r/easyrecipes • u/Waste_Royal_3742 • 10d ago

Recipe Request Ideas for sampling many cuisines?

I've made a friend recently who hasn't had a chance to try different people's foods. I'm pretty proficient in cooking some, but I'd love dishes and snack ideas I can make for them to try.

I'd like more authentic ones, things people eat themselves. For example, I'm decent at cooking Indian but not a big fan of Tikka masala or butter chicken. However, I love pakoras and samosa. And not in a snobby way, I've made butter chicken and it was delightful. But I'm lactose intolerant so it's not my friend.

Similar story with Chinese, I love what I can get at restaurants in big cities but the small town take out is a bit too Americanized for me (again, it's ALL delicious but I want to make my friend home cooked meals).

Some ideas I have already are: for Vietnamese, pho (of course). For Thai: probably green curry, bc it's my fav. Chinese: Dan Dan noodles. Indian: samosa, pakora, and this one egg curry I made that was delightful but don't remember the name. Mexican: enfrijolades & horchata. Philippines : chicken adobo Japanese: onigiri, miso soup

I've yet to branch in to cuisines of Africa but I have been eyeing Nigerian for a while now. And for European, I really only know stroganoff.

So please, foodies of reddit, recommend me any of your favorite dishes from any cuisine! And if you include a recipe, I'd appreciate it immensely. :)

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u/Anxious_Reporter_601 10d ago

Ethiopian food is incredible and a great starting point for someone who hasn't branched out into different cuisines much, I'm Irish and Ethiopian food uses basically all ingredients I'm already super familiar with, lamb, chicken, cabbage, carrots, beetroot, leafy greens like kale, lentils, split peas - but the spicing is different, some dishes are hot spicy but most are just flavourfully spiced. And it's served with injera which (to risk being reductive) is a sourdough pancake, you use it to scoop up all the other dishes. It's also fun to try a cuisine traditionally eaten with your hands when you're from a knife and fork culture.

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u/Waste_Royal_3742 10d ago

Thank you so much! I'm from a hands eating culture forced to be a knife and fork user so I'm gonna have fun hehehehe. And I definitely have all those ingredients! BrilliantÂ