Regional-cuisine/15 recipes

Serve as an appetizer spread on thick slices of country-style white bread, or flat pita bread, or use as a side dish to accompany grilled or roasted meats.

This spicy marinade owes its unusual flavor to the chipotle, a smoked jalapeno chile. Chipotles are usually sold canned in tomato paste. Look for them at Mexican and Latin American markets. Adobo marinade goes particularly well with pork.

Superb Hawaiian Baked Beans recipe

A spicy vegetable stew - easy to make. Some find that the flavors of the vegetables don't stand out unless you put in a lot of tabasco. But not everyone likes it hot. Just add enough to make the stew seem spicy to you.

Gobhi Mung recipe

Pork, potatoes and mushrooms flavored with crushed coriander seed.

Lebkuchen (German Honey Cakes) recipe

Delicious Pan-fried fillet of seabass on grilled asparagus with mustard seed, mango and toasted coconut salad, served with a glass of Nobilo Regional Collection Sauvignon Blanc, 2008, £8.49 from Asda, Thresher, Morrison's, Sainsbury's, Somerfield, Tesco

Kolache Fillings recipe

Bul Kogi is so popular that many Koreans consider it the national meat dish. Serve with rice and kimchi.

Austrian Bread Dumplings recipe