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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

Flammkuchen (German Tarte Flambée) with flour, sour cream and onion — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyMedium

Flour and Confectionery Products

Flammkuchen (German Tarte Flambée)

Flammkuchen, tarte flambée in French, is a paper-thin flatbread of flour, water and oil, spread with soured cream and scattered with raw onion rings and cubes of smoked pork belly. It comes from Alsace, and Baden and the Palatinate on the German bank of the Rhine pour it at their September wine festivals with equal conviction that it belongs to them. There is no yeast in the dough, so it bakes into a cracker rather than a pizza base: ten to twelve minutes at 250°C on a sheet that has been heating along with the oven. The half hour the dough spends resting before it is rolled is the only slow part of the evening.

40 min610 kcal4 serves

Kürbissuppe (German Pumpkin Soup) with pumpkin, onion and garlic — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyMedium

Soups

Kürbissuppe (German Pumpkin Soup)

Kürbissuppe is the pumpkin soup Germans cook from late September through November, built on Hokkaido squash, onion, ginger and a little cream. The Hokkaido goes into the pot unpeeled: its skin is thin, cooks away completely in twenty minutes and carries a good share of the colour and of the chestnut taste that separates this from a soup made with peeled butternut. The cubes are browned in butter first, otherwise the sweetness has nothing underneath it. It gets finished at the table with toasted seeds and a spoonful of dark green pumpkin seed oil.

40 min340 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Kartoffelsuppe (German Potato Soup) with potato, leek and carrot — Germany recipe

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Soups

Kartoffelsuppe (German Potato Soup)

Kartoffelsuppe is the everyday German potato soup: floury potatoes cooked down with Suppengrün, the standard bundle of carrot, celery root, leek and parsley sold in every German supermarket, and seasoned with marjoram rather than thyme. Sliced Bockwurst or Wiener sausages go in at the end. The potatoes do the thickening themselves, so there is no flour and no roux; mashing a third of them against the pot gives a body that flour would only make pasty. Thuringia blends the whole pot smooth, Saxony leaves the cubes whole, and this version sits between the two.

50 min520 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free

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

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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

Rotkohl (German Braised Red Cabbage) with red cabbage, apple and onion — Germany recipe

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Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Rotkohl (German Braised Red Cabbage)

Rotkohl is the braised red cabbage that sits next to almost every German roast from October onwards: shredded cabbage cooked down for an hour with apple, onion, vinegar and cloves until it goes glossy and deep purple. The vinegar is not only there for taste. The pigment in red cabbage works like a pH indicator, and without acid the pot turns a murky blue-grey, which is also why the same vegetable is called Blaukraut in Bavaria and Rotkohl in the north. It tastes better on the second day, so most households cook it the night before the roast and take one job off the table.

80 min150 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Martinsgans (German Roast Goose) with goose, apple and onion — Germany recipe

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Meat Dishes

Martinsgans (German Roast Goose)

Martinsgans is the roast goose Germany eats around 11 November, the feast of St Martin, stuffed with apples, onions and mugwort and served with red cabbage and potato dumplings. The same bird reappears at Christmas, but November is when it belongs to a date. The method is slow and then fast: about three hours at 160 to 180°C for a 4.5 kg goose, breast down for the first hour so the back fat bastes the lean meat, then a short blast at 220°C with a brush of salted water to crisp the skin. The bird also gives up half a litre of clean fat along the way, which is a second ingredient rather than waste.

240 min820 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

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

Gyudon (Japanese Beef Rice Bowl) with beef, onion and dashi — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Gyudon (Japanese Beef Rice Bowl)

Gyudon (gyūdon, 牛丼, literally "beef bowl") is a Japanese rice bowl of thinly sliced beef and onion simmered in a sweet-savoury broth of dashi, soy sauce, mirin and a little sake. It's the dish fast-food chains like Yoshinoya built their business on, and it's just as good made at home. The onion goes in first until soft, the beef follows for a couple of minutes, then the whole lot goes over hot rice. The only thing that really matters is the beef: it has to be sliced almost transparently thin, which is why the freezer is your friend here.

20 min620 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

Nikujaga (Japanese Meat and Potato Stew) with beef, potato and onion — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Meat Dishes

Nikujaga (Japanese Meat and Potato Stew)

Nikujaga (肉じゃが, also written nikujyaga, literally "meat and potatoes") is a Japanese home-style stew of thinly sliced beef, potatoes, onion and carrot simmered in a broth of dashi, soy sauce, mirin, sake and sugar. In western Japan it is usually made with beef, in eastern Japan more often with pork. You sauté the onion and meat first, simmer everything under a drop lid for about 15 minutes, then let the pot stand off the heat so the potatoes soak up the broth.

40 min370 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

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