Stews

🇵🇭Philippines

Blood Stew

Dinuguan

Pork meat and offal stewed in pig's blood with vinegar and garlic, also known as 'chocolate meat'.

🇸🇸South Sudan

Blood Stew

Tama

Traditional Mundari and Dinka dish made from fresh cattle blood, sometimes mixed with milk or meat; the blood is collected from living cattle and cooked into a dark, iron-rich stew; a survival food and cultural marker of cattle-herding tribes; not for the faint-hearted.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Bo Kho

Bò kho

Aromatic Vietnamese beef stew with diced beef, carrots, lemongrass, cinnamon, and star anise in a rich, spicy broth, served with baguette or noodles.

🇧🇷Bahia, Brazil

Bobó de Camarão

A creamy Bahian stew of shrimp and cassava puree thickened with coconut milk and dendê oil, seasoned with tomatoes, peppers, and cilantro.

🇺🇦Transcarpathia, Ukraine

Bograch

Бограч

Bograch is a Transcarpathian goulash made with several kinds of meat, paprika, and vegetables, cooked in a cauldron over a fire.

🇸🇮Prekmurje, Slovenia

Bograč

Prekmurje's cauldron stew of three meats — beef, pork and game or venison — with onion, paprika and potato, cooked outdoors over a fire for hours.

🇳🇿New Zealand

Boil-Up

Pork bones or brisket boiled with pūhā, watercress, potato and kūmara, with flour dumplings dropped in near the end.

🇸🇹Sao Tome and Principe

Boiled Pork

Carne de Porco

Santomean boiled pork dish; pork cooked with tomato, spinach, onion, garlic, and spices; a hearty, flavorful stew; served with rice or funge; a traditional home-cooked meal; the pork that reflects Portuguese influence; slow-cooked until tender; a common dish in rural Sao Tome.

🇬🇶Bioko (Island / Malabo), Equatorial Guinea

Bokao

A Bioko Island traditional dish of grin/watalif leaves, spinach, chard, eggplant or djakato, smoked fish, sardines, and palm oil; high in nutritional value, especially for pregnant women.

🇨🇺Cuba

Boliche

A Cuban beef round roast stuffed with chorizo, bacon, and vegetables, braised in a tomato-onion sauce until tender.

🇪🇸Valencian Community, Spain

Bollit

Bollit is a Valencian boiled-vegetable dish of potatoes, onions, carrots, and green beans, dressed with olive oil and vinegar and sometimes served with egg.

🇫🇷France

Bombine

Bombine is an Ardèche potato stew combining potatoes, onions, herbs, and meat in a slow-cooked rustic preparation.

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Baka Stobá

Stoba di Baka

Beef stew with an Antillean twist; made with beef cubes, vegetables, and spices in a hearty sauce; often served with rice or tutu (funchi with black beans and brown sugar)

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Black-Eyed Bean Stew

Stoba di Boonchi Wowo Pretu

A vegan stew made with black-eyed peas (zwarte oogbonen), onions, celery, garlic, tomatoes, cumin, coriander, paprika, cinnamon, and basil; served with rice and crispy bread cubes; a traditional Bonairean dish

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Kabritu Stobá

Stoba di Kabritu

Bonaire's national dish and food; slow-cooked goat meat simmered for hours with onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, local herbs (yerba di hole, oregano, thyme), lime juice, and spices; meat falls off the bone with rich savory flavor; traditionally served with funchi and bana hasa

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Stoba di Karko

Karko Stobá

A traditional Bonairean stew made with conch (karko), vegetables, and spices; conch is tenderized before cooking

🇲🇷Mauritania

Bonava

Lamb and potato stew with onions, bay leaves, white vinegar, and peanut oil; optionally spiced with chili; sometimes cooked buried in desert sand; a nomadic Moor dish eaten across Mauritania.

