fork and a knife.

25 min290 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Causa Limeña with yellow potatoes, ají amarillo paste and lime juice — Peru recipe

🇵🇪PeruMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Causa Limeña

Causa limeña is a cold Peruvian starter of layered mashed yellow potato seasoned with ají amarillo and lime, filled with chicken or tuna in mayonnaise and slices of avocado. The potato is worked with oil into a pliable, saffron-coloured dough, and because the dish is assembled in a mould and cut, it holds its shape on the plate; crab or prawn also work as the filling. By one account the name comes from the Quechua word kawsay, meaning sustenance, though a legend tying it to the War of the Pacific is told as well. Chilling time comes on top of the stated time.

60 min390 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Big Mac Smash Tacos with ground beef, flour tortillas and cheddar cheese — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Big Mac Smash Tacos

Mini flour tortillas pressed straight onto seasoned ground beef and seared until the meat turns deep brown and lacy at the edges, then layered with melted cheddar, shredded iceberg, dill pickles and a homemade special sauce. The whole thing takes about twenty minutes and eats like a smash burger you can fold in one hand.

20 min490 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick

Onigiri (Japanese Rice Balls) with japanese short grain rice, nori and salted salmon — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Onigiri (Japanese Rice Balls)

Onigiri, also called omusubi, are Japanese rice balls: warm short-grain rice, lightly salted, pressed by hand around a small filling and wrapped in nori. The rice gets no vinegar, which is what separates onigiri from sushi. The name comes from nigiru, to grasp, and that is the method too: no mould, just wet salted hands and three or four firm turns. This recipe makes three classic fillings from one pot of rice: salted salmon, umeboshi plum and tuna with mayonnaise. Onigiri are made to be carried and eaten at room temperature.

60 min390 kcal5 serves

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