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179 recipes

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

🇬🇪GeorgiaAdvanced

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

Palak Paneer with spinach, paneer and green chilies — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Palak Paneer

Palak paneer pairs soft cubes of fresh cheese with a smooth North Indian spinach gravy. The sauce should taste green and gently spiced, not bitter or overloaded with cream; hot roti or cumin rice is all it needs.

45 min465 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Rassolnik with beef, pearl barley and pickled cucumbers — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Soups

Rassolnik

A hearty Russian sour soup built on meat broth, pearl barley, and brined cucumbers, with its signature tang coming from cucumber pickle brine stirred in at the end. Potatoes and a carrot-onion sauté round it out; sour cream and dill finish each bowl. The trick is sequencing — potatoes cook before anything sour goes in, and the barley cooks apart to keep the broth clear.

90 min210 kcal6 serves

Fresh Cabbage Shchi with beef, white cabbage and potatoes — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Soups

Fresh Cabbage Shchi

A light, clean Russian cabbage soup made with fresh white cabbage rather than sauerkraut — beef broth, potatoes, a fresh tomato base, and a carrot-onion sauté, finished with sour cream and dill. It's the summer counterpart to dark, sour sauerkraut shchi: quicker, brighter, and best eaten the day it's made.

60 min180 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Broccoli Cheddar Soup with broccoli, sharp cheddar cheese and carrot — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Soups

Broccoli Cheddar Soup

The American diner classic: broccoli and carrot simmered in a milk-and-stock base thickened with a butter roux, then finished off the heat with sharp cheddar melted in a handful at a time. Creamy, comforting, and better than the bread-bowl version at the chain that made it famous — as long as you keep the cheese from splitting.

40 min420 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian

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

Marry Me Beans with cannellini beans, sun dried tomatoes and parmesan — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Marry Me Beans

The meatless take on viral Marry Me Chicken: creamy white beans in a sun-dried tomato and parmesan sauce, finished with spinach and a whisper of chili. Mashing a quarter of the beans thickens the sauce naturally, no flour needed, and the whole skillet comes together in 25 minutes — hearty enough to stand alone or spoon over bread, rice, or pasta.

25 min360 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

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

Currywurst with bratwurst, tomato paste and curry powder — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Currywurst

Currywurst is Berlin street food: a pork sausage cut into rounds, buried under a hot tomato and curry sauce and dusted with curry powder on top. Herta Heuwer sold the first one at her stand in Charlottenburg in September 1949, and she built the sauce from tomato paste, curry powder and Worcestershire sauce rather than from ready-made ketchup. Berlin serves a skinless boiled sausage, pale and soft, while the Ruhr fries a bratwurst in its casing for the bite; both arrive with fries under ketchup and mayonnaise, ordered as Pommes rot-weiß.

30 min460 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick

German Potato Salad with potatoes, vegetable stock and mustard — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyMedium

Salads

German Potato Salad

Schwäbischer Kartoffelsalat is the potato salad of southern Germany: thin slices of warm waxy potato soaked in hot vegetable stock sharpened with mustard and cider vinegar, without a spoonful of mayonnaise anywhere. Germans judge it by one word, schlotzig, meaning loose and glossy, with starch from the potatoes themselves binding the stock into something between a dressing and a sauce. That takes two things the recipe below insists on: the stock goes on in two pourings, and the bowl needs a full hour standing before the salad stops tasting watery. It sits on every summer table in the south and turns up again on Christmas Eve next to a plate of boiled sausages.

45 min220 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

Rinderrouladen (German Beef Roulades) with beef, bacon and dill pickles — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Rinderrouladen (German Beef Roulades)

The German Sunday roast in miniature: thin slices of beef spread with mustard, layered with bacon, onion, and a dill pickle, rolled tight and braised for two hours until they cut with a fork. The sauce is built from the browned bits in the pan, which is why searing the rolls hard matters more than anything else here.

150 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Frikadellen (German Pan-Fried Meat Patties) with minced pork and beef, bread roll and onion — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyMedium

Meat Dishes

Frikadellen (German Pan-Fried Meat Patties)

Germany's everyday meat patty: minced pork and beef bound with a soaked bread roll, seasoned with mustard, marjoram, and plenty of onion, then fried flat in a pan rather than grilled. The soaked roll is what keeps them tender, and they're eaten as often cold from the fridge with mustard as hot with potatoes.

40 min390 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

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