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Mapo Tofu Recipe in a Normal Frying Pan, Ready in 25 Minutes
Mapo tofu is one of those dishes that sounds hard and turns out to be easy. Soft cubes of tofu sit in a glossy red sauce with minced pork, garlic and chilli bean paste, and the whole thing is ready in about 25 minutes. This mapo tofu recipe is written…
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Portuguese Egg Tarts: Easy Air Fryer Recipe with 4 Ingredients
Portuguese Egg Tarts is an absolute must-try when you travel in Portugal. In Lisbon, people queue for them. The pastry shatters when you bite in, the custard inside is barely set, and the top has dark, almost burnt spots that taste like caramel. They are called pastéis de nata, and…
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Chinese Eggplant Recipe Without Deep Frying, Ready in 25 Minutes
Order fish-fragrant eggplant in a Sichuan restaurant and you get soft, glossy pieces in a sauce that is sweet, sour, salty and a little spicy all at once. Then you look up how to make it and find two problems. The eggplant is deep-fried, which means a pan of hot…
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Spaghetti Carbonara Recipe in Five Ingredients and One Rule
Carbonara has five ingredients and the internet argues about all of them. Guanciale or bacon. Pecorino or parmesan. Cream or no cream. Whole eggs or yolks. Read enough comment sections and you start to think you need a flight to Rome before you are allowed to cook it. You don’t.…
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10 Most Underrated Kitchen Tools You’ll Wish You Bought Sooner
Nobody walks around IKEA thinking about a spider skimmer. You buy plates, a pan, a knife block, and you go home happy. Six months later you are hunched over a pot of boiling water fishing for dumplings with a fork, and you say it out loud: how did I forget…
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Seafood Paella Recipe You Can Make in a Normal Frying Pan
Paella looks like a dish you need special equipment for. But actually, you don’t! This seafood paella recipe is the version we make at home, in an ordinary pan, with whatever the fish counter had that day. It won’t be identical to one cooked over a wood fire in Valencia,…
