Skip to content

1000 recipes · 100 countries · updated weekly

Free forever — no paywall, every recipe tested in a home kitchen

Dish of the week: Holubtsi

14 Stock Recipes From 12 Cuisines.

Simmered bones, meat or vegetables strained into a liquid that carries body and savor into everything built on it, and the single biggest difference between home cooking that tastes flat and home cooking that does not. Every cuisine has its version, from French fond to Mexican caldo to Chinese master stock. Homemade is unsalted, which lets you season the final dish freely; cubes and cartons are heavily salted, so adjust. It freezes indefinitely.

14 recipes on this route

The recipes.

A hand-sized Australian meat pie with a golden puff pastry lid, broken open to show thick beef gravy filling

Australia3 hr 40 min

Aussie Meat Pie

Hand-Sized Beef Gravy Pie

Browned pork sausages leaning on buttery mashed potato with dark onion gravy poured over

United Kingdom1 hr

Bangers and Mash

Sausages with Onion Gravy

Deep brown Basel flour soup in a bowl with melting grated cheese and chives on top

Switzerland55 min

Basler Mehlsuppe

Basel Browned Flour Soup

Dark glossy beef and stout stew with carrot chunks and thyme in a heavy casserole

Ireland3 hr 35 min

Beef and Guinness Stew

Stout-Braised Beef

Deep bowl of tiny Uzbek chuchvara dumplings in clear broth with a spoonful of thick yogurt, black pepper and chopped herbs

Uzbekistan1 hr 55 min

Chuchvara

Tiny Uzbek Dumplings in Broth

Bowl of Austrian warm potato salad with sliced waxy potatoes, red onion rings and chives

Austria1 hr

Erdäpfelsalat

Austrian Warm Potato Salad

Bowl of clear Austrian beef broth with ribbons of sliced pancake and snipped chives on top

Austria1 hr 10 min

Frittatensuppe

Beef Broth with Sliced Pancakes

Bowl of bright green molokhia soup beside a plate of white rice and browned chicken pieces, with lemon wedges on the side

Egypt1 hr 30 min

Molokhia

Egyptian Jute Leaf Soup with Garlic Tasha

Shallow bowl of crisp fries topped with pale cheese curds and glossy brown gravy poured over the top

Canada1 hr 20 min

Poutine

Fries with Cheese Curds and Gravy

Two German beef rouladen sliced open to show bacon, onion and gherkin filling, in dark gravy with dumplings

Germany2 hr 20 min

Rinderrouladen

German Beef Roll-Ups in Onion Gravy

Bowl of warm Swabian potato salad with glossy sliced potatoes, diced onion and chives scattered on top

Germany1 hr

Schwäbischer Kartoffelsalat

Warm German Potato Salad

Mound of buttery Turkish rice flecked with browned vermicelli, grains separate and glossy in a shallow bowl

Turkey1 hr 10 min

Şehriyeli Pilav

Turkish Buttery Rice with Toasted Vermicelli

Every recipe on this route.

All 14 of them, alphabetically, with the country each one comes from.

also known asbroth, bouillon, caldo

common in