Recipes

1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.

All condiments19Fermented, enzyme-ripened and mixed seasonings12Legume, seed and plant-protein ferments3Vegetable lactic2Garum and fish sauces1Koji, mold starters and mold-ripened ferments1
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Photograph of Tao-jiew (Thai fermented soybean condiment).

Tao-jiew (Thai fermented soybean condiment)

Tao-jiew is a salty, semi-solid soybean condiment from Thai cooking, made with koji and maturation in salt solution. The JIRCAS entry gives one method with key quantities left out.

Thailand
Condiments
Photograph of Saishikomi shoyu.

Saishikomi shoyu

Saishikomi shoyu is a double-brewed soy sauce: a second moromi is made with a finished soy sauce in place of salt water, which makes a dark, concentrated sauce with softer salt.

Yamaguchi and San'in through Kyushu
Condiments
Pale amber usukuchi shoyu in a white ceramic dish, poured from a small vessel, with dry soybeans, wheat berries and salt in separate dishes.

Usukuchi shoyu

Usukuchi is Japan's light-coloured soy sauce, a Kansai style identified by its pale colour rather than by lower salt, with the colour set by production choices made during brewing.

Kansai
Condiments
Photograph of Murrī.
High risk

Murrī

A dark, salty fermented condiment of the medieval Arabic kitchen, made from fermented barley and flour, which seasoned dishes where later cooks would use soy sauce, salt or sumac.


Condiments
Finished red-orange Louisiana hot pepper sauce in an unlabeled glass bottle with a small dish and ripe red chiles.

Louisiana fermented pepper sauce

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.

Avery Island, Louisiana
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A coarse brown-gold Kahudi mustard-seed condiment on banana leaf in a plain ceramic dish.

Kahudi

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.

Jorhat district, Assam
Condiments
Two plain bowls of Chinese soy sauce, one amber and one deep reddish-brown, with cooked soybeans and roasted cracked wheat beside them.

Jiangyou (Chinese soy sauce)

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.

China
Condiments
Photograph of Shoyuzuke.

Shoyuzuke

Foods steeped in soy sauce, a salty fermented seasoning liquid that transfers salt and fermentation products into them; shoyuzuke uses a transformed liquid medium rather than a fresh brine.

Japan · Traditional method
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Illustrative finished Zhenjiang aromatic vinegar, clear deep reddish-brown with warm umber highlights; not a specific brand.

Zhenjiang Black Vinegar

Zhenjiang black vinegar is a Chinese glutinous-rice vinegar made by mixed-culture fermentation, solid-state acetification, roasted-rice extraction and ageing, giving a dark, savoury, mildly sweet condiment.

Zhenjiang · Traditional method
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A small assortment of sliced daikon, cucumber and aubergine miso-zuke on a plain ivory plate; one visual example of the broader method.

Miso-zuke

Foods embedded in salty fermented miso paste, which transfers salt and fermentation products into them; misozuke uses an already transformed medium rather than a fresh vegetable brine.

Japan · Traditional method
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Photograph of Koikuchi soy sauce.
Elevated risk

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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A small bowl of pale fermented coconut mitihue with fine coconut texture
High risk

Mitihue

A documentary account of Tahitian mitihue, a fermented coconut condiment traditionally associated with freshwater prawns. It records cultural context and source-reported risks without giving a household preparation method.

French Polynesia
Condiments
Photograph of Padaek.
High risk

Padaek

Padaek is a Lao salt-fermented freshwater fish paste used as a seasoning and preserved food. This record covers documented uses and safety gaps; it does not offer an unvalidated home method.

Laos · Traditional method
Condiments
Illustrative soy sauce: a small ceramic dish of thin, translucent, deep reddish-brown seasoning.

Soy sauce

Soy sauce is a salted liquid seasoning made by growing koji mould on soybeans and grain, maturing the mash in brine and pressing out the liquid. Japan's shoyu is the best-documented form.

Japan · Traditional method
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Photograph of Tucupi negro.
High risk

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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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 bowl and jar of pale, grainy shio koji on a wooden table, with rice koji grains and salt nearby.
Elevated risk

Shio koji, rice-koji salt seasoning

A Japanese seasoning of rice koji, salt and water, left at room temperature until the koji's enzymes and its microbes turn it into a savoury, salty paste for marinades and dressings.

Japan · Traditional method
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Thick brick-red Korean gochujang in an unbranded earthenware jar, with a wooden spoon lifting a scoop; original editorial reconstruction.
Elevated risk

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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Homemade sugar-based apple-scrap cider vinegar shown as an amber culinary condiment with fresh apple pieces and peels.
Elevated risk

Sugar-based apple cider vinegar

Apple vinegar made at home from whole fruit or peelings and cores, sugared and fermented first to alcohol by yeast and then to acetic acid by bacteria in open air.

United States · Modern method
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