Recipes

1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.

All vegetables51Lactic-fermented vegetables and shoots38Adjacent and excluded3Grain and starch ferments3Condiments and enzymatic seasonings2Fruit preserves2Acid and oil pickles1Smoked salted and dried foods1Unfermented breads1
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Hogweed barszcz

The original Polish barszcz: young hogweed leaves soured in warm water for a few days, then boiled into soup with egg, butter, cream or millet. Recorded from 1595, with warnings about the sap and lookalikes.

Kraków · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Photograph of White cabbage sauerkraut.

White cabbage sauerkraut

A Penn State Extension crock method mixes 5 lb of shredded cabbage with 3 tablespoons of canning or pickling salt, packs it under its own brine and ferments it in a covered container.

Traditional method
· Vegetables
A dark ceramic plate of crisp sliced cucumber, daikon, carrot, and Japanese eggplant nukazuke, with a bowl of rice-bran pickling bed behind it.

Nukazuke

Japanese pickles made by burying vegetables in nukadoko, a reusable bed of rice bran, salt and water that is turned daily and ripened by lactic and yeast fermentation.

Japan · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Illustrative plate of freshly prepared Korean oi-sobagi, cross-cut cucumbers filled with red chili and vegetables; not a photo of a specific batch.

Oi-sobagi

Oi-sobagi is a Korean stuffed cucumber kimchi: salted cucumbers slit and filled with a chive-and-chilli seasoning, eaten fresh or left to ferment.

Korea · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Whole mature purple-black Greek olives in clear brine in a glass jar, with a small bowl of olives beside it.
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Greek-style black olives in brine

Ripe olives go straight into brine with no lye and cure for months, mostly by yeasts. The home method here is the University of California two-stage brine.

Peloponnese and Central Greece · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Finely grated Brovada DOP turnip, pale cream with a subtle pink tