
Lunu miris (Sri Lankan chilli and onion sambol)
Lunu miris is Sri Lanka's pounded onion and chilli sambol: chilli flakes and red onion crushed with salt and lime, often with Maldive fish, eaten in small amounts with hoppers, pol roti and kiribath.
1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.
Fermented, enzyme-ripened and mixed seasonings328
Fruit preserves10
Legume, seed and plant-protein ferments10
Garum and fish sauces8
Adjacent and excluded7
Koji, mold starters and mold-ripened ferments4
Acid and oil pickles3
Fermented fruit and fruit-derived foods3
Vegetable lactic3
Dairy ferments2
Smoked salted and dried foods2
Cheese1
Not yet classified1
Fermented, enzyme-ripened and mixed seasonings328
Fruit preserves10
Legume, seed and plant-protein ferments10
Garum and fish sauces8
Adjacent and excluded7
Koji, mold starters and mold-ripened ferments4
Acid and oil pickles3
Fermented fruit and fruit-derived foods3
Vegetable lactic3
Dairy ferments2
Smoked salted and dried foods2
Cheese1
Not yet classified1
Lunu miris is Sri Lanka's pounded onion and chilli sambol: chilli flakes and red onion crushed with salt and lime, often with Maldive fish, eaten in small amounts with hoppers, pol roti and kiribath.

A Sri Lankan lunu miris made by pounding onion and chilli flakes with lime; Maldive fish is optional.

Documentary account of Louisiana pepper sauces, using TABASCO's published barrel-aged commercial process as one specific example; the source does not provide a validated home recipe.

A fresh Bolivian table sauce of tomato, locoto chilli and herbs, following the La Paz municipal formula. Regional preparations vary.

Roasted tomatoes, shallots, garlic and chillies are pounded into a coarse Lao-style dip, then seasoned with fish sauce, optional lime and coriander.

A fresh sweet-sour mustard dressing for cold cucumber and pear or a freshly prepared salad. Its gram-based proportions are original and are not copied from Maangchi’s gyeoja-naengchae recipe.

A Telugu coconut and raw mango pachhadi with a separately fried spice mixture.

A strong Assamese condiment of mustard seed mixed with khar, an alkaline banana-ash filtrate, wrapped in leaves and fermented in bamboo over a fire or in a kitchen pot.

Karashi is Japan's hot mustard: powder stirred with a little water into a stiff paste, covered for a few minutes so the heat develops, and served in small dabs with oden, natto and fried food.

Kahudi is an Assamese mustard-seed condiment fermented with sour Thekera fruit into a strong mash; household methods and study results differ, and no validated home schedule exists.

Jiangyou is the Chinese soy sauce family, an umbrella term for light, dark and seasoned sauces made by two main process families: high-salt liquid-state and low-salt solid-state brewing.

Jeow bong is a Lao paste of dried chilli, shallot, garlic and galangal cooked with buffalo or cow skin, a Luang Prabang specialty eaten with sticky rice and grilled meat.

Hollandaise is a warm emulsion of egg yolk and butter finished with lemon juice, one of the French mother sauces, and the base for Bearnaise and other derived sauces.

Hawaiian chili pepper water, or wai nīoi, is a thin condiment of small chillies steeped in salted water with vinegar and garlic. Hawaiian families use it as a table hot sauce.

A Tunisian hot chilli paste from Cap Bon and Nabeul: red peppers pounded with garlic, caraway, coriander, cumin and olive oil, with many household and commercial variants.

A cooked peanut sauce of ground roasted peanuts, aromatics, shrimp paste and coconut cream, as made for gado-gado; pecel and Malaysian satay sauces are close relatives with different formulas.

A hot, fruity chile sauce of the Yucatán, built on habanero peppers and often charred with garlic. It sits on the table as a condiment, and the recipes vary widely.

A Mexican sauce in which dried guajillo chiles, toasted and softened in hot water, supply most of the flavour. It is a family of dried-chile salsas, not a tomato sauce with chile added.

A savoury sauce made from the juices a roast releases in the tin, reduced with stock and thickened, or thickened with flour or starch.

Gooseberry sauce is a soft, tart sauce of cooked green gooseberries, sharpened with wine or vinegar and lightly sweetened, traditionally served with mackerel.

Recheado is a red Goan spice paste of Kashmiri chillies, garlic and spices ground in vinegar, best known as the stuffing for fried fish such as mackerel.

A fresh, uncooked yuzu and green chilli paste inspired by Kyushu’s yuzu kosho, made here as an untested small-batch seasoning rather than a preservation formula.

