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World cuisine: international recipes

World cuisine at home: dishes from other countries that you can cook in your own kitchen. The recipes are grouped by cuisine – Italian, Hungarian, Asian, Czech, French, Mediterranean, Latin American and more. Each section starts with the most popular recipes and links to all recipes of that cuisine.

Our own specialty is Slovak cuisine; ideas for every day are in our lunch ideas.

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Italian cuisine

Sheet-pan and skillet pizza – creamy pizza with bacon and corn or skillet pizza with a sour cream dough – pasta such as fusilli with zucchini and mushrooms and mascarpone desserts like no-bake tiramisu balls.

All Italian recipes (88)

Hungarian cuisine

Beef goulash with paprika, lángos with sour cream and cheese, chicken paprikash with dumplings and walnut cream slice – dishes from Slovakia’s southern neighbor that many Slovak families cook too.

All Hungarian recipes (22)

Asian cuisine

Chinese-style chicken with vegetables and peanuts, Indonesian chicken satay, oven-baked curry chicken thighs with rice and Chinese egg noodles with pork – with soy sauce, ginger and curry powder.

All Asian recipes (33)

Czech cuisine

Svíčková, beef in a creamy vegetable sauce, Karlovy Vary dumplings, ham and egg pasta bake, pickled sausages with onion and Moravian kolaches – dishes from Slovakia’s western neighbor.

All Czech recipes (14)

French cuisine

French onion soup with toast and cheese, chicken with 40 cloves of garlic, bacon quiche and the upside-down apple tart tarte Tatin.

All French recipes (25)

Mediterranean cuisine

Greek dishes like Greek salad with feta and olives, tzatziki and chicken thighs with lemon rice, fish with tomatoes and olives, and Portuguese-style roasted new potatoes.

All Mediterranean recipes (27)

Mexican and Latin American cuisine

Mexican guacamole and homemade tortillas, the Argentine herb sauce chimichurri and tres leches cake soaked in milk.

All Latin American recipes (14)

Middle Eastern cuisine

Turkish red lentil soup, shakshuka with feta, four-ingredient pita bread, the bulgur salad tabbouleh and Georgian chikhirtma chicken soup – dishes from Turkey, the Middle East and the Caucasus.

All Middle Eastern recipes (34)

Balkan cuisine

Ćevapčići, Shopska salad, Bulgarian banitsa with cheese and Serbian ribs with peppers.

All Balkan recipes (13)

Polish cuisine

Bigos with sauerkraut, dill pickle soup, the apple fritters racuchy and Christmas Eve barszcz with uszka.

All Polish recipes (11)

Eastern European cuisine

Borscht with beets and cabbage, Ukrainian vinegret salad, syrniki quark pancakes and Caucasian khychiny flatbreads with cheese.

All Eastern European recipes (25)

German cuisine

Bavarian potato dumplings, Königsberger Klopse in caper sauce, Flammkuchen and Christmas baking – stollen, Nuremberg Lebkuchen and cinnamon stars.

All German recipes (16)

Western European cuisine

Swedish meatballs in cream sauce, the Dutch split pea soup snert, Viennese onion roast beef and plum crumble.

All Western European recipes (21)

Spanish cuisine

Paella with shrimp and chicken, the potato omelette tortilla de patatas and garlic shrimp in olive oil.

All Spanish recipes (5)

Ingredients for dishes from around the world

Curry powder, soy sauce, coconut milk, mascarpone, tortillas and feta are easy to find in regular supermarkets. Our recipes give amounts in grams and milliliters; switch to US or UK measures on each recipe or use the cooking measurement converter. To cook with what you already have, try the recipe search by ingredients.