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48 recipes

Galbi-jjim (Korean Braised Short Ribs) with beef short ribs, korean pear and korean radish — Korea recipe

🇰🇷KoreaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Galbi-jjim (Korean Braised Short Ribs)

Galbi-jjim is Korea's celebration dish — beef short ribs braised low and slow in a dark, glossy soy sauce until the meat slides from the bone. Grated Korean pear tenderizes the beef and lends a clean sweetness that balances the salt, while radish, carrot, shiitake, chestnuts, and jujubes soak up the sauce alongside it. Served at holidays and family gatherings, it's the kind of dish that fills a house with its smell for hours.

150 min620 kcal6 serves

💪High protein

Dumpling Bake with Coconut Curry with frozen dumplings, coconut milk and red curry paste — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Dumpling Bake with Coconut Curry

The dumpling bake is a modern American shortcut that earned its reputation honestly: a coconut and red curry sauce whisked straight into the baking dish, a bag of frozen dumplings set into it, foil on top, and half an hour later a pan of tender dumplings sitting in a silky, spoonable broth. Nothing is fried, nothing is folded, and the dumplings absorb the curry as they steam. Finished with chili crisp and coriander, it tastes far more deliberate than the effort it takes.

45 min520 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy

Kimchi Jjigae (Korean Kimchi Stew) with napa cabbage kimchi, pork belly and firm tofu — Korea recipe

🇰🇷KoreaMedium

Soups

Kimchi Jjigae (Korean Kimchi Stew)

Kimchi jjigae is a Korean stew built around well-fermented napa cabbage kimchi, pork belly and tofu. Frying the kimchi with the pork first turns its sharp brine into a deep red broth; the tofu goes in late so it stays in soft, generous pieces. Rice and a few banchan are all it needs.

45 min395 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Sichuan Kung Pao Chicken with chicken thighs, Chinkiang vinegar and dried red chillies — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Sichuan Kung Pao Chicken

Sichuan kung pao chicken is a fast stir-fry of tender chicken cubes, dried chillies and crisp peanuts. Chinkiang vinegar gives the thin glaze a dark, sharp edge, while Sichuan pepper leaves a brief citrusy tingle. It should taste lively rather than syrupy, with the peanuts added late enough to stay crisp.

35 min520 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Pork and Cabbage Dumplings (Chinese Jiaozi) with all purpose flour, ground pork and Napa cabbage — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Pork and Cabbage Dumplings (Chinese Jiaozi)

These northern Chinese jiaozi have thin, pleasantly chewy skins and a juicy pork filling threaded with sweet Napa cabbage. Salting and squeezing the cabbage keeps the filling moist without flooding the wrappers. Make them for Lunar New Year, or settle in for an unhurried weekend folding session.

120 min472 kcal6 serves

💪High protein

Crispy Rice with Spicy Salmon with sushi rice, fresh salmon and sriracha — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanAdvanced

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Crispy Rice with Spicy Salmon

Blocks of seasoned sushi rice pan-fried until the outside crackles and the inside stays tender, topped with a tartare of sashimi-grade salmon in sriracha mayo, a slice of avocado, a ring of jalapeño and a drop of unagi sauce. It is the appetizer many people first meet at Japanese restaurants like Nobu, and at home it comes down to one thing: rice that is pressed hard and chilled all the way through before it meets the oil.

35 min380 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Kimbap with short grain rice, nori and pickled radish — Korea recipe

🇰🇷KoreaMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Kimbap

The Korean seaweed rice roll built for lunchboxes and picnics: short-grain rice seasoned with sesame oil, rolled in a sheet of gim with strips of yellow pickled radish, carrot, spinach, egg, and crab, then sliced into rounds. It looks like sushi, but the sesame-oil rice makes it nutty and savoury, and the fillings are cooked, pickled or crisp fresh vegetables, so the roll packs neatly into a lunchbox.

50 min320 kcal4 serves

Salmon Poke Bowl with salmon, short grain rice and avocado — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Salmon Poke Bowl

The Hawaiian classic: cubes of raw, sushi-grade salmon marinated in soy, sesame oil, and scallion, served cold over rice with avocado, edamame, cucumber, and sesame. Everything comes down to the fish — sashimi-grade salmon, cut clean and marinated briefly so it stays silky rather than curing into something firm.

25 min480 kcal2 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick

Salmon Rice Bowl with salmon, short grain rice and Kewpie mayonnaise — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Salmon Rice Bowl

The viral salmon rice bowl: flaked cooked salmon over warm short-grain rice, revived with an ice cube steamed under nori, then dressed with Kewpie mayo, soy, and sriracha and topped with avocado. It started as a way to turn leftover salmon into something better than the original, and it's become a lunch in its own right — savoury, creamy, and ready in minutes.

20 min520 kcal2 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Kimchi Fried Rice with kimchi, short grain rice and gochujang — Korea recipe

🇰🇷KoreaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Kimchi Fried Rice

The definitive Korean way to use up sour kimchi and day-old rice: the kimchi is fried until it caramelises, seasoned with gochujang, tossed with cold rice, and topped with a runny fried egg. It's a five-minute weeknight plate built entirely from fridge and pantry staples, and it lives or dies on how fermented the kimchi is.

20 min480 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy🌿Vegetarian

Air Fryer Salmon with salmon, honey and soy sauce — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Air Fryer Salmon

Salmon fillets glazed in honey, soy, and sriracha and cooked in the air fryer in under fifteen minutes, with crisp skin and a sticky sweet-spicy top. No oven to preheat and no pan to watch — just pat the fish dry, hold back some glaze for the finish, and pull it a touch early so it stays silky in the middle.

15 min380 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Chicken Karaage with chicken, soy sauce and ginger — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Meat Dishes

Chicken Karaage

Japan's much-loved fried chicken: bite-sized thigh pieces marinated in soy, ginger, garlic, and sake, dredged in potato starch, and double-fried to a pale, craggy, glass-crisp shell. The potato starch and the two-stage fry are what set it apart from any other fried chicken, and a squeeze of lemon at the table is all it needs.

35 min380 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

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garlic soy sauce ginger chicken gochujang salmon short-grain rice cucumber chili rice vinegar beef pork