Recipes

1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.

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A bowl of glossy soy-mirin tare with a clean basting brush and optional fresh ginger.

Soy-mirin tare for glazing

A modern tare-style glaze of koikuchi soy sauce, mirin, water, sugar and optional ginger, gently reduced and brushed onto food near the end of cooking.

Japan
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Illustrative bowl of cooked green-mango chutney with raisins; not a specific canned batch.

Mango chutney

Hard green mango is cooked with vinegar, sugar, raisins, ginger, garlic and chilli in this tested US home-canning recipe.

India · Modern adaptation
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Smooth orange-red cooked Scotch bonnet pepper sauce in an open jar, with Scotch bonnet peppers, carrot, chocho, garlic, ginger, and allspice; illustrative and for refrigeration.

Jamaican Scotch Bonnet Pepper Sauce

This Jamaican recipe cooks Scotch bonnet peppers with carrot, cho cho, onion, garlic, ginger, allspice and vinegar, then blends and strains the mixture.

Jamaica
· Condiments
Cooked ginger-scallion oil with red chilli in a shallow celadon serving bowl.

Cooked ginger-scallion oil with chilli

A Cantonese condiment of ginger, garlic, scallion and fresh chilli fried slowly in oil and seasoned with soy sauce, sugar, wine and salt, served over roast meats and poached chicken.

Cantonese cuisine
· Condiments
Illustrative finished Awaji moshio Premium, fine pale beige seaweed-salt granules in a plain ceramic dish.

Awaji moshio

Awaji moshio is a modern Japanese seaweed salt made by TaDa PHILOSOPHY from Awaji Island seawater and seaweed. Its premium process concentrates brine, extracts seaweed flavor, then crystallizes, separates, dries and grades the salt.

Awaji Island
· Condiments
Photograph of Pilpelchuma (chilli-garlic paste).

Pilpelchuma (chilli-garlic paste)

A chilli and garlic paste from the Libyan Jewish community, built on steamed dried peppers, garlic and cumin, now a common condiment in Israel.

Libya · Traditional method
Condiments
Photograph of Pepián recado.

Pepián recado

The roasted chile, seed and vegetable sauce that thickens and colours Guatemalan pepián stew.

Guatemala · Traditional method
Condiments
Generated editorial photograph of a small ceramic bowl holding coarse rust-red sal de gusano seasoning on warm ivory linen; it depicts the seasoning family, not a specific producer or batch.

Sal de gusano

A dry Mexican seasoning of maguey worm, salt and chile, most closely associated in published accounts with Oaxaca and commonly served with mezcal, citrus and fruit.

Oaxaca
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A dry furikake blend of toasted white and black sesame, bonito flakes and nori beside a bowl of rice seasoned with the same blend.

Furikake

A dry Japanese rice seasoning of sesame, bonito, nori, sugar and salt. This documented home blend is one specific formula within a varied category with several early product histories.

Modern adaptation
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A small ivory dish of dry, coarse wine-infused finishing salt, tinted rose-red to burgundy.

Wine-infused salt

Wine-infused salt is coarse food salt carrying wine colour and aroma after a wine-and-salt mixture is reduced and dried. This version follows a Missouri Wines method at a one-to-three salt-to-wine ratio.

Missouri · Modern method
Condiments
A modest bowl of fine pale Asin sa buy-o salt crystals, shown without packaging.

Asin sa buy-o

Asin sa buy-o is a fine sea salt made in Panayunan, Botolan, and packed in a woven nipa pouch called a buy-o. Salt-bearing coastal earth is leached with seawater, and the brine is boiled to crystals.

Botolan · Traditional method
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Illustrative still life of one reported pale, porous Nzoia River reed salt block on a banana leaf; colour and texture are not standardized.
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Nzoia River reed salt

Nzoia River reed salt is a Bukusu seasoning made by leaching and evaporating the ash of mature muchua reeds. Its sources document a local method, but provide neither a measured formula nor verified mineral composition.

Nabuyole, Webuye, Bungoma County · Traditional method
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Thin dark Worcestershire-style sauce in a glass bottle and ceramic dish, with its documented historical spices and sauces arranged beside it.

Worcestershire sauce

A thin, dark, sharply savoury table sauce associated with Worcester, England. This recipe preserves one historical formula printed in 1932 and distinguishes it from modern proprietary Worcestershire sauces.

Worcester
· Condiments
Photograph of Wasakaka.

Wasakaka

A Dominican garlic sauce of olive oil, garlic, parsley, sour orange or lime juice and salt, simmered until reduced and served over roast chicken, boiled yuca or meat.

Dominican Republic
· Condiments
Photograph of Veloute sauce.

Veloute sauce

Veloute is a light stock sauce thickened with a blond roux, one of the French mother sauces, and the base for named sauces built on chicken, fish or veal stock.

France
· Condiments
Photograph of Trinidad tamarind sauce.

Trinidad tamarind sauce

A sweet, sour and spiced tamarind sauce from Trinidad, made from tamarind pulp with garlic, Scotch bonnet, culantro, cumin, anchar masala and brown sugar, served with doubles and pholourie.

