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Black Bean Burger with black beans, rolled oats and flaxseed — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Black Bean Burger

Black beans mashed to a chunky paste, mixed with sautéed onion and garlic, smoked paprika, cumin, chipotle, oats, and a flax egg, then shaped into patties, chilled until firm, and pan-fried until dark and crisp on the outside. The key textures in a good black bean burger: a proper crust on the outside, and enough whole or partially mashed beans inside to give it a real bite rather than a uniform paste. Two things that determine success: dry the beans before mashing, and don't skip the resting time in the fridge.

45 min380 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌶️Spicy

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

🇲🇽MexicoAdvanced

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

Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte) with eggs, morello cherries and Kirschwasser — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyAdvanced

Sweet Dishes

Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte)

Three layers of light chocolate sponge cake brushed with Kirschwasser, filled with thickened sour cherry compote and softly whipped cream, then covered in cream and finished with chocolate shavings and whole cherries. The German legal definition of Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte requires the kirsch flavor to be clearly noticeable — the spirit is not decorative, it is structural to the flavor. The sponge is an egg-separated génoise: egg whites whipped to stiff peaks and folded in last, keeping the crumb light despite the cocoa. The assembled cake should rest overnight in the fridge; it tastes significantly better the next day.

150 min520 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Blancmange with milk, sugar and gelatin — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceEasy

Sweet Dishes

Blancmange

Blancmange is an exquisite French dessert — a delicate and light jelly made of milk or cream thickened with gelatin, garnished with toasted almonds and fresh berries.

20 min350 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Brigadeiro with condensed milk, cocoa powder and chocolate sprinkles — Brazil recipe

🇧🇷BrazilEasy

Sweet Dishes

Brigadeiro

Brigadeiro is the small chocolate truffle that appears at every Brazilian birthday party, made from three ingredients cooked in one pan and rolled in chocolate sprinkles. Condensed milk, cocoa and butter are stirred over low heat until the mixture thickens enough to hold a shape, and the entire recipe reduces to knowing when to stop. It appeared in the mid-1940s and is generally linked to the campaign of brigadier Eduardo Gomes, at a time when imported sweets were scarce and condensed milk was not. Undercooked, it stays a spoonable cream; overcooked, it turns hard and grainy. Cooling time comes on top of the stated time.

25 min190 kcal8 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Brioche with plain flour, eggs and unsalted butter — France recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Brioche

Brioche is the defining bread of French viennoiserie — a category that sits between bread and pastry. It is an enriched dough: plain flour combined with a quantity of butter (typically 40 to 50% of the flour weight), eggs, sugar, and a small amount of milk, kneaded until the butter is fully emulsified into the dough structure. The result is a loaf with a paper-thin, deeply burnished mahogany crust that shatters when touched, and an interior crumb that is yellow from egg yolks, feather-soft, and faintly sweet — closer to a very light cake than to bread. The technique demands patience: the butter is added cold and slowly after the dough has already developed gluten strength, and the dough rests overnight in the refrigerator so that the fats firm up and the fermentation develops flavor. Brioche is eaten for breakfast in France spread with jam, used as the base for French toast, bread pudding, and croque monsieur, or sliced and toasted to serve with foie gras.

1440 min340 kcal12 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Broccoli Cheddar Soup with broccoli, sharp cheddar cheese and carrot — USA recipe

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Soups

Broccoli Cheddar Soup

The American diner classic: broccoli and carrot simmered in a milk-and-stock base thickened with a butter roux, then finished off the heat with sharp cheddar melted in a handful at a time. Creamy, comforting, and better than the bread-bowl version at the chain that made it famous — as long as you keep the cheese from splitting.

40 min420 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Brownie with chocolate, butter and sugar — USA recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Brownie

Dense, fudgy squares loaded with dark chocolate and butter, with a crackly paper-thin crust on top and a gooey center underneath. The line between baked and underbaked is razor-thin — and that is exactly where you want to land.

40 min360 kcal12 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Bruschetta with baguette, basil and garlic — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyEasy

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Bruschetta

Grilled bread rubbed with raw garlic, drizzled with good olive oil, then piled high with ripe tomatoes and torn basil. A baguette of about 250 g gives about 20 slices — two per serving. The bread must be charred enough to crunch but still soft inside — that contrast is everything.

15 min120 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Butter Gnocchi (Gnocchi al Burro e Salvia) with potato gnocchi, unsalted butter and fresh sage — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyEasy

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Butter Gnocchi (Gnocchi al Burro e Salvia)

Gnocchi al burro e salvia is an Italian first course: potato gnocchi dressed with butter, sage and grated Parmesan. In this version the butter is cooked until it browns and smells nutty, the boiled gnocchi are fried in it until one side crusts, and a splash of the starchy cooking water turns the butter into a glossy sauce. The crust, the garlic and the lemon are my additions — in Italy the gnocchi are usually just tossed in the sage butter. With store-bought gnocchi the whole thing takes about 20 minutes.

20 min480 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Butternut Squash Soup with butternut squash, onion and garlic — USA recipe

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Soups

Butternut Squash Soup

Roasted butternut squash blended with garlic, onion, and a touch of cream. Roasting is what separates a deep, caramelized soup from a flat one — don't skip it.

60 min210 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Butterplätzchen (German Cut-Out Christmas Cookies) with flour, butter and egg yolk — Germany recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Butterplätzchen (German Cut-Out Christmas Cookies)

Butterplätzchen, also called Ausstechplätzchen or simply Buttergebäck, are Germany's classic Christmas cut-out cookies: a butter shortcrust dough rolled thin, stamped into stars, bells and trees, and finished with icing, sprinkles or a golden egg-yolk glaze. The dough follows the country's standard Mürbeteig ratio of three parts flour to two parts butter to one part sugar, bound with a single egg yolk and flavored with vanilla and lemon zest. Cold butter is what makes that ratio work: it stays in small, distinct pieces through mixing and rolling instead of melting into the flour, so the baked cookie turns out short and sandy instead of greasy or tough. The dough needs about an hour in the fridge before it rolls cleanly, and the cut shapes get another ten minutes chilled on the tray so their points and curves stay sharp once they hit the oven. This is the cookie German children help stamp out every Advent, and the one that fills half of every Bunter Teller, the mixed Christmas cookie plate. Makes about 45 cookies, five to a serving.

65 min400 kcal9 serves

🌿Vegetarian

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