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

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Chili with beef, bell pepper and chili pepper — USA recipe

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Soups

Chili

Chili con carne is a thick, spicy stew of beef, red beans and tomatoes seasoned with cumin, paprika and hot chili. Despite the Spanish name it comes from Texas, where it has been the official state dish since 1977, and belongs to Tex-Mex cooking rather than to Mexico. It warms and fills, which makes it food for the cold season.

65 min570 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Chili con Carne with ground beef, kidney beans and tomato — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Chili con Carne

Ground beef simmered with tomatoes, kidney beans and a short list of spices. The tomato paste goes in first and cooks dry — that single step is what separates a flat chili from one with actual depth.

60 min420 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Chili Oil Eggs with egg and chili oil — USA recipe

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Breakfast and Brunch

Chili Oil Eggs

Eggs fried in chili oil until the whites blister and go crispy at the edges while the yolk stays completely liquid. Two minutes. One pan. The recipe that made chili crisp legible to millions of people who'd never heard of it. Eat with rice, with bread, over noodles, or directly from the pan.

5 min210 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Chimichurri with parsley, garlic and red wine vinegar — USA recipe

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Sauces and Dips

Chimichurri

Bright, herby Argentine chimichurri sauce — flat-leaf parsley, garlic, oregano, red wine vinegar, and olive oil, chopped by hand and rested until the flavors bloom. The best thing you can put on grilled meat.

10 min90 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Chuka Seaweed Salad with wakame, sesame oil and rice vinegar — Japan recipe

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Salads

Chuka Seaweed Salad

Chuka is a seaweed salad served as a cold starter in sushi restaurants outside Japan, made here from rehydrated dried wakame leaves in a sesame-soy dressing. The name is misleading: 'chuka' (中華) means 'Chinese-style' in Japanese and describes the dressing, not a type of seaweed. The seaweed is wakame, sold dried as cut wakame (カットわかめ). The dried strands soak in cold water until silky, then get tossed with rice vinegar, chili paste, and grated ginger. It comes together in under 15 minutes and keeps well chilled for a day or two.

10 min55 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌱Vegan

Cioppino with Dungeness crab, clams and mussels — USA recipe

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Soups

Cioppino

A San Francisco seafood stew of Italian-American origin: Dungeness crab, clams, mussels, shrimp, and white fish simmered in a tomato-and-white-wine broth scented with fennel and garlic. Born as a fishermen's communal pot, it is served with sourdough for soaking up the broth.

50 min360 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Çılbır (Turkish Eggs) with eggs, Greek yogurt and butter — Turkey recipe

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Breakfast and Brunch

Çılbır (Turkish Eggs)

Poached eggs on a bed of thick, garlicky yogurt, finished with warm spiced butter or olive oil. Çılbır (pronounced chil-bir) dates to the Ottoman court of the 15th century. The combination sounds unusual — cold yogurt with hot eggs — but the contrast is exactly the point: the cool, tangy, creamy yogurt cushions the egg, the runny yolk breaks into it, and the red-tinted butter pools on top and sizzles when it hits the yogurt. This is one of those dishes that takes fifteen minutes and tastes like it took an hour. Bread is mandatory. You will not leave a drop.

15 min390 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Cottage Cheese Pasta Bake with cottage cheese, penne and mozzarella — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Cottage Cheese Pasta Bake

Rigatoni baked with ground turkey, marinara sauce and cottage cheese blended into the sauce — the cottage cheese disappears completely and most people can't identify it. Around 38g of protein per serving. Makes 6 portions, keeps 5 days, freezes well.

50 min480 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Cottage Cheese Taco Bowl with sweet potatoes, lean ground turkey and cottage cheese — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Cottage Cheese Taco Bowl

Taco-spiced ground turkey, roasted sweet potato cubes, cottage cheese, avocado, and kimchi or pickled red onion. The kimchi is not optional if you want the bowl to work — the acid cuts through the fat and sweetness and pulls everything together.

35 min510 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Crab Cakes with crab, egg and breadcrumbs — USA recipe

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Fish and Seafood Dishes

Crab Cakes

Crab cakes are an exquisite and delicious dish. Tender crab meat fried to a crispy crust conceals a delightful combination of flavors and textures.

55 min275 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

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

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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 Pasta with chicken, penne and double cream — Italy recipe

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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

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