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

🇺🇸USAEasy

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

Creamy Garlic Shrimp Pasta with large shrimp, linguine or spaghetti and garlic — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Creamy Garlic Shrimp Pasta

Shrimp seared fast in butter, then a garlic cream sauce built in the same pan — white wine, heavy cream, parmesan, lemon. The pasta finishes in the sauce with a splash of its starchy cooking water. Twenty-five minutes. The only thing that matters is not overcooking the shrimp, which takes about 90 seconds per side and no more.

25 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Creamy Tuscan Chicken with chicken, cream and spinach — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Creamy Tuscan Chicken

Chicken breasts seared until golden, then finished in a Parmesan cream sauce with sun-dried tomatoes, garlic and wilted spinach. Looks restaurant-level, takes 30 minutes, uses one skillet. Around 42g of protein per serving.

30 min480 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Creamy Tuscan Chicken Pasta with chicken, penne and double cream — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Creamy Tuscan Chicken Pasta

Pan-seared chicken in a rich garlic cream sauce with sun-dried tomatoes, baby spinach, and Parmesan — all done in one skillet in 30 minutes. This dish is inspired by the flavors of Tuscany and loosely connected to Florentine sauce (cream, white wine, spinach), with sun-dried tomatoes added for the characteristic sweet-concentrated punch. It is not a traditional Italian dish but an Italian-American one — popularised in American restaurants and home kitchens. What makes it work is the layering: the chicken fond in the pan, the oil from the sun-dried tomatoes for the sauce base, the pasta water to bind everything. Done right, it is genuinely restaurant-quality.

30 min650 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

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

🇺🇸USAMedium

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 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

Croque Madame with bread, ham and Gruyère — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceMedium

Breakfast and Brunch

Croque Madame

A Croque Monsieur — ham, Gruyère, and béchamel on toasted white bread — with a fried egg on top. The name comes from the egg supposedly resembling a woman's hat. The sandwich itself has been on Parisian café menus since the early 1900s. What separates a good one from a mediocre one is the béchamel: not as a hidden layer inside, but also spread generously on top, where it bubbles and browns under the grill and becomes something closer to a savory soufflé crust than a sauce. The egg yolk, broken at the table, does the rest.

25 min690 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Cucumber and Tomato Salad with cucumber, dill and garlic — Mediterranean recipe

🌊MediterraneanMedium

Salads

Cucumber and Tomato Salad

Cucumber and tomato salad with yogurt dressing is a cold side dish in the eastern Mediterranean manner: sliced cucumber, tomato wedges and red onion under plain yogurt stirred with garlic and lemon, with mint, parsley and dill scattered over. It is a relative of khyar bi laban, the Levantine cucumbers in yogurt, with tomatoes added. Cut the vegetables, stir the dressing in a separate bowl and bring the two together just before serving, because salted vegetables give up their juice fast.

15 min100 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🥑Keto⚡Quick

Currywurst with bratwurst, tomato paste and curry powder — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Currywurst

Currywurst is Berlin street food: a pork sausage cut into rounds, buried under a hot tomato and curry sauce and dusted with curry powder on top. Herta Heuwer sold the first one at her stand in Charlottenburg in September 1949, and she built the sauce from tomato paste, curry powder and Worcestershire sauce rather than from ready-made ketchup. Berlin serves a skinless boiled sausage, pale and soft, while the Ruhr fries a bratwurst in its casing for the bite; both arrive with fries under ketchup and mayonnaise, ordered as Pommes rot-weiß.

30 min460 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick

Dal — Spiced Indian Lentil Soup with lentils, onion and garlic — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaAdvanced

Soups

Dal — Spiced Indian Lentil Soup

Dal is an Indian home-style dish of split pulses; this one is a pourable soup of red lentils (masoor dal) simmered with turmeric until they fall apart. It is finished with a tadka: cumin seeds, onion, garlic, ginger and tomato fried in oil and stirred in at the end. Serve it with chapati or basmati rice.

30 min380 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

Dense Bean Salad with chickpeas, cucumber and feta — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Salads

Dense Bean Salad

Three types of beans, crisp vegetables, briny olives, crumbled feta, and a sharp oregano-garlic vinaigrette. This recipe went viral on TikTok in 2024 because it actually works as a full meal. About 13g of protein and 11g of fiber per serving. No cooking required, 15 minutes of prep, holds 4 days in the fridge — and tastes noticeably better the next day.

15 min330 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Edamame with edamame, sesame oil and soy sauce — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanEasy

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Edamame

Young green soybeans boiled in salted water — a classic Japanese snack. Simple, nutritious and delicious as is, or elevated with sesame oil, chili flakes and soy sauce.

15 min180 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌱Vegan

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