The USA, Thailand, Mexico and even Poland are among the countries whose dishes are included in the TOP 50. But Ukraine was not even mentioned. However, this is not discrimination. It's just that when compiling the rating, CNN was interested in the opinion of its employees and people associated with the publication.

Most of the dishes in the ranking are the national delicacies of the countries of the East - Thailand, Japan and Singapore. There was a place for everyone's favorite pizza, donuts and hamburgers. The first place was taken by the Thai dish - massaman curry, and the last - the favorite of all America - popcorn.

In 2011, the news agency already published a similar rating. Now it has been reformatted, finalized - and again put on public display.

This is a crispy roll of rice dough, which is wrapped in fragrant mashed potatoes. The dish is served with coconut chutney, pickled cucumbers, tomato-lentil sauce and many other condiments. This is a great breakfast that will fill you up until lunch.

48. Potato chips, UK

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Legend has it that the chips appeared in 1853 in New York, but in the cookbook of William Kitchener - the inventor of the telescope, musician and culinary specialist - a recipe for potatoes fried in slices, dated 1817.

"If a piece of chips cost at least $5, then it would be a much more popular delicacy than red caviar," the journalists joke.

47. Seafood paella, Spain

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The sea caresses your feet, the warm breeze shakes the tablecloth at your feet and the paella pan smokes in front of you. The combination of shrimp, lobster, mussels and cuttlefish with white rice and various herbs, oil and salt will immediately set you in the festive mood. If you try it in Spain, you will stay there forever.

This popular Thai salad includes green beans, grated green papaya, dried shrimp, tomatoes and glutinous rice. It is seasoned with a complex sauce of tamarind, fish sauce, sugar cane paste, garlic and other ingredients. Crab meat is sometimes added, but nothing beats the original recipe.

45. Chicken and Rice, Singapore

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It is often referred to as the national dish of Singapore. The meat is steamed and served with rice and vegetables drizzled with oil. Acute sensations and Singaporean mood are added by sauces - dark soy, chili with garlic and mustard.

In French, this word is spelled Poutine and has nothing to do with .... that same politician. Poutine (with emphasis on the second syllable) is french fries with cheese and brown sauce based on beef meat juice. Sounds terrible, looks even worse. But Canadians say that this is "the right thing" for a couple of beers in the afternoon.

Fresh homemade tortilla with fried beef and guacamole, salsa, onion and coriander sauces is the perfect solution for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

42. Buttered toast with marmite, UK.

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Okay, anything that has the word "oily" in its name tastes good. But the addition of a spread of yeast extract adds a touch of spicy-salty-sour taste. This is one of the tastes from the "love-hate" category.

41. Stinky tofu, Southeast Asia

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Durian - stinky tofu - is an icon of Asian cuisine. Its smell will not disappear from the nostrils for a whole month. But it's worth the risk.

This is not a fake soy and almond essence. Only almonds and sugar. You will eat a whole tile at a time and not notice how you reach for another.

Let's face it. Ketchup can convince a 2 year old to eat carrots. For this, he should already be given the title not just "tasty", but "the genius of persuasion."

38. French toast, Hong Kong

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It's like a well-done hug. Two slices of toasted bread are glued together with peanut butter, rolled in an egg and toasted. Served with butter and syrup.

37. Parmesan Chicken, Australia

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Chicken fillet topped with melted mozzarella, tomato-garlic sauce and Parmesan has long been a favorite among local pub-goers.

A paste made from chickpeas, tahini, garlic and lemon juice pairs equally well with meats, vegetables and beans. Why they love her

There are dozens of ways to cook crab with chili sauce - with black pepper, salted egg yolk, baked with cheese and the like. But it will always be delicious.

Maple syrup is a symbol of Canada. Americans say that eating a pancake without wedges is like eating a cardboard box. Canadians add it everywhere - even in broccoli for children. Just not in cardboard boxes.

33. Fish and chips, UK.

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Deep-fried battered fish garnished with french fries became the national dish of Great Britain in the 1860s. Popularized as food for factory workers. It was the first English fast food. It is traditionally eaten on a Friday evening. This is something similar to the Soviet tradition, when Thursday was a fish day.