Trinidad and Tobago
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Photograph of Steak Diane and peppercorn pan sauces.

Steak Diane and peppercorn pan sauces

Steak Diane is a restaurant pan sauce of seasoned butter, Worcestershire and parsley, often flamed; the related peppercorn cream sauce is reduced from cream and crushed peppercorns for steak.

London
· Condiments
Illustrative Malaysian sambal tumis: thick cooked red chilli paste with a light ring of separated oil, in a plain ceramic bowl.

Sambal tumis

Sambal tumis is a Malaysian chilli paste fried in oil until it breaks, then simmered with tamarind and sugar, used as a condiment and as a cooking base.

Malaysia
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Photograph of Shatta.
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Shatta

Shatta is a Palestinian chilli paste with many household forms. Abeer Najjar’s family-inspired version oven-dries salted fresh chillies, then mixes them with vinegar and olive oil for a source-described room-temperature ferment.

Palestine
· Condiments
Photograph of Seeni sambol.

Seeni sambol

Sri Lankan cooked onion relish: onions fried in oil until dark and jammy, then sharpened with tamarind and sweetened with sugar. Not a fermented condiment.

Sri Lanka
· Condiments
Two bowls of cooked tomato sauce: herb flecked marinara and chilli flecked arrabbiata.

Marinara and arrabbiata tomato sauce

Marinara is a quick Italian-American tomato sauce; arrabbiata is a distinct Roman tomato sauce with red chilli. They share a simple cooked tomato-and-garlic base but are not the same sauce.

Naples
· Condiments
Coarse Lao-style roasted tomato jeow with charred tomato pieces, shallot, garlic, chilli and coriander in a ceramic bowl.

Lao-style roasted tomato jeow

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

Laos
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Fresh Jeow bong, a Lao chili paste with visible cooked cow-skin strips, served beside sticky rice.

Jeow bong

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.

Luang Prabang
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Warm glossy pale-yellow Hollandaise sauce in a porcelain sauce boat with asparagus softly in the background.
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Hollandaise sauce

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.

France
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A bowl of smooth glossy deep-brown Espagnole sauce with a spoon lifting a ribbon.

Espagnole sauce

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.

France
· Condiments
Glossy orange Caribbean mango pepper sauce in a ceramic bowl with ripe mango, habanero and lime.

Caribbean mango pepper sauce

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

Caribbean
· Condiments
A small clear glass jug of glossy dark mahogany Caribbean browning syrup, with a wooden spoon holding a little of the liquid.

Caribbean browning (burnt-sugar seasoning)

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.

Jamaica
Condiments
Creamy British bread sauce in a ceramic bowl with roast poultry in the background

Bread sauce

Bread sauce is a British sauce of milk infused with onion, clove and bay, thickened with stale breadcrumbs and finished with butter, served with roast chicken or turkey.

Britain
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Thai-style cooked red chilli-garlic sauce, smooth and glossy in an unbranded terracotta bowl with ripe red chillies and garlic.

Thai-style cooked sriracha sauce

Red chillies and garlic simmer in distilled vinegar, then blend with sugar and salt into a smooth, sharp, sweet-hot table sauce associated with Thailand’s Si Racha coast.

Si Racha · Modern adaptation
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A shallow ceramic bowl of thick golden-orange cooked ripe-mango amba with fine spice flecks.

Amba (ripe mango)

This cooked amba follows a Jewish Food Society recipe that simmers ripe mango with onion, garlic, mustard seed and warm spices into a tangy Middle Eastern condiment.

Iraq
· Condiments
Uttarakhand til ki chutney, a finely ground tan sesame-and-cumin paste with sparse green-chilli flecks.

Til ki chutney

Til ki chutney is a sesame-and-cumin condiment from an Uttarakhand cuisine collection: the seeds are roasted, finely ground with salt and green chillies, then mixed with lemon juice. The book describes it as a winter preparation.

Uttarakhand Himalayas · Traditional method
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Pale glossy beurre blanc spooned over white fish with asparagus
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Beurre blanc

Beurre blanc is a warm emulsion of cold butter whisked into a reduction of white wine, vinegar or lemon juice and shallot, a sauce from the Loire Valley and its red-wine version, beurre rouge.

Saint-Julien-de-Concelles
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Smooth ivory béchamel sauce with nutmeg in a shallow ceramic bowl, coating a spoon.

Bechamel sauce

Bechamel is a white sauce of milk thickened with a butter and flour roux, one of the French mother sauces, and the base from which Mornay and other cheese and cream sauces are made.

France
· Condiments
Illustrative bowl of thick amber-brown banana ketchup with ripe banana, chilli and garlic nearby.

Banana ketchup in a Filipino-inspired direction

A sweet-hot table sauce of ripe banana simmered with vinegar, sugar, onion, garlic and fresh chilli, in the manner of Philippine banana ketchup. An untested development batch of about 500 g.

Philippines
· Condiments
Coarse dark red Ata dindin fried pepper sauce in a shallow ceramic bowl.

Ata dindin

Ata dindin is the Yoruba fried pepper sauce: chillies, red bell pepper and onion blended and cooked down in oil until the oil separates. The same name is also given to a finished stew built on it.

