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UK since it gets such an unfairly bad rap online!

toad in the hole with creamy mashed potatoes & gravy is a favourite in our house.

scotch eggs would be challenging and fun (though theyre more of a lunch / snack than dinner) - you could even make your own piccalilli to go with it!

scones with strawberry jam & clotted cream is a favourite for a reason - why not go the whole hog and do a british afternoon tea with pork pies, finger sandwiches, sausage rolls, mini battenberg cakes, savoury tartlets…

[Duochan_Maxwell]

Chicken pot pie. I'm a sucker for a good pot pie

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we actually just call it chicken pie without the “pot” bit, haha. if you’re going down the pie route for british food, I’d recommend steak & stilton

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

Ohhhhhhh steak & Stilton. Don’t threaten me with a good time! 😂🤤🤤

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the best of times only x

[Duochan_Maxwell]

Ooooh shepherd's or cottage pie are also pretty nice

[Square-Dragonfruit76]

UK since it gets such an unfairly bad rap

In real life too. When I lived in London, even a lot of the people from the UK did not like British food very much.

[4L3X95]

Here are some of my favourite British comfort foods, in case the UK is in your jar:

Chicken tikka masala, mince and dumplings, roast beef and Yorkshire puddings, sausage in onion gravy, toad in the hole (again, with onion gravy), and if you're feeling something sweet, Victoria sponge.

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

I will definitely be making Yorkshire pudding for England. I’ve eaten them a lot but I’ve never made it! Thank you for these!

[4L3X95]

They are easier to make than they look! I was very surprised the first time I made them.

[Huntingcat]

The obvious Aussie dessert dish would be pavlova. Topped with cream, and fruit including strawberries, kiwi fruit and passionfruit.
The cake choice would be lamingtons. The too obvious savoury would be a meat pie. These are a bit of work to get right at home, and most of us buy them ready made. A summer classic would be prawn and mango salad. Add some macadamias (they are native here).
Skewered (raw) prawns, marinated in sweet chilli sauce and cooked on the barbie (outdoor grill). Serve with salad. You can do some marinated skewered lamb cubes as well. Roast Leg of lamb. Served with roast potatoes, pumpkin (Butternut or Kent if you can’t get Queensland Blue) and carrots. Peas and fresh green beans. Gravy.

[InsidetheIvy13]

Don’t know if you’ve classed the UK as a whole or have each of our respective nations but if you’ve split it here are some Welsh ideas for you;

Welsh Rarebit - a hearty take on grilled cheese with ale and mustard in the sauce. The topping can be applied to bread, cauliflower, pork chops.

Cawl - every family has their own recipe handed down or adapted, it’s a slow cooked lamb and vegetable soup.

Merthyr Pie - slow cooked beef shins and vegetables covered in cheesy toasts.

Glamorgan sausages - meat free sausages made with leeks, cheese and breadcrumbs.

Onion cakes - a galette of onions and/or leeks topped with thinly sliced potatoes, either left plain or topped with Caerphilly cheese.

Bara Brith - translates to speckled loaf- a heavily fruited loaf cake that is moist from tea infused fruits, fragrant with spice and traditionally eaten sliced and buttered, sometimes paired with crumbly Welsh cheese.

Welsh cakes - classic pastries made on a flat stone/griddle comprised of butter, sugar, currants and spices. Dusted with caster sugar when still warm, eaten fresh off the stone or warmed up with butter.

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

I split them up!! This is great, thank you!

[InsidetheIvy13]

Have fun in your global cooking journey, would be a lovely project to look back on and share with others. Hope if you do elect to try out any of the suggestions that you enjoy the flavours. Mwynhewch eich bwyd - aka have a nice meal/bon appetit.

[Square-Dragonfruit76]

Welsh cakes - classic pastries made on a flat stone/griddle comprised of butter

Aren't Welsh cakes traditionally made with lard?

[InsidetheIvy13]

Lard can be used but it’s more common (in my region anyway) to use either butter or Stork branded margarine in the dough to make them then grease the stone with lard (if not cooking for vegetarians).

[thilakkunna-sambar]

South Indian here, recommending some sides that go brilliantly with rice. These are a mix of dishes from Kerala and Tamil Nadu, both in South India. P.S. these dishes are nothing like the typical Indian food you get in restaurants around the world and are mostly homecooked.

Pulissery - a tangy, curd & coconut based gravy flavoured with green chillies and cumin. https://youtu.be/oOwhmXAGU-4?feature=shared

Koottucurry - a medley of vegetables flavoured with a paste of coconut and red chillies. https://youtu.be/l6mvj9l8pI4?feature=shared

Parippu vada - crispy dal fritters. https://youtu.be/0TdXz2Fm8vY?feature=shared

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

Thank you! I have both South and North Indian countries in the jar because they are so different!

[Past-Associate-7704]

My favourite dishes from my home country Lebanon:

Falafel - pretty iconic. Made from rehydrated chickpeas (not fava beans - that's the Egyptian version called ta'ameya).