32. Ankimo, Japan

This is a monkfish liver dish garnished with grated daikon. One of the most delicious and most exotic types of sushi. But sea devils are dying out due to a significant catch, so the dish will soon disappear from the menu of Japanese restaurants.

31. Parma ham, Italy.

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It is served with melon, added to salads and pizza - no matter what you serve Parma ham with, the salty spicy taste will make the dish elite.

30. Goi Cuon (summer rolls), Vietnam

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Rice-paper-wrapped pork, shrimp, herbs, rice vermicelli, and other ingredients make up rolls that simply melt in your mouth. Add a spicy peanut sauce to this and you will swallow your tongue.

29. Steak Omi-gyu

They call it the "Rolls Royce" of steaks. It is made from very expensive marbled beef and should be eaten very exquisitely - in the form of sashimi - thinly sliced ​​\u200b\u200bpieces of raw meat and feel how the marble streaks of fat melt in your mouth. You can season with kaffir lime juice and sea salt with matcha tea.

Broth, fresh rice noodles, several types of herbs and usually chicken or beef - plain and simple.

The pig is baked on charcoal for several hours - so that the meat is soft and the skin is crispy. Prepare it for the holidays throughout the year

It's easy to prepare. 1) Make the meat sizzle in the pan. 2) Wrap the fried meat, paprika, onion, guacamole, sour cream and salsa in a warm tortilla. 3) Promise everyone that you will make another roll. 4) Repeat all over again.

25. Garlic Butter Crab, India

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A huge crab is drowning in an oil-garlic sauce that soaks every centimeter of shell, every gram of flesh. Indian, Chinese and European cuisines challenge this dish. But all in vain. This dish came from Buttered Paradise, which rests on a single commandment: everything tastes better with melted butter.

24. Champ, Ireland.

It's mashed potatoes with green onions, butter, salt and pepper. Delicious champ can be tasted at the busiest coastal restaurant.

The second most popular Italian dish. And what's so amazing - pasta, meat, sauce and cheese.

Raw fish salad. The dish originated in Hawaii when one of the fishermen wondered what to do with the scraps.

Puff pastry topped with butter - soft on the inside and crispy on the outside, smeared with a huge amount of raspberry jam. Here is a real pleasure - to drive your teeth into this warm fragrant treat.

Corn dough fritters with a wide variety of fillings: cheese, shredded chicken, fried pork skin, perico (scrambled eggs with tomatoes and onions), beef, tomatoes, avocado.

Despite the name, there is no rabbit meat in the dish (English bunny - a young rabbit). This is a quarter or half of a loaf of bread in which curry soup is served. Invented in the Indian community in Durban, it migrated to Africa and took root there.

18. Shish Kebab, Middle East

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This is a small skewers on wooden skewers. It is usually made from lamb, but other meats such as beef, chicken, or even swordfish can also be used. Served with rice and vegetables.

In Michelin-starred restaurants, lobsters are opened for the convenience of customers. But everyone else knows how to eat lobsters and crayfish.

16. Pastel de Nata, Portugal

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Tartlets with egg custard. Legend has it that Portuguese nuns and a monk used the egg whites to care for religious clothing, and the remaining yolks were used for baking, including this sinfully delicious pie.

And now it's embarrassing to the core! If the fact that a roasted pig - a symbol of Ukrainian holidays - was given to Indonesia, could still be somehow endured, then that's just it! Why are Polish pies better than Ukrainian dumplings?

No one doubts that donuts are a calorie bomb. But that makes them like it even more.

13. Boiled corn, worldwide

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Americans joke that God created corn to justify melted butter - after all, it is served with it. Gnawing on an ear of corn is a very difficult task that requires concentration. But few people think that at this time it resembles a caveman.

12. Piri Piri Chicken, Mozambique

Real chicken is cooked with lime, pepper, garlic, coconut milk and piri-piri sauce. By the way, piri-piri is the Portuguese name for the familiar chili pepper.

One of the favorite Thai soups. It contains shrimp, mushrooms, tomatoes, lemongrass, galangal leaves and kaffir. Usually topped with coconut milk and cream

7.Penang asam laksa, Malaysia

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Pasta, tamarind, chili, mint, lemongrass, onion, pineapple - all in a spicy-sour fish noodle broth.

