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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

Dosa with rice, urad dal and fenugreek seeds — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaMedium

Flour and Confectionery Products

Dosa

Thin, crispy fermented rice and lentil crepes from South India. The batter is made the day before: rice and urad dal soaked separately, ground to a smooth batter, then left overnight to ferment. The fermentation is what makes dosa different from every other flatbread — it develops a mild sourness, creates air pockets throughout the batter, and produces a crispiness when the thin layer hits a hot pan that no unfermented batter can replicate. The technique for spreading the batter is specific and takes two or three dosas to get right. Makes 8 to 10 dosas. Soaking and fermenting take 14 to 20 hours in all (longer in a cold kitchen) and are not counted in the cooking time. The potato filling is optional and the calories are given without it; with the filling a serving comes to about 570 kcal.

55 min420 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

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 min120 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌱Vegan

Espresso Martini with vodka, coffee liqueur and espresso — UK recipe

🇬🇧UKEasy

Beverages

Espresso Martini

Vodka, coffee liqueur, and a shot of freshly pulled espresso shaken hard over ice until the outside of the tin frosts over. The foam on top — that pale, creamy layer that holds the coffee beans — comes from the CO₂ in the espresso crema getting trapped during shaking. You can't fake it with instant coffee. The drink was invented in a London bar in the 1980s by Dick Bradsell for a model who asked for something to wake her up and mess her up at the same time.

10 min190 kcal1 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Flour Tortillas (Tortillas de Harina) with plain flour, salt and lard — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Flour and Confectionery Products

Flour Tortillas (Tortillas de Harina)

Tortillas de harina are the defining bread of Northern Mexico — particularly Sonora, where the Sonoran Desert's wheat-growing tradition produced a flatbread entirely different from the corn tortillas of central and southern Mexico. Made from just flour, lard, salt, and hot water, they are rolled thin and cooked on a dry, screaming-hot comal until dark blisters (leopard spots) appear and the tortilla puffs with steam. The result is soft, pliable, slightly chewy, and deeply wheaty — the essential wrapper for carne asada, burritos, quesadillas, and tacos. Lard is the defining ingredient: it coats the flour proteins, preventing excessive gluten development, and produces a tender, flexible tortilla that stays soft even when cold. Vegetable shortening is a practical substitute; butter gives richness but less pliability.

45 min160 kcal8 serves

🌱Vegan

Focaccia with flour, olive oil and yeast — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Focaccia

A high-hydration dough stretched into a generously oiled baking tray, dimpled deep with fingers so the pockets hold brine and olive oil, then baked at high heat until the bottom fries crisp and the top turns deep gold. Focaccia from Liguria — with sea salt and rosemary — is the version everyone copies and almost no one gets quite right at home. The brine is the technique most people miss.

300 min310 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan

Fried Peanuts with Garlic with raw peanuts, garlic cloves and refined vegetable oil — Philippines recipe

🇵🇭PhilippinesEasy

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Fried Peanuts with Garlic

Adobong mani is a Filipino snack of raw peanuts fried in garlic oil until golden and tossed with crispy fried garlic and salt. Simple ingredients, irresistible crunch — perfect with a cold drink or as a party appetizer. Let the peanuts cool for about half an hour before serving: they crisp as they cool.

10 min450 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌱Vegan

Gazpacho with bell pepper, bread and cucumber — Spain recipe

🇪🇸SpainMedium

Soups

Gazpacho

Gazpacho is a refreshing cold soup that is perfect for hot summer days. It is made from fresh vegetables and flavored with olive oil and vinegar.

25 min175 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌱Vegan

Gazpacho Andaluz (Classic Spanish Cold Tomato Soup) with ripe tomatoes, extra virgin olive oil and sherry vinegar — Spain recipe

🇪🇸SpainMedium

Soups

Gazpacho Andaluz (Classic Spanish Cold Tomato Soup)

Gazpacho is not a recipe — it is a summer habit in Andalusia. Ripe tomatoes, cucumber, green pepper, garlic, sherry vinegar, and a generous pour of olive oil go into the blender raw and come out as a cold, silky, bright-tasting soup that is consumed by the glass as much as by the bowl. The quality of the tomatoes decides everything. Needs at least two hours in the fridge before it tastes right.

20 min145 kcal4 serves

🌱Vegan⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian

German Potato Salad with potatoes, vegetable stock and mustard — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyMedium

Salads

German Potato Salad

Schwäbischer Kartoffelsalat is the potato salad of southern Germany: thin slices of warm waxy potato soaked in hot vegetable stock sharpened with mustard and cider vinegar, without a spoonful of mayonnaise anywhere. Germans judge it by one word, schlotzig, meaning loose and glossy, with starch from the potatoes themselves binding the stock into something between a dressing and a sauce. That takes two things the recipe below insists on: the stock goes on in two pourings, and the bowl needs a full hour standing before the salad stops tasting watery. It sits on every summer table in the south and turns up again on Christmas Eve next to a plate of boiled sausages.

45 min220 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

Golden Milk (Turmeric Latte) with ground turmeric, milk and black pepper — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaEasy

Beverages

Golden Milk (Turmeric Latte)

Warm milk with turmeric, ginger, cinnamon, and black pepper. The original recipe is centuries old — haldi doodh in Hindi, drunk before sleep as a remedy and a ritual. The black pepper is not decoration: piperine increases curcumin absorption by a significant margin, which is why every serious version of this drink includes it. Ten minutes on the stove, and the kitchen smells like something your grandmother would approve of.

10 min120 kcal2 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Grapefruit Mint Paloma Mocktail with fresh pink grapefruit juice, fresh lime juice and fresh mint leaves — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Beverages

Grapefruit Mint Paloma Mocktail

The paloma is Mexico's national drink — traditionally tequila, grapefruit, lime, and bubbles. This alcohol-free version keeps everything that makes it worth drinking: the bitter-sweet punch of fresh pink grapefruit, the brightness of lime, a mint syrup that opens the whole thing up, and sparkling water that keeps it cold and alive. Ready in 10 minutes. Scales to a pitcher for a crowd.

10 min85 kcal2 serves

🌱Vegan⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian

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