Yorubaland
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Original editorial reconstruction of a bowl of cooked, ground Andhra gongura pachadi, a coarse dark green leaf chutney with mustard seeds and chilli flecks.

Gongura pachadi

A hot, sour Andhra chutney of gongura (sorrel) leaves cooked soft and ground with fried dried chillies, garlic and onion, then finished with a hot tempering of dals, mustard and curry leaves.

Guntur region · Traditional method
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Illustrative bowl of thick chutney with soft fruit pieces and subtle spice flecks; not a specific recipe or storage method.

Chutney

A broad account of cooked chutney traditions: fruit or vegetables combined with sugar, spices and sometimes acid, often boiled into a thick condiment. This record is historical and process context, not a formula or storage recipe.

South Asia · Traditional method
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Illustrative quick yuzu ponzu in a ceramic dipping dish, garnished with yuzu zest; the exact recipe combines yuzu, soy, vinegar, mirin, kombu and bonito.

Quick yuzu ponzu

This quick ponzu combines soy sauce, vinegar, hon mirin, kombu, dried bonito and yuzu juice after a brief boil and a warm extraction; the recipe serves five.

Japan · Modern method
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Clear amber mentsuyu noodle dipping sauce in a small glass bowl, with dried kombu and bonito flakes beside it.

Mentsuyu (noodle dipping sauce)

Mentsuyu seasons Japanese noodles with dashi, soy sauce and mirin. Two home formulas are recorded here: a 2012 light-soy and bonito sauce, and a concentrate diluted 1:2 for dipping or 1:4 for hot soup.

Japan
· Condiments
finished tomato and onion smoor

Tomato and onion smoor

A thick South African tomato-and-onion relish simmered slowly and served warm with boerewors, pap or bread.

South Africa · Traditional method
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Original coarse Bavarian-style sweet mustard served in a plain bowl, showing visible yellow and brown mustard seeds.

Bavarian sweet-inspired mustard

A coarse, sweet Bavarian-style mustard of yellow and brown seed in a cooked brown-sugar and vinegar base, made to eat with Weisswurst; an original refrigerated formula.

Bavaria · Modern adaptation
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A bowl of cooked New Mexican green chile sauce with visible roasted chile and softened onion.

New Mexican green chile sauce

New Mexican green chile sauce is a cooked sauce of roasted fresh green chile, onion and garlic, thickened with a little flour and a 15-minute simmer in stock.

New Mexico
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Coarse gomashio made from toasted tan and black sesame seeds with sea salt in a small pale ceramic bowl, with a ridged mortar and wooden pestle behind it.

Gomashio

Toasted sesame seeds and sea salt are ground together into a coarse seasoning for rice. This small pan-roasted batch keeps most of the seed texture.

Japan · Modern method
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Photograph of Koikuchi soy sauce.
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Koikuchi soy sauce

Japan's standard all-purpose soy sauce: soybeans and wheat grown over with koji mould, brined, fermented for months, pressed and usually heated into a reddish-brown, savoury liquid.

Japan · Traditional method
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Whole glossy chipotle peppers in tomato adobo sauce in a rustic bowl.

Chipotle in adobo

Whole smoked-dried chipotles simmer in a tomato, vinegar and spice adobo: a Mexican condiment with smoky heat and a sauce that seasons the chile as it softens.

Mexico
· Condiments
Finished moist Andhra peanut chutney with tomato and finely chopped raw onion in a plain bowl.

Palli pachadi

A moist Andhra peanut chutney: roasted groundnuts ground with fried dried chillies and tamarind, folded into a roasted tomato-and-spice mix with raw onion, and eaten with khichdi, attu or idli.

Rayalaseema · Traditional method
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A thick, glossy red-brown kinema and tomato achar in a shallow ivory bowl, finished with sliced red onion and coriander.

Kinema tomato achar

Kinema ra golbheda ko achar combines already-fermented soybean kinema with tomatoes, onion, garlic and spices, finished with sesame powder and fresh garnish, and is eaten with rice or toast.

Nepal · Modern method
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Pale beige Amabito no Moshio seaweed salt in a ceramic dish beside dried hondawara.

Amabito no Moshio

Amabito no Moshio is a modern, pale beige Japanese seaweed salt made from Seto Inland Sea water and hondawara seaweed. Its documented factory method concentrates filtered brine in kettles, then separates and dries the salt.

Kamikamagari Island
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Smooth dark reddish-brown tamarind-date chutney served in a plain ceramic bowl with a spoon.

Simmered tamarind-date chutney

A sweet-sour cooked chutney of tamarind, dates, jaggery, ginger and roasted cumin. An untested measured batch is given beside four documented Indian formulas and their storage claims.

India · Modern method
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Dry reddish-brown Maharashtrian tilachi chutney powder, made with sesame and coconut, in a small ceramic bowl.

Tilachi chutney

A Maharashtrian dry chutney of slowly roasted sesame and coconut ground fine with garlic, chilli powder, cumin, tamarind and sugar, kept in a bottle and eaten as a winter side.

Maharashtra · Traditional method
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