Vegetarian & Vegan

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h total · ~10 min hands-on · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 1,811 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

1,811 ratings at 4.7 — by a distance the most-rated recipe anywhere in this index. Portuguese rather than Brazilian, so it sits here and not on the Brazilian page. The stirring is exactly why people do not make rice pudding: it is what pulls starch out of the grain to thicken the milk, and it is the job the machine takes.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 1,164 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6

4.8 across 1164, and Cookidoo files it in eight separate collections — the closest thing the platform has to a house favourite. Vegan as written, thirty minutes.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h 40 min total · ~30 min hands-on · 10 servings · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.9 from 1,148 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

4.9 across 1,148 — the best-rated recipe in this index by both score and weight of evidence. Eat it with the dal already here. A very hot, very dry surface is what makes naan puff: the water in the dough flashes to steam faster than the crust can set, and a moderate pan gives you flatbread instead.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 1,129 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

1,129 ratings and ten Cookidoo collections — one of the most-cooked recipes on the platform. Thirty minutes, ten of them yours, and no stirring at all. Stirring a risotto exists only to knock starch off the grain, and constant gentle motion does it better than a wooden spoon and an hour of standing there.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 1,101 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

4.8 across 1101 — the best-evidenced soup in the index, and vegan without needing a single adjustment. Five minutes of hands-on for six portions, which is the ratio that decides whether a soup gets made twice or once.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 10 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 12 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 956 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.8 across 956, which is about as validated as baking gets. The crumble is the technical bit and it wants to be coarse and uneven rather than tidy: even crumbs melt together into a layer, uneven ones stay crumble.

Time, yield and difficulty

20 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 832 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

832 ratings, the most-rated soup in this section. Twenty minutes, and the blending is the whole difference between this and the tinned version it is competing with.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 774 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

774 ratings at 4.6 — the most-validated breakfast in the index. Fifteen minutes, and no pan welded to the hob afterwards, which is the entire case for making porridge in a machine.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h total · ~5 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 730 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.8 across 730, five minutes of work, and it appears in eight Cookidoo collections. If one recipe justifies getting the machine out on a Friday, it is this one. Kneading is the part worth handing over — pizza dough wants working well past the point a person gets bored.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 25 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 10 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 640 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

640 ratings at 4.7, ten minutes of hands-on, and it exists to use the bananas nobody wants. Blacker is better: as a banana over-ripens its starch turns to sugar, so the fruit that looks past saving is the fruit that sweetens the loaf without more sugar going in.

Time, yield and difficulty

20 min · 600 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.9 from 637 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6

4.9 across 637 — among the best-rated recipes on the whole platform. A curd is a custard thickened with egg, and it curdles the instant it is too hot, so the entire dish is a temperature problem. That is the one problem this machine solves outright.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h total · ~5 min hands-on · 25 pieces · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 567 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The one dish everyone searches for, and 567 ratings make it the most-validated Brazilian recipe here by a distance. There is no gluten in it at all: the chew comes from tapioca starch gelatinised by hot liquid before the eggs go in, which is why the batter is poured rather than kneaded.

Time, yield and difficulty

20 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 564 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6

Twenty minutes start to finish and 4.8 across 564. Frozen peas make it a January soup as readily as a June one, which is not true of much else that tastes this green.

Time, yield and difficulty

25 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 541 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

541 ratings — among the most-rated recipes in this whole index. All twenty-five minutes are hands-on, which is unusual here: there is no waiting stage at all, so it is a genuine twenty-five-minute dinner rather than one that also needs an hour.

Time, yield and difficulty

10 min · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.9 from 540 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.9 across 540, and the best single argument for a machine that chops and emulsifies in the same bowl. Speed is the technique: worked long or warm, basil bruises and turns dark and bitter, so short bursts are doing something specific rather than being cautious.

Time, yield and difficulty

3 h 20 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 483 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

483 ratings. The three hours is chilling; the twenty minutes is yours. A mousse is air held in fat, and it fails in the folding rather than the whisking — that is where the air you just made gets knocked straight back out.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 478 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

478 ratings at 4.5, vegan, and the most heavily spiced thing in this section by some distance. Forty minutes, ten of them yours.

Time, yield and difficulty

45 min total · ~15 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 476 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

476 ratings and still 4.7 — the most trusted vegan main on the platform. Roasting the squash first is what makes it: browning builds flavour that simmering cannot, and it firms the pieces enough to survive the sauce.

Time, yield and difficulty

20 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 460 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.7 across 460 and the name is the whole pitch. Twenty minutes, five of them hands-on, and mash is the side dish people most reliably get wrong by hand — worked too hard it turns to glue.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h 30 min total · ~15 min hands-on · 12 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 439 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The British carrot cake with cream cheese icing — a different cake from the Brazilian bolo de cenoura, which is blended and chocolate-topped. 4.6 across 439. The two and a half hours is almost all cooling, and icing a warm cake is the one reliable way to ruin it. Contains honey.

Time, yield and difficulty

50 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 420 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

420 ratings at 4.3, and five minutes of work for fifty. It sits beside the Brazilian arroz doce already here rather than replacing it — the same grain, a different tradition, and both are worth having.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h 5 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 12 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 366 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Ten minutes of hands-on, two hours of the dough working on its own, twelve portions out, vegan as written. The long prove is where the flavour is made rather than where the rise happens — a fast dough tastes of yeast and a slow one tastes of bread.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 365 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.7 across 365 and vegan as written. The lentils are what make it a dinner rather than a starter — tomato soup on its own never quite manages that.

