9,424 mild recipes

Elu mus is a rich Sri Lankan mutton curry. Vinegar-marinated mutton simmers for an hour in coconut milk with coriander, cumin, fenugreek, and curry leaves until fork-tender and deeply spiced.

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Capital chicken skillet with artichoke hearts, mushrooms, port wine, and tarragon in a creamy sauce over rice. A low-fat, one-pan dinner with a touch of elegance.

Hearty Pennsylvania Dutch stuffing loaded with chicken, toasted bread cubes, and vegetables, all bound with eggs and broth. Bakes up golden and feeds a crowd.

Yeast based Czechoslovakian pastry filled with a poppy seed or cream cheese filling.

No-bake pumpkin scream pie with a creamy gelatin-set pumpkin filling, fluffy whipped topping, and a chocolate wafer crust. A spookier, lighter take on classic pumpkin pie for Halloween.

Pinwheel pumpkin cookies are jelly-roll style spirals with a spiced pumpkin and nut filling rolled into cinnamon cookie dough, sliced thin, baked golden, and finished with vanilla icing.

Fried apple pies are hand-held Southern hand pies with spiced apple filling tucked into a homemade dough, deep-fried golden and dusted with powdered sugar. Served warm with vanilla ice cream.

French apple cake made with yellow cake mix, lemon pudding, Granny Smith apples, and raisins, finished with a tart lemon glaze. A spiced bundt cake that stays moist thanks to sour cream.

Light cream of veggie soup with broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, and potatoes, partially pureed with evaporated skim milk and a hint of curry powder. Creamy without the cream.

A rich Scottish cloutie dumpling studded with currants, sultanas, grated apple, and carrot, boiled in a cloth for 4 hours and served with a warm ginger wine cream sauce. A proper celebration pudding.

Cheesy hash brown casserole with sour cream, sharp cheddar, and buttery corn flake topping. The ultimate potluck side dish that feeds a crowd and gets rave reviews.

Whole trout stuffed with spinach, pine nuts, and sherry, then baked in parchment with white wine and butter. A 30-minute elegant fish dinner with Florentine filling.

Lemon meringue pie with sweetened condensed milk filling in a cinnamon graham cracker crust. The filling thickens like magic with no cooking needed.

Bean soup with dumplings simmers kidney and black beans with corn, green chiles, and chili powder, then steams fluffy cornmeal dumplings right on top. A hearty, Southwestern one-pot meal with cornbread-style dumplings.

Chocolate and caramel give this thumbprint cookie from Kathy T. Preston of Milwaukee a different twist.