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Tomato Salad with tomato, red onion and garlic — Mediterranean recipe

🌊MediterraneanEasy

Salads

Tomato Salad

The simplest salad in the world — when tomatoes are truly ripe. Thick wedges of juicy tomatoes with red onion, garlic and oregano, dressed with olive oil and sherry vinegar. The tomatoes release juice that blends with the dressing into an extraordinary sauce.

20 min150 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌱Vegan

Thai Spicy Beef Salad with beef, lime and mint — Thailand recipe

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Salads

Thai Spicy Beef Salad

Thai spicy beef salad, yam nuea (ยำเนื้อ) in Thai, is thin slices of seared steak tossed while still warm with red onion, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, mint and cilantro in a lime, fish sauce and chili dressing. You sear the beef, rest it, slice it and dress it in about half an hour. Serve it on lettuce leaves or with jasmine rice.

30 min210 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Sheet Pan Chicken and Veggies with chicken, potatoes and broccoli — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Sheet Pan Chicken and Veggies

Bone-in chicken thighs and mixed vegetables on one pan at 220°C. The chicken skins up, the vegetables caramelize, and nothing needs monitoring once it's in the oven. Around 35g of protein per serving.

45 min420 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Olivier Salad with potato, egg and chicken — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Salads

Olivier Salad

The Russian potato salad — boiled potato, carrot, egg, pickles, peas, and chicken in a mayonnaise dressing. Cut everything to the same small dice. Tastes better the next day.

50 min340 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Black Bean Tacos with beans, tortilla and lime — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoAdvanced

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Black Bean Tacos

Canned black beans cooked down with cumin, smoked paprika, garlic, and lime until thick and slightly smoky. Served in warm corn tortillas with avocado, pickled red onion, and sour cream. From tin to table in 15 minutes.

20 min310 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Dense Bean Salad with chickpeas, cucumber and feta — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Salads

Dense Bean Salad

Three types of beans, crisp vegetables, briny olives, crumbled feta, and a sharp oregano-garlic vinaigrette. This recipe went viral on TikTok in 2024 because it actually works as a full meal. About 13g of protein and 11g of fiber per serving. No cooking required, 15 minutes of prep, holds 4 days in the fridge — and tastes noticeably better the next day.

15 min330 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Jackfruit Tacos with jackfruit, corn tortillas and avocado — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Jackfruit Tacos

Canned young green jackfruit pulled apart, spiced with cumin, smoked paprika, chipotle, and oregano, then seared in a hot pan until the edges brown and the filling gets sticky. Served in warm corn tortillas with avocado crema, quick-pickled red onions, cilantro, and lime. Jackfruit works here because of its fibrous texture — shredded, it genuinely resembles pulled pork or chicken, and it absorbs whatever flavor you cook it with. The key is buying the right can: young green jackfruit in brine or water, not the ripe sweet fruit packed in syrup. Everything else follows from that.

30 min390 kcal4 serves

🌱Vegan🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Tandoori Chicken with chicken, Greek yogurt and Kashmiri chilli powder — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaMedium

Meat Dishes

Tandoori Chicken

Bone-in chicken thighs and drumsticks scored deeply, marinated overnight in spiced yogurt, then cooked at high heat until the outside chars and the inside stays completely juicy. No sauce, no gravy — just the marinade working directly against the heat. The red-orange color comes from Kashmiri chilli powder, the flavor from ginger, garlic, garam masala, and kasuri methi. This is the dish that butter chicken and tikka masala are built on top of. On its own it's simpler and better. Serve with pickled onion, lime wedges, and mint chutney.

50 min340 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Paneer Tikka with paneer, yogurt and mustard oil — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaAdvanced

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Paneer Tikka

Cubes of firm paneer and vegetables marinated in spiced yogurt with mustard oil, grilled until charred at the edges and soft inside. The mustard oil in the marinade is what separates restaurant-style paneer tikka from the home version — it adds a sharp, faintly pungent edge that neutralises the blandness of paneer and creates a golden crust under heat. The paneer must not overcook: the goal is color on the outside and warm, yielding cheese in the center. Serve immediately with mint chutney and lime. A dry starter, no sauce.

40 min380 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Souvlaki with pork neck, olive oil and lemon juice — Greece recipe

🇬🇷GreeceMedium

Meat Dishes

Souvlaki

Pork cubes marinated in olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, and dried oregano, skewered and grilled over high heat until the edges char and the inside stays juicy. The marinade is deliberately simple — this is street food, not a restaurant dish, and the flavor should come from the quality of the pork and the smoke of the grill rather than a complicated spice blend. Souvlaki is served two ways in Greece: straight off the skewer with lemon wedges and a slice of bread, or wrapped in a warm pita with tomato, onion, and tzatziki. Both are correct. This recipe makes 8 skewers.

30 min380 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

Gyro with pork shoulder, Greek yogurt and cucumber — Greece recipe

🇬🇷GreeceAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Gyro

Thin-sliced seasoned pork roasted until the edges turn crisp and golden, served in warm pita with tzatziki, tomato, and onion. The restaurant gyros is cooked on a vertical rotisserie — meat stacked in layers, spinning slowly, the outer crust shaved off in strips as it crisps. At home, the closest result comes from threading marinated pork pieces onto a vertical skewer propped over an onion half in a roasting pan, then finishing under the grill. The marinade is oregano, paprika, cumin, garlic, vinegar, and olive oil. The tzatziki is made from scratch and is not optional.

90 min480 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Grilled Vegetable Platter with eggplant, zucchini and bell peppers — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Grilled Vegetable Platter

A grilled vegetable platter is the most underrated item at any barbecue — and the most versatile. Where meat requires precise temperature control and resting times, vegetables are forgiving: they tell you when they are done by releasing from the grates, and they improve with a few minutes of rest, during which the heat equalises and the marinade or dressing soaks in. The technique is the same across all vegetables: oil them generously (oil on the vegetable, not just the grate), grill on medium-high direct heat for the time each vegetable needs, and dress them hot — a vinaigrette applied to hot vegetables is absorbed rather than sitting on the surface. The key to a beautiful platter is timing: eggplant and peppers need the most time; zucchini and asparagus need the least. The trick is to work in sequence, pulling each vegetable as it finishes, and to arrange everything on one platter together so the final dish is warm and accessible.

40 min185 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

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