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Khrenovina with tomatoes, horseradish root and hot pepper — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaEasy

Sauces and Dips

Khrenovina

A raw Siberian horseradish-and-tomato sauce, also called gorloder, known for its burning heat. Fresh tomatoes, horseradish root, garlic, and hot pepper are ground together uncooked and seasoned with salt. It is served with pelmeni, meat, fish, and on black bread.

20 min15 kcal20 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Kimchi Fried Rice with kimchi, short grain rice and gochujang — Korea recipe

🇰🇷KoreaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Kimchi Fried Rice

The definitive Korean way to use up sour kimchi and day-old rice: the kimchi is fried until it caramelises, seasoned with gochujang, tossed with cold rice, and topped with a runny fried egg. It's a five-minute weeknight plate built entirely from fridge and pantry staples, and it lives or dies on how fermented the kimchi is.

20 min480 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy🌿Vegetarian

Kissel (Russian Berry Kissel) with cranberries, red currants and potato starch — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaEasy

Beverages

Kissel (Russian Berry Kissel)

Kissel is a classic Russian berry dessert-drink thickened with potato starch. Tart cranberries and red currants are simmered into a bright ruby juice, sweetened, then set to a glossy, spoonable consistency with a starch slurry. How much starch you add decides whether it's a warm sippable drink or a firm dessert you eat with a spoon. It's naturally vegan and gluten-free.

25 min120 kcal6 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Krautpfanne (German Cabbage and Sausage Skillet) with smoked sausage, white cabbage and onion — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyMedium

Meat Dishes

Krautpfanne (German Cabbage and Sausage Skillet)

Krautpfanne is a southern German one-pan supper: white cabbage cut into ribbons, onion and smoked sausage cooked down in lard with caraway and sweet paprika. Kraut is simply what cabbage is called in Bavaria, Swabia and Austria, and the pan takes its name from it. The sausage goes in first so that the fat it renders is what the cabbage cooks in, and the last few minutes happen with the lid off, which is where the browned edges come from. A spoonful of vinegar at the end keeps it from sitting heavy.

30 min430 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Labneh with Sizzled Tomatoes with yogurt, tomato and garlic — Lebanon recipe

🇱🇧LebanonMedium

Sauces and Dips

Labneh with Sizzled Tomatoes

Labneh is strained yogurt — drained overnight until it's thick, tangy, and spreadable. The tomatoes are the opposite: cooked fast in very hot oil with garlic and cumin until they blister and burst, then poured while still sizzling over the cold labneh. The contrast is the point. Cold and creamy against hot and jammy. You can buy labneh at most Middle Eastern grocery stores and save the overnight step, but making it yourself takes nothing except time.

30 min180 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Lembas Bread (Elvish Waybread) with flour, butter and honey — UK recipe

🇬🇧UKMedium

Flour and Confectionery Products

Lembas Bread (Elvish Waybread)

Lembas is the elvish waybread from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings — a single piece said to fill the stomach of a grown man. This version is a buttery, slightly sweet shortbread biscuit with warm spice, honey, and cream. It bakes in under 15 minutes and keeps for days in a tin. The X scored into each piece is a fan-recipe custom.

30 min210 kcal14 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Lemon Butter Chicken with chicken, butter and lemon — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Lemon Butter Chicken

Chicken breasts pounded flat, pan-seared golden, then finished in a quick lemon butter pan sauce. Done in 25 minutes. The sauce comes together in the same skillet.

25 min380 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick

Lo Mein with noodles, oyster sauce and soy sauce — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Lo Mein

Lo mein is a Chinese dish of soft egg noodles stir-fried with vegetables and protein in a glossy, savory sauce built on oyster sauce, light and dark soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, and sesame oil. Lo mein (捞面) translates from Cantonese as 'stirred noodles' — the name describes the cooking method, a scooping, tossing motion that coats every strand. Unlike chow mein, where the noodles are fried until crispy, lo mein noodles stay soft and slippery, coated in a thick, glossy sauce. The dark soy sauce is the detail that gives the dish its characteristic deep mahogany color; without it the dish looks pale. The sauce is premixed before the wok goes on — lo mein moves fast.

25 min570 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick

Makarony po-flotski (Russian Navy-Style Pasta) with penne, ground beef and onion — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaEasy

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Makarony po-flotski (Russian Navy-Style Pasta)

Makarony po-flotski is a simple Soviet dish: boiled pasta tossed with browned ground meat and golden onions. The key is to truly fry the meat to a crust rather than stew it, or the flavor falls flat. Quick, filling, and sauce-free — a Soviet-era classic that takes its name from the navy's pasta-with-meat ration.

30 min740 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

Mango Berry Smoothie Bowl with frozen mango chunks, frozen mixed berries and Greek yogurt — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Breakfast and Brunch

Mango Berry Smoothie Bowl

Frozen mango and berries blended into something thick enough to eat with a spoon, then covered in whatever looks good. The texture lives between soft-serve and yogurt — cold, dense, sweet — and the toppings do the rest. Quick enough for a weekday, pretty enough for the weekend.

10 min310 kcal1 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian

Mango Pudding (Thai Style) with mango, gelatin and heavy cream — Thailand recipe

🇹🇭ThailandEasy

Sweet Dishes

Mango Pudding (Thai Style)

A light, silky chilled pudding bursting with the flavor of ripe mango. Made with fresh mango purée, cream, and gelatin, it sets into a smooth, gently sweet dessert. Lemon juice keeps the color vivid. Garnish with a sprig of mint and serve cold.

20 min160 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Mannaya Kasha (Russian Semolina Porridge) with semolina, milk and butter — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaEasy

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Mannaya Kasha (Russian Semolina Porridge)

Mannaya kasha is a warm Russian semolina porridge cooked in milk — a childhood breakfast across the former Soviet Union. The trick is to pour the semolina into the hot milk in a thin stream while whisking, which keeps it smooth and lump-free. It's finished with a pat of butter and served with jam, honey, or fresh berries.

15 min210 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian

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