Recipes

1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.

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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
· Condiments
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
· Condiments
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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An illustrative modern reconstruction of cooked Byzantine murrī: thick dark brown paste with a quince wedge and walnuts in a plain pottery dish.

Byzantine murrī

Byzantine murrī is a cooked imitation of murrī from the medieval Arabic repertoire, made from scorched honey, toasted bread, walnuts, quince, carob and spices rather than from a long grain fermentation.


Condiments
A bowl of coarse amber-brown Andhra allam pachadi, a ginger chutney with visible browned urad dal flecks.

Allam pachadi

An Andhra ginger-and-urad chutney in which browned dal and briefly fried ginger and chillies are cooled, then ground with jaggery to a coarse paste.

Andhra Pradesh · Modern method
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A small plain ceramic bowl of thick brown Filipino lechon sauce with canned liver spread, on a wooden table.

Lechon sauce with canned liver spread

A cooked Filipino roast-meat sauce thickened from canned liver spread, vinegar, water, sugar and breadcrumbs, with browned garlic and softened onion.

Philippines · Modern method
· Condiments
Small bowl of freshly pounded Thai chilli vinegar with red chilli flecks and seeds, beside a stone mortar and two red Thai chillies.

Pounded Thai chilli vinegar

Pailin Chongchitnant's fresh prik nam som card pounds two or three Thai chillies, optionally with garlic, before stirring in white vinegar; charring is a separate optional step.

Thailand · Modern method
· Condiments
Illustrative bowl of smooth, cooked New Mexican red chile powder sauce with a spoon; not a photograph of a specific batch.

New Mexican red chile sauce

New Mexican red chile sauce is a smooth, cooked sauce of dried red chile, thickened with a little flour and loosened with water, and used to coat enchiladas and to build chile con carne.

New Mexico
· Condiments
Coarsely crushed green-chilli and peanut thecha in a stone mortar, with green chillies, peanuts and garlic nearby.

Green-chilli and peanut thecha

A fresh Maharashtrian thecha of green chillies, peanuts and garlic, roasted separately in the same oil and crushed with salt. Optional coriander joins the pan before grinding; serve with bhakari.

Maharashtra · Modern method
· Condiments
Photograph of Tucupi negro.
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Tucupi negro

Tucupi negro is a dark, pungent sauce that Amazonian Indigenous women make by pressing bitter cassava, settling its starch and simmering the juice for hours until it thickens.

Pucaurquillo, Ampiyacu River, near Iquitos · Traditional method
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Photograph of Pontack elderberry sauce.
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Pontack elderberry sauce

An English elderberry condiment of vinegar, shallots and warm spices, historically called a catsup and tied to Pontac's Head tavern in London.

London · Historical attestation
· Condiments
Photograph of Wojapi.

Wojapi

Wojapi is a cooked berry sauce of the Lakota and Dakota peoples of the Northern Plains, traditionally made from pounded chokecherries and today most often made with blueberries and a starch.

Northern Plains, United States
· Condiments
A small tulip-shaped bottle of dark, glossy traditional balsamic vinegar beside a tasting dish and Parmigiano Reggiano.

Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Reggio Emilia

Protected Italian vinegar made only from cooked grape must, fermented and aged in a battery of wooden barrels for at least 12 years: sweet, sharp and syrupy.

Province of Reggio Emilia · Traditional method
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A shallow cream ceramic bowl holds finished golden-brown barley miso, its softly moist coarse paste flecked with visible barley grains.

Barley miso (mugi miso)

A Japanese soybean paste fermented with barley koji and salt, made mostly in Kyushu, Shikoku and western Japan. It is sweet, savoury and grainy.

Kyushu · Traditional method
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A glossy dark garnet spoonful of Hatay pomegranate sour above a glass bowl, with fresh pomegranates beside it.
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Hatay pomegranate sour (nar ekşisi)

The registered Hatay method presses pomegranate arils and slowly concentrates the strained juice. Its 100 kg source batch and experienced-producer endpoint are retained; no home-scale time or shelf-life is inferred.

Hatay Province · Traditional method
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Illustrative finished mulberry-leaf Nam pla ra sauce, shown strained in a plain glass bowl.
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Nam pla ra sauce with mulberry leaves

Coconut sugar starts this cooked sauce, followed by shrimp paste, garlic brine and pieces, two distinct pla-ra inputs, mulberry leaves, water and later seasonings.

Modern method
· Condiments
Illustrative finished Nam pla ra sauce from the cane-sugar source batch, shown strained in a plain bowl.
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Nam pla ra sauce with cane sugar

Concentrated pla-ra liquid and pla-ra ton are combined with shrimp paste, sugar and seasonings, simmered for about 30 minutes, strained and cooled.

Modern method
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A bowl of smooth dark-brown cooked nam pla ra sauce.
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Nam pla ra with pickled garlic

Purchased pla ra is boiled with pickled-garlic heads and water, then seasoned, boiled again, cooled and transferred; several captioned ingredient names or amounts remain unresolved.

Modern method
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Illustrative reconstruction of Yanyanku as ground dried fermented roselle seeds; the exact experimental batch appearance is not documented.

Yanyanku

A traditional Beninese inoculum made from fermented roselle, cotton or baobab seeds, rich in bacterial spores, added to cooked African locust beans to speed up fermentation and soften them into sonru.

Benin · Traditional method
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Off-white coconut chutney with mustard seeds, curry leaves and dried chilli tempering.

Coconut chutney

A coconut chutney whose ground base is finished with a separate oil tempering of mustard, urad dal, curry leaves and spices; the author pairs it with South Indian breakfast foods and snacks.

Tamil Nadu · Modern method
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Glossy amber-brown mitarashi sweet-soy glaze flowing from a spoon into a ceramic bowl.

Mitarashi sweet soy glaze

A glossy Japanese glaze thickened with starch, sugar, soy sauce and mirin. Spoon it over cooked rice dumplings while the glaze is still fluid.

Japan · Modern method
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Glossy dark mahogany kuromitsu syrup in a ceramic pitcher and dish, drizzled over kinako-dusted warabi mochi.

Kuromitsu black sugar syrup

A dark Japanese syrup made by simmering black sugar with water and optional extra sugar. Drizzle it over mochi, ice cream or other desserts.

Japan · Modern method
· Condiments
Thick brick-red Korean gochujang in an unbranded earthenware jar, with a wooden spoon lifting a scoop; original editorial reconstruction.
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Gochujang with glutinous rice and meju powder

Korea’s sweet, savoury and fiery red paste of glutinous rice, barley-malt enzymes, fermented soybean meju powder and chilli powder, matured in earthenware.

Sunchang, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea · Traditional method
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