Time, yield and difficulty

45 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 362 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

362 ratings, ten minutes of work, and thick enough to be dinner rather than a starter. Part of it is blended and part left whole, and that is what makes a chowder a chowder rather than a soup with things floating in it.

Time, yield and difficulty

50 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 360 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.8 across 360 and ten minutes of hands-on. The sauce is what the machine is for and what decides the dish — a cheese sauce split by too much heat cannot be brought back, and holding a fixed temperature is the whole trick.

Time, yield and difficulty

25 min · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 3.9 from 322 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Twenty-five minutes and one of the most-rated vegan curries on the platform. The 3.9 is a seasoning verdict rather than a method one — lentils go on absorbing salt and heat as they soften, so what tasted right in the pot can taste flat on the plate. Judge it at the end.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 min · 2 glasses · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 322 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6

4.8 across 322 and five minutes. It appears in five collections including the platform's first-month one, which is Cookidoo saying plainly: start here.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 16 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.1 from 316 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Five minutes of work for sixteen. The batter is the whole job and the machine does it in one go — which is also the risk, because a batter worked past the point the flour is wet turns the pancakes tough instead of tender.

Time, yield and difficulty

45 min total · ~15 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 292 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

292 ratings, and the roasting is what earns them. Squash browned before it meets the liquid tastes of squash; squash simmered raw tastes of whatever is around it. Forty-five minutes, fifteen of them yours.

Time, yield and difficulty

25 min · 10 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.9 from 284 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

4.9 across 284 — one of the best-validated recipes on the platform. It crisps as it cools rather than in the oven, which is the single most misread thing about granola: taken out when it already looks done, it is already over.

Time, yield and difficulty

25 min · 2 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 3.7 from 274 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Serves two in twenty-five minutes. Middling ratings, and the fix is in your hands — treat the paste quantity as a starting point, because heat varies more between brands of bought paste than any recipe can allow for.

Time, yield and difficulty

25 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 265 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Twenty-five minutes, five of them yours, and heavily validated at 265 ratings. The spices meet fat before any liquid arrives — a step that looks skippable and is not, because most of what a rogan josh tastes of will only dissolve in oil.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h total · ~15 min hands-on · 8 pieces · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 261 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Homemade pitta puffs in a way shop-bought never does, and it pairs with the hummus and the falafel also here. The pocket is steam: rolled evenly and hit with enough heat, the outside sets before the inside has finished expanding and it blows itself apart. Uneven rolling is why one in a batch stays flat.

Time, yield and difficulty

20 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 259 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.8 across 259, and it goes with the pitta and the falafel already here. The cucumber has to lose its water before it meets the yoghurt — skip that and the whole bowl is a thin pool within the hour.

Time, yield and difficulty

55 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 16 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 247 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.7 across 247. Tray in, sixteen pieces out. The syrup is not only sweetness — it is what stops the sugar crystallising as it cools, which is the difference between chewy and a tray of gravel.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 245 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

4.5 across 245 and vegan. Cookidoo files it under a Persian vegetarian collection rather than a generic one, which is worth knowing before seasoning it like a British lentil soup.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.9 from 239 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.9 across 239 — the highest score in this batch — out of two ingredients in five minutes. It appears in seven Cookidoo collections, which is what the platform does when a recipe is really a demonstration of what the machine is for.

Time, yield and difficulty

25 min · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.0 from 224 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Smoked tofu doing the chorizo's job, in twenty-five minutes. The rice is not stirred once the liquid is in: a paella wants the grains separate, and a stirred one turns into risotto — the same mistake in reverse.

Time, yield and difficulty

25 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 211 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.6 across 211 and twenty-five minutes. Courgette is the vegetable most likely to be sitting unloved in the drawer, and this is the best argument for buying it on purpose.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h 40 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 16 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 207 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

4.6 across 207, and the 2 h 40 is mostly cooling. That cooling is not politeness: a brownie is under-baked on purpose and only sets on the way down, so cutting one warm gives you a pan of something else entirely.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.1 from 204 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Weeknight noodles, heavily validated. The chilli-garlic oil is worth making whether or not you make the rest: hot oil poured over aromatics pulls out flavour that no amount of simmering in water will reach.

Time, yield and difficulty

10 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 192 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Ten minutes, 192 ratings. A base rather than a dinner, and the technique is all of it: cauliflower goes from grains to purée faster than anyone expects, so this is one of the few jobs where watching the bowl beats watching the timer.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 min · 830 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 192 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Five minutes, 4.6 across 192, vegan, and it turns up in six Cookidoo collections. The machine's advantage here is restraint — guacamole is ruined by over-processing, and this stops short of it.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 3.9 from 189 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Takeaway-shaped, and expect to adjust the heat. The pickled carrot is structural rather than decorative: a sweet, heavy sauce needs acid cutting through it, and without the pickle the whole plate reads as one note.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h · 4 servings · Advanced

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 184 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Marked advanced, which is about the rolling rather than the dough: the machine handles the part people find hard, which is kneading something far too stiff to work comfortably by hand. 4.6 across 184. The rest afterwards is what lets it roll thin without springing back.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 min · 1 Complete Recipe · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 175 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Five minutes, 175 ratings, and it settles the shop-bought argument for good. Length is the technique: the difference between grainy hummus and the smooth kind is another two minutes of blending, not another ingredient.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.0 from 173 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Pasta and sauce from the one machine, in thirty minutes. Red lentils are the trick — they collapse completely as they cook, which thickens the sauce into something that clings to the pasta rather than sitting under it.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 40 min total · ~40 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 164 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Cheese sauce and pasta from one bowl, with cauliflower carrying half the weight. 4.3 across 164. The cauliflower has to be cooked far enough to disappear into the sauce rather than sit in it; half-done, it reads as a vegetable someone has hidden.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 min · 290 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 161 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Cream in, butter out, five minutes: the fat is whipped past the point where it can hold air until it gives up and separates. The buttermilk left behind is not waste — it is the acid in half the baking on this page.

