#comfort

9 viral recipes tagged #comfort.

• French · Soup · 90 min

  French Onion Soup

  Deeply caramelized onions, dark beef stock, Gruyère melted over a toasted baguette crouton. Sixty minutes mostly hands-off.

• Japanese · Main course · 15 min

  Oyakodon — Chicken & Egg Rice Bowl

  Chicken thigh and onion simmered in dashi-soy-mirin until tender, finished with just-set scrambled egg, spooned over hot short-grain rice. Fifteen minutes, deeply comforting.

• Greek · Soup · 55 min

  Avgolemono — Greek Lemon Chicken Rice Soup

  Stock thickened by eggs and lemon into a velvety, faintly tangy broth, with shreds of poached chicken and tender rice. The cure for grey weather, hangovers, and grief.

• Ukrainian · Soup · 120 min

  Borscht — Beet & Cabbage Soup

  Deep ruby, sweet-sour and savory, with tender beef, beets, cabbage, and potato. Finished with a swirl of sour cream and a shower of dill. The hearty bowl that defines Ukrainian and Eastern European home cooking.

• British · Main course · 80 min

  Shepherd's Pie

  The British comfort classic: savory minced lamb in a rich gravy with vegetables, blanketed in creamy mashed potato and baked until the peaks turn golden and crisp. Pure Sunday-night warmth.

• Hungarian · Soup / Stew · 150 min

  Hungarian Goulash (Gulyás)

  Not the thick stew the rest of the world calls goulash — the real Hungarian gulyás is a soup: tender beef and potato in a paprika-stained broth, deeply warming, built on a foundation of slowly sweated onions and a mountain of sweet paprika.

• Polish · Main course · 90 min

  Pierogi Ruskie — Polish Potato & Cheese Dumplings

  Poland's most beloved dumpling: tender hand-pinched dough wrapped around a filling of mashed potato and farmer's cheese, boiled then pan-fried in butter, and finished with golden caramelized onions. Comfort food worth the afternoon.

• Swedish · Main course · 50 min

  Köttbullar — Swedish Meatballs

  Small, tender meatballs of beef and pork bound with milk-soaked breadcrumbs and a hint of warm spice, pan-fried and folded into a silky cream gravy. Served with mash, lingonberry, and pickled cucumber — the Swedish Sunday plate.

• Egyptian · Main course · 70 min

  Koshari — Egyptian Lentils, Rice & Pasta

  Egypt's beloved street-food national dish: a carb-on-carb marvel of rice, lentils, and macaroni layered with a spiced tomato sauce, a sharp garlic-vinegar daqqa, chickpeas, and a crown of crispy fried onions. Entirely vegan, endlessly comforting.