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Main ingredient

With chicken 11 With red meat 27 With fish and seafood 9 With aubergine 8 With yoghurt 13 With cheese 9 With lentils 7 With chickpeas 8 With beans 10 With bulgur 11 With rice 10 With pasta 6 With tomato 51 With spinach 3 With mushrooms 6 With potato 17 With egg 22 With courgette or pumpkin 6

Character

Sweet 5 Hot 15 Sour 35

Method

In the oven 24 Grilled 4 Fried 30 No cooking 5

What it is

Under 30 minutes 28 One pot 56 Vegetarian 61 Vegan 31 Gluten free 50 Freezes 62

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Albanian liver

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

25 min 570 kcal

İçli köfte

Whether the shell thins without splitting depends on its temperature: cold bulgur cracks and warm bulgur stretches.

120 min 1084 kcal

Garlic-sautéed broccoli

The broccoli is blanched two minutes and dropped into iced water. That shock locks the green in, and the sauté cannot take it back out.

20 min 220 kcal

White bean patties

There is no protein network here to bind the patty. What takes its place is gelatinised starch, which firms as it cools: the fridge is what holds these together.

130 min 503 kcal

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