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Pho Bo (Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup) with beef, rice noodles and ginger — Vietnam recipe

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Soups

Pho Bo (Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup)

Pho bo is a Vietnamese noodle soup from Hanoi built around a clear, richly spiced beef broth — bones and spices simmer for hours with charred onion and ginger, while the bowl itself is finished with rice noodles, thin beef, fresh herbs, lime, and chili. Both cooked and raw beef go into the bowl: a well-done cut simmered in the broth, and paper-thin raw slices that cook the instant boiling broth is poured over them.

210 min520 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Mulled Wine with red wine, orange and cinnamon sticks — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyEasy

Beverages

Mulled Wine

Glühwein is the hot spiced red wine poured from wooden huts at German Christmas markets: wine, sugar, orange and whole spices, and under EU rules nothing else — not even water. Orange and cinnamon carry the top of it, while cloves and star anise sit underneath and keep the drink from reading as syrup. Heat is the whole job here: hold the pot near 70°C and never let it bubble, or the wine browns and goes flat. Active work is about fifteen minutes, after which the pan sits on the lowest flame for another twenty to thirty while the spices open up.

15 min200 kcal4 serves

🌱Vegan🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Sbiten (Russian Honey Spiced Drink) with honey, water and cinnamon — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Beverages

Sbiten (Russian Honey Spiced Drink)

Sbiten is an old Russian hot drink: honey simmered in water with warming spices — cinnamon, cloves, ginger, allspice, black pepper, and usually a bay leaf, sometimes hops. You dissolve the honey in hot water, then let it simmer low and slow with the spices until the kitchen smells like a medieval apothecary. Vendors once sold it hot from copper vessels called сбитенники at markets and fairs, before tea became the everyday drink in Russia. The result sits somewhere between spiced honey tea and mulled wine without the wine — warming, aromatic, and made from little more than pantry staples.

30 min145 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian

Hong Shao Rou (Chinese Red-Braised Pork Belly) with pork belly, rock sugar and star anise — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Hong Shao Rou (Chinese Red-Braised Pork Belly)

Hong shao rou (红烧肉), literally 'red-braised meat', is a Chinese home-style braise of skin-on pork belly cubes cooked until the surface turns a deep mahogany red and a thin, glossy sauce clings to every piece. The colour and shine come from rock sugar caramelized before the meat goes in, then a slow simmer in soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, ginger, and star anise. It is one of the standard dishes on the family table for National Day (国庆, 1–7 October) and Lunar New Year, usually served alongside plain rice and a plate of blanched greens to balance the richness. Most of the 60 to 90 minutes on the stove is unattended simmering, so the active work is really the first fifteen minutes: cutting, blanching, and getting the sugar to the right shade of amber. Done right, the fat under the skin turns soft and almost translucent rather than greasy, and the lean layers hold their shape without drying out.

115 min795 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

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beef rice noodles ginger red wine orange cinnamon sticks honey cloves pork belly