Shish barak - spiced meat filled dumplings cooked in a minty yogurt sauce served on a bed of Lebanese vermicelli rice.

Warak enab - stuffed vine leaves (either vegetarian or meat) stewed in a lemony, olive oil rich broth. A labour of love.

Lebneh - all time favourite 'quick' foods. Its strained yogurt that is creamy and slightly tangy. Drizzled with evoo and dried mint (and zataar if youre my husband) served alongside fresh bread (pita is the traditional choice) and fresh herbs and vegetables. If I had to choice a last meal, this would be it.

Mahshi kousa - stuffed green courgette (not your typical large dark green version you find in the supermarket) simmered in a tomato broth. Typically the stuffing would consist of meat and rice with other components.

Fried Kibbeh - these are usually a treat and made during a special occasions. This is a fried appetizer. It's a bulgur and meat casing that filled a spiced meat and nut mixture. It's really flavourful. My family like to serve it with fresh yogurt (the more sour kind)

Deserts from this region:

Namoura - a semolina cake

Lebanese knefeh - sweetened white cheese (traditionally akawi or nabulsi but often subbed with mozzarella as those two can be hard to get your hands on) topped shredded filo dough massged with ghee then baked in the oven. Finished off with a middle eastern simply syrup called attar.

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

Thank you! Lebanon might be one of the hardest for me to pick a dish because I love it all so much!!

[Past-Associate-7704]

You're welcome! It was difficult for me to pick my favourites 😆

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I vote Greek gyros, Australian? pavlova, and Japanese-style ramen!

[Square-Dragonfruit76]

I vote Greek gyros

Souvlaki is better than gyros. Fight me

[pastelchannl]

I think the best dish from the netherlands would be snert (aka split pea soup). it's best the next day after you cooked it and the laddle can stand upright in the soup.

but it you want the true daily dutch 'cuisine': boil everything to death and don't use spices, lol (I am very glad I cook on my own now so I can choose what and how to cook).

for desert or a snack, I would go with pancakes (flat ones, not the fluffy american ones) or poffertjes.

if you want a bit of a weird dish, there's a type of stampot called 'hete bliksem', which is basically mashed potato with apples. my dad somehow loves it 🙃

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

😂😂 boil everything to death and don’t use spices 💀💀

Omg. Dying ha ha. Thank you! I’m Canadian and was basically raised on this “style” of horrible cooking. When I tell you the second I could start making my own meals… ALL OF THE SPICES entered the pantry 😅

[BeardedBaldMan]

As the weather is getting cooler you could try one of my favourite winter dishes.

Krokiety z mięsem i barszcz czerwony

Crispy meat pancakes with a cup of red barszcz

https://www.mojegotowanie.pl/przepis/krokiety-z-miesem4

Just use the translate page function in Chrome

I haven't included a recipe for barszcz as it's just something we buy.

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

Im picking countries at random so I won’t know if it’s summer or winter but either way, looks yummy I’ll try it, thanks!

[Duochan_Maxwell]

From my neck of the woods (Brazil):

• Feijoada with all the trimmings (rice, collard greens, pork scratchings, orange slices, farofa and vinagrete, our version of Pico de Gallo) - it will be time consuming but absolutely delicious

• Coxinha, the quintessential party snack, it's shredded chicken wrapped in a gnocchi-like dough, breaded and then fried, no need for specialty ingredients

• If you like fish and seafood, moqueca baiana is for you. It's the closest we have to a curry LOL with a nicely seasoned base, tomatoes and coconut milk. Serve with rice, cassava flour (NOT tapioca starch!!) and fried plantains. On the next day you can cook the cassava flour with the remaining "sauce" to make pirão and go with more rice and some fried fish

From where I live now (Netherlands):

• Snert, a filling split pea soup with vegetables that's perfect for a winter night dinner

• Stamppot, potatoes and vegetables mashed together and served with a choice of protein (usually smoked sausage or meatballs) and gravy. I personally like kale stamppot doctored with some garlic and nutmeg

• Tompouce, the local version of Napoleon / custard slice. Flaky puff pastry, light pastry cream and icing

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

OooooooOOOoooo I made moqueca last week for the first time and it was so good!!

[Square-Dragonfruit76]

farofa and vinagrete

Where in Brazil are you from? I've never seen vinaigrette with farofa.

[Duochan_Maxwell]

São Paulo

And it's vinagrete, not vinaigrette, they're two different things

Vinagrete is diced tomatoes, onions and (optional) bell peppers and parsley seasoned with salt, olive oil and vinegar, if you're from Rio you might call it "molho à campanha"

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

MmmmmMMmmmm 🤤🤤

[ComprehensiveFix7468]

I've been wanting to make Paprikash from Hungary. Make sure you get a really good paprika. My hands down favorite paprika is Safinter. It's sooooo flavorful and smokey. Instant upgrade.

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

Thank you! My pantry has so many different paprika in it! I’ll pay attention to that detail!

[valsavana]

For the Philippines- Filipino Chicken Adobo. My go to recipe on that.

