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Dish of the week: Holubtsi

147 Tomato Recipes From 69 Cuisines.

Native to the Americas and now indispensable from Naples to Mumbai. Fresh tomatoes are for salads and salsas; canned ones — picked ripe — usually beat fresh for sauces and stews outside high summer. Roasting or charring concentrates their sweetness, a trick Mexican salsas and Balkan ajvar-style spreads both rely on. Acidity is their real gift: a tomato brightens everything it touches.

147 recipes on this route

The recipes.

Shallow dish of sliced ripe tomatoes with paper-thin onion rings, green chilli and purple basil leaves

Uzbekistan25 min

Achichuk

Uzbek Tomato and Onion Salad

Pan of yellow ackee arils folded with flaked salt cod, sliced onion, red pepper strips and thyme

Jamaica12 hr 45 min

Ackee and Saltfish

Ackee Fruit with Salt Cod

Bowl of Algerian chorba frik, a rust-coloured lamb and freekeh soup scattered with coriander and dried mint

Algeria1 hr 30 min

Algerian Chorba Frik

Lamb and Freekeh Soup

Bowl of Maltese aljotta fish broth with rice, flakes of white fish, tomato and fresh mint

Malta1 hr 20 min

Aljotta

Maltese Garlic and Tomato Fish Broth

Golden-brown fried plantain slices piled on a plate with chopped onion, tomato and chilli relish

Ivory Coast35 min

Alloco

Ivorian Fried Ripe Plantain

Golden fried Sicilian arancini, one broken open to show saffron rice, meat ragù, peas and melted mozzarella

Italy6 hr 10 min

Arancini

Sicilian Fried Stuffed Rice Balls

Deep pot of soupy orange seafood rice with open clams, mussels and prawns and chopped coriander

Portugal1 hr 10 min

Arroz de Marisco

Portuguese Soupy Seafood Rice

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

Golden fried Cameroonian beignets piled next to a bowl of soupy red bean stew glossy with palm oil

Cameroon3 hr 35 min

Beignets Haricots

Cameroonian Fritters with Bean Stew

Tall Caesar cocktail over ice with a celery salt rim, leafy celery stalk and lime wedge

Canada5 min

Bloody Caesar

Canadian Clamato and Vodka Cocktail

Bowl of thick Bulgarian white bean soup with carrot and pepper, red paprika oil floating on the surface

Bulgaria10 hr 10 min

Bob Chorba

Bulgarian Bean Soup with Savory and Mint

Sliced Maltese beef olives showing pork and egg filling, in a dark tomato and wine sauce

Malta2 hr 20 min

Braġioli

Maltese Beef Olives with Egg and Bacon

Every recipe on this route.

All 147 of them, alphabetically, with the country each one comes from.

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