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Gluten-free recipes

Recipes that do without wheat, barley, rye — not by swapping in gluten-free bread, but by letting rice, corn, potatoes, and legumes do the work they have always done.

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🇳🇬NigeriaAdvanced

Soups

Egusi Soup (Nigerian Melon Seed Stew)

Egusi soup is Nigeria's most widely eaten soup and one of West Africa's most recognisable dishes — a thick, richly savoury stew built on ground egusi, the dried seeds of a West African melon. The seeds are fried in red palm oil until nutty and set into soft lumps, then simmered with beef, smoked fish, ground crayfish, and fermented locust beans for deep umami, finished with leafy greens. It's hearty, nutty, and satisfying, eaten with pounded yam, eba, or rice.

90 min540 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Empanadas Mendocinas (Argentine Baked Beef Empanadas)

🇦🇷ArgentinaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Empanadas Mendocinas (Argentine Baked Beef Empanadas)

Mendocinas are Mendoza's version of the empanada — baked, never fried, and distinguished by a milk dough that bakes softer than the standard. The filling is spiced ground beef with smoked paprika, cumin, green olives, and hard-boiled egg. No raisins. The paprika turns the filling and crust an orange-red that identifies these across Argentina. Made in batches, best eaten warm, and freezable before baking.

100 min310 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Meat Dishes

Enchiladas Verdes

Warm corn tortillas wrapped around tender shredded chicken and bathed in a bright, tangy tomatillo salsa. Queso fresco, cool crema, crisp radish, and onion soften the salsa's fresh green heat. Serve the enchiladas as soon as they are assembled, while the tortillas still have a little character.

55 min690 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

🇬🇧UKEasy

Beverages

Espresso Martini

Vodka, coffee liqueur, and a shot of freshly pulled espresso shaken hard over ice until the outside of the tin frosts over. The foam on top — that pale, creamy layer that holds the coffee beans — comes from the CO₂ in the espresso crema getting trapped during shaking. You can't fake it with instant coffee. The drink was invented in a London bar in the 1980s by Dick Bradsell for a model who asked for something to wake her up and mess her up at the same time.

10 min190 kcal1 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Esquites (Mexican Street Corn Salad with Cotija, Lime, and Chili)

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Salads

Esquites (Mexican Street Corn Salad with Cotija, Lime, and Chili)

Esquites is a Mexican street food salad of charred corn kernels mixed with mayo, Mexican crema, lime juice, jalapeño, red onion, cilantro, and crumbled cotija cheese, all dusted with chili powder or Tajín. It is the off-the-cob version of elote — same flavours, easier to eat with a spoon. Street vendors across Mexico City and Oaxaca sell it in small clear cups for snacking on the go. The technique rests on one move: properly charring the corn until 50 percent of the kernels show black spots — the Maillard reaction is what turns this from boiled corn with mayonnaise into the smoky, layered street-food classic. Ready in 20 minutes, serves 6 as a snack or 4 as a side dish for grilled meats and tacos.

20 min220 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Extra Crispy Air Fryer Chicken Wings

The crispiest chicken wings you'll ever make without a drop of oil for frying. The secret is baking powder — it raises the skin's pH, which accelerates browning and dries the surface into a shattering crust at 200°C in the air fryer. I tested every ratio and landed on one tablespoon per kilogram of wings. Pat the wings bone-dry first, toss them in seasoned baking powder, and give them 25 minutes with one flip. They come out rivaling any deep-fried wing, with a fraction of the fat and none of the mess. Toss in buffalo, honey garlic, or BBQ sauce right before serving.

35 min420 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇪🇸SpainAdvanced

Soups

Fabada Asturiana

Fabada is the bean stew of Asturias, in northern Spain: large flat white beans called fabes de la granja cooked for hours with the compango, the set of cured pork that flavours the pot. The standard compango is chorizo, cured Asturian blood sausage, salt-cured pork shoulder and cured belly, and the broth thickens on its own from starch released by the beans rather than from any flour or puree. Records of fabes being grown in Asturias go back several centuries, though the dish in its present form is usually dated to the nineteenth century. Two rules separate a good pot from a broken one: the liquid must never reach a rolling boil, and the beans must not be stirred with a spoon. Add the overnight soak to the cooking time.

210 min780 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Meat Dishes

Fajitas

Strips of marinated meat seared at high heat with charred onions and peppers, served sizzling on a hot plate with warm tortillas. The smoky char on the vegetables and the caramelized edges on the meat make all the difference.

30 min570 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy💪High protein

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Fall Veggie Hot Honey Bowl

Roasted sweet potato and Brussels sprouts, ground turkey with warm autumn spices, cottage cheese, avocado, and a maple Dijon drizzle — or hot honey if you want to keep it simple. The Brussels sprouts are the key: roasted cut-side down at high heat, they caramelize at the edges and become nutty and faintly sweet.

40 min495 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇧🇷BrazilAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Feijoada

Feijoada is the black bean and pork stew eaten across Brazil, most often on Wednesdays and Saturdays and almost always as the only dish of the meal. Salt-cured and smoked pork cook slowly with black beans until the beans give up enough starch to turn the liquid into a dark, thick broth. The set of meats matters more than any seasoning: carne seca for salt and depth, smoked ribs for smoke, paio and calabresa for spice and fat. Origin stories tying it to slave quarters and discarded offcuts are widespread but historically contested, since bean and pork stews were already common in Portugal. Bean soaking and desalting the cured meat happen the day before.

240 min780 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇬🇧UKMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Fish and Chips

Fish and Chips is a classic British dish consisting of fried fish and chips. The fish is dipped in batter and deep-fried until golden. The potatoes are cut into thick slices and also deep-fried until crispy.

30 min650 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

🇺🇸USAMedium

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Flower Potatoes

Hasselback-style "flower" potatoes made in the air fryer — thin slices fan open like petals, crispy on the edges and soft in the center. Brushed with garlic-paprika butter, sprinkled with parmesan in the last three minutes. The chopstick trick creates perfect even cuts every time without slicing through, and soaking in cold water removes the starch so the petals separate and crisp up properly.

30 min250 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

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