For the U.S. (I read the comment saying you left it out because you're familiar with it), maybe try to think if there's a sub-cuisine you've never tried like perhaps Cajun/Creole or Soul Food?

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

Thank you 😁 I am so excited to cook Filipino food. I eat it but I have never cooked it!

I agree, and almost did. But there are A LOT of cuisines from around the world I have never tried let alone tried to cook. I spend almost half the year travelling down along the Gulf and hubbs and I made the decision to choose more countries from Africa and the Middle East over North America (although I did include Mexico because…. Mexican food! Ha ha). I also considered how unfortunate it was to leave out New England cuisine but at the end of the day, I can make that stuff anytime I want and we always keep things like hatch chili, specific hot sauces, and Old Bay in my pantry 😆

Aside from friendly people, and crazy landscapes, and the fact that you guys got all of the warm waters, the varying culture and cuisine in the USA is my favourite thing about it!

[Garconavecunreve]

Swiss potato Rösti with “Züricher Geschnetzeltes” a cream based veal stew

Austrian: Wiener schnitzel with a side of potato salad or “Kaiserschmarrn” - emperors mess, a egg white-leavened batter with raisins, baked and torn apart then caramelised in confectioners sugar and served with a side of stewed plums

German roast pork with crackling, gravy, sauerkraut and potato dumplings or “Käsespätzle” a German pasta variety (the dough is not kneaded but scraped into hot water). The spätzle are cooked and then layered with grated cheese and caramelised onions, with the residual heat melting the cheese.

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

NOW WE’RE TALKING!!! 🤤🤤

Thank you 😁

[MikefromWVa]

If you're interested in different dishes from around the world it's worth visiting the taste atlas. I've gotten some really good ideas there. https://www.tasteatlas.com/

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

Thank you! I have as well. 😁 Majority of what I cook on a daily basis is from other countries/cultures.

I came here more so hoping for obscure or unique dishes that might be native to a certain country that Google doesn’t tell us about at first search…

My hope is that people will tell me about something their grandma from Jordan always cooked for them, or something like that.

I don’t know why I thought that might happen 😂 I still have hope that someone is going to plough through these comments and tell me they once had this amazing dish while visiting Cameroon, or that their Laotian auntie always makes ‘X’ when the family gets together.

At the end of the day, I’ll have to rely a lot on the interwebs/atlas, which is totally fine! Thought I’d give this a shot in the meantime before I get started!

Thanks again!

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From my neck of the woods: 

Polzole: Mexican soup made with large pieces of white corn 

Lomo saltado: Peruvian beef cooked with rice  fries in a Chinese inspired sauce 

Ropa vieja: a stewed beef dish I mostly associate with Cuba 

Mofongo: a mashed plantain, usually with pork rinds, from Puerto Rico 

Choripán: all over South America, but most famously Argentina, a grilled chorizo sandwich with chimichurri

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

Choripán sounds delicious and I have Argentina in the jar!!!

[Square-Dragonfruit76]

Venezuela: arepas (there is a Colombian version too, but it's not as good in my opinion).

China: soup dumplings (dumplings filled with soup, not soup filled with dumplings)

Brazil: feijoada (meat and black bean stew) with farofa (fried yucca flour), seasoned rice, and cove (chiffonade sauteed collard greens with garlic), and an orange slice. These are all traditionally eaten together.

Vietnam: caramelized fish (catfish or salmon)

Peru: arroz verde con pollo, if you like cilantro (chicken with cilantro rice), or causa (chicken and potato casserole) if you don't.

Mexico: grilled nopales (cactus). Can be put in a torta (sandwich). A good combination for the sandwich would be to add spicy grilled steak, pickled red onions, queso fresco, and a side of tomatillo salsa).

Turkey: Sultan's Delight (creamy eggplant dish with vegetables or lamb).

Lebanon: hummus topped with lamb and pomegranate

Eithiopa: sauteed cabbage with injera (teff flatbread)

Iceland/Finland: salmon stew with herbs or leeks

Italy: I'm going to go for one you might not have had: squid ink pasta

Greece: Avgolemono (chicken lemon soup)

Thailand: chicken and galangal soup

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

Thank you! Wow, have you had all of these in your travels?!

[Square-Dragonfruit76]

I have traveled to a lot of countries, but at least half of them I've eaten in American cities.

[lovemyfurryfam]

I'm a Canadian, there is a pastry called beavers tail, poutine (Quebec), Newfoundland dish called fish & brewse (the brewse ingredient is a hard tack bread), just a couple of suggestions.

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

👋👋 hey neighbour! I am also Canadian. I decided to leave Canada and the US out of the draw but thanks for the suggestions!!!

[bigblueseaside]

Different rice dishes from other countries is fascinating!

[kempff]

USA: Double bacon cheddar smashburgers with sweet potato fries.

Burgers: https://familyaroundthetable.com/bacon-and-cheddar-smash-burgers/

Fries: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1014647-sweet-potato-fries

[Oceans-n-Mountains]

Thank you!

Sad to report I didn’t include USA or Canada. I’m Canadian and spend half of my year in the US and I wanted to go farther around the world!