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Under 350 kcal per serving, without the sad-diet energy. Real flavour, careful fat, plenty of vegetables — the kind of light cooking you actually want to make again.

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Béarnaise Sauce with egg yolks, butter and tarragon — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceEasy

Sauces and Dips

Béarnaise Sauce

Béarnaise is hollandaise's sophisticated sibling — a rich, silky French butter sauce flavored with a tarragon-and-shallot reduction in white wine vinegar, then emulsified with egg yolks. The classic pairing with grilled steak, but equally stunning on roasted vegetables, fish, or eggs Benedict.

20 min200 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Béchamel Sauce with butter, flour and milk — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceEasy

Sauces and Dips

Béchamel Sauce

Classic French béchamel — one of the five mother sauces. Butter, flour, and milk, whisked into a velvety white sauce that forms the base of lasagna, gratins, and croque monsieurs. Fifteen minutes, three ingredients, endless possibilities.

15 min120 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Beef Bulgogi with beef, garlic and ginger — Korea recipe

🇰🇷KoreaMedium

Meat Dishes

Beef Bulgogi

Korea's most beloved BBQ dish — paper-thin slices of ribeye marinated in soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, garlic, and ginger, then seared on a blazing hot pan until caramelized at the edges. Sweet, savory, smoky, and intensely flavorful. Serve with rice, lettuce leaves, and kimchi.

25 min280 kcal2 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🥑Keto

Beet Cheese Salad with beets, goat cheese and walnuts — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceAdvanced

Salads

Beet Cheese Salad

Beet and goat cheese salad (salade de betteraves au chèvre in French) is roasted beets, soft goat cheese and toasted walnuts on salad leaves, dressed with a honey and balsamic vinaigrette. The beets take 45 to 60 minutes in the oven, which is most of the 70 minutes; the rest is slicing and a dressing shaken in a jar. Allow another 20 minutes for the beets to cool before peeling. The parts are layered rather than tossed, so the goat cheese stays white instead of turning pink.

70 min290 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Beurre Blanc (Classic French Loire Valley White Butter Sauce) with unsalted European butter, dry white wine and shallots — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceEasy

Sauces and Dips

Beurre Blanc (Classic French Loire Valley White Butter Sauce)

Beurre blanc is a French sauce from the Loire Valley, around Nantes: a reduction of dry white wine, white wine vinegar and finely chopped shallots into which cold butter is whisked until the sauce turns pale, glossy and creamy. By the most common account it was invented around 1890 by Clémence Lefeuvre, a cook near Nantes. It is served warm over poached or pan-fried white fish, scallops, lobster, asparagus and poached eggs; the traditional partner is Loire pike. The sauce is light yellow and slightly sharp from the wine and vinegar, with a soft sweetness from the shallots.

20 min250 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Biscotti with almond, eggs and flour — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Flour and Confectionery Products

Biscotti

Biscotti is a traditional Italian cookie known for its crispy texture and long shelf life. The name comes from the Latin 'bis' (twice) and 'coctus' (cooked), reflecting the process of double baking.

50 min120 kcal12 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Black Bean Tacos with beans, tortilla and lime — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoAdvanced

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Black Bean Tacos

Canned black beans cooked down with cumin, smoked paprika, garlic, and lime until thick and slightly smoky. Served in warm corn tortillas with avocado, pickled red onion, and sour cream. From tin to table in 15 minutes.

20 min310 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Blancmange with milk, sugar and gelatin — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceEasy

Sweet Dishes

Blancmange

Blancmange is an exquisite French dessert — a delicate and light jelly made of milk or cream thickened with gelatin, garnished with toasted almonds and fresh berries.

20 min350 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Borscht with beef, beets and cabbage — Ukraine recipe

🇺🇦UkraineAdvanced

Soups

Borscht

Borscht is a traditional Ukrainian soup made from beets, cabbage, potatoes, carrots and meat. Its deep red color and rich taste make it popular not only in Ukraine, but also in many other countries. This pot makes about 3.5 litres, enough for six bowls.

150 min340 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Brandade de Morue (Provençal Salt Cod and Olive Oil Spread from Nîmes) with salt cod loin, garlic and whole milk — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceMedium

Sauces and Dips

Brandade de Morue (Provençal Salt Cod and Olive Oil Spread from Nîmes)

Brandade de Morue is the southern French classic from Nîmes, in Languedoc, an emulsion of desalted cod, olive oil, milk, and garlic. The name comes from Occitan 'brandar' — to stir, to shake — describing the vigorous beating that turns flaked cod and oil into a creamy spread. The first printed recipe is in Charles Durand's cookbook of 1830; the Nîmes version is made without potato. This recipe keeps to that: cod, oil, milk and garlic, nothing else. Spread on toasted baguette, baked into a gratin, or used as a dip with raw vegetables. The spread itself is gluten-free and low in carbohydrates (serve it with gluten-free bread or raw vegetables if that matters; keto-friendly when no potato is added and it is eaten without the croutons). Active time about 50 minutes plus 24–48 hours of soaking the salt cod. Yields about 900 g, serves 8 (roughly 110 g each) as appetizer with crostini, salad, and chilled rosé.

50 min310 kcal8 serves

🥑Keto

Branzino al Sale (Italian Salt-Crusted Whole Sea Bass) with whole branzino, coarse sea salt and egg whites — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Branzino al Sale (Italian Salt-Crusted Whole Sea Bass)

Branzino al sale is the classic Italian salt-crusted sea bass — a whole fish buried under coarse sea salt mixed with egg whites, baked at 200°C for 30 minutes, then cracked open at the table. The salt forms a hard dome that turns the oven into a sealed steam chamber: the fish cooks in its own moisture and the aromas of lemon, thyme, and rosemary. Despite the dramatic amount of salt, the flesh emerges perfectly seasoned, never salty — the skin and scales keep the salt out. Restaurant-style Mediterranean seafood in its simplest form: high-protein, gluten-free, keto-friendly, and entirely hands-off once in the oven. Active work 10 minutes, bake 30 minutes. Serves 4 from two 700 g fish.

40 min220 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🥑Keto

Brigadeiro with condensed milk, cocoa powder and chocolate sprinkles — Brazil recipe

🇧🇷BrazilEasy

Sweet Dishes

Brigadeiro

Brigadeiro is the small chocolate truffle that appears at every Brazilian birthday party, made from three ingredients cooked in one pan and rolled in chocolate sprinkles. Condensed milk, cocoa and butter are stirred over low heat until the mixture thickens enough to hold a shape, and the entire recipe reduces to knowing when to stop. It appeared in the mid-1940s and is generally linked to the campaign of brigadier Eduardo Gomes, at a time when imported sweets were scarce and condensed milk was not. Undercooked, it stays a spoonable cream; overcooked, it turns hard and grainy. Cooling time comes on top of the stated time.

25 min190 kcal8 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

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