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No meat, no apology. Dishes that earn their place on the table without leaning on a fake-meat crutch — vegetables, grains, dairy, eggs cooked with intent.

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Crostata di Marmellata (Italian Jam Tart with Buttery Pasta Frolla Crust) with unsalted butter, eggs and apricot jam — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyAdvanced

Breakfast and Brunch

Crostata di Marmellata (Italian Jam Tart with Buttery Pasta Frolla Crust)

Crostata di marmellata is an Italian open jam tart: a shortcrust base called pasta frolla, filled with a thick layer of fruit jam and finished with a woven lattice on top. The dough is crumbly and cookie-like: butter rubbed in cold, then sugar and egg, handled as little as possible. Apricot is the most common filling, though cherry, fig, or wild berry jam work just as well. It's eaten at room temperature — for breakfast with coffee, as an afternoon snack, or as a simple dessert — and tastes better on the second day, once the crust has settled and the jam has soaked slightly into the base. Allow an extra hour for the dough to chill and another for the tart to cool.

90 min440 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Cucumber and Tomato Salad with cucumber, dill and garlic — Mediterranean recipe

🌊MediterraneanMedium

Salads

Cucumber and Tomato Salad

Cucumber and tomato salad with yogurt dressing is a cold side dish in the eastern Mediterranean manner: sliced cucumber, tomato wedges and red onion under plain yogurt stirred with garlic and lemon, with mint, parsley and dill scattered over. It is a relative of khyar bi laban, the Levantine cucumbers in yogurt, with tomatoes added. Cut the vegetables, stir the dressing in a separate bowl and bring the two together just before serving, because salted vegetables give up their juice fast.

15 min100 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🥑Keto⚡Quick

Daigaku Imo (Japanese Candied Sweet Potatoes) with sweet potato, sesame seeds and soy sauce — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Sweet Dishes

Daigaku Imo (Japanese Candied Sweet Potatoes)

Daigaku imo (大学芋, literally "university potato") is a Japanese snack and bento side of bite-size sweet potato pieces fried until crisp at the edges, then coated in a thin, glossy syrup of sugar, mirin and soy sauce and finished with black sesame. Where the name comes from is not settled: there are several stories, most of them about students, and none is proven. The potatoes are fried in a shallow layer of oil rather than deep-fried, slowly at first so the middle turns soft and sweet, then hotter for a crisp skin. The syrup takes about three minutes and sets into a thin shell as it cools. Active time is about 35 minutes including a 10-minute soak, and the pieces rest another 5 minutes on parchment. Serves four as a snack or a bento side.

35 min220 kcal4 serves

🌱Vegan🌿Vegetarian

Dainty Donuts with flour, sugar and egg — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Flour and Confectionery Products

Dainty Donuts

Light and fluffy yeast donuts with a golden-brown exterior and tender crumb, glazed in a honey-lemon syrup — a classic treat perfect for any occasion.

45 min450 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

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

Dense Bean Salad with chickpeas, cucumber and feta — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Salads

Dense Bean Salad

Three types of beans, crisp vegetables, briny olives, crumbled feta, and a sharp oregano-garlic vinaigrette. This recipe went viral on TikTok in 2024 because it actually works as a full meal. About 13g of protein and 11g of fiber per serving. No cooking required, 15 minutes of prep, holds 4 days in the fridge — and tastes noticeably better the next day.

15 min330 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

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

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

Dubai Chocolate Bar with chocolate, pistachio and tahini — Turkey recipe

🇹🇷TurkeyMedium

Sweet Dishes

Dubai Chocolate Bar

The viral chocolate bar that conquered TikTok and the world. A crispy kataifi pastry filling with pistachio cream and tahini, sealed inside a dark chocolate shell. Born at Fix Dessert Chocolatier in Dubai, now made at home.

60 min380 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Dubai Chocolate Tiramisu with mascarpone, pistachio and chocolate — UAE recipe

🇦🇪UAEMedium

Sweet Dishes

Dubai Chocolate Tiramisu

Classic tiramisu layered with toasted kataifi pastry mixed through pistachio cream and a chocolate ganache on top instead of cocoa. The kataifi adds a crunch that stays for a few hours before softening into the cream. Based on the Dubai chocolate bar that went viral in 2024.

40 min520 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Éclair with butter, flour and egg — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceAdvanced

Sweet Dishes

Éclair

An éclair is a French pastry: a finger of choux pastry about 12 cm long, baked hollow, filled with cream and glazed on top. This home version uses vanilla crème pâtissière and a glaze of chocolate melted with cream. A Parisian éclair au chocolat is built differently, with chocolate pastry cream inside and chocolate fondant icing. The pastry cream chills for at least 2 hours, so make it first; the work and the baking take about 90 minutes. The recipe makes 8 éclairs.

90 min300 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

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

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