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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.
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1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.
All fish and seafood34
Smoked salted and dried foods26
Garum and fish sauces5
Fermented whole fish and seafood2
Acid and oil pickles1
Smoked salted and dried foods26Garum and fish sauces5Fermented whole fish and seafood2Acid and oil pickles1Filtered to
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Yukola (Nivkh dried salmon)
Pacific salmon opened along the backbone and hung on elevated wooden frameworks to air-dry, the winter provision at the centre of Nivkh household fishing on Sakhalin and the Lower Amur.
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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.
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Stockfish
Cod hung on open racks in cold northern air until most of its water has gone, leaving a hard, light, unsalted fish that keeps and travels and must be soaked for days before cooking.
Gunditjmara smoked eel
Short-finned eels, kooyang, smoked for a sustained period in the hollows of large trees at Budj Bim in south-western Victoria, a combined heat, smoke and drying method of the Gunditjmara people.
Arbroath smokie
Arbroath smokies are whole haddock dry-salted, paired by the tail and hot-smoked in a protected coastal area. Their recorded history links Auchmithie and Arbroath, though the exact origin is unsettled.
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Solar-tent dried usipa, utaka and ndunduma
Small Lake Malawi fish, usipa, utaka and ndunduma, dried on racks inside UV-treated polythene solar tents. Tested in Malawi as a drier, less lossy alternative to open sun drying on racks.
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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.
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Hentak
Manipuri fermented fish-and-aroid paste, formed into balls or kept in an earthen pot, used to season Manipuri dishes. Its method is documented in outline only.
Bêche-de-mer (trepang)
Sea cucumber cleaned, boiled and dried, sometimes with smoke, into a long-keeping trade product; Makassan processing in Arnhem Land is documented from at least the eighteenth century.
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Izushi
Hokkaido izushi layers fish, vegetables, rice and kōji for cold-season lactic fermentation. This MAFF recipe uses small hatahata with a vinegar pretreatment; it is one regional household formula, not a universal izushi method.
Dried salted cod
Cod split, salted and dried on flakes until hard, a long-keeping fish that must be desalted and rehydrated before use; the salting and the extensive drying together make it portable where light salting or partial drying does not.
Escabeche
Fried or cooked food covered in a vinegar-based preparation, the heat and the externally supplied acid working together; a family of methods whose early form is a Roman instruction for treating fried fish with hot vinegar.
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Tinapa
Filipino smoked fish, most often scad, sardinella or milkfish, brined and smoked, and eaten whole or flaked into other dishes.
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Bakalar na bijelo
An Istrian festive spread of cooked stockfish beaten with olive oil and garlic until pale and cohesive, here bulked out with hand-mashed floury potato.
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Dried charales (charales secos)
Small central-Mexican lake silversides, Chirostoma spp., dried whole and sometimes salted, then fried, roasted or simmered into Lenten tortitas and snacks.
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Fraser Canyon wind-dried salmon
Salmon opened, scored and hung on roofed racks in the dry canyon winds of the Fraser River: slhíts'es in Stó:lō documentation, sts'wan in St'át'imc records.
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Newfoundland dried salt cod
Atlantic cod split, salted and dried on raised flakes along the Newfoundland and Labrador shore, manufactured ashore for markets across the Atlantic.
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Narezushi
A documentary account of Japanese narezushi, a family of salted-fish and rice ferments. This entry preserves the East Kishu (Mie) source’s identity and regional context without providing a household preparation method.
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Salted-dried pirarucu (manta)
Arapaima gigas split into broad mantas, salted, matured for days and dried into the sheets that travel Amazonian river markets as bacalhau da Amazônia.
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Ackee and saltfish
Jamaica's best-known dish: salt-cured cod desalted and flaked, then folded through ackee arils with onion, tomato, sweet pepper, thyme and Scotch bonnet.
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Carquín dried anchoveta
Anchoveta salted, drained of sanguaza and sun-dried on sand or stones at Caleta de Carquín, a technique declared part of Peru's cultural heritage in 2016.
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Pipsi
Arctic char opened, scored and air-dried in the Canadian Arctic: concentrated, chewy country food recorded as pipsi in Nunavut and pitsik in Nunavik.
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Bacalà alla vicentina
Stockfish from Vicenza, left barely bubbling for hours with onion, preserved anchovy, olive oil, milk and a little cheese until it is tender under a dense pale sauce, and eaten with polenta.
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Stoccafisso all'anconitana
Ancona's baked stockfish: thick pieces layered with potatoes, tomatoes, olives, capers and anchovy under olive oil and white wine, cooked slowly in a covered dish.
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Baccalà mantecato
A Venetian cicchetto of cooked unsalted stockfish beaten with oil until it turns into a pale, aerated cream, spooned onto grilled polenta in the city's wine bars.
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Bacalhau à lagareiro
Thick pieces of desalted salt cod roasted in olive oil with garlic and onion, served with small potatoes cooked and then crushed until their skins split.
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Bacalhau à Brás
Lisbon's salt cod dish: shredded desalted cod and fine fried potato matchsticks folded through softened onion and bound with beaten egg, finished with parsley and black olives.
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Maldive fish
Maldive fish is a hard, smoke-dried tuna product made in the Maldives and traded especially to Sri Lanka, where it is known as umbalakada. Cooks shave or pound it into a concentrated savory seasoning for sambols, curries and other dishes.
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Arabushi (smoke-dried bonito)
Japanese skipjack tuna cooked, then repeatedly smoked and dried over a wood fire by the hand-fired tebiyama method into a hard block for shaving into dashi: the first stage of katsuobushi.
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Bonito flakes (katsuobushi)
Katsuobushi is skipjack tuna cooked, smoked and dried into a hard block that is shaved into flakes for dashi and toppings. Some styles stop at the smoke-dried stage; others receive carefully managed mold maturation.
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Nam pla
Thai fish sauce is a clear yellow-brown seasoning drawn from salted fish. Tank maturation produces a first extract, with further brine extractions giving other grades.
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Dried ammassat / ammassaat
Greenlandic capelin dried whole on rocks, among crowberry vegetation or on buildings, and the microbial research that has made this small fish unusually well studied.
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Alutiiq dried, smoked and half-dried fish (tamuuq, kupcuunaq, kac'amaasaq)
Kodiak salmon, halibut and cod cut as seg'aq and hung on an initaq rack to become tamuuq, with kac'amaasaq and kupcuunaq named as different results.