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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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🇮🇩IndonesiaAdvanced

Salads

Gado-Gado

A warm Indonesian salad of blanched and fresh vegetables, potato, and egg, drizzled with a rich spiced peanut sauce. Indonesia's national dish — gado-gado means 'mix-mix', and you can use whatever vegetables you have on hand.

30 min230 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

★4.7

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Garlic Butter Shrimp

Juicy shrimp seared in a rich garlic butter sauce with a splash of lemon. Ready in 15 minutes and perfect over pasta, rice, or with crusty bread.

15 min290 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

★4.9

🇪🇸SpainMedium

Soups

Gazpacho

Gazpacho is a refreshing cold soup that is perfect for hot summer days. It is made from fresh vegetables and flavored with olive oil and vinegar.

25 min175 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌱Vegan

★4.5

Gazpacho Andaluz (Classic Spanish Cold Tomato Soup)

🇪🇸SpainMedium

Soups

Gazpacho Andaluz (Classic Spanish Cold Tomato Soup)

Gazpacho is not a recipe — it is a summer habit in Andalusia. Ripe tomatoes, cucumber, green pepper, garlic, sherry vinegar, and a generous pour of olive oil go into the blender raw and come out as a cold, silky, bright-tasting soup that is consumed by the glass as much as by the bowl. The quality of the tomatoes decides everything. Needs at least two hours in the fridge before it tastes right.

20 min145 kcal4 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

★4.7

Gochujang Mayo (Korean Spicy Mayonnaise Sauce)

🇰🇷KoreaEasy

Sauces and Dips

Gochujang Mayo (Korean Spicy Mayonnaise Sauce)

Gochujang mayo is a Korean-inspired spicy condiment built on Japanese Kewpie mayonnaise, fermented gochujang chili paste, rice vinegar, toasted sesame oil, and garlic. The mayo cools and rounds out the heat, the gochujang brings deep fermented umami, sesame oil signs the sauce as Korean. Whisks together in five minutes, lives in the fridge for a week, and works on Korean fried chicken, sweet potato fries, poke bowls, burgers, sushi, and as a sandwich spread. Serves about eight as a dipping sauce. The 30 minute rest in the fridge before serving is what separates a punchy mix from a balanced sauce.

5 min110 kcal8 serves

🌶️Spicy⚡Quick

★4.5

Gỏi Cuốn (Vietnamese Fresh Spring Rolls)

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Gỏi Cuốn (Vietnamese Fresh Spring Rolls)

Translucent rice paper rolled around poached pork belly, boiled shrimp split lengthwise, rice vermicelli, soft lettuce, fresh mint and Thai basil, with garlic chives trailing from one end. The shrimp is placed at the top before rolling so it shows through the paper like a window — pink, curved, vivid. Everything inside is cooked, cooled, and assembled cold. The roll is eaten with a rich peanut-hoisin dipping sauce. Gỏi cuốn translates literally as 'salad rolls' (gỏi = salad, cuốn = to roll), not spring rolls — the name reflects the herb-forward lightness of the filling rather than the season. They are served fresh, at room temperature, within minutes of rolling; the rice paper hardens and the roll becomes difficult to eat if it sits more than 20 to 30 minutes.

50 min220 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy

★4.5

🇮🇳IndiaEasy

Beverages

Golden Milk (Turmeric Latte)

Warm milk with turmeric, ginger, cinnamon, and black pepper. The original recipe is centuries old — haldi doodh in Hindi, drunk before sleep as a remedy and a ritual. The black pepper is not decoration: piperine increases curcumin absorption by a significant margin, which is why every serious version of this drink includes it. Ten minutes on the stove, and the kitchen smells like something your grandmother would approve of.

10 min120 kcal2 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

★4.5

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Beverages

Grapefruit Mint Paloma Mocktail

The paloma is Mexico's national drink — traditionally tequila, grapefruit, lime, and bubbles. This alcohol-free version keeps everything that makes it worth drinking: the bitter-sweet punch of fresh pink grapefruit, the brightness of lime, a mint syrup that opens the whole thing up, and sparkling water that keeps it cold and alive. Ready in 10 minutes. Scales to a pitcher for a crowd.

10 min85 kcal2 serves

🌱Vegan⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian

★4.4

🇬🇷GreeceMedium

Salads

Greek Salad

Greek salad is a classic dish from the Mediterranean that includes fresh vegetables, olives and feta cheese seasoned with olive oil and oregano.

25 min200 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🥑Keto⚡Quick

★4.6

🇺🇸USAEasy

Breakfast and Brunch

Greek Yogurt Parfait

Thick plain Greek yogurt layered with granola, fresh berries, and honey in a tall glass. No cooking, five minutes, maximum visual impact if you use a clear glass and care about the layers. The parfait is only as good as its three components: the yogurt must be full-fat and thick enough to hold shape, the granola must be genuinely crunchy, and the fruit must be ripe. All three conditions met, this is one of the most complete breakfasts you can assemble without turning on the stove.

5 min320 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

★4.9

🇺🇸USAMedium

Sauces and Dips

Green Goddess Dressing

Green Goddess was invented at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco in 1923. The formula: mayonnaise, a serious amount of fresh herbs, tarragon, garlic, anchovy for depth, and lemon to hold it all together. The result is vivid green, herb-forward, and complex in a way no bottled version gets close to. Doubles as a dip, a sandwich spread, and a sauce for grilled fish or chicken. Makes in 10 minutes.

10 min120 kcal8 serves

🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

★4.9

🇺🇸USAMedium

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Grilled Corn with Herb Compound Butter

Grilled corn on the cob is the defining side dish of the American summer barbecue — requiring almost no preparation, producing spectacular results, and improving everything eaten alongside it with a hit of smoke and sweetness. When corn is grilled directly on hot grates without the husk, the natural sugars caramelize against the hot metal, producing the characteristic charred, lightly sweet flavor that boiling or steaming cannot replicate. A herb compound butter — softened butter blended with fresh herbs, garlic, and lemon zest — is made ahead, rolled into a log, and sliced into rounds that melt over the hot corn the moment it comes off the grill. This recipe also includes a Mexican elote variation: the classic Mexico City street corn treatment of mayonnaise, cotija cheese, chili powder, and lime that transforms the same grilled cob into something entirely different.

35 min280 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

★4.9

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