Recipes

1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.

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Thin pale-rose slices of Norwegian rakfisk served on flatbread with sour cream and red onion.
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Rakfisk

Rakfisk is a Norwegian preserved fish: cleaned trout or char, salted, packed under pressure and matured cold, usually for about three months, before it is eaten sliced.

Norway
Fish and seafood
A whole grey-white plaa-som fish with rice grains on a plain ceramic plate.

Plaa-som (pla som)

Plaa-som is a Thai sour fish: freshwater fish salted overnight, then mixed with cooked rice and garlic and fermented for about five to seven days at ambient temperature.

Northeast Thailand
Fish and seafood
Finished Ghanaian Momone pieces in a small ceramic dish.
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Momone

Momone is a Ghanaian salted and fermented fish condiment made from varied marine fish. Historical surveys describe both semi-dried and drier products, with salting and drying methods differing across coastal communities.

Ghana
· Fish and seafood
Illustrative still life of dry salted-fermented fish condiment; not a photograph of the research batch or a safety recommendation.
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Lanhouin

Lanhouin is a strongly flavoured fermented fish condiment documented in coastal West Africa, including southern Benin. This page records one published research reproduction as evidence, not as a validated home-preservation recipe.

Benin
· Fish and seafood
Illustrative pla ra (pla daek), a chunky fermented fish condiment in an earthenware crock; the source batch's roasted-grain addition is unclear.
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Pla ra with roasted grain

A fish batch is washed, mixed with 800 g salt per about 5 kg fish, and packed with an unresolved roasted-grain addition; cleaning weight and storage duration are unclear.

Modern method
· Fish and seafood
Illustrative Thai pla ra ferment with mixed freshwater fish and toasted rice sediment in an earthenware crock; appearance varies and this is not a photograph of the cited source batch.
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Pla ra with mixed freshwater fish

Mixed freshwater fish are soaked, repeatedly washed, salted and packed with toasted ground paddy rice; the creator gives a 1.5 kg fish batch and an unmeasured ladle dose.

Modern method
· Fish and seafood
Illustrative pla ra (pla daek), a chunky fermented fish condiment in a ceramic jar; not a depiction of the source video batch.
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Pla ra with pla soi and pla koom

Pla soi and pla koom are salted with coarse sea salt, held in bags and packed with later grain additions; the source leaves salt basis, bran dose and part of the sequence unclear.

Modern method
· Fish and seafood