23 eel recipes

Italian baked eel (anguilla) marinated in olive oil and white wine vinegar, skewered with bay leaves, and roasted until golden. A traditional Mediterranean seafood dish with bold, simple flavors.

A favorite Valencian tapa as well as a popular main dish, especially along the Costa Blanca.

Greek-style broiled eel drizzled with ladolemono, a bright olive oil and lemon sauce loaded with fresh herbs. Simple, rustic Mediterranean seafood ready in 30 minutes.

Sweet crab, tangy grapefruit on tender crisp on a bed of Boston lettuce drizzled with a perfectly balanced vinaigrette.

Tex-Mex meatball chili stew with crushed tortilla chip-bound meatballs simmered in picante sauce, tomatoes, and kidney beans. Topped with cilantro and more tortilla chips for crunch.

Spiced grapefruit upside-down cake with brown sugar, walnuts, cinnamon, and cloves baked on a caramelized grapefruit base. Served with grapefruit-zest whipped cream.

Eccles cakes pack currants, mixed peel and warming spice inside flaky rough puff pastry, glazed with milk and crunchy caster sugar. Classic Lancashire teatime pastry from northwest England.

Thin, lacy Italian Florentine cookies loaded with nuts and candied orange peel in a caramelized cream base. Shatteringly crisp with just 6 ingredients. Drizzle with melted chocolate for the classic finish.

Mixed greens with tangerines and fennel tosses baby lettuces with shaved fennel, fresh tangerine segments, and a tangerine-peel rice vinegar dressing. Crisp, bright winter salad.

Tangerine your chicken with this succulent recipe that calls for orange juice, cinnamon and tangerine peel.

Fork-tender beef roast braised low and slow with canned tomatoes and briny Spanish green olives. Just 4 ingredients for a rich, flavorful pot roast dinner.

Authentic Texas-style chili with cubed round steak, jalapeno, garlic, and whole tomatoes. No beans, no filler, just beef and heat simmered in under an hour.

Flaky cod fillets nestle in a bright tomato-wine sauce spiked with garlic and thyme, then finish in the oven with tender wilted spinach for a light, protein-packed dinner ready in under 30 minutes.

Fisherman's catch chowder: a slow cooker fish chowder with mixed white-fish fillets, tomatoes, white wine, clam juice, rosemary, and a cream-and-butter finish stirred in at the end.

Easy Mexican chicken casserole with cubed chicken breast, mild green chiles, tomatoes, and cream of chicken soup baked under melty cheddar. A 7-ingredient dump-and-bake weeknight dinner.

Chicken cubes marinated with ginger and scallion get deep-fried until golden, then tossed with dried chilies and crumpled tangerine peel for this Sichuan-style dish.