Time, yield and difficulty

50 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 500 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.9 from 161 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

4.9 across 161, and the single most useful thing a new owner can make. It keeps because of salt rather than cooking: enough of it and there is no free water left for anything to grow in, which is why a paste lasts in the fridge where a stock would not.

Time, yield and difficulty

55 min total · ~15 min hands-on · 800 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 155 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Three ingredients, 800 g, 4.7 across 155. Jam is the classic reason people are frightened of preserving, and the fear is misplaced — the set is a sugar concentration reached at a specific temperature, which makes it a measurement rather than a knack.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 min · 300 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 151 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The classic emulsion test of any food processor, and 151 ratings say it passes. All of it is oil going in slowly enough that each drop is broken up before the next arrives — too fast and it splits, which is a speed problem rather than a skill one.

Time, yield and difficulty

50 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 30 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 142 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Thirty cookies, 4.5 across 142. The butter and sugar are creamed rather than merely mixed — that is air being beaten into fat, and it is the difference between a cookie that rises and one that spreads flat.

Time, yield and difficulty

45 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 450 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 137 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The homemade answer to the famous jar, 450 g at a time, 4.5 across 137. It is a nut butter with chocolate in it, so the same rule holds: keep going past the point it looks finished, because the smoothness comes from the hazelnuts' own oil rather than from anything added.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 min · 300 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 137 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

One ingredient, five minutes. The oil you would otherwise be buying in the jar is already inside the nut, and friction is what releases it — so the only real question is whether you stop too early.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 135 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.5 across 135 — the reliable cold-evening option. The mushrooms are browned before any liquid arrives, and that is where the savoury depth comes from; put in raw they steam in their own water and the stew stays thin-tasting.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 min · 300 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 122 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

An emulsion, which is the thing a machine does better than a person: oil arriving slowly enough that it never breaks, held at that speed for five unbroken minutes. The garlic goes in at the start so it is ground into the base rather than stirred through it — which is the whole difference between aïoli and garlic mayonnaise.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 5 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 10 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 120 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.7 across 120, the most-rated Brazilian sweet added this round. Ten minutes of hands-on for ten slices, and it is the chocolate cake a Brazilian actually grew up with rather than the one a British bakery sells.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 45 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 16 pieces · Advanced

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 118 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Marked advanced, and that is the caramel rather than the shortbread: it has to reach a set point only a few degrees below burnt. Sixteen pieces, 4.7 across 118, and it keeps well enough to justify the afternoon.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.0 from 116 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Jackfruit chilli in half an hour, and the avocado purée is the point rather than a garnish — it is the cold, fatty element that a bean chilli without meat in it is otherwise missing.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h total · ~10 min hands-on · 10 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.1 from 110 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Ten minutes of work, ten slices, and it goes with the chowder and the chilli already here. Cornmeal is thirsty and slow to take up water, so the batter wants a moment to stand before it goes in the oven; skip that and the crumb comes out sandy.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 5 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 110 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.7 across 110. Three components, all from the one machine, and ten minutes of hands-on for the lot. Half the corn is blended and half left whole, which is what gives a fritter that holds together and still tastes of sweetcorn.

Time, yield and difficulty

25 min · 2 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 100 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Serves two in twenty-five minutes — scaled for a solo cook, which almost nothing else here is. The spices are cooked in fat before the mushrooms go in, because turmeric and chilli give their colour and flavour up to oil and not to water.

Time, yield and difficulty

4 h total · ~5 min hands-on · 10 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 97 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The most-rated Brazilian sweet here, at 97. Five minutes of work and four hours of waiting. It bakes in a water bath rather than dry heat, and that is what keeps the custard smooth — direct heat sets the outside into bubbles before the middle has thickened at all.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h total · ~10 min hands-on · 12 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 90 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.5 across 90, in three collections, ten minutes of work. Different from the banana bread already on the vegetarian page — this is a cake to cut into twelve, not a loaf to slice for toast.

Time, yield and difficulty

12 h total · ~20 min hands-on · 8 servings · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 90 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Real custard-based ice cream without an ice cream maker. The twelve hours is freezing; the twenty minutes is a custard, which means it lives or dies on temperature, because egg thickens and then scrambles within a few degrees of each other.

Time, yield and difficulty

10 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 89 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Ten minutes, vegan as written, and the shredding is the entire reason to reach for the machine rather than a knife. Even thickness is not cosmetic — it is what makes a dressing coat rather than pool.

Time, yield and difficulty

25 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 89 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM6/TM5

The sauce is raw, so it is finished in the time the pasta takes. Nothing here is cooked and nothing can be: avocado warmed much past blood heat turns bitter and grey, which is why this is assembled at the end rather than simmered.

