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Fried squid

Squid has two cooking times and nothing between them: under two minutes or over thirty.

28 min taste 74 1164 kcal

Fried anchovies

Cornmeal is not flour: its coarse grains fry into a glassy crust, and the anchovy steams inside it.

30 min taste 71 906 kcal

Butter and cheese pasta

Three ingredients. What makes the difference is not an ingredient but the ladle of cooking water you keep.

18 min taste 77 620 kcal

Pasta with tomato paste

There is no sauce until the paste has been fried: raw paste stays sour and metallic.

20 min taste 78 570 kcal

Çılbır

Poached eggs on garlicky yoghurt, finished with butter sizzled with chilli. Three temperatures stacked: warm yoghurt, running yolk, scalding fat.

15 min taste 78 478 kcal

Mıhlama

Cornmeal, butter and a cheese that stretches. The stretch is not a knack but a temperature: past 70 °C it stops stretching and splits.

20 min taste 74 606 kcal

Albanian liver

Liver must not meet salt before the pan, and must meet flour a minute before it. Two rules, two minutes.

25 min taste 75 570 kcal

Porridge

Five minutes, of which the first one decides everything: the oats go into cold liquid, never into boiling.

10 min taste 78 423 kcal

Orzo pilaf

Orzo is pasta rather than rice: its starch behaves differently, and cooked without toasting it glues itself together in the pan.

28 min taste 79 377 kcal

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