If the Japanese want to do something practical, they do it. Toyota, Nintendo, Sony, Nikon and Yamaha were created by people who fed their brains on raw fish wrapped in rice.

The Maya drank it, Lasse Hallström made a film about it, and everyone else just enjoys eating chocolate. Without it, a holiday is no longer a holiday.

2. Neapolitan pizza, Italy

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It is currently protected by its own trade association, which insists on using only sea salt, high quality wheat flour, only three types of fresh tomatoes, hand-rolled dough and wood-fired baking only. With only a few ingredients - dough, tomatoes, olive oil, salt and basil (the pizza does not even contain cheese).

Spicy, with hints of coconut flavor and aroma, sweetish and juicy. The king of all curries and perhaps the king of all food.

Malaysian artist Zakaria Hazel paints pictures on food plates and cups. Instead of paints, she uses only natural ingredients such as turmeric, tea, activated charcoal.

How many nationalities in the world, so many national cuisines exist. For this reason, in general, there is no point in organizing a competition for the most delicious dish in the world.

Open championship

Firstly, it can sow enmity between culinary specialists from different countries, and our main task, on the contrary, is to unite efforts. Secondly, as they say, what is good for a Russian is not so good for a German. This means in terms of cooking that every nation has a favorite dish, which is sometimes not quite suitable for eating by representatives of other nationalities. Therefore, speaking about what is the most delicious dish in the world, you need to keep in mind a long menu of all sorts of dishes popular in different parts of the globe. What we will try to consider in this article.

Popularity Secret

The CNN agency has compiled a kind of top of the most delicious dishes in the world. This list includes traditional dishes from various countries and peoples, especially popular and considered the best: Peking duck, Japanese sushi, Italian pizza, Turkish kebab, Spanish paella, Mexican tacos, etc. The rating of the most delicious dishes in the world suggests that the secret of popularity lies in the prevalence not only within the historical homeland, but also in many other countries. True, sometimes, in order to cook food according to the original recipe, it is necessary to use local ingredients that are not quite available in another region. These 50 most delicious dishes in the world include Swiss fondue, and Ukrainian borscht, and a hamburger, and even potato chips - it's impossible to list everything. Here are the recipes for just a few of them.

Japanese most delicious dish in the world

Of course, this is sushi (rolls, sashimi). They are rightfully part of Eastern culture and philosophy. Making sushi is both a science and a rather lengthy ceremony. Many Japanese recipes are based on rice and seafood with the addition of specific seasonings and spices. So, for cooking we need the following ingredients:

Cooking sushi (rolls)

Cook rice (two cups of cereal to two cups of water) until tender, so that the liquid boils away completely. We fill the cooled rice with Japanese vinegar, without turning it into porridge. All this can be done with a wooden spatula.

Next, on a special bamboo mat, put a sheet of nori with pimples up. On it - an even thin layer of rice. Top with some wasabi (be careful as this product is very spicy). Trout and avocados (or fresh cucumbers) are cut into thin slices and put in the middle of the structure so that the folding process can be carried out. Using a bamboo mat, tightly twist the roll blank. After that, with a thin sharp knife, after wetting it in water, we cut the resulting sausage into portions (several centimeters in height).

The most delicious Italian dish in the world

Lasagna is a famous dish on the Italian menu, which has gained worldwide popularity. To prepare it, you need to buy special sheets of dough, which are now sold in any large supermarket in the department where flour and pasta are presented.

Ingredients: 250 grams of a kilogram of minced meat, a pound of tomatoes, 200 grams of onions, 150 grams of carrots, a few cloves of garlic, one liter of milk, 100 grams of butter, 100 grams of flour, 300 grams of hard cheese, 50 grams of Parmesan cheese, lean oil, salt and pepper to taste.

Finely chop the onion and garlic. Grate the carrots coarsely. Remove the peel from the tomatoes and rub them coarsely (you can also process them in a blender). Fry the onion and garlic in vegetable oil (preferably olive oil) in a pan with a non-stick coating. That's where the carrots are. It is also lightly fried. Next, add minced meat to the resulting mixture in the pan. Fry for about twenty minutes. At the end, add the tomatoes, mix and simmer for another five minutes. It turned out a fragrant filling.

