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Chicken Biryani with basmati rice, chicken and saffron — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaAdvanced

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Chicken Biryani

Marinated chicken layered with par-cooked basmati rice, fried onions, saffron milk, and whole spices, then sealed and slow-cooked on low heat so the steam does the work. This is Hyderabadi-style pakki dum biryani — the chicken is cooked first, then layered with rice and finished in a sealed pot. It takes effort. Not complicated effort, but deliberate effort: the rice must be 75% done before layering, the onions must be genuinely dark gold, and the pot must stay sealed for the full 25 minutes. Each of those things matters more than the spice list.

90 min580 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy

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

Pakora with chickpea flour, onion and cauliflower — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaAdvanced

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Pakora

Crispy spiced fritters made by coating vegetables in a thick chickpea flour batter and deep-frying until audibly crunchy. The batter starts deliberately thick — when vegetables are added, the salt draws out their moisture and the batter reaches the right consistency on its own. Rice flour in the batter absorbs extra moisture and adds crispiness that chickpea flour alone cannot achieve. Classic vegetables: onion, potato, cauliflower, spinach. Serve immediately with mint-coriander chutney and tamarind chutney.

35 min290 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

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

Bánh Xèo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crêpes) with rice flour, turmeric and coconut milk — Vietnam recipe

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Bánh Xèo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crêpes)

Golden turmeric crêpes fried until shatteringly crisp, filled with pork belly, shrimp, mung bean, and bean sprouts — then folded and eaten wrapped in lettuce with mint and cilantro, dipped in nước chấm. The name means 'sizzling cake': the xèo is the sound the rice flour batter makes the instant it hits the smoking-hot oil. Without that sound, the pan is not hot enough. Getting the crêpe genuinely crisp rather than soft and chewy requires three things: a thin batter, very hot oil, and patience — the crêpe needs 4 to 5 minutes undisturbed before it is ready to fold.

50 min380 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Harira with chickpeas, lentils and tomatoes — Morocco recipe

🇲🇦MoroccoAdvanced

Soups

Harira

Harira is Morocco's most important soup. The name comes from the Arabic word for silk — a reference to the velvety texture it gets from a flour-and-water slurry (tedouira) stirred in at the end. Every Moroccan family has their version, but the spine is always the same: tomatoes, chickpeas, lentils, fresh herbs, ginger, and warm spices. It is the soup that breaks the Ramadan fast every evening at iftar, served alongside dates, hard-boiled eggs, and chebakia pastries. It is also eaten through the rest of the year, as a starter or as a meal in itself. The lamb version is the most traditional, but the vegetarian version is nearly as popular.

90 min320 kcal6 serves

Chicken Tagine with Chermoula with chicken thighs, cilantro and preserved lemons — Morocco recipe

🇲🇦MoroccoAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Chicken Tagine with Chermoula

Chermoula is a Moroccan marinade — raw herbs, garlic, cumin, lemon, oil — and it does more work here than the tagine itself. The chicken sits in it overnight if you have time, or two hours if you don't. Either way, something changes in the meat. Then it goes into the pot with preserved lemon, olives, and onion, and cooks low and slow until it falls off the bone. No tagine pot required. A wide, heavy pan with a lid does the same job.

90 min455 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Dushbara with ground lamb, lamb broth and dried mint — Azerbaijan recipe

🌍AzerbaijanAdvanced

Soups

Dushbara

A classic Azerbaijani soup of tiny meat-filled dumplings simmered in a clear lamb broth. The dumplings are famously small, and the soup is served with crushed garlic and vinegar, dried mint, and cilantro for a sharp, tangy finish.

90 min420 kcal5 serves

Palak Paneer with spinach, paneer and green chilies — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Palak Paneer

Palak paneer pairs soft cubes of fresh cheese with a smooth North Indian spinach gravy. The sauce should taste green and gently spiced, not bitter or overloaded with cream; hot roti or cumin rice is all it needs.

45 min465 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Oven-Roasted Chicken Shawarma with boneless chicken thighs, garlic and lemon juice — Lebanon recipe

🇱🇧LebanonAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Oven-Roasted Chicken Shawarma

This home-oven shawarma trades the vertical spit for a fiercely hot sheet pan and a final pass under the broiler. The chicken thighs stay juicy while their thin edges blister and char, which gives the platter the roasted spice flavor people expect from shawarma. Serve it with warm pita, toum, pickles and chopped vegetables, or turn the same chicken into a rice bowl.

300 min515 kcal6 serves

💪High protein

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coconut milk onion garlic ginger chickpeas Kashmiri chilli powder kasuri methi garam masala tomatoes chicken chicken thighs spinach