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Pasta e fagioli

Pasta e fagioli is an old Italian stew that the peasants ate because it was easy to make, inexpensive, and hearty. Serve with crusty Italian bread.

Ingredients for pasta e fagioli

Italian tomato sauce

Everyone loves Italian tomato sauce. It is found on many different authentic Italian dishes such as spaghetti, pizza, ziti, lasagna, etc.

Mixed Italian tomato sauce

Swedish meatballs

Swedish meatballs are cooked in the pan. Serve meatballs with Swedish gravy.

Swedish meatballs

Orzo with brown butter

A pasta recipe as simple as it can be. This recipe will serve six people as a starter or side dish and four as a main course.

Greek temple with statues

Swiss egg and sausage casserole

This potato, egg and sausage recipe is one of the options for a Swiss supper.

Swiss guards

Crisp Chinese pork

This recipe is time consuming but worth the effort.

Chinese caligraphy

Greek beef and onion stew

Beef and onion stew is the kind of comforting dish to have when the weather turns chilly.

Greek church

Greek lentil soup

Lentils are a good source of iron and proteins. Lentil soup is straight forward to make and it can be prepared without oil, if necessary.

Lentil soup

Fragrant coconut rice

There are as many recipes for coconut rice as tropical countries. This one has Indian, Thai and Vietnamese influences.

Rice field

Swiss cabbage soup

The cheese on top of this soup changes from canton to canton. Expect Gruyere in French cantons, Emmentaler if you are in one of the German cantons, and Parmesan in Italian ones.

Swiss guards

Where to go from here?

First step would be stocking the staples you need to cook international. Why not follow the recommendations in our basic pantry?

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