Stews

🇵🇱Poland

Kapusta z Grzybami

Polish braised cabbage with forest mushrooms, a savory side or filling for pierogi and croquettes. A Christmas Eve staple, earthy and tangy, served warm.

🇫🇮South Karelia, Finland

Karelian Stew

Karjalanpaisti

Slow-cooked stew traditionally made with beef and pork, sometimes lamb, with root vegetables and peppercorns.

🇬🇫Intérieur (Maroni / Oyapock / Bushinenge-Amerindian), French Guiana

Kasilipo

A traditional Amerindian dish; grated cassava heated gently in its own juice for 24 hours to create a sauce; fish, meat, or poultry (fresh, smoked, or boucané) cooked in this sauce with herbs (ansoï) and chili; served over cassava flatbreads (cassaves).

🇺🇬Uganda

Katogo

Matooke or cassava boiled together with offal, beans, groundnut sauce or meat in one pot so the starch takes up the sauce — the standard Ugandan breakfast.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Kavarma

Кавърма

Pork or chicken slow-cooked in a sealed clay pot with onion, peppers, mushrooms and paprika until the meat falls apart in its own fat.

🇦🇲Armenia

Kchuch

Կճուճ

Layered clay-pot bake of fish or lamb with potato, aubergine, tomato and pepper, sealed and cooked slowly in its own moisture.

🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire

Kedjenou

Kédjénou

Guinea fowl or chicken sealed into a clay canari with onion, tomato, aubergine and ginger and cooked over low heat with no added liquid, the pot shaken rather than stirred.

🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire

Kedjenou Poulet

Kedjenou de Poulet

Ivorian chicken cooked slowly in a sealed pot with onion, tomato, pepper and little added liquid.

🇮🇳Kerala, India

Kerala Stew

ഇസ്തു

A mild, aromatic vegetable or chicken stew from Kerala made with coconut milk, potatoes, and whole spices. Served with appam.

🇹🇷Turkey

Keşkek

A traditional ceremonial dish of wheat and meat slow-cooked in large cauldrons, prepared for weddings, circumcisions, and religious holidays. The wheat is hulled with wooden mallets in a communal ritual, then cooked overnight with meat, onions, and spices. UNESCO inscribed the ceremonial keşkek tradition on its Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2011.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Kha Sach Chrouk

ខសាច់ជ្រូក

Caramelized pork or chicken braised in soy sauce, fish sauce, palm sugar, and star anise with bamboo shoots and hard-boiled eggs.

🇹🇭Thailand

Khai phalo (Thai Egg Stew)

ไข่พะโล้

Khai phalo is boiled eggs and pork simmered in a dark five-spice broth with star anise and cinnamon.

🇹🇭Bangkok, Thailand

Khao Kha Mu

ข้าวขาหมู

Braised pork leg over rice with a rich soy-anise broth, served with pickled mustard greens and chili sauce.

🇦🇲Kakheti, Armenia

Khashlama

Խաշլամա

Lamb or beef and whole vegetables layered in a pot with beer or water and left to steam for hours without stirring.

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Khichda

खिचड़ा

A slow-cooked dish of wheat, lentils, and meat, similar to haleem but with whole grains. Popular during Ramadan in India.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Khor Sach Ko

ខសាច់គោ

Beef braised in caramelised palm sugar with soy sauce, fish sauce, star anise, and black pepper until dark and meltingly tender.

🇮🇷Iran

Khoresh Anar

خورش انار

An Iranian stew of duck or chicken with pomegranate molasses and walnuts.

🇮🇷Iran

Khoresh Bamieh

خورش بامیه

An Iranian okra stew with meat, tomatoes and a hint of souring.

🇮🇷Iran

Khoresh kangar

خورش کنگر

Tender wild artichoke stems are braised with herbs and meat into a spring Iranian khoresh.

🇮🇷Iran

Khoresh rivas

خورش ریواس

Sour rhubarb stalks are braised with herbs and lamb into a bright spring Persian stew.

🇮🇷Iran

Khoresh-e Bademjan

خورش بادمجان

Fried aubergines laid whole over a tomato and lamb stew soured with unripe grape juice or dried lime.

🇮🇷Iran

Khoresh-e Karafs

خورش کرفس

Celery stewed with lamb, mint and parsley and soured with lemon into a pale green khoresh.

🇮🇷Isfahan, Iran

Khoresht Mast

خورشت ماست

A Persian yogurt-based stew with lamb, saffron, turmeric and mint, thickened with yogurt and egg yolks, a Isfahan specialty served cold or warm.

🇦🇲Gyumri, Armenia

Khurjin

Խուրջին

Meat and vegetable stew cooked and served inside a pouch of lavash tied at the neck like a saddlebag, which gives it the name.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Kik Alicha

ክክ አልጫ

A mild yellow split-pea stew, fragrant with turmeric, garlic and ginger. One of the most popular dishes on a fasting beyaynetu platter and a beloved comfort food across Ethiopia.

🇺🇬Uganda

Kikalayi

A Ugandan one-pot meat and vegetable preparation served with matooke or another starch.

🇰🇷South Korea

Kimchi Stew

김치찌개

A hearty stew made with well-fermented kimchi, pork, tofu, and scallions in a spicy, tangy broth, one of Korea's most common daily dishes.

🇯🇵Tohoku, Japan

Kiritanpo Nabe

きりたんぽ鍋

Akita's hot pot with rice cylinders (kiritanpo), jidori chicken, burdock, and maitake mushrooms.

🇰🇳Saint Kitts and Nevis

Kittitian Stewed Chicken

Stewed Chicken

Chicken marinated in green seasoning, then browned and stewed with tomatoes, onions, and local spices; a staple of Kittitian home cooking; served with rice, provisions, or macaroni pie; a hearty, flavourful main dish; the stewed chicken of Saint Kitts and Nevis; a Caribbean comfort food; a Sunday lunch staple.

🇰🇳Saint Kitts and Nevis

Kittitian Stewed Saltfish

Stewed Saltfish

Salt cod stewed with onions, peppers, tomatoes, and aromatics in the Kittitian breakfast style; spicy plantains, coconut dumplings, and seasoned breadfruit are served alongside. Kittitian stewed saltfish is served with accompaniments rather than named as one combined platter.

🇦🇴Angola

Kizaka

Cassava leaves pounded fine and cooked slowly with ground peanuts, palm oil and dried fish.

🇬🇷Greece

Kokkinisto

Κοκκινιστό

Tomato-braised meat (beef or lamb).

🇨🇾Cyprus

Kolokasi

Κολοκάσι

Taro corms cut with a knife into rough chunks, browned and stewed with pork or chicken, celery, tomato and lemon.

🇲🇰North Macedonia

Kompir Mandža

Компир манџа

Potatoes stewed with pork or beef, onion and paprika into a thick, brick-red everyday stew.

🇨🇲Cameroon

Kondrè

Unripe plantains stewed whole with goat meat, garlic, ginger and a heavy blend of western-highland spices until the plantain absorbs the sauce.

🇧🇪Belgium

Konijn in het zuur

Konijn in het zuur is rabbit braised until tender in a sharp sweet-sour Belgian sauce.