🇺🇸United States

Booyah

A thick, hearty stew of beef, chicken, and vegetables simmered for hours in huge kettles for community gatherings in the Upper Midwest.

🇮🇹Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

Boreto alla graisana

In Friuli, Boreto alla graisana is Grado fish stew with mixed fish, garlic, vinegar, and oil.

🇧🇦Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosanski Lonac

Layers of meat and whole vegetables — cabbage, potato, carrot, tomato, garlic — packed upright in a tall earthenware pot and cooked for hours without stirring.

🇧🇼Botswana

Botswana Beef Stew

Chotlho

Traditional Botswana beef stew — beef cooked with vegetables and spices in a three-legged pot over open fire; richer and more seasoned than seswaa, with onions, tomatoes, and spices added.

🇳🇨New Caledonia

Bougna

The emblematic Kanak dish and national dish of New Caledonia; root vegetables (taro, yam, sweet potato), banana, and chicken, fish, or lobster wrapped in banana leaves with coconut milk; slow-cooked in an underground stone oven with red-hot rocks for about two hours; the word bougna comes from the Drehu word 'puhnya' meaning 'bundle'; served at Kanak festivals; a TasteAtlas-listed listed preparati

🇫🇷Marseille, France

Bouillabaisse

Provencal fish stew from Marseille with saffron, multiple fish varieties, and rouille.

🇬🇷Ionian Islands, Greece

Bourdeto

Μπουρδέτο

A Corfu fish stew of local fish, potatoes, and a spicy red pepper sauce, served with bread. A Venetian-origin island specialty, spicy and savory, a fisherman's dish, a Corfiot classic, a seafood stew.

🇫🇷Occitanie, France

Bourride

Bourride is a Mediterranean fish stew, commonly monkfish, finished with an aioli-thickened broth and served warm.

🇬🇷Ionian Islands, Greece

Boutridia

Μπουτιδιά

A Corfu stew of beef braised slowly with tomatoes, garlic and cinnamon, served over thick pasta at family tables.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Bozartma

Lamb or chicken stewed with onion, tomato and potato in a covered pot until the sauce reduces around the meat.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Bozen Shiro Wat

ቦዘነ ሽሮ ወጥ

A 'fancier' version of shiro made by adding tender pieces of beef to the chickpea-flour stew. The word bozena playfully means 'lazy' — a one-pot wonder that delivers maximum flavor with minimal effort.

🇮🇹Campania, Italy

Braciole Napoletane

Neapolitan beef rolls stuffed with pine nuts, raisins, pecorino, and garlic, slow-simmered in Sunday ragù. Eaten with the ragù or as a secondo.

🇰🇷Andong, South Korea

Braised Chicken

찜닭

Chicken braised with glass noodles, potatoes, carrots, and onions in a sweet soy sauce, a comforting and hearty dish.

🇰🇷South Korea

Braised Cutlassfish

갈치조림

Cutlassfish (beltfish) braised with radish, potatoes, and onions in a sweet and spicy gochujang sauce, a Jeju specialty.

🇲🇲Myanmar

Braised Goat

ဆိတ်သားနှပ်

Goat braised with masala, garlic and dried chilli until the meat pulls apart, an Indian-Burmese dish sold at Muslim restaurants.

🇰🇵North Korea

Braised Pig's Feet

족발

Pig's legs braised in soy sauce, ginger, garlic, and rice wine until tender and glossy, sliced and served with salted shrimp sauce.

🇪🇸Spain

Braised Pork Cheeks

Carrillada

Pork cheeks slow-braised in red wine or a rich sauce until meltingly tender, a popular tapa and main dish across Spain.

🇵🇭Philippines

Braised Pork Hock

Pata Tim

A pork hock braised in soy sauce, star anise, and sugar until tender, Chinese-Filipino in origin.

🇰🇷South Korea

Braised Potatoes

감자조림

Small potatoes braised in a soy sauce, sugar, and corn syrup glaze until tender and glossy, a sweet-savory banchan.