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Salmon Poke Bowl with salmon, short grain rice and avocado — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Salmon Poke Bowl

The Hawaiian classic: cubes of raw, sushi-grade salmon marinated in soy, sesame oil, and scallion, served cold over rice with avocado, edamame, cucumber, and sesame. Everything comes down to the fish — sashimi-grade salmon, cut clean and marinated briefly so it stays silky rather than curing into something firm.

25 min480 kcal2 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick

Salmon Rice Bowl with salmon, short grain rice and Kewpie mayonnaise — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Salmon Rice Bowl

The viral salmon rice bowl: flaked cooked salmon over warm short-grain rice, revived with an ice cube steamed under nori, then dressed with Kewpie mayo, soy, and sriracha and topped with avocado. It started as a way to turn leftover salmon into something better than the original, and it's become a lunch in its own right — savoury, creamy, and ready in minutes.

20 min520 kcal2 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Salsa Macha with guajillo chiles, ancho chiles and peanuts — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Sauces and Dips

Salsa Macha

Salsa macha is a Mexican chili oil from Veracruz — dried chiles, raw peanuts, sesame seeds, and garlic fried in oil, then coarsely blended into a thick, chunky paste. The name likely comes from macho ('bold' or 'strong'), though some cooks trace it to machacar, the pounding motion used to crush ingredients in a molcajete. Active cooking takes about 25 minutes; the salsa then needs at least an hour of hands-off resting for the flavors to settle before it's ready to eat. It tastes smoky, nutty, and fruity from the dried chiles, with a heat that builds slowly rather than hitting all at once, and keeps for up to a week in the fridge (never store it at room temperature), tasting better after the first day. Makes about 400 g; a serving is about 2 heaped tablespoons (40 g).

25 min240 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

Satsebeli with tomatoes, walnuts and fresh cilantro — Georgia recipe

🇬🇪GeorgiaMedium

Sauces and Dips

Satsebeli

A Georgian tomato-and-walnut sauce whose name means for dunking. Ripe tomatoes are reduced and blended with walnuts, garlic, cilantro, basil, and Georgian spices like blue fenugreek into a tangy, pourable sauce served with grilled meat, potatoes, and bread.

30 min55 kcal12 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Sauce Mornay (Classic French Béchamel Cheese Sauce) with unsalted butter, all purpose flour and whole milk — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceMedium

Sauces and Dips

Sauce Mornay (Classic French Béchamel Cheese Sauce)

Sauce Mornay is the classic French cheese sauce — a béchamel enriched with grated Gruyère and Parmigiano-Reggiano. The name traces to either a 19th-century Parisian restaurant (Le Grand Véfour) or the Marquis de Mornay, the exact attribution still debated. Mornay is the workhorse of French haute cuisine: the base for cauliflower au gratin, eggs Mornay, sole Mornay, endives au jambon, fish gratins, cheese soufflé, and the cheesier version of croque monsieur. Silky, glossy, pale-cream — never bright yellow (that means the cheese broke). Vegetarian, ready in 20 minutes. Yields about 500 ml of sauce, serves 6 with vegetables, fish, eggs, or pasta.

20 min180 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Sausage and Pea Pasta with sausage, peas and parmesan — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Sausage and Pea Pasta

Italian pork sausages browned until the fat renders and the casing crisps, then simmered in a quick tomato-cream sauce with peas and finished with parmesan. This is the kind of pasta that feels like a restaurant dish but comes together in under 30 minutes on a weeknight. Rigatoni's ridged tubes hold the sauce inside and out — every forkful pulls a bit of everything.

30 min690 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Sbiten (Russian Honey Spiced Drink) with honey, water and cinnamon — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Beverages

Sbiten (Russian Honey Spiced Drink)

Sbiten is an old Russian hot drink: water simmered with warming spices — cinnamon, cloves, ginger, allspice, black pepper, and usually a bay leaf, sometimes hops — and sweetened with honey. You simmer the spices low and slow until the kitchen smells like a medieval apothecary, then take the pan off the heat and stir in the honey. Street sellers once carried it around hot in cloth-wrapped flasks, until tea became the everyday drink in Russia. The result sits somewhere between spiced honey tea and mulled wine without the wine — warming, aromatic, and made from little more than pantry staples.

30 min120 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian

Scallops with Garlic Butter with scallops, butter and garlic — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceEasy

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Scallops with Garlic Butter

Large sea scallops seared in a screaming-hot pan until golden, then finished in garlic butter with lemon and fresh herbs. Ready in about 20 minutes. The crust is what makes them — moisture and a cold pan are the two things that ruin it.

20 min260 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Schnitzel with pork loin cutlets, plain breadcrumbs and eggs — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyMedium

Meat Dishes

Schnitzel

Thin pork or veal cutlets pounded to 3 to 4 mm, breaded with flour, egg, and breadcrumbs, and fried in hot fat until the crust is golden and crackling. The mark of a well-made schnitzel is a crust that has puffed slightly away from the meat and blisters with air pockets — this happens only when the breadcrumbs are not pressed in. The fat must be deep enough that the schnitzel floats rather than sits on the pan base. Serve immediately with a wedge of lemon. This is the Schweineschnitzel (pork) version; for Wiener Schnitzel, use veal.

30 min520 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

Semifreddo with cream, egg yolks and sugar — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyEasy

Sweet Dishes

Semifreddo

Semifreddo is an Italian frozen dessert whose name literally means 'semi-cold'. It has a more delicate, creamy texture than regular gelato and is often served at Italian holiday tables.

25 min190 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Shakshuka with tomato, egg and onion — Israel recipe

🇮🇱IsraelAdvanced

Breakfast and Brunch

Shakshuka

Eggs poached directly in a spiced tomato and pepper sauce. One pan, 30 minutes. The sauce does most of the work — build it properly and the eggs finish themselves.

30 min230 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Shrimp Rice Bowls with shrimp, rice and garlic — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Shrimp Rice Bowls

Garlic butter shrimp glazed with soy sauce over jasmine rice with edamame, avocado and a drizzle of sesame-honey dressing. Shrimp cooks in 3 minutes. If the rice is already done, this is a 10-minute meal. Around 30g of protein per bowl.

20 min420 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

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