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Dish of the week: Holubtsi

46 Lemon Recipes From 29 Cuisines.

The Mediterranean’s all-purpose brightener — juice for dressings, marinades and finishing, zest for the concentrated perfume that lives in the peel’s oils. A squeeze at the end of cooking wakes up soups, grilled fish, and vegetables in a way salt alone cannot. Zest before juicing, always. Preserved in salt, lemons become a North African staple with an entirely different, mellow intensity.

46 recipes on this route

The recipes.

Bowl of Nepali aloo ko achar with yellow-dressed potato chunks, cucumber batons and chopped cilantro

Nepal1 hr 5 min

Aloo ko Achar

Nepali Sesame Potato Pickle

Whole roast Balochi sajji chicken with crisp golden skin resting on a mound of cumin rice with lemon wedges

Pakistan5 hr 40 min

Balochi Sajji

Salt-Cured Whole Roast Chicken

A pot of Iraqi bamia with whole okra pods and chunks of lamb in a glossy red tomato broth

Iraq2 hr

Bamia

Iraqi Okra and Lamb Stew

Split king prawns charring shell-down on a barbecue plate, garlic butter bubbling in the cut backs with lemon wedges nearby

Australia28 min

Barbecued Prawns

Garlic Butter King Prawns

Sliced carpetbag steak on a wooden board showing plump oysters inside the pink medium-rare beef, butter spooned over

Australia48 min

Carpetbag Steak

Oyster-Stuffed Grilled Sirloin

Chicken tagine with slivered preserved lemon rind and green olives in a golden saffron sauce

Morocco2 hr

Chicken Tagine with Preserved Lemon and Olives

Oval Bengali chomchom sweets dusted with milk crumbs, resting in a shallow pool of sugar syrup

Bangladesh3 hr 30 min

Chomchom

Porabari Syrup-Soaked Cheese Sweet

Shallow earthenware dish of pale set custard under a cracked amber burnt sugar crust with a spoon breaking through

Spain4 hr 35 min

Crema Catalana

Catalan Lemon and Cinnamon Custard

Golden fried Cypriot daktyla pastry fingers glossy with lemon syrup and scattered sesame seeds on a rack

Cyprus1 hr 45 min

Daktyla

Cypriot Almond-Filled Pastry Fingers in Syrup

Chopped charred lamb pieces on paper covered with pale softened onions, torn baguette beside the tray

Senegal2 hr 50 min

Dibi

Senegalese Charcoal-Grilled Lamb with Onions

Wide bowl of warm crushed fava beans topped with olive oil, diced tomato and parsley beside flatbread

Lebanon25 min

Foul Mudammas

Warm Fava Bean Breakfast

Bowl of golden craggy fritule fritters heaped under a thick dusting of icing sugar

Croatia1 hr 40 min

Fritule

Dalmatian Rum and Citrus Fritters

Every recipe on this route.

All 46 of them, alphabetically, with the country each one comes from.

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