Cooking bechamel

Not a single self-respecting hostess who is going to cook the most delicious Italian dish in the world can do without this sauce (photo attached).

Melt the butter in a small saucepan. Add flour, mix, lightly fry. Pour in the milk, stirring so that no lumps form. Stir until the consistency of thick sour cream. Nutmeg (powder) and salt can be added to the prepared sauce.

lasagna

In a large baking dish, greased with oil, lay out the sheets of dough (some of them are lightly boiled beforehand, but they will cook well due to the juice released by the dish). On the sheets lay out half the minced meat, stewed in advance. We coat with the third part of the bechamel sauce. large. Sprinkle half on top. Cover again with lasagne sheets. And we repeat the sequence of actions: meat filling, bechamel, cheese. We cover the structure with sheets of dough on top, coat with the remaining sauce, sprinkle with parmesan. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for about forty-five minutes, until tender. The lasagna should be well browned. This is how it turns out (according to the Italian version) the most delicious dish in the world, the recipe and photo of which are presented in this article. By the way, cooked lasagna can be served with tomato sauce, which is prepared very simply. In olive oil, fry the onion (100 grams) and garlic (a couple of cloves). 300 grams of tomatoes are peeled, cut and stewed together with onions and garlic for about five minutes. Add spices - the sauce is ready. They can be watered with fragrant lasagna.

Taco

I must say, in different countries, chefs imagine the most delicious dish in the world in different ways. The recipe for one of them, Mexican, will be put into execution without delay.

Taco (taco - stress on the first syllable) is a traditional dish of Latin America (and Mexico in particular). It consists of a flatbread (tortillas) and stuffing placed inside. Sauce is also served. Since there are no special restrictions, the filling is supposed to be varied. Baking cakes is basically the same everywhere. In order to prepare this most delicious dish in the world, the recipe of which is given below, you first need to bake the base - cakes.

Tortillas

Ingredients: two cups of corn flour, a small spoonful of salt, a pinch of soda, baking powder, a large spoonful of cooking margarine. We are preparing the usual dough, which is suitable, for example, in consistency and for dumplings. From it we form small balls. From them we make cakes with a diameter of about 20 centimeters and a thickness of two millimeters. Fry them in a non-stick pan without oil. After frying each, we sweep the flour from the pan, otherwise it will burn! We keep ready-made semi-finished products on a paper towel. In principle, they can be frozen and used later.

Filling

It consists of several layers. The ingredients should be finely chopped or passed through a meat grinder. We take chicken fillet (500 grams). Fry it until half cooked (with a minimum amount of oil). Finely chop a few chili peppers without seeds. Fry together with chicken. The water from the filling should evaporate completely! Separately, cut a few onions and mix with the juice of one lime. Separately - tomatoes (200 grams), finely chopped. And also - grated cheese (200 grams). So, we got four bowls with different ingredients. Now we take ready-made cakes and lay them out on plates (if frozen, warm them up). In the middle of each we put with a spoon different types of filling to your taste. We wrap it in a cake and eat. You can dip in spicy. Tacos taste better!

Paella

Another dish that can rightfully be included in the most delicious dishes in the world (see recipes below) is paella. It comes from Spain, more precisely, from Valencia. There are many ways to prepare paella. Ingredients common to all: rice and saffron (to color each grain in a piquant yellow color). A large frying pan called paella is also needed. The rest varies depending on the locality of preparation: meat, seafood, snails, cheese, lobsters. In the classic version, the dish is cooked on an open fire. All components must be ready at the same time, and the rice remains crumbly. Various types of paella, according to Spanish chefs, are the most delicious dishes in the world. Some of the recipes are below.

Valencian

Ingredients: half a kilo of chicken, half a kilo of rabbit, 200 grams of green beans, 200 grams of beans, green peppers, three tomatoes, half a kilo of rice, saffron, spices, olive oil.

Stew chicken and rabbit (cut into small pieces). We also simmer all vegetables in a pan. Add chopped tomatoes without skin there, simmer for another five minutes. Then we fill everything with boiling water (two liters). We continue to simmer until the meat is completely cooked (this process will take about forty minutes). Add rice, saffron and spices. Cook for about twenty minutes more on low heat.