Time, yield and difficulty

20 min · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 88 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.6 across 88, twenty minutes, six portions. Greek rather than British, and semolina remains the cheapest route to a set dessert there is.

Time, yield and difficulty

45 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 10 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 87 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.7 across 87 and forty-five minutes. It sets somewhere between a cake and a pudding, which is the point of it and the reason it is not the bolo de milho com coco already here.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.1 from 87 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.1 across 87 — respectable rather than remarkable, and here because sweet potato was otherwise missing from this section entirely. Vegan, thirty minutes.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 15 min total · ~40 min hands-on · 4 servings · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 80 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6

Cookidoo's potato and mushroom gnocchi are both TM7-only, so this had looked like a gap the TM6 could not fill. It can: 4.3 across 80. The rule is flour — as little as will hold it together, because every extra spoonful trades lightness for insurance.

Time, yield and difficulty

10 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 78 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Ten minutes, no oven, no setting time — the fastest sweet in the index, and not a cheesecake in the baked sense. Ricotta is already a set curd, so there is nothing left to firm up: this is assembled rather than made.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h 15 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 24 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 77 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

A party staple, 77 ratings. The two hours is cooling, and it is not slack time: the mixture has to be cooked until it pulls away from the pan in one mass and then chilled hard, or it will not hold a shape between your palms.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 min · 300 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 74 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The same one-ingredient trick as the smooth version, with a portion held back and stirred in at the end — because there is no way to stop halfway and get both textures out of one bowl.

Time, yield and difficulty

6 h 10 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 1000 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.9 from 73 ratings

Devices

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4.9 across 73. The overnight soak is not softening for its own sake — it is what lets the nut break down finely enough to stay suspended instead of settling out in the fridge overnight. Ten minutes of actual work, and the straining decides whether you end up with milk or with something thicker.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 55 min total · ~30 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 3.8 from 73 ratings

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Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Pastry and filling both from the machine, and 3.8 across 73 is the most honest thing on this card — a competent quiche rather than a memorable one. The pastry is baked before the filling goes in, and that step is what decides whether the base is short or soggy.

Time, yield and difficulty

55 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 10 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 71 ratings

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Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.7 across 71. Named for what the grated chocolate looks like through the crumb, which is the kind of name only a children's birthday cake earns and keeps.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 64 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Five minutes from frozen fruit to ice cream, and the machine's party trick. It works because the fruit is never allowed to melt: the ice crystals are broken down mechanically rather than churned out, which is what an ice cream maker spends half an hour doing.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 1 jar · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 63 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.8, vegan, and the base under half the pasta on this page. Make it while something else cooks. The forty minutes is reduction doing two jobs at once — concentrating the flavour, and driving off the water that would otherwise leave the sauce sliding off the pasta.

Time, yield and difficulty

9 h 30 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.1 from 60 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Black lentils cooked long enough to turn creamy without any cream doing the work. The nine hours is an overnight soak; the creaminess comes from the skins breaking down and releasing starch, which is a matter of time rather than of anything you add.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 5 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 59 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.8 across 59, vegan, two ingredients, fifteen minutes. Cookidoo files it as baby food; it is equally the thing that goes on top of the porridge above.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 15 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 59 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Two ingredients and five minutes of work for cheese you made yourself. Acid added to hot milk pulls the protein out of the liquid, and the temperature it happens at decides whether the curd comes out soft and loose or squeaky. The clearest example on the site of the machine doing something you would never attempt by hand.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h total · ~10 min hands-on · 20 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 56 ratings

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Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.8 across 56 and it appears in three Brazilian collections including the fifteen-year anniversary one. Twenty portions from a single run, wrapped and eaten cold — festa food that improves for being made the day before.

Time, yield and difficulty

50 min total · ~15 min hands-on · 1 jar · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 56 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

A perfect score across 56. Nut butter is one process repeated: the nut goes from crumbs to paste to butter as friction drives out its own oil, and the only mistake available is stopping at the paste. Patience rather than skill.

Time, yield and difficulty

50 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 12 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 55 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

4.6 across 55, under an hour. Coconut fat is solid at room temperature and liquid barely above it, so it behaves in a batter the way butter does — which is why this works as a vegan cake without anything unusual in it.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 min · 2 glasses · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 54 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Five minutes, 4.4 across 54. Vegetarian rather than vegan, and the reason is honey — worth knowing before it is handed to someone who avoids it.

Time, yield and difficulty

20 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 49 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Pasta cooked in the machine: the trick most owners do not know is there. Worth it less for the pasta than for the timing — it frees the hob and finishes alongside the sauce rather than after it.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 49 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Thirty minutes, 4.8, and about three ingredients' worth of effort. Passion fruit is acidic enough to thicken cream on contact, so the mousse is essentially made the moment the two meet — which is why it needs no cooking and barely any whisking.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 47 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Travels well and is lunchbox-friendly. Couscous is steamed rather than boiled — it only has to absorb hot liquid and rest — so the dressing goes on while it is still warm, when the grain is open enough to take it.

Time, yield and difficulty

26 h total · ~30 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.2 from 46 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

A different dal from the makhani also here: drier, sharper, more spice-forward. The twenty-six hours is soaking and then resting rather than cooking, and the resting is the part that matters — it is where a dal stops tasting of separate ingredients and starts tasting of one thing.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h 50 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 600 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.0 from 46 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Five minutes of work and nearly three hours of leaving it alone. What happens in those three hours is browning rather than boiling — milk sugars and proteins colouring slowly — which is where the flavour comes from and why hurrying it gives you sweetened milk instead of caramel.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 55 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 45 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Five minutes of hands-on for the most comforting pudding in Britain, 4.7 across 45. The dates are softened in something hot before anything else happens: that is what breaks them into the sponge rather than leaving them sitting in it, and it is where the colour comes from.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.2 from 43 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Vegan as written, and the blending is the part the machine removes entirely. The basil goes in off the heat at the end: held at a simmer it turns dark and loses exactly the aroma it was added for.

Time, yield and difficulty

10 min · 4 cups · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 41 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Four cups in ten minutes, 4.5 across 41, and it sits in the Basic Cookbook — the platform treating hot chocolate as something you ought to be able to make rather than something you buy.

Time, yield and difficulty

11 h 10 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 39 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Eleven hours, ten minutes of them yours — the rest is the culture doing the work. 4.5 across 39. It joins the Greek and the coconut yoghurts already here as the plainest of the three, which is the point of it.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h total · ~15 min hands-on · 1140 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 37 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

An hour, most of it unattended, for better than a kilo of it. 4.3 across 37. It sits beside the hummus already here and is the more interesting of the two.

Time, yield and difficulty

25 min · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 37 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Twenty-five minutes, and the blending decides whether this is silky or grainy — fresh corn keeps its hulls, and only a machine gets past them. A Brazilian table staple with no British equivalent.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 5 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 37 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

The one soup here that roasts before it blends, which is where the hour goes. 4.5 across 37, vegan, and roasting is the difference between cauliflower tasting of something and tasting of nothing.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 10 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 900 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 2.7 from 36 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The worst-rated recipe in this index at 2.7 across 36, and it is here so you know rather than find out. The complaint is texture: oat starch turns slimy when it is warmed or over-worked, so this is one of the few things where doing more to it makes it worse. Almond milk is the safer make.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 580 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 35 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Fifteen minutes and no lumps, because nobody is whisking. A béchamel goes wrong in exactly one place — flour meeting liquid faster than it can hydrate — and constant motion at a fixed temperature is precisely what a machine holds and a hand does not.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.1 from 35 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Thirty minutes end to end for six — one of the shortest real dinners in the index. The quinoa is cooked before it is stuffed in: raw grain inside a pepper takes far longer than the pepper does, and that mismatch is the whole difficulty of stuffing anything.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 2.9 from 33 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The June-festival corn pudding, and the second-worst-rated Brazilian recipe here at 2.9 from 33. It is included because the dish is a fixture and nothing else covers it. It sets on the corn's own starch rather than on egg or gelatine, which is also why it is unforgiving: under-cook it and it never firms at all.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 33 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The machine solves the one thing people hate about polenta. That stirring is not tradition for its own sake: cornmeal dropped into hot liquid and left alone sets into lumps that never come apart again, and forty minutes of constant motion is exactly the sort of job to hand to something else.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 600 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 3.9 from 32 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

3.9 across 32 is the weakest score in this batch, and it is here anyway: custard is a base rather than a dish, and the index did not have one. Fifteen minutes for 600 g.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 1 jar · Medium

Community rating

★ 3.9 from 32 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Egg-free mayonnaise that genuinely emulsifies. The 3.9 is a patience score — without egg yolk there is less holding the oil in suspension, so it has to go in slower than feels reasonable, and nothing rescues it once it splits.

Time, yield and difficulty

10 min · 7 glasses · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 31 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Seven glasses from one run at 4.8 — the only smoothie here that scales to a table rather than to a person. Vegan, ten minutes.

Time, yield and difficulty

12 h 45 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 29 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The twelve hours is chickpeas soaking overnight; the evening is twenty minutes. Soaked and never cooked is the rule that makes falafel hold together — a cooked chickpea has already given up its starch, and the mixture falls apart in the oven. Baked rather than fried, and it does not read as a substitute for anything.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 240 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 29 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Homemade seitan, which is genuinely hard to do any other way. It is wheat gluten hydrated and then worked hard, and that working is what lines the protein up into fibres — under-worked seitan comes out spongy rather than meaty.

Time, yield and difficulty

20 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 28 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Twenty minutes, 4.8, naturally vegan, and the ideal first Brazilian recipe for a sceptic. The fine shred is the dish: cut thin enough, collard greens cook in the time it takes the garlic to colour, and they stay green rather than going grey.

Time, yield and difficulty

13 h 35 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.1 from 27 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Hominy pudding, made for the June festivals. The overnight soak is not optional the way most soaks are: treated hominy is a hard, dry corn that will not soften in any reasonable cooking time without it.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 15 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 27 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Cold soup, no cooking, ten minutes of work — and the hour of chilling is not optional, because gazpacho tastes flat until it is properly cold. Vegan, and the only thing on this page you would actually want in August.

Time, yield and difficulty

3 h 20 min total · ~45 min hands-on · 10 slices · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.0 from 27 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Parsnips in a cake, and it works — they are sweeter than carrots and take spice the same way. The 3 h 20 includes cooling. The vegan caramel is the fiddly part, because without dairy there is less room between set and seized.

Time, yield and difficulty

25 min · 190 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 25 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Filed under baby food and considerably better than that makes it sound: a smooth green purée at 4.6 across 25, for five minutes of work. Season it and it is a side dish.

Time, yield and difficulty

24 h 10 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 25 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Twenty-four hours, ten minutes of work: the machine makes it and the freezer does everything else. 4.6 across 25, and no ice cream maker anywhere in it, which is the whole argument.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 20 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 25 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

A perfect score across 25 — the standout of the whole set — in fifteen minutes. It is ground peanuts and sugar pressed together, held by nothing but the nut's own oil, which is exactly why the grind has to stop at crumbs: taken as far as butter, there is nothing left to press.

Time, yield and difficulty

4 h 30 min total · ~15 min hands-on · 370 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 3.7 from 25 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The second cheese worth making at home, and the one that turns a curry into dinner. 3.7 is middling, and the four and a half hours is mostly pressing — which is where it goes wrong, because pressing is what lets paneer hold its shape in a hot pan instead of dissolving into the sauce.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 600 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 24 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Fifteen minutes for the thing that goes on every Brazilian barbecue and most of the beans. Naturally vegan, and it keeps. The cut is the recipe: this is a relish rather than a salsa, so everything wants to be small, even and chopped rather than blended.

Time, yield and difficulty

12 h 15 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.0 from 24 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6

An overnight ferment and fifteen minutes of actual work. Holding a steady low temperature for twelve hours is the entire job, and it is the one a kitchen cannot usually do: cultures stall if it drops and die if it climbs.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 10 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 12 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 23 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Cornmeal and guava, the pairing the old Captain Bruk shop sold. The yoghurt is doing structural work rather than flavour: cornmeal brings no gluten to hold a crumb together, and the acid and fat are what keep the cake from being sandy.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 25 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 260 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 22 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

A perfect score across 22, and it keeps for months because there is almost no water in it for anything to grow in. Temperature is the entire technique — too hot and the aromatics scorch bitter in seconds, too cool and nothing infuses at all.

Time, yield and difficulty

4 h 35 min total · ~30 min hands-on · 12 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.1 from 22 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

4.1 across 22. Manjar branco is the dessert every Brazilian restaurant has and no British one does, and the prune sauce is not optional decoration — the dish is built around the contrast.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h total · ~40 min hands-on · 4 servings · Advanced

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 22 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM6/TM5/TM31

A weekend lasagne rather than a weeknight one, and worth it — mint is what stops a courgette lasagne tasting of nothing. Courgette is mostly water, so it has to be cooked down before it is layered or the whole dish floods. Note the devices: this one predates the TM7 and does not list it.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 5 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.2 from 21 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.2 across 21, and vegan without adjustment — rare among Brazilian sweets, which run on condensed milk almost without exception. A Festa Junina fixture.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h total · ~5 min hands-on · 24 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.1 from 20 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

A spreadable block without dairy, set in two hours. It is an emulsion of oil and liquid held together the same way a mayonnaise is, which is why it has to set cold — and why it behaves like butter rather than like margarine poured into a mould.

Time, yield and difficulty

55 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 19 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Risotto without standing over it, which is the trade most people would take: twenty minutes of attention for six. The green vegetables go in at the end — cooked from the start they lose both their colour and the point of the dish.

Time, yield and difficulty

35 min · 16 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 19 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

No baking, vegan, sixteen at a time, and they keep. The dried fruit is doing the binding — worked far enough it turns sticky and holds everything else together, which is the entire mechanism and the reason these are tedious by hand.

Time, yield and difficulty

50 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 12 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 18 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Pão de mel usually means fiddly individual domes; this is the same spiced honey batter baked as one cake, five minutes of hands-on for twelve pieces. Honey holds water in a way sugar does not, which is why it stays moist for days — and why this is vegetarian rather than vegan.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 30 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 44 pieces · Medium

Community rating

★ 2.9 from 18 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

A birthday-party fixture in Brazil, and the worst-rated Brazilian recipe in this index at 2.9 from eighteen. The shaping is where the afternoon goes — forty-four of them, one at a time, each pinched to a cashew-fruit curve. Read the ratings before committing to that.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 40 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 18 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Cassava cheese bread, forty of them in half an hour. There is no gluten in it, so nothing behaves like dough: the chew comes from cheese and from cassava starch gelatinising in the oven, which is why the texture is unlike any bread made of wheat.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 30 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 250 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.0 from 18 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

4.0 across 18, five minutes of hands-on. Worth making before anything else here: two of the recipes added alongside it are built on requeijão, and it is not a thing a British supermarket sells under any name.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 150 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 18 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

A perfect score, store-cupboard ingredients, fifteen minutes, and it keeps in a jar. It is a dry grind rather than anything cooked, so the only variable is how far you take it — coarse it reads as nuts, fine it reads as cheese.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h · 16 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 17 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM6/TM5

Sixteen portions in one run, which makes it a freezer job as much as a dinner. Potato is the one vegetable that punishes over-blending — its starch turns gluey when worked hard — so this is a soup to stop early. Listed for the TM6 and TM5 only; it carries no TM7 badge.

Time, yield and difficulty

4 h 20 min total · ~30 min hands-on · 10 pieces · Medium

Community rating

★ 3.9 from 17 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Burgers and the pink rolls both from the machine — a weekend project rather than a dinner. The lentils have to be dried out properly before they are shaped: a wet mixture is why vegan burgers fall apart, and no amount of binder fixes it afterwards.

Time, yield and difficulty

10 min · 4 glasses · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 17 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

A perfect score across 17 — the best-evidenced perfect score in this batch. Ten minutes, vegan, and the suco is a course in Brazil rather than a thing you buy in a carton.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 2 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 16 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

4.3 across 16. Malt is what separates a milkshake from cold chocolate milk, and it is precisely the thing most home versions leave out.

Time, yield and difficulty

25 min · 160 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 16 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

One ingredient, and cheaper than a jar. The sesame is toasted first, and that is not a flavour flourish: warm seeds give up their oil far more readily, and cold ones will sit there as a paste however long the machine runs.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 25 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 12 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.9 from 14 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

4.9, and five minutes of hands-on for twelve. Corn and coconut is the pairing Brazilian baking is built on. The batter is blended rather than folded, which breaks the corn down far enough for the cake to set smooth instead of grainy.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 30 min total · ~40 min hands-on · 8 servings · Medium

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 13 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6

A perfect score, and the one that photographs. The vegetables are cooked before they go anywhere near the pastry: put on raw, they release their water into the base and you get a soft-bottomed tart that no amount of extra oven time recovers.

Time, yield and difficulty

9 h 40 min total · ~25 min hands-on · 4 servings · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 13 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

The 9 h 40 is dough proving overnight, so plan ahead. That long cold prove is what makes the base worth eating — time does the flavour work yeast alone cannot — and a cold dough handles better as well.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 11 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6

The peanut sauce is the keeper, and it goes on considerably more than cauliflower. Toasting and grinding the nuts in the same bowl is what gives it body without anything thickening it.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h total · ~15 min hands-on · 30 pieces · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 11 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Thirty in an hour, vegetarian, and they travel. Short pastry wants to be handled as little and as cold as possible — worked warm, the fat melts into the flour instead of sitting in it, and short turns to tough.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 11 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Eleven ratings only, so take the 4.5 lightly. It earns its place by doing a job nothing else here does — a mash that is mostly vegetables rather than mostly potato.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 min · 5 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.2 from 10 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6

Five minutes and no straining, which is what makes it easier than the almond milk also here — cashews break down completely, so there is no pulp left to separate out. Ten ratings only.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h total · ~15 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 9 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

An hour, fifteen minutes of it yours, and it eats like a meal rather than beside one. What decides it is how much water leaves the aubergine before it is layered: driven off, the dish sets and slices; left in, it slumps. Only nine ratings, but this is a hard dish to get wrong.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h 40 min total · ~15 min hands-on · 6 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 3.8 from 9 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Nine ratings at 3.8 is weak evidence, and the gap it fills is real: the two other panna cottas checked alongside it both set with gelatine, which puts them outside this section altogether. Most of the 2 h 40 is the fridge working.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 40 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.1 from 8 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

The unexpected one — sweetcorn where the chocolate usually is. It needs longer over the heat than a chocolate brigadeiro because the corn brings water with it, and under-cooking is what leaves you with a bowl of something that will not roll.

Time, yield and difficulty

25 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 8 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

A perfect score across eight, vegan as written, twenty-five minutes. The shredding is the job the machine takes off you, and red cabbage by hand is the reason most people never make this.

Time, yield and difficulty

45 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 12 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.0 from 7 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Coconut and sugar, and the machine does the stirring that makes people give up. That stirring has a job: sugar cooked to the right point and then agitated sets grainy and sliceable, which is what a cocada is. Left alone, it stays a syrup.

Time, yield and difficulty

45 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 4 servings · Medium

Community rating

★ 4.0 from 7 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

The vegan counterpart to the egg dough also here, and quicker at ten minutes of hands-on. With no egg, water is all that is holding it together, so the rest does more work than usual: it is what lets the flour hydrate enough to roll thin without tearing. Seven ratings only.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 7 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Açaí sorbet in fifteen minutes, worked from frozen pulp straight to a scoopable texture. Nothing is churned and nothing is allowed to melt, which is also why it wants eating more or less immediately: refrozen, it sets to a block.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 h total · ~15 min hands-on · 8 slices · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 7 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Seven ratings, so the 4.7 is thin. It is here for the pairing rather than the score: cheese against guava is Romeu e Julieta, the flavour combination the old Captain Bruk shop sold as two separate jars. The five hours is setting.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 400 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 6 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Condensed milk from scratch in fifteen minutes, and it unlocks half the sweets on this page. It is water being driven off under controlled heat: too fast and the milk catches and tastes of it, which is why holding the temperature matters more than watching the clock.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 20 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 6 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

A coconut-cheese sweet, twenty of them in half an hour. It sets on egg rather than on reduction, so unlike most of the sweets on this page it is a baking job with a real finish point — and it goes dry a couple of minutes past it.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min · 12 slices · Advanced

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

A Pernambucan roll cake, and one of only two advanced recipes here. The difficulty is entirely in a sponge thin enough to roll without cracking: thin bakes in a couple of minutes and burns in three, so this one wants your attention at the oven rather than at the bowl.

Time, yield and difficulty

15 min · 35 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 5 ratings

Devices

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Thirty-five of them in fifteen minutes. The dried fruit and nuts go in after the cooking rather than during it: anything with structure that is stirred through hot condensed milk softens into the background instead of standing out against it.

Time, yield and difficulty

3 h 10 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 60 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.4 from 5 ratings

Devices

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A modern Brazilian bar snack, sixty at a time, and it sets overnight — which makes it batch-friendly rather than slow. The setting is the recipe: the mixture has to be properly cold and firm before it is cut, or the cubes lose their edges in the pan.

Time, yield and difficulty

35 min · 400 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

The old Captain Bruk blog published a pepper jam in 2017, so this is direct continuity. A jelly sets on sugar concentration alone, which makes the finish a judgement by eye rather than by clock: pulled early it stays syrup, pushed far it goes to toffee.

Time, yield and difficulty

30 min · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Five ratings only. It is here for the same reason the condensed milk is: two ingredients, five minutes, and it unlocks a whole column of the Brazilian page rather than being a dish in itself.

Time, yield and difficulty

10 min · 250 g · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 5 ratings

Devices

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Ten minutes for the sauce that goes with every fried thing on the Brazilian page. Five ratings, all of them five. The chopped elements go in after the emulsion is made — added early they release water into it and thin the whole thing out.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 5 min total · ~15 min hands-on · 12 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

A perfect score across five, which is thin. Listed because Brazil's Levantine inheritance is real food rather than a footnote — this is what the kibe assado already on this page is eaten with, and it is vegan as written.

Time, yield and difficulty

45 min total · ~15 min hands-on · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.6 from 5 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6

Forty-five minutes, 4.6 — newer, so fewer ratings, and well liked. As with every burger with no meat in it, the mixture has to be dry enough to hold and chilled before it cooks: both are structure rather than flavour.

Time, yield and difficulty

10 min · 2 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 4 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Four ratings, so the 4.5 is thin evidence and this says so rather than hiding it. Listed because it is the only vegan hot drink in the index and the alternative was leaving the gap open.

Time, yield and difficulty

40 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.0 from 4 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Four ratings at 4.0 — the least Brazilian-looking thing in this batch, and it sits in two Brazilian collections because South American grain salads are not a health-food import there. Contains honey, so vegetarian rather than vegan.

Time, yield and difficulty

8 h 50 min total · ~35 min hands-on · 12 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.8 from 4 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Four ratings, so treat the 4.8 as a hint rather than a finding. Sweetcorn as a dessert flavour is the single hardest Brazilian idea to sell to a British palate, and the one most worth trying. Nearly nine hours, of which thirty-five minutes is work.

Time, yield and difficulty

20 min · 16 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 3 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Lemongrass, and made to be spooned rather than rolled — which is the easier half of the family, because a spoon brigadeiro only has to be cooked until it thickens, not until it will hold a ball. Three ratings, so the score means little; the flavour is why it is here.

Time, yield and difficulty

10 min · 10 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.3 from 3 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Three ratings only. Ten minutes from start to ten portions, which is the machine doing the one trick it does better than any other appliance — frozen fruit and dairy into ice cream without an ice cream maker.

Time, yield and difficulty

11 h 40 min total · ~40 min hands-on · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 3 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6

Long only because it ferments. The machine's contribution is holding one temperature steady for hours, which is the whole of yoghurt-making and the reason people think it is difficult. Straining afterwards is what makes it Greek rather than plain.

Time, yield and difficulty

1 h 40 min total · ~10 min hands-on · 12 pieces · Advanced

Community rating

★ 4.7 from 3 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

The other advanced one, and a festa junina centrepiece. The husks are the cooking vessel rather than the packaging: they hold a loose corn paste together while it steams and sets, and nothing else does both jobs at once.

Time, yield and difficulty

55 min total · ~20 min hands-on · 4 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 3 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

Three ratings. The interest is the dressing: yoghurt instead of the maionese that Brazilian potato salad almost always drowns in, which makes it a side rather than a second main.

Time, yield and difficulty

10 min · 8 glasses · Easy

Community rating

★ 3.5 from 2 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Here for completeness and weakly rated, on two ratings that prove nothing either way. The one technical point worth having: it is the sugar crushed against the peel that pulls the oil out of it, and that oil is most of what you taste.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h total · ~10 min hands-on · 8 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 2 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

A churrasco staple with no UK equivalent — closer to a garlic-buttered roll finished over fire than to anything from a freezer. Two ratings only. The garlic goes on before the final heat so it cooks into the bread rather than sitting on top of it.

Time, yield and difficulty

4 h total · ~5 min hands-on · 12 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 4.5 from 2 ratings

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Bright yellow, glassy on top, and one of the few Brazilian sweets with no equivalent here at all. Two ratings, so the dish is a certainty and this particular version is not. The gloss is the yolk separating out and settling as it bakes, which is why it is turned out upside down.

Time, yield and difficulty

2 h 40 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 8 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 1 rating

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

An Amazonian fruit related to cacao that almost nobody in the UK has tasted. One rating proves nothing; it is here because the flavour has no substitute. The two and a half hours is setting, and it sets on the fruit's own acid meeting dairy rather than on gelatine.

Time, yield and difficulty

5 h 10 min total · ~5 min hands-on · 10 pieces · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 1 rating

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5/TM31

One rating. That is not evidence and it is not presented as any. Listed because the picolé is Brazilian street summer in one object, it is vegan, and five of the five hours is the freezer.

Time, yield and difficulty

8 h 50 min total · ~30 min hands-on · 12 servings · Easy

Community rating

★ 5.0 from 1 rating

Devices

Cookidoo lists it for TM7/TM6/TM5

Cassava in an ice cream sounds wrong and is not. A single five-star rating is not evidence of anything; it is here because the idea is worth trying. The long total is freezing, and the cooked cassava is doing a custard's job — it is starch, so it keeps the texture soft without any eggs.