Recipes

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Korean saeujeot, small pale salted shrimp in brine in a glass jar with a serving dish.
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Saeujeot (Korean salted fermented shrimp)

Korean fermented seafood made by salting whole small shrimp and maturing them in their own brine, used as a seasoning, in kimchi and with pork.

Korean western and southern coasts · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Salted fermented anchovies in cloudy brown brine in an ivory bowl, with coarse salt in a separate dish.
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Myeolchi jeot

Salted anchovies mature in a covered jar with brine. The fish can be seasoned for a meal, while the expressed liquid seasons kimchi and other dishes.

Gyeonggi-do · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Photograph of Pissalat.
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Pissalat

A salted, fermented paste of small fish from Nice, pounded with olive oil, spices and herbs and spread on bread. Unlike a clear fish sauce, it keeps the solids in the finished condiment.

Nice
· Fish and seafood
Photograph of Terkin.
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Terkin

Terkin, also called meluha, is a Sudanese fermented fish paste or sauce. Sources describe raw and cooked forms and different processing methods; none establishes validated safety controls.

Sudan
· Fish and seafood
Photograph of Yúlù.
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Yúlù

Yúlù is a Chinese fish sauce, a liquid drawn from salted fish, shrimp or fish-processing material after a long natural maturation, most associated with coastal southeastern production.

Fujian
Fish and seafood
Photograph of Shottsuru.
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Shottsuru

Shottsuru is the fish sauce of Akita, Japan, made from salted fish, most often the sandfish hatahata, which liquefies over a long maturation of a year or more.

Akita
Fish and seafood
Photograph of Shiokara.
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Shiokara

Shiokara is a Japanese salted and fermented seafood preparation, in which squid or the organs of other fish are matured in salt until the flesh breaks down into a thick, savoury paste that keeps its solids.

Japan
Fish and seafood
Photograph of Pla ra.
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Pla ra

Thai salt-fermented fish paste, matured with rice bran or roasted rice and used as a seasoning in the Northeast and across Thailand. Raw pla ra must be cooked before eating.

Thailand · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Photograph of Myeolchi-aekjeot (Korean anchovy fish sauce).
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Myeolchi-aekjeot (Korean anchovy fish sauce)

Myeolchi-aekjeot is Korean anchovy sauce: whole anchovies salted to about 25 percent brine, fermented for months to years and filtered; its main use is as a kimchi seasoning.

South Korea
Fish and seafood
A small ceramic bowl of coarse, dark reddish-brown bagoong isda fish paste beside a plain wooden spoon.

Bagoong isda fish paste

Bagoong isda is a Philippine fish paste: whole small fish salted and left to ferment for a month or more in earthen jars. It is the fish counterpart of bagoong alamang.

Philippines
Fish and seafood
Clear golden-amber Vietnamese fish sauce in a plain white ceramic bowl on a warm ivory background.
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Fish sauce

Fish sauce is a clear, salty seasoning made by maturing fish with salt and drawing off the liquid. The broad family includes distinct regional sauces rather than one interchangeable method.

Phú Quốc
· Fish and seafood
A clear glass bottle of amber colatura di alici beside a small wooden Cetara barrel, with anchovies softly out of focus.
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Colatura di alici di Cetara

Colatura di alici is the amber liquid drained from salted anchovies matured in wooden containers in Cetara, on the Amalfi coast of Campania, and sold under a protected designation of origin.

Cetara
Fish and seafood
Illustrative still life of a small terracotta vessel and cup of dark amber fish sauce, inspired by ancient Mediterranean artifacts; not a reconstruction of one recipe or period.
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Garum (garos, liquamen)

Garum, Greek garos and Latin liquamen, was the fish sauce of the ancient Mediterranean: fish and viscera salted and left in the sun, then drained off as a savoury liquid.

Greece · Historical attestation
· Fish and seafood
Editorial illustration of Mahyawa as a dark amber fish sauce served beside thin flatbread; the bottle and serving form are approximate, not a documentary record of one regional vessel.
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Mahyawa (mahyaveh)

Mahyawa, also written mahyaveh, is a traditional fish sauce from southern Iran, made by salting small sardines or anchovies in water, maturing them in jars and seasoning the filtered liquid with mustard and spices.

Fars and Hormozgan
Fish and seafood