Fresh chermoula is a chopped-herb Moroccan-style sauce of coriander, parsley, garlic, lemon, olive oil and warm spices, made here as an explicitly untested development formula.

Nuoc cham is a Vietnamese fish-sauce dipping sauce. This untested development ratio starts with water, lime and sugar, then adds fish sauce, garlic and chilli.

Fina'denne' is the all-purpose Chamorro dipping sauce of Guam, made in soy, citrus, vinegar or fish-brine versions with hot peppers. It is spooned over meat and rice or served in a small dish.

Espagnole is a brown mother sauce built on a dark roux, brown veal or beef stock and tomato, the base from which demi-glace and many brown sauces are made.

Dinanche, or donne' dinanche, is a Chamorro hot pepper paste of crushed chillies that Guam cooks use on its own or stir into fina'denne'. Its versions range from pepper alone to ones with eggplant, miso or coconut milk.

Demi-glace is a rich brown sauce of French cookery, classically made by reducing equal parts espagnole sauce and brown stock by half. It is used on its own or as a base for other sauces.

Cumberland sauce is a British condiment of redcurrant jelly, mustard, blanched orange peel and port, traditionally served cold with ham, game and cold meats.

Cranberry sauce is a sauce of cranberries cooked in sugar syrup until the berries burst and thicken, served with roast turkey, pork, chicken and ham.

Ripe red chillies, garlic, labelled 5% vinegar, sugar, water and salt are blended, simmered and blended smooth into a cooked chilli sauce.

A Burkina Faso alkaline fermentation of African locust bean seeds (Parkia biglobosa), used to season sauces and cooked grain dishes. Local process details vary, and the sources do not give a measured household batch.

Chogochujang is a Korean sweet-sour sauce made by seasoning gochujang with vinegar and sugar. This development batch adds water and toasted sesame seeds, with optional garlic for the portion being served.

A pourable dessert sauce of cocoa powder, sugar and water, boiled briefly and finished with salt and vanilla. It is a water-based sauce, not the cream or milk emulsion of ganache.

Chirmol is a Guatemalan salsa of charred tomatoes with onion, cilantro and lime, served with grilled meat and toasted chiles.

Chipotle adobo is a cooked sauce of smoked chipotle chiles, tomato, onion, garlic, dried chile powder, spices and vinegar, the form in which chipotles are most often sold in the United States.

A Lao tomato-and-chile dip made by roasting tomatoes, chiles, garlic and shallots over gentle coals, then pounding and seasoning them. This four-person serving batch has no measured ingredient quantities or validated storage period.

A Myanmar relish of dried shrimp, fried eschalot and garlic, chilli, turmeric, tamarind and ngapi. Naomi Duguid’s published recipe makes about 1 cup; it contains crustacean shellfish.

Yemeni zhug inspires this fresh sauce of coriander, parsley and green chilli. Its weighed mild-chilli formula is one contemporary variation, not a canonical household recipe.

Mayonnaise mixed with ketchup, drained pickle relish and yellow mustard makes a tangy, pickle-flecked sauce for burgers; these proportions are an untested starting point.

An eggless, untested emulsion made with canned chickpea liquid. Nominal yield 255 g.

This cooked Vietnamese chilli sauce uses fresh chillies, garlic and tomato for a pourable, sweet-spicy condiment; heat varies with the chillies and how many seeds are removed.

Adygean salt is a seasoned table salt associated with Adygea and the wider North Caucasian culinary tradition. Salt is blended with garlic and a variable selection of herbs and spices; the exact mix depends on the named style and maker.

A fresh herb and aromatic paste of chadon beni (culantro), thyme, chives, celery, onion, garlic and peppers, blended with vinegar and water and used as the base for Trinidadian cooking.

A small-batch, non-fermented tomato, fruit and savoury sauce assembled for crisp tonkatsu and cabbage, inspired by Japanese yoshoku serving traditions.

A bright green Trinidadian hot sauce of chadon beni (shado beni, culantro) with garlic, hot pepper, lime and water, blended to a pourable sauce for grilled meat, wings and eggs.

A cooked Caribbean hot sauce of ripe mango, habanero and other hot peppers, onion, garlic and citrus, blended smooth or left chunky.

Caribbean browning is a dark liquid of deeply caramelised sugar, used in small amounts for colour and a smoky, bitter-sweet flavour in stews and black cake.

Ten grams of English mustard powder stirred with cool water into a thick cream: the plainest, sharpest mustard there is, mixed just before the meal.

A rounded house ketchup cooked from tinned plum tomatoes, onion, vinegar, sugar and a little warm spice, then blended, sieved and reduced to about 600 g.