Stews

🇳🇱Netherlands

Dutch Beef Stew

Hachee

Traditional beef and onion stew with vinegar, cloves, bay leaves, and sometimes apple butter or ontbijtkoek for thickening.

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

Dymdama

Дымдама

Meat and layered vegetables — potato, carrot, cabbage, tomato — sealed in a heavy pot and steamed in their own liquid with no added water.

🇪🇭Western Sahara

Echwa

Echwa is meat from a sacrificed animal, traditionally goat or camel, cooked inside the animal’s cleaned stomach so the juices and fat baste the meat.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Efo Riro

Ẹ̀fọ́ riro

Spinach or shoko leaves fried into a base of blended pepper, onion, locust bean and palm oil, with beef, ponmo and stockfish.

🇪🇷Eritrea

Egg Stew

Enkulal Tsebhi

Eritrean spicy egg stew; hard-boiled eggs simmered in a berbere and tomato sauce; a protein-rich fasting-day dish when meat is avoided; served on injera; similar to Ethiopian enkulal firfir but stewed rather than shredded.

🇧🇹Bhutan

Ema Datshi

ཨེ་མ་དར་ཚིལ།

Whole green or dried red chillies simmered with water and crumbling local cheese until the cheese breaks into a loose sauce — chilli as the vegetable, not the seasoning.

🇪🇨Guayaquil, Ecuador

Encebollado

Encebollado de pescado

Encebollado is a coastal Ecuadorian fish and yuca soup finished with pickled red onion, tomato, lime and chifles.

🇪🇨Ecuador

Encocado

Encocado de camarones

An Ecuadorian coastal dish of fish or shrimp in coconut sauce with onions, peppers, and spices, served with rice, a Manabí classic.

🇧🇷Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Entrevero

A southern Brazilian skillet of meats, vegetables and pinhão associated with the Serra Gaúcha and winter gatherings.

🇦🇹Austria

Erdaepfelgulasch

Erdaepfelgulasch braises potato chunks with onion, sweet paprika, caraway and stock, without needing meat.

🇪🇷Eritrea

Eritrean Bozen Shiro

Bozena Shiro

Eritrean shiro enriched with minced beef; the chickpea flour stew gets a meaty boost; heartier than plain tsebhi shiro; served on injera; a popular variation for non-fasting days.

🇪🇷Eritrea

Eritrean Shahan Ful

Shahan Ful

Eritrean breakfast of slow-cooked fava beans mashed with onions, tomatoes, jalapenos, cumin, lemon juice, and olive oil; served with bread rolls for dipping; especially popular during Lent and Ramadan; a Horn of Africa staple.

🇪🇸Balearic Islands, Spain

Escaldums

Escaldums is a Mallorcan chicken and potato stew cooked with onion and herbs until the meat is tender.

🇧🇷Brazil

Escondidinho

A baked casserole of mashed cassava or potatoes layered with seasoned shredded meat, topped with cheese until golden and bubbling.

🇦🇩Andorra

Escudella de Pagès

Escudella

The national dish of Andorra — a hearty Catalan-style winter stew with pork, seasonal vegetables, legumes, chicken, and local cured meats; the oldest documented soup in Europe; served as a one-pot meal or broth first, then the meat; at Christmas, snail-shaped pasta (sopa de galets) is added; during Sant Antoni in January, communal pots are prepared; the soul of Andorran mountain cuisine.

🇧🇷Brazil

Estrogonofe

Brazilian stroganoff made creamy and served with rice and batata palha, a fully creolized home-and-restaurant staple.

🇬🇺Guam

Estufao

Estufao is meat braised with vinegar, soy, garlic, and aromatics until tender; the sauce darkens around the stated beef, pork, or poultry cut.

🇾🇪Yemen

Fahsa

فحسة

Fahsa is a Yemeni meat stew of slow-cooked beef or lamb shredded into a thick, bubbling broth and finished with fenugreek hulba foam, traditionally served in a stone pot.

🇫🇰Falkland Islands

Falkland Mutton Stew

Slow-cooked mutton, potatoes, onions, and roots form a warming island winter stew.

🇬🇷Greece

Fasolakia

Φασολάκια

Greek green bean stew of green beans, tomatoes, potatoes, and olive oil, simmered until tender. A ladera classic, light and savory, served with bread and feta, a summer home dish.

🇮🇶Basra, Iraq

Fasolia

فاصولياء يابسة

White beans stewed slowly with lamb, tomato and dried lime, poured over long-grain rice.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Fasolia Wat

ፋሶሊያ ወጥ

A spicy Ethiopian green-bean stew simmered in a rich berbere-and-onion kulet. A satisfying vegan main course or beyaynetu side, often cooked with carrots and tomatoes.

🇵🇱Poland

Fasolka po bretońsku (Baked beans)

Fasolka po bretońsku (Baked beans) is a stew from Poland, rooted in local cooking tradition. Distinct from food-feves-au-lard.

🇰🇷South Korea

Fast-Fermented Soybean Stew

청국장찌개

A pungent stew made with cheonggukjang (fast-fermented soybean paste), tofu, pork, and vegetables, known for its strong aroma.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Fasulia

Фасуля

A Bulgarian stew of green beans slow-cooked with tomatoes, onions, garlic and paprika, often with pork or smoked meat.

🇵🇹Algarve, Portugal

Favas à algarvia

Favas à algarvia is a Portuguese stew from Algarve, built around a seasoned broth and the region’s staple ingredients.

🇮🇹Lazio, Italy

Fave al guanciale

In Lazio, Fave al guanciale is broad beans cooked with crisp guanciale, onion, and oil.

🇧🇷Brazil

Feijoada

A hearty stew of black beans simmered with various pork cuts, traditionally served with rice, collard greens, orange slices, and farofa.

🇹🇱Timor-Leste

Feijoada Timorense

The Timorese take on Portuguese bean stew, built from local beans, pork, and chorizo; a common dish of former Portuguese colonies; filling and well seasoned; a holdover from colonial kitchens; often a Sunday meal symbolizing the history between Timor-Leste and Portugal; served with rice.

🇵🇹Portugal

Feijoada à Portuguesa

Bean stew slow-cooked with pork, chouriço, and blood sausage.

🇹🇻Tuvalu

Feke mo Lolo

Octopus simmered in creamy coconut milk with aromatic spices (onion, garlic, ginger, turmeric, coriander, cumin); a Tuvaluan dish that combines local octopus with introduced spices; the coconut milk gives richness and the spices add depth; often served dish at feasts and local eateries.

🇦🇱Albania

Fergese

Fërgesë

Creamy pepper and cheese casserole with tomatoes, onions, garlic, and gjize curd cheese, slowly cooked in olive oil and baked until combined, a Tirana specialty.

🇦🇱Tirana, Albania

Fergese Tirane

Fërgesë Tiranë

Tirana-style pepper and cheese dish, sometimes with liver added, creamy texture with balanced seasoning, distinctive liver version should have tender offal, a regional specialty.

🇮🇷Iran

Fesenjan

فسنجان

Ground walnuts cooked slowly with pomegranate molasses until the oil separates and the stew turns near-black, with duck, chicken or meatballs in it.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Fiakergulasch

Fiakergulasch is a beef goulash served with a fried egg, sausage, pickled cucumber and sometimes a rolled gherkin.

🇵🇭Philippines

Filipino Adobo

Adobo

Filipino adobo braises meat or seafood in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, bay leaf, and pepper until the sauce is savoury, sharp, and deeply aromatic.