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Crispy Rice with Spicy Salmon with sushi rice, fresh salmon and sriracha — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanAdvanced

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Crispy Rice with Spicy Salmon

Blocks of seasoned sushi rice pan-fried until the outside crackles and the inside stays tender, topped with a tartare of sashimi-grade salmon in sriracha mayo, a slice of avocado, a ring of jalapeño and a drop of unagi sauce. It is the appetizer many people first meet at Japanese restaurants like Nobu, and at home it comes down to one thing: rice that is pressed hard and chilled all the way through before it meets the oil.

35 min380 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Curry Laksa with chicken, coconut milk and rice noodles — Malaysia recipe

🇲🇾MalaysiaMedium

Soups

Curry Laksa

Curry laksa is a Malaysian-Singaporean noodle soup: rice noodles sitting in a spiced coconut curry broth, topped with chicken or shrimp, bean sprouts, and half a boiled egg. The coconut milk gives the broth a rounded sweetness, the curry paste brings heat and color, and a squeeze of lime at the table cuts through the richness. Malaysia and Singapore each have dozens of regional versions, from mild to fiery.

30 min960 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Dan Dan Noodles with noodles, pork and chili oil — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaAdvanced

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Dan Dan Noodles

Wheat noodles dressed in a sauce built from sesame paste, soy sauce, black vinegar, and chili oil, topped with pork mince cooked until slightly crispy and a scattering of crushed peanuts. This is the street food that gave Sichuan cuisine its international reputation. The heat is real, the numbing tingle from Sichuan pepper is the point, and the sauce comes together in the bowl — not in a pan.

35 min590 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy

Deviled Eggs with Chipotle with eggs, mayonnaise and chipotle — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Deviled Eggs with Chipotle

Deviled eggs are one of the easiest appetisers to make badly and one of the most satisfying to get right. The filling needs to be smooth — not grainy, not lumpy — and seasoned assertively enough that you taste it rather than just fat. Chipotle peppers in adobo sauce do two things at once: they add smokiness and heat, and the sauce itself adds a tomato-tinged depth that plain hot sauce doesn't. The lime brings brightness. This is not a subtle dish, which is exactly the point at a table that also has glazed ham and couscous salad.

35 min110 kcal12 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Doro Wat (Ethiopian Spiced Chicken Stew) with chicken drumsticks, berbere and niter kibbeh — Ethiopia recipe

🇪🇹EthiopiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Doro Wat (Ethiopian Spiced Chicken Stew)

Doro wat is Ethiopia's national dish — a deep red, intensely spiced chicken stew built on a foundation of onions cooked down slowly until they melt into a rich paste. Fiery berbere and aromatic niter kibbeh, a spiced clarified butter, give it heat and depth, while whole hard-boiled eggs simmer in the sauce to soak up flavour. Slow-cooked and celebratory, it's traditionally scooped up with injera, the tangy teff flatbread, in a shared communal meal.

120 min520 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Dumpling Bake with Coconut Curry with frozen dumplings, coconut milk and red curry paste — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Dumpling Bake with Coconut Curry

The dumpling bake is a one-dish shortcut that went viral on social media and earned its reputation honestly: a coconut and red curry sauce whisked straight into the baking dish, a bag of frozen dumplings set into it, foil on top, and about 35 minutes later a pan of tender dumplings sitting in a silky, spoonable broth. Nothing is fried, nothing is folded, and the dumplings absorb the curry as they steam. Finished with chili crisp and coriander, it tastes far more deliberate than the effort it takes.

45 min520 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy

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

Egg Roll in a Bowl with pork, cabbage and garlic — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Egg Roll in a Bowl

Ground pork with garlic, ginger and shredded cabbage in a soy-sesame sauce — all the filling of a Chinese egg roll, none of the wrapper, done in 20 minutes in one skillet. Low-carb, high protein, better than takeout.

20 min350 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Eggs Benedict with eggs, butter and bacon — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Breakfast and Brunch

Eggs Benedict

The crown jewel of American brunch — perfectly poached eggs on toasted English muffins with Canadian bacon, blanketed in a velvety, lemony hollandaise sauce. Elegant yet achievable at home.

30 min520 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick🥑Keto💪High protein

Egusi Soup (Nigerian Melon Seed Stew) with ground egusi seeds, palm oil and smoked fish — Nigeria recipe

🇳🇬NigeriaAdvanced

Soups

Egusi Soup (Nigerian Melon Seed Stew)

Egusi soup is one of Nigeria's most widely eaten soups — a thick, richly savoury stew built on ground egusi, the dried seeds of a West African melon. The seeds are fried in red palm oil until nutty and set into soft lumps, then simmered with beef, smoked fish, ground crayfish, and fermented locust beans for deep umami, finished with leafy greens. It's hearty, nutty, and satisfying, eaten with pounded yam, eba, or rice.

95 min800 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Empanadas Mendocinas (Argentine Baked Beef Empanadas) with ground beef, smoked paprika and green olives — Argentina recipe

🇦🇷ArgentinaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Empanadas Mendocinas (Argentine Baked Beef Empanadas)

Mendocinas are Mendoza's version of the empanada — baked, never fried, and distinguished by a milk dough that bakes softer than the standard. The filling is spiced ground beef with smoked paprika, cumin, green olives, and hard-boiled egg. No raisins. The paprika turns the filling and crust an orange-red that identifies these across Argentina. Made in batches, best eaten warm, and freezable before baking.

100 min310 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Enchiladas Verdes with corn tortillas, tomatillos and shredded chicken — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Meat Dishes

Enchiladas Verdes

Warm corn tortillas wrapped around tender shredded chicken and bathed in a bright, tangy tomatillo salsa. Queso fresco, cool crema, crisp radish, and onion soften the salsa's fresh green heat. Serve the enchiladas as soon as they are assembled, while the tortillas still have a little character.

55 min690 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

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