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Black Bean Tacos with beans, tortilla and lime — Mexico recipe

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Appetizers and Sandwiches

Black Bean Tacos

Canned black beans cooked down with cumin, smoked paprika, garlic, and lime until thick and slightly smoky. Served in warm corn tortillas with avocado, pickled red onion, and sour cream. From tin to table in 15 minutes.

20 min310 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Bouillabaisse with fish, seafood and saffron — France recipe

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Soups

Bouillabaisse

Bouillabaisse is a famous fish soup from Provence, originating from the port city of Marseille. It is a flavorful broth with various types of fresh fish and seafood, flavored with herbs and spices.

95 min450 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Breakfast Sandwich (Bacon, Egg & Cheese) with eggs, bacon and cheese — USA recipe

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Breakfast and Brunch

Breakfast Sandwich (Bacon, Egg & Cheese)

Crispy bacon, a folded egg with melted cheese, and toasted bread. The BEC — bacon, egg, and cheese — is New York's unofficial breakfast, sold at delis, bodegas, and carts across the city since at least the 1970s. What makes the bodega version different from a homemade one is the egg technique: not scrambled, not fried flat, but cooked like a loose omelette, folded into a compact rectangle that fits the bread and keeps everything together. The cheese melts into the egg rather than sitting on top. Everything stays in the sandwich when you eat it. That is the detail that matters.

15 min620 kcal2 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Buffalo Chicken Dip with shredded cooked chicken, full fat cream cheese and Frank's RedHot or hot cayenne sauce — USA recipe

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Sauces and Dips

Buffalo Chicken Dip

Buffalo chicken dip is everything a chicken wing delivers — hot sauce, butter richness, cooling dairy, sharp cheese — in a scoopable baked format that works for a crowd without the mess. Rotisserie chicken goes in shredded, cream cheese and ranch hold it together, cheddar seals the top, and the oven does the rest. Ready in 35 minutes. Scales easily. Disappears faster than you expect.

35 min290 kcal8 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Buffalo Wings with chicken, butter and hot sauce — USA recipe

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Appetizers and Sandwiches

Buffalo Wings

Crispy oven-baked chicken wings tossed in a fiery, tangy Buffalo sauce made with hot sauce and butter. Served with cool blue cheese dip and celery sticks — the definitive American bar snack.

50 min480 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy🥑Keto💪High protein

Bún Bò Huế (Spicy Vietnamese Beef and Lemongrass Noodle Soup) with beef shank, lemongrass and mắm ruốc huế — Vietnam recipe

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Soups

Bún Bò Huế (Spicy Vietnamese Beef and Lemongrass Noodle Soup)

Bún bò Huế is a fiery red Vietnamese noodle soup from the central city of Huế, the former imperial capital. The broth is built on a long simmer of beef shank, pork ribs, beef bones, lemongrass, charred aromatics, and pineapple, then finished with mắm ruốc (Huế-style fermented shrimp paste) and a separate annatto-lemongrass sate sauce that gives the soup its signature crimson colour and heat. Thick round rice noodles, sliced beef shank, and herbs (Thai basil, Vietnamese coriander, mung bean sprouts, banana blossom) finish the bowl. Compared to phở, bún bò Huế is bolder, spicier, and more aromatic — phở's louder cousin from central Vietnam. Active work 30 minutes, simmer 3.5 hours. Makes 8 generous bowls.

240 min800 kcal8 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Butter Chicken with chicken thighs, yogurt and Kashmiri chilli powder — India recipe

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Meat Dishes

Butter Chicken

Murgh makhani — yogurt-marinated chicken thighs seared until charred at the edges, then finished in a silky tomato-and-cashew sauce with butter, cream, and kasuri methi. The dish came out of Moti Mahal restaurant in Delhi in the 1950s, apparently by accident: leftover tandoori chicken dropped into a pot of spiced tomato gravy with butter. That origin story is either true or a very good myth, but the result is real. The sauce needs to be blended smooth, the chicken needs actual char on it, and the kasuri methi at the end is not optional if you want the flavor to land.

60 min520 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Cabbage Boil (Whole Baked Cabbage with Spiced Butter) with green cabbage, butter and cajun seasoning — USA recipe

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Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Cabbage Boil (Whole Baked Cabbage with Spiced Butter)

A cabbage boil is a viral American dish: a whole head of green cabbage, cored, packed with garlic and Cajun spiced butter, and baked until a knife slides through the centre without resistance. Nothing is actually boiled here: the outer leaves darken and crisp while the middle steams in its own moisture and the butter runs down between the layers. It takes one small head and one pan, and turns a vegetable most people cook to mush into something worth putting in the middle of the table.

110 min210 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Caponata with eggplant, tomato and celery — Italy recipe

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Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Caponata

Eggplant cubes fried golden, then simmered with tomatoes, celery, capers, and olives in a sweet-sour agrodolce sauce. This Sicilian staple tastes better the next day, once all the flavors have melded and deepened.

45 min90 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Cashew Cream Pasta with cashews, nutritional yeast and pasta — USA recipe

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Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Cashew Cream Pasta

Raw cashews soaked and blended with garlic, lemon, and nutritional yeast into a thick, silky cream that coats pasta like a dairy-free alfredo. This is the recipe that converts people to nutritional yeast. The sauce itself takes about 5 minutes once the cashews are soaked, and it genuinely tastes like something made with cream and Parmesan — without either. Spinach and cherry tomatoes go in at the end for color and texture. The pasta water is the secret to making the sauce flow: add it a splash at a time until the sauce coats the pasta without pooling.

30 min510 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan⚡Quick

Cauliflower Buffalo Wings with cauliflower, hot sauce and vegan butter — USA recipe

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Appetizers and Sandwiches

Cauliflower Buffalo Wings

Cauliflower florets dipped in a seasoned batter, baked at high heat until golden and crisp, then tossed in a tangy, spicy buffalo sauce and served with celery, carrots, and vegan ranch. The appeal of this dish is in the contrast: the hot, sticky sauce against the crunchy coating, the cool creamy dip on the side. Two things determine whether they work or not — dry florets before battering, and enough space between pieces on the tray. Everything else is forgiving.

45 min210 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌶️Spicy

Causa Limeña with yellow potatoes, ají amarillo paste and lime juice — Peru recipe

🇵🇪PeruMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Causa Limeña

Causa limeña is a cold Peruvian starter of layered mashed yellow potato seasoned with ají amarillo and lime, filled with chicken or tuna in mayonnaise and slices of avocado. The potato is worked with oil into a pliable, saffron-coloured dough, and because the dish is assembled in a mould and cut, it holds its shape on the plate; crab or prawn also work as the filling. By one account the name comes from the Quechua word kawsay, meaning sustenance, though a legend tying it to the War of the Pacific is told as well. Chilling (at least 2 hours) comes on top of the stated time.

60 min440 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

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