BakingBalkan Flatbread (Lepinja)
Soft, thick Balkan flatbreads with a lightly crisp crust, made for tearing apart and soaking up sauces.
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BakingSoft, thick Balkan flatbreads with a lightly crisp crust, made for tearing apart and soaking up sauces.
MainsTender chicken in a sweet paprika and sour cream sauce, spooned over homemade mlinci that catch every last drop.
PastaThe American cream version rather than the Roman original, and none the worse for it. The prawns come out of the pan before the sauce goes in.
MainsEight minutes in the pan, and most of the work is standing the chops on their fat edge first. Render that strip properly and the whole dish tastes better.
MainsSkin-on breast, started in a cold pan and finished in the oven, with a sauce built from what sticks to the bottom. Dry chicken breast is a timing problem, not a cut problem.
SoupsThe weeknight ramen. The miso paste is fried in aromatics before the stock goes in, which takes a 40-minute bowl a surprising distance towards an all-day one.
MainsSkin-side down for ninety per cent of the cooking time, weighted flat so it never curls. You barely touch it, and the skin shatters like a crisp.
PastaFive ingredients, twenty minutes, and the whole dish depends on getting the garlic exactly golden — a shade darker and the oil turns bitter.
PastaNo cream, ever. The sauce is just egg, cheese and pasta water, brought together off the heat so it turns silky instead of scrambling.
MainsThin patties pressed hard onto a screaming-hot pan for thirty seconds. All the flavour lives in that lacy, craggy brown crust.
MainsChicken thighs roasted over orzo that cooks in its own stock, finished with lemon halves charred until they taste almost caramelised.