With seafood

Paella with seafood is prepared in much the same way. We replace meat with shrimps, mussels, snails, squids. Only the initial stage of preparation is shorter in time, since it is not recommended to process seafood for a long time. Otherwise, as usual, you should get a crumbly mass, fragrant and fragrant.

These are just a few of the recipes, and there are many more. Try and cook the most delicious dishes in the world, the photos of which are presented in the article.

Every hostess knows how to value her time. If it takes half a day to prepare a dish, then usually by the evening you don’t even have the strength to try it. And if you need to cook more than one dish, but several?! We have selected for you the TOP 10 delicious, simple and inexpensive recipes that will surely be appreciated not only by you, but also by your loved ones.

Let your culinary exploits take less effort, but bring more pleasure! Check out these amazing recipes.

Simple and inexpensive meals for every day

Ingredients:

• 2 toasted bread;
• 50 g butter;
• 2 slices of cheese;
• salt.

Grilled Cheese Sandwich Step by Step

1. Melt a piece of butter in a frying pan over low heat and toast the bread on one side.
2. Place cheese slices on the toasted piece and cover with other bread so that the toasted sides of the toast are inside.
3. Melt the second piece of butter in a frying pan and fry the sandwich on both sides over low heat. Ready!

Ingredients:

• 1 large head of broccoli;
• 1 zucchini;
• 3 carrots;
• 50 g of champagne;
• 1/4 st. olive oil;
• .salt pepper.

Baked vegetables: a step by step recipe

1. Preheat the oven.
2. Mix together a large head of broccoli, chopped zucchini, cherry tomatoes, carrots (rings), mushrooms.
3. Add olive oil, salt and black pepper.
4. Divide the vegetables into two equal portions and roast each for 35-40 minutes. A little tip: every 15 minutes, take the vegetables out of the oven and stir.

A real vitamin bomb is ready!

Ingredients:

• curly cabbage 1 pc.;
• mustard leaves;
• chard;
• onion 1 head;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• nuts 50 g;
• lemon juice;
• vegetable oil;
• .salt pepper.

Fried greens: a step by step recipe

1. Heat up a frying pan, add vegetable oil, half-ringed onion, finely chopped garlic and fry until the onion is soft.
2. Then start adding greens and to speed up the cooking process, add some water.
3. When the greens are ready, decorate the dish with nuts and sprinkle with lemon juice.

It's really very tasty!

Ingredients:

• 8 small potatoes;
• 1/2 tsp salt;
• pepper, garlic powder to taste;
• 1/2 st. sour cream;
• 1/2 st. grated cheese;
• 50 g butter.

Mashed Potatoes: Step by Step Cooking

1. Boil potatoes over low heat.
2. Mix salt, pepper, garlic powder, sour cream, grated cheese and butter in a blender.
3. Add the boiled potatoes to the bowl with the other ingredients and mix on medium speed until creamy. Serve hot.

Ingredients:

• 300 g pasta;
• 125 g butter;
• 4 tbsp. l. flour;
• 2.5 st. milk or cream;
• 1 st. grated cheese;
• 2 egg yolks;
• salt, spices.

Macaroni and Cheese: A Step by Step Recipe

1. Boil the pasta as directed on the package instructions.
2. To prepare the sauce, melt the butter, add the flour, beat thoroughly and add the milk or cream.
3. Thoroughly mix the resulting mass, add spices, 2 beaten egg yolks and grated soft cheese.
4. Place over medium heat and stir constantly for a few minutes.
5. Pour the prepared pasta with sauce and put in the oven for 10 minutes until golden brown.
6. After cooking, you can sprinkle the dish with the remaining grated cheese. Om-Nom-nom!

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs;
• cinnamon, soda on the tip of a knife;
• 1 st. l. Sahara;
• 2 tbsp. 10% cream;
• 2 tbsp. flour;
• salt.

Lush pancakes: a step by step recipe

1. Crack the eggs and separate the whites from the yolks by adding a pinch of salt. A little tip: in order for the protein to beat better, the eggs need to be taken cold.
2. Mix the yolks with cinnamon, sugar, vanilla and soda, beat with a mixer or blender.
3. In the resulting mass, add cream and flour.
4. Knead the dough until smooth and carefully fold the beaten egg whites into the dough. In order for the first pancake not to come out lumpy, pour the dough into a hot frying pan.
5. Fry pancakes on both sides and serve with honey or jam.

