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Roasted Sweet Potato Black Bean Bowls with sweet potato, black beans and avocado — USA recipe

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Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Roasted Sweet Potato Black Bean Bowls

Cubed sweet potatoes roasted at high heat until the edges caramelize, served over cilantro-lime rice with spiced black beans, avocado, and a quick chili-lime crema. About 14g of fiber and 16g of protein per bowl. Good warm, good cold, holds four days in the fridge — one of the few meal-prep recipes that actually tastes better by day three.

45 min490 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Romesco Sauce with roasted red peppers, almonds and tomato — Spain recipe

🇪🇸SpainMedium

Sauces and Dips

Romesco Sauce

A thick, brick-red Catalan sauce of roasted red peppers, toasted almonds, garlic, tomato, stale bread, and sherry vinegar, pounded together into a rustic paste with smoked paprika and good olive oil. Romesco is one of those sauces that makes everything it touches better — grilled vegetables, fish, roasted chicken, even a fried egg. It originates from the fishermen of Tarragona who needed a bold sauce for their catch, and it has not changed much since.

25 min150 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Roquefort Salad with lettuce, roquefort and pear — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceMedium

Salads

Roquefort Salad

Roquefort salad is a French bistro-style salad built around Roquefort, the pungent blue-veined sheep's-milk cheese aged in the natural Combalou caves of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, paired here with sweet pear and toasted walnuts. Crisp lettuce leaves carry thin red onion, sliced pear, and crumbled Roquefort. The dried cherries or cranberries and the honey-mustard vinaigrette are this version's additions to the French pairing of Roquefort, pear, and walnut; they tie the sharp cheese to the sweeter ingredients. The contrast between the cave-aged cheese and the crunchy walnuts makes every bite bold and interesting.

20 min855 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Rotkohl (German Braised Red Cabbage) with red cabbage, apple and onion — Germany recipe

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Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Rotkohl (German Braised Red Cabbage)

Rotkohl is the braised red cabbage that sits next to almost every German roast from October onwards: shredded cabbage cooked down for an hour with apple, onion, vinegar and cloves until it goes glossy and deep purple. The vinegar is not only there for taste. The pigment in red cabbage works like a pH indicator, and without acid the pot turns a murky blue-grey, which is also why the same vegetable is called Blaukraut in Bavaria and Rotkohl in the north. It tastes better on the second day, so most households cook it the night before the roast and take one job off the table.

80 min150 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Russian Apple & Cottage Cheese Blini with tvorog, apples and whole milk — Russia recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Russian Apple & Cottage Cheese Blini

Golden Russian crepes filled with a mixture of smooth cottage cheese and caramelized apples — the apples are sautéed in butter with cinnamon until they soften and turn slightly translucent, then folded into the sweetened cheese filling. Each stuffed blini is pan-fried a second time until crisp on both sides. The contrast between the warm, spiced apple and the cool, creamy cheese is what makes these disappear from the plate before you’ve finished stacking them.

60 min370 kcal5 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Russian Bliny (Thin Pancakes) with wheat flour, milk and eggs — Russia recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Russian Bliny (Thin Pancakes)

Classic Russian thin crepes made with milk, eggs, and baking soda for a light, lacy texture. Versatile and beloved, they are served with sour cream, jam, butter, or honey.

40 min350 kcal5 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Russian Cottage Cheese Blini with tvorog, whole milk and plain flour — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Flour and Confectionery Products

Russian Cottage Cheese Blini

Thin Russian crepes with a sweet cottage cheese filling — blended smooth so it stays creamy instead of grainy, bound with one egg so it holds its shape, then fried in butter until the outside is golden and slightly crisp. The kind of breakfast people ask for by name. Serve with sour cream or jam, and do not skip the second fry.

55 min390 kcal5 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Russian Vinegret Salad with beets, potato and carrot — Russia recipe

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Salads

Russian Vinegret Salad

Boiled beets, potatoes, and carrots diced small and tossed with briny dill pickles, sauerkraut, green onions, and a simple sunflower oil dressing. This salad has been on Russian holiday tables for over a century. It is earthy, tangy, and satisfying cold — the kind of thing that gets better by the day and tastes best made a day ahead.

75 min195 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Saganaki with kefalotyri or graviera cheese, flour and olive oil — Greece recipe

🇬🇷GreeceEasy

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Saganaki

A slab of firm Greek cheese dredged in flour and pan-fried in olive oil until the outside forms a thin golden crust and the inside becomes soft and yielding. The dish takes about 8 minutes from start to finish and must be eaten immediately — the crust stays crisp for only a few minutes before it softens as the cheese cools. A squeeze of fresh lemon over the hot cheese just before serving cuts through the richness and is not optional. Saganaki is the name of both the small two-handled frying pan traditionally used and, by extension, the dish itself.

10 min340 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Salsa Macha with guajillo chiles, ancho chiles and peanuts — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Sauces and Dips

Salsa Macha

Salsa macha is a Mexican chili oil from Veracruz — dried chiles, raw peanuts, sesame seeds, and garlic fried in oil, then coarsely blended into a thick, chunky paste. The name likely comes from macho ('bold' or 'strong'), though some cooks trace it to machacar, the pounding motion used to crush ingredients in a molcajete. Active cooking takes about 25 minutes; the salsa then needs at least an hour of hands-off resting for the flavors to settle before it's ready to eat. It tastes smoky, nutty, and fruity from the dried chiles, with a heat that builds slowly rather than hitting all at once, and keeps for up to a week in the fridge (never store it at room temperature), tasting better after the first day. Makes about 400 g; a serving is about 2 heaped tablespoons (40 g).

25 min240 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

Samosa with plain flour, ghee and potatoes — India recipe

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Appetizers and Sandwiches

Samosa

Flaky, crispy pastry cones filled with spiced potato and peas, deep-fried until dark golden. The dough uses a technique called moyan dena — fat is rubbed into the flour until the mixture resembles wet sand before any water goes in. That step is what makes the crust flaky rather than bready. The filling is mashed potato with green peas, cumin, green chilli, coriander, and amchur powder for the characteristic sour edge. The frying is two-stage: low heat first to set the dough from the inside, then medium heat for color. Serve hot with mint chutney and tamarind chutney.

75 min310 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌶️Spicy

Sauce Mornay (Classic French Béchamel Cheese Sauce) with unsalted butter, all purpose flour and whole milk — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceMedium

Sauces and Dips

Sauce Mornay (Classic French Béchamel Cheese Sauce)

Sauce Mornay is the classic French cheese sauce — a béchamel enriched with grated Gruyère and Parmigiano-Reggiano. The name traces to either a 19th-century Parisian restaurant (Le Grand Véfour) or the Marquis de Mornay, the exact attribution still debated. Mornay is the workhorse of French haute cuisine: the base for cauliflower au gratin, eggs Mornay, sole Mornay, endives au jambon, fish gratins, cheese soufflé, and the cheesier version of croque monsieur. Silky, glossy, pale-cream — never bright yellow (that means the cheese broke). Vegetarian, ready in 20 minutes. Yields about 500 ml of sauce, serves 6 with vegetables, fish, eggs, or pasta.

20 min180 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

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