Tag

Spicy recipes

Chilies used with intention, not as decoration. From quiet warmth to full firefighter-dinner territory — the heat always serves the dish.

Sort by

🇺🇿UzbekistanEasy

Salads

Achichuk

An Uzbek salad of paper-thin ripe tomatoes and onion with hot green chili and fresh herbs, dressed simply with salt, pepper, and a little unrefined sunflower oil. It is the classic fresh companion to plov, cutting the richness of the rice with bright acidity and a touch of heat.

15 min60 kcal6 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

🇹🇷TurkeyMedium

Meat Dishes

Adana Kebab

Adana kebab is a traditional dish of oriental cuisine — minced meat seasoned with spices and grilled on skewers. The basis is lamb or a mixture of meats, thoroughly ground with onions and spices.

53 min350 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🥑Keto

🇬🇪GeorgiaEasy

Sauces and Dips

Adjika

A fiery Georgian-Abkhazian spice paste of hot red peppers, garlic, salt, walnuts, and Caucasian spices like blue fenugreek and coriander. Authentic adjika has no tomatoes; it is ground raw into a red pesto-like paste and used as a rub or condiment.

25 min25 kcal20 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

🇬🇪GeorgiaMedium

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Ajapsandal

Adzhapsandali is a traditional Caucasian dish — a flavorful stew of eggplants, tomatoes and peppers, seasoned with fresh herbs and spices. Ideal both as a cold appetizer and a hot main course.

35 min375 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

🇵🇪PeruMedium

Sauces and Dips

Ají Criollo

Ají criollo is the emulsified chilli sauce that sits on every table in a Peruvian chicken house and next to every charcoal grill in Lima. Fresh ají amarillo is deveined and softened, fried with onion and garlic, then blended with fresh cheese and evaporated milk while oil is streamed in to build a thick, glossy emulsion, with huacatay and coriander folded in at the end for the herbal edge. It is a condiment rather than a cooking sauce: nothing is simmered in it, and it goes onto roast chicken, anticuchos, boiled potatoes and fried cassava after they leave the fire. Ají amarillo itself carries far more fruit than heat, so the sharpness in a good version comes from the ají limo added separately.

20 min150 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Ají de Gallina (Peruvian Creamy Chicken)

🇵🇪PeruMedium

Meat Dishes

Ají de Gallina (Peruvian Creamy Chicken)

Ají de gallina is one of Peru's most cherished comfort dishes — shredded poached chicken folded into a velvety golden sauce built on ají amarillo, the fruity yellow chili at the heart of Peruvian cooking. Milk-soaked bread and ground walnuts thicken it, while parmesan adds a salty, umami edge. Mildly spicy and rich, it's spooned over rice with boiled yellow potatoes, olives, and hard-boiled egg — a fusion of Spanish and Andean roots.

60 min480 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

🇵🇪PeruMedium

Meat Dishes

Anticuchos de Corazón

Anticuchos are skewers of beef heart marinated in ají panca, garlic, cumin and vinegar, then grilled over charcoal. They belong to the street corners of Lima, where the anticucheras set up braziers in the evening and serve them with a boiled potato, a piece of corn and a chilli sauce. The dish traces back to colonial Peru, when enslaved workers were given the offcuts that the Spanish kitchens discarded and applied a spiced-and-skewered technique to the heart, the cut closest in texture to muscle meat. Heart is dense, lean and mild rather than strong-tasting, and the entire difficulty lies in trimming it properly and taking it off the fire early. Marinating time comes on top of the stated time.

45 min420 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Arroz de Marisco (Portuguese Seafood Rice)

🇵🇹PortugalMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Arroz de Marisco (Portuguese Seafood Rice)

Arroz de marisco is the Portuguese rice cooked in a stock drawn from prawn heads and shells, with clams and mussels opening in the pot. The rice goes in unwashed and the dish is served loose and brothy — malandrinho, never dry like a paella.

60 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Asparagus and Marinated Artichoke Galette

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Asparagus and Marinated Artichoke Galette

Savory free-form tart with asparagus spears and oil-packed artichoke hearts on a lemony herbed cream cheese base. The dough takes five minutes and no food processor — just cold butter grated directly into flour. Once it comes out of the oven with the crust dark and blistered and the cheese puffed at the edges, it looks like something you'd pay $18 for at a spring brunch spot.

75 min385 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy

🇺🇸USAEasy

Breakfast and Brunch

Avocado Egg Toast

Two slices of sourdough, toasted until actually crispy. Avocado mashed with lemon juice and salt. An egg on top — fried, poached, or soft-boiled, your call. The whole thing takes ten minutes and the only thing that matters is that the avocado is ripe and the bread is genuinely crunchy.

10 min380 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian💪High protein⚡Quick

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Baked Cod

Cod fillets baked at high heat with garlic butter, capers, and lemon. Flaky inside, golden on top, done in under 30 minutes.

25 min260 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

🇫🇮FinlandMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Baked Feta Pasta

A whole block of feta baked in the center of a dish of cherry tomatoes and olive oil until golden and soft, then smashed together with roasted garlic and fresh basil into a creamy, tangy sauce that gets tossed with pasta. This dish went viral in Finland in 2019 under the name uunifetapasta (oven-baked feta pasta), created by food blogger Jenni Häyrinen. It hit TikTok in 2021 and caused a global feta shortage. The reason it works is simple: baking concentrates the tomatoes into something sweeter and more intense than fresh, and the feta bakes from a crumbly block into a soft, creamy, salt-forward mass that forms a sauce without any effort. The whole dish requires almost no technique — just one baking dish, one pot for pasta, and about 40 minutes of oven time.

45 min610 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy

Tags

Other tags

Filter the archive by another angle — diet, speed, or a flavour note.

Vegetarian Keto Quick Spicy Gluten-free low-calorie High protein Vegan