Ingredients:

• 3 potatoes;
• 2 eggs;
• 4 sausages;
• 100 g of grated cheese;
• green onions;
• salt pepper.

Sausage Potato Casserole: A Step by Step Recipe

1. Peel potatoes and boil in salted water.
2. Rub on a coarse grater, add beaten eggs, salt, pepper, mix.
3. Put the potato mass on a greased baking sheet, spread finely chopped sausages on top and sprinkle with grated cheese on a fine grater.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 10-15 minutes. When serving, sprinkle with chopped green onions.

Quick, hearty, delicious.

Ingredients:

• 3-4 tomatoes;
• 5 st. l. butter;
• 1 small onion;
• 100 g of grated cheese;
• pasta 200 g;
• salt pepper.

Pasta with tomato sauce: step by step cooking

1. Place chopped and peeled fresh or canned tomatoes in a saucepan.
2. Add butter, medium peeled and halved onion and salt.
3. Simmer over a very slow but steady heat for 45 minutes or until the sauce thickens, stirring occasionally.
4. Boil pasta, pour sauce over them and sprinkle with grated cheese.

Real jam!

Ingredients:

• chicken;
• come on, salt.

The Perfect Chicken in the Oven: A Step-by-Step Recipe

1. Before cooking, make sure the meat is at room temperature. Do not wash the chicken before cooking - all harmful bacteria will die anyway under the influence of high temperatures.
2. Preheat oven to 230°C.
3. Salt and pepper the dry chicken well, not only on the outside, but also on the inside.
4. Tie the bird with a thick thread, starting with the legs, and place in a preheated oven for 60 minutes. At this time, do not open the door to remove or grease the chicken with oil or fat.
5. Only after 60 minutes have passed, remove the baking sheet from the oven and let the bird rest for 15 minutes.
6. Now you can begin to remove the thread and prepare the meat for serving.

Delicious taste of perfect meat!

Ingredients:

• 300-500 g of hard cheese;
• 2 tbsp. l. flour;
• 1-2 eggs;
• 2 tbsp. l. breadcrumbs;
• vegetable oil.

Grilled Cheese: A Step by Step Recipe

1. Cut any hard cheese into pieces at least 1 cm thick.
2. To prepare the “shell”, roll each piece in turn: in flour, egg, breadcrumbs ... and so on 3 times. Flour creates a good base for everything else to stick to, so don't be embarrassed that you need to start with it.
3. Fry the cheese in a hot pan with the addition of vegetable oil over a fairly high heat for 1 minute on each side.

When a golden crust forms, the dish is ready!

Delicate cheese is ideally combined with a crispy crust. Simple and very tasty!

In fact, to get a tasty and satisfying dish, it is not necessary to conjure over it all day. A minimum of effort, a maximum of simplicity - and a delicious lunch or dinner will delight not only home, but also guests who accidentally wandered into the light

1 /10

• — Massaman Curry, Thailand —

  Massaman curry opens the top ten dishes in the world. In his homeland in Thailand, the dish can be found on the menu of any restaurant. The dish combines potatoes and beef stewed in coconut milk. Their taste is complemented by massaman curry paste, as well as tamarind, peanuts, sugar and star anise.

• — Peking Duck, China —

  A visiting card of Chinese cuisine is a peeled skin baked in a special oven. Before serving, the carcass is cut into 80-120 pieces. Slices of meat, along with vegetables, are wrapped in a pancake smeared with a specially prepared sauce and eaten.

• — Ramen, Japan —

  One of the main dishes of Japanese cuisine was awarded the 8th place by the respondents. It consists of noodles in broth. It can be accompanied by various additives in the form of pork, pickles or vegetables.

• — Dim Sum, Hong Kong —

  Without tasting this dish, a trip to China cannot be considered complete. However, this best example of Cantonese cuisine has long spread beyond the borders of the country. The dish is a variation of dumplings made from rice starch dough. Almost everything can be used as a filling: from meat to vegetables and fruits. Steaming dim sum.

• - Som Tam, Thailand -

  This salad based on green papaya is liked by all tourists without exception. The ingredients in it are composed in such a way that the dish combines sweet, salty, sour and spicy tastes. A salad is being prepared in a mortar: first, dressing is mixed in it, after which it is rubbed with vegetables.

