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Low-calorie recipes

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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Cottage Cheese Protein Bagels with cottage cheese, self rising flour and egg — USA recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Cottage Cheese Protein Bagels

A no-yeast, no-boil bagel built on a three-ingredient dough: blended cottage cheese, self-rising flour, and an egg. Each bagel carries around 12 g of protein, bakes in under half an hour, and holds for days. The crumb is denser than a classic boiled bagel and closer to a soft roll.

35 min185 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Crab Cakes with crab, egg and breadcrumbs — USA recipe

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Fish and Seafood Dishes

Crab Cakes

Crab cakes are an exquisite and delicious dish. Tender crab meat fried to a crispy crust conceals a delightful combination of flavors and textures.

55 min275 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Crab Salad with crab, eggs and corn — USA recipe

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Salads

Crab Salad

Crab salad (krabovy salat in Russian) is an Eastern European mayonnaise salad of crab sticks (surimi), hard-boiled eggs, canned sweet corn and cucumber, an everyday dish in Russia and other countries of the former USSR. It began with canned crab meat; crab sticks, made in the USSR from the mid-1980s, turned it into a salad for any day. The eggs take 10 minutes to boil and the rest is chopping, so it is about 25 minutes of work plus 30 minutes in the fridge.

25 min280 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick

Crab Stick Salad with crab sticks, canned corn and cooked rice — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Salads

Crab Stick Salad

A simple Russian salad of diced crab sticks and sweet corn with hard-boiled eggs, cooled rice, and fresh cucumber, bound with a light mayonnaise dressing. It is folded gently, chilled for at least 1 hour, and finished with green onion and dill, a New Year favourite.

30 min250 kcal6 serves

⚡Quick

Cranberry Sauce (Homemade, from Fresh Cranberries) with cranberries and orange — USA recipe

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Sauces and Dips

Cranberry Sauce (Homemade, from Fresh Cranberries)

Cranberry sauce, here the whole-berry kind made from fresh cranberries, is a sweet-tart American sauce of cranberries, sugar and orange juice that sits next to roast turkey on the Thanksgiving table; the jellied version from a can is its supermarket cousin. You simmer the berries for about 8 minutes until two thirds of them have burst, stir in the orange zest off the heat, and let the sauce cool, when the pectin in the berries sets it to a soft jam. It makes about 500 ml, 8 servings. The 15 minutes are active time; cooling takes about an hour, and the sauce keeps in the fridge for up to 10 days, so you can make it 3 days before the dinner.

15 min130 kcal8 serves

🌱Vegan🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Cream of Mushroom Soup with mushrooms, potato and cream — France recipe

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Soups

Cream of Mushroom Soup

Cream of mushroom soup is a classic French dish with a delicate flavor and velvety consistency. The combination of fresh and dried mushrooms gives the soup a rich flavor.

85 min225 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free🥑Keto

Creamy Pea Soup with peas, onion and butter — France recipe

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Soups

Creamy Pea Soup

Pea puree soup is a classic dish appreciated for its rich flavor, nutrition and ease of preparation. Made from dried peas, rich in vegetable protein and fiber.

110 min275 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Crema Catalana (Catalan Cream) with egg yolks, milk and heavy cream — Spain recipe

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Sweet Dishes

Crema Catalana (Catalan Cream)

The classic Spanish custard dessert with a silky vanilla and citrus cream base topped with a crackling caramel crust. Made with egg yolks, milk, and cream, it is chilled overnight then caramelized with a kitchen torch just before serving.

240 min250 kcal5 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Crispy Cabbage Caesar Salad with cabbage, parmesan and anchovy — USA recipe

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Salads

Crispy Cabbage Caesar Salad

Roasted cabbage Caesar salad with caramelized wedges, homemade anchovy dressing, crunchy croutons, and shaved parmesan. The cabbage goes into a screaming-hot oven until the edges char and the natural sugars turn to toffee — then gets the full Caesar treatment. A whole head of cabbage feeds four people for almost nothing, and it tastes better than romaine ever did.

25 min290 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick

Crispy Duck Salad with duck breasts, lettuce and cucumber — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaAdvanced

Salads

Crispy Duck Salad

Crispy duck salad is warm duck with crisp skin over cold leaves and raw vegetables. The dish comes from London restaurant menus; this is a home version with pan-fried duck breast, sliced and dressed with soy, honey, ginger and sesame. The duck is cooked skin-side down from a cold pan so the fat renders out slowly and the skin turns glass-crisp, while the meat stays pink. The rich duck against cold, crunchy vegetables is the point of the dish.

45 min300 kcal4 serves

Crispy Fried Tofu with firm tofu, cornstarch and garlic cloves — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanEasy

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Crispy Fried Tofu

Japanese golden fried tofu with a crispy cornstarch crust, served with a simple soy-garlic sauce, sesame seeds, and green onion. A dish that wins over even tofu skeptics.

30 min165 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🥑Keto

Croissant with bread, butter and flour — France recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Croissant

A classic French buttery, flaky laminated pastry made over two days with a rich butter block folded into the dough to create dozens of delicate layers.

90 min280 kcal15 serves

🌿Vegetarian

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