Stews

🇪🇸Asturias, Spain

Asturian Beans with Clams

Fabes con almejas

Asturian white beans with clams.

🇪🇸Asturias, Spain

Asturian Beef Stew

Carne Gobernada

Carne gobernada is an Asturian beef stew slowly cooked with onion, garlic, white wine, and stock until tender.

🇪🇸Asturias, Spain

Asturian Pot

Pote asturiano

A hearty Asturian winter stew with white beans, cabbage, potatoes, and smoked pork products including chorizo, morcilla, and lacon.

🇬🇫French Guiana

Awara Soup

Awarasoep

Pulp scraped from the orange awara palm fruit, cooked for a day with smoked fish, salted meat, chicken and vegetables into a thick Easter stew.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Ayam Buah Keluak

Peranakan chicken stew built on buah keluak, the fermented nut of the kepayang tree, cracked and scooped out to make a black, earthy.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Ayam Masak Merah

Chicken cooked in tomato-based spicy gravy, red tomato-based sauce with tender chicken and balanced sweet-spicy flavor.

🇲🇾Malacca, Malaysia

Ayam Pongteh

Chicken stew with fermented soybean paste, potatoes, and mushrooms, tender chicken with balanced salty-sweet flavor and soft potatoes.

🇹🇬Togo

Azi Kokui

A traditional Togolese dish of boiled yam or cassava dressed with a richly spiced palm-oil sauce; starchy, filling, and deeply flavoured with smoked fish or meat.

🇫🇷France

Azinat

Azinat is an Ariège cabbage stew combining greens, potatoes, beans, and pork or sausage in a hearty broth.

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

Babenda

A Mossi specialty one-pot dish of bitter greens (spinach, kale, sorrel), fermented locust beans (soumbala), rice, and smoked or dried fish; the bitterness of the greens is balanced by the umami of the soumbala.

🇳🇴Norway

Bacalao

A Norwegian fish casserole of klippfisk (clipfish) with tomatoes, red peppers, olive oil, onions, and potatoes, a Spanish-origin dish adapted to Norway. A coastal and festive classic, rich and savory, a national and home dish, a casserole.

🇮🇹Veneto, Italy

Baccalà alla Vicentina

Vicenza's signature: stockfish (air-dried cod) slow-simmered with milk, onion, celery, and olive oil until silky. Served with polenta.

🇫🇷Alsace, France

Baeckeoffe

Alsatian potato and meat casserole with three meats, slow-cooked in a sealed pot.

🇨🇻Cape Verde

Bafa

Quick-cooked pork or seafood dish marinated in vinegar and spices, served as an entrée or main, often shared with beer, wine, or grogue at gatherings.

🇧🇭Bahrain

Bahraini Jireesh

جريش

Mash of cooked spelt with chicken or lamb, tomatoes, and spices — a comforting Bahraini grain dish, similar to harees but with spelt and a coarser texture.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Pepperpot

Pepperpot

A deeply savory Barbadian stew of meat (often pork, beef, or offal) cooked down with cassareep, a concentrated cassava syrup, plus hot peppers and spices.

🇸🇮Slovenian Littoral, Slovenia

Bakalca

A traditional sauce from Idrija made from mutton or rabbit, vegetables and spices, slow-cooked into a rich ragù served over idrijski žlikrofi.

🇷🇴Romania

Baked Beans

Iahnie de fasole

White beans slow-cooked with onion, tomato and garlic until the sauce turns thick and sticky, often with smoked pork.

🇱🇦Laos

Bamboo Shoot Stew

ແກງໜໍ່ໄມ້

Fresh bamboo shoots stewed with yanang leaf juice, mushroom, gourd and padaek into a thick green soup.

🇬🇶Río Muni Interior (Kie-Ntem / Wele-Nzas / Centro Sur), Equatorial Guinea

Bambucha

Fang signature stew of crushed cassava leaves simmered with palm kernel juice, palm oil, spices, chili, and often smoked fish or meat; the leaves are toxic when raw and must be thoroughly cooked.

🇪🇬Egypt

Bamia

بامية

A Egyptian okra stew with beef or lamb in tomato and garlic sauce, a daily and home classic

🇸🇸South Sudan

Bamia wa Lahm

Bamia

South Sudanese okra stew with meat in an onion-tomato base; okra pods simmered until the stew thickens to a silky consistency; goat or beef used; flavored with garlic and spices; served with asida or kisra; roots in Middle Eastern cooking.

🇬🇷Greece

Bamies

Μπάμιες

Greek okra stew of okra, tomatoes, onions, and olive oil, simmered until tender. A ladera classic, tangy and savory, served with bread and feta, a summer and island dish.

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bamija

Okra stewed with lamb or beef and tomato, soured at the end with lemon or vinegar to stop the pods going slimy.

🇸🇸South Sudan

Bamiya

Okra simmered with meat, onion and tomato in a South Sudanese home-style stew.

🇲🇷Senegal River Valley (Trarza / Gorgol / Guidimaka), Mauritania

Banaf

Meat and vegetable stew of lamb, potatoes, carrots, and turnips cooked in peanut oil; a Wolof-influenced dish from southern Mauritania, simpler than mafé but using the same peanut oil base.

🇸🇹Sao Tome and Principe

Banana Stew

Maqueque

Traditional Santomean dish of green bananas cooked in a stew; bananas simmered with onions, tomatoes, and palm oil; sometimes with fish or meat; a hearty, starchy dish; served as a main or side; a UN Tourism-listed gastronomy must; the banana stew of Sao Tome.

🇿🇲Zambia

Banana Stew

Chikwamba

Zambian dish of green bananas cooked in coconut or peanut sauce; a vegetarian relish served with nshima; green bananas used as a starchy vegetable; a unique way to use unripe bananas; earthy and filling; a regional specialty; the banana stew of Zambia.

🇲🇽Mexico

Barbacoa

Meat, traditionally lamb or goat, slow-steamed underground in maguey leaves until juicy, then served with consommé and tortillas.

🇫🇷France

Barboton

Barboton is a Saint-Étienne potato stew of sliced potatoes, onions, and braised meat seasoned for a rustic meal.

🇨🇻Cape Verde

Barnacle Stew

Guisado de Percebes

Gooseneck barnacles steamed in a pot and served in their own broth, eaten by cracking the shell and peeling the skin to reveal the meat.

🇧🇷Parana, Brazil

Barreado

A slow-cooked meat stew from Paraná, traditionally layered in a clay pot sealed with a flour paste and simmered for hours with bacon and spices.

🇸🇸South Sudan

Basico

A South Sudanese savoury stew of meat, onion and local spice served with a staple starch.

🇪🇸Basque Country, Spain

Basque Tuna Stew

Marmitako

A fisherman's stew from the Basque Country with tuna, potatoes, onions, peppers, and tomatoes, originally made aboard fishing boats.

🇮🇩North Sumatra, Indonesia

Batak Blood Stew

Saksang

Batak pork stew cooked in blood and fiery spices, ceremonial dish for special occasions.

🇹🇱Timor-Leste

Batar Da'an

A popular Timorese vegetarian stew of corn, mung beans, and pumpkin (squash), sautéed with onions and garlic; seasoned simply with salt and pepper; traditionally enjoyed as a main course accompanied by rice, or as a side with meat or fish; cooked most often around the corn harvest; reflects the agrarian culture of Timor-Leste.