• — Pad Thai, Thailand —

  If a Food Hall of Fame ever comes up, foodies would love to see pad thai in it. This is a dish of rice noodles with a special sauce, the characteristic taste of which comes from tamarind. The noodles are first soaked and then stir-fried with shrimp, onion, garlic, egg and sauce.

• — Tom Yum, Thailand —

  The fourth line of the rating went to the masterpiece of Thai cuisine -. The dish combines several tastes at once: sour, salty, spicy and sweet. The spiciness and sourness of the dish are given by its invariable ingredients - chili pepper, lime juice and leaves and lemongrass. Soup is prepared in chicken broth, to which shrimp, chicken, fish or other seafood are added.

• — Sushi, Japan —

  Since sushi has been tried all over the world, the combination of rice and seafood has become a gastronomic classic. Real sushi is made from white fine-grained Japanese rice, which is cooked according to Japanese technology. As soon as the rice reaches room temperature, other ingredients are added to it, the most common of which is seafood.

• — Nasi Goreng, Indonesia —

  This dish is often regarded as a culinary symbol of Indonesia, thanks to which it has become popular outside the country. The dish is a mixture of pre-cooked and then fried rice with the addition of meat, chicken, seafood or vegetables. Remarkably, for cooking, locals take ready-made rice left over from previous days. Additional ingredients can also be collected from leftovers. When preparing a dish from scratch, all the ingredients are prepared separately.

• — Rendang, Indonesia —

  Readers called rendang the most delicious dish in the world. The main ingredient of the dish can be meat, poultry, fish or vegetables. They are simmered for a long time in a spicy sauce with coconut milk and a mixture of lemongrass, galangal, garlic, turmeric, ginger and chili. Meat rendang is the most popular. The dish is served both hot and cold.

  11. Lasagna, Italy

  12. Kimchi, Korea

  13. Chicken and rice, Singapore

  14. Satay, Indonesia

  15. Ice cream, USA

  16. Kebab, Turkey

  17. Ice cream, Italy

  18. Croissant, France

  19. Green curry, Thailand

  20. Pho, Vietnam

  21. Fish and French fries, England

  22. Egg tartlets, Hong Kong

  23. Bulgogi, Korea

  24. Fried rice, Thailand

  25. Chocolate, Mexico

  26. Penang Assam Laksa, Malaysia

  27. Tacos, Mexico

  28. Pork Barbecue, Hong Kong

  29. Chili crab, Singapore

  30. Cheeseburger, USA

  31. Fried chicken, USA

  32. Lobster (Properly Cooked), Any Country

  33. Seafood paella, Spain

  34. Shrimp dumplings, Hong Kong

  35. Neapolitan pizza

  36. Nam Tok Mu Hot Sauce Pork, Thailand

  37. Potato chips, USA

  38. Warm brownie with vanilla ice cream (properly cooked), in any country

  39. Masala dosa, India

  40. Bibimbap, Korea

  41. Kalbi, Korea

  42. Burger, Germany

  43. Fajitos, Mexico

  44. Laksa, Singapore

  45. Roti Prata, Singapore

  46. ​​Maple Syrup, Singapore

  47. Fettuccine Alfredo, Italy

  48. Parma ham, Italy

  49. Lechon, Philippines

  50. Goi Quon, Vietnam

The list was compiled after a survey of chefs and cultural figures, in particular writers. In addition to the names and photos of the world's best dishes, the publication (320 pages) publishes detailed information about each with reference to the place where the dish is best tried, plus historical background and people's opinions about what makes this or that food so special and unique.

1st place - Spanish pinchos from San Sebastian

The authors of the guide suggest discovering pintxos evening stroll through the bars San Sebastian after a fiesta or going to the beach. By and large, small snacks on skewers from the Basque country are the same tapas, only with regional troubles. The guide recommends choosing pintxos with asparagus, anchovies or mushrooms stewed in garlic sauce.

