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Tomato paste Recipes

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🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Tefteli (Russian Meatballs with Rice)

Tefteli are Russian meatballs mixed with rice and braised in a creamy tomato gravy. The rice worked right into the mince pokes out and keeps them soft — which earns them the nickname 'porcupine' or 'hedgehog' meatballs. A light crust from browning holds the shape, the inside stays tender, and the gravy soaks into a side of mashed potatoes or buckwheat.

70 min420 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Zharkoe (Russian Beef and Potato Stew)

Zharkoe is a Russian stew of braised beef and potatoes in a thick gravy. The meat is browned first, then slowly simmered with onion and carrot until tender, and the potatoes go in only near the end. A spoonful of sour cream and fresh dill soften the gravy — hearty home cooking, best of all from a clay pot.

110 min390 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Doro Wat (Ethiopian Spiced Chicken Stew)

🇪🇹EthiopiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Doro Wat (Ethiopian Spiced Chicken Stew)

Doro wat is Ethiopia's national dish — a deep red, intensely spiced chicken stew built on a foundation of onions cooked down slowly until they melt into a rich paste. Fiery berbere and aromatic niter kibbeh, a spiced clarified butter, give it heat and depth, while whole hard-boiled eggs simmer in the sauce to soak up flavour. Slow-cooked and celebratory, it's traditionally scooped up with injera, the tangy teff flatbread, in a shared communal meal.

120 min520 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Imam Bayildi (Turkish Stuffed Eggplant in Olive Oil)

🇹🇷TurkeyAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Imam Bayildi (Turkish Stuffed Eggplant in Olive Oil)

Imam bayildi means 'the imam fainted' — from delight, or from the sight of how much olive oil went in, depending on which legend you follow. Whole eggplants are softened until collapsing, split open, and packed with slow-cooked onion, tomato, and a startling amount of garlic, then braised in olive oil until everything melts together. It belongs to the zeytinyagli family, dishes cooked in olive oil and eaten cool, and it's better the next day.

90 min310 kcal4 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free🌿Vegetarian

🇹🇷TurkeyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Turkish Pasta (Yalanci Manti)

Turkish pasta is short pasta under garlic yogurt, browned ground beef and paprika butter. In Turkey it is called yalanci manti, fake manti: the two sauces of the manti dumplings without the hours of folding. Thirty minutes from pot to bowl.

30 min620 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

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