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🇺🇸 Traditional dishes from United States

3 dishes people actually cook in United States: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.

What can you cook from United States? 3 traditional United States dishes, from Cheeseburger (30 min, the quickest) to Baked mac and cheese (50 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.

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Baked mac and cheese

50 minutes · easy · 8 ingredients

Baked mac and cheese, a traditional dish from United States

Elbow macaroni folded into a cheddar sauce made on a butter-and-flour roux, topped with breadcrumbs and baked.

  • 250 g elbow macaroni
  • 200 g cheddar cheese
  • 500 ml milk
  • 50 g butter
  • 30 g flour
  • 50 g bread crumbs
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper

Buffalo wings

45 minutes · medium · 7 ingredients

Buffalo wings, a traditional dish from United States

Unbreaded chicken wings from Buffalo, New York, deep-fried then tossed in melted butter and vinegary cayenne pepper sauce, served with celery and blue cheese dressing.

  • 1000 g chicken wings
  • 150 ml cayenne pepper hot sauce
  • 100 g butter
  • 1500 ml vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 4 stick celery
  • 150 ml blue cheese dressing

Cheeseburger

30 minutes · easy · 10 ingredients

Cheeseburger, a traditional dish from United States

A ground-beef patty seared on a grill or skillet, topped with melted cheddar and served in a bun with lettuce, tomato, onion, ketchup and mustard.

  • 500 g ground beef
  • 200 g cheddar cheese
  • 4 burger buns
  • 100 g lettuce
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 1 onion
  • 100 ml ketchup
  • 50 ml mustard
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper

What do people eat in United States?

Copper documents three dishes from United States: Baked mac and cheese, Buffalo wings and Cheeseburger. Butter and cheddar cheese each appear in more than one recipe. Two of the three are boiled. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 20 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from United States?

The three recipes need 20 ingredients between them, of which 2 are shared by more than one dish. Cheddar cheese the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 3 use cheddar cheese. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from United States take?

Cheeseburger is the quickest at 30 minutes. Baked mac and cheese is the longest at 50 minutes. The median is 45 minutes — a weeknight, not a project.

Which dish from United States is easiest to make at home?

Baked mac and cheese and Cheeseburger are rated easy — start there. The full method is on each recipe page, step by step, free to read.

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