Pinchos in San Sebastian

2nd place - curry laksa soup from Kuala Lampur

Travelers are advised to choose an outdoor tent / kiosk with the longest line, find a free plastic chair, sit comfortably on it and start eating - greedily, sipping and burning. Laksa pasta is the centerpiece of a dish that was born from a mixture of Chinese and Malaysian cuisine and is made from noodles and broth. The paste consists of dried chili peppers, garlic, shrimp paste, lemongrass, and turmeric. According to the locals, this orange spicy mass is moderately spicy and they even recommend increasing the spiciness. curry lax. Be careful - what is simply spicy for the locals can be fiery-sharp for a tourist!

Laksa curry soup from Kuala Lampur

3rd place - Tokyo sushi

Forget about Russian sushi, with Tokyo they have very little in common - except for the name. The freshness of fish and seafood, the quality of cooked rice, the craftsmanship of assembly, the harmony between the ingredients - everything is several orders of magnitude higher. In Tokyo, travelers are encouraged not to rush, not to grab sushi with chopsticks and toss them right into their mouths to satisfy their hunger. In the capital of Japan, you must first talk with the chef and learn all the intricacies of the ancient culinary art and etiquette associated with its serving and eating.

Sushi from Tokyo

4th place - beef brisket from Texas

Brisket is a part brisket, or rather, a cut of beef, consisting of a large and small pectoral muscles, taken from the ribs. It is all permeated with collagen (connective tissue), which, during long heat treatment in a smoker, makes this cut of beef unusually juicy and tender. Brisket literally falls apart into fibers.

Texas Beef Brisket

5th place - som tam salad from Bangkok

Traditional Thai green salad papaya This is a mix of four flavors. Palm sugar and papaya itself are responsible for sweet, lime for sour, fish sauce for salty, and all this is impossible without hot chili peppers. Sometimes local eggplants are added to the salad, considering them to be the performers of a bitter taste.

Som tam salad from Bangkok

6th place - smorrebrods from Copenhagen

The favorite food of Danes and many other Scandinavians is open sandwich most often on rye bread with a rich and plentiful filling. Classic: salmon and cream cheese, herring and beets, roast beef. Smorrebrods are eaten in Copenhagen for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Smorrebrods from Copenhagen

7th place - crayfish from Kaikora

Among the Majori, the word "kai" means food, "koura" is translated as "crayfish", so it is no coincidence that the New Zealand city, which combined these two words in its name, is the most popular place for eating ocean crayfish. And really, what could be better: you sit on the Pacific Ocean and slowly, lazily, clean the crayfish, freshly caught and cooked with garlic and butter.

Crayfish from Kaikora

8th place - Seoul bibimbap

If you combine rice with seasonal vegetables, eggs and meat in one plate, you get the most popular South Korean dish - almost a designer, which every Seoul restaurant composes at its own discretion. The name of the dish is translated from Korean as "mixed rice". Bibimbap can be served cold or hot. And although the south of Korea, the city of Jeonju, is considered its homeland, there are also institutions in Seoul that cook it perfectly.

Bibimbap from Seoul

9th place - Margherita pizza from Naples

Pizza margherita became a symbol of Italy, and Italy gave pizza the colors of its tricolor: red represents tomato sauce and tomatoes, green - basil and white - Mozzarella. There is no need to talk about this pizza, you just have to eat it! Preferably in Naples.

Margherita pizza from Naples

10th place - dim sum from Hong Kong

The progenitors of dumplings, dim sum, are cooked in many Asian countries. Hong Kong dim sum is considered by many to be the best in the world. Although originally this was the name of a variety of Chinese snacks served with green tea or pu-erh.

Dim Sum from Hong Kong

Further, in the top 20 places were distributed as follows: 11th place - Peruvian ceviche from Lima, 12th place - pastel de nata puff pastry with custard from Lisbon, 13th place - Tasmanian oysters, 14th place - French cheeses (strange that there is no mention of a specific variety or even region), 15th place - Jamaican fried chicken, 16th place - lamb from Marrakesh, 17th place - Singaporean chili crab, 18th place - mul-frit of mussels and french fries from Brussels, 19th place - Peking duck and 20th place deserved Vietnamese pho soup, or rather its variation, which translates "Pho cooked along the How river".

Unfortunately, we do not know if among the remaining 480 items there is a Russian dish or a specialty from one of the former Soviet republics. And what dishes of our multinational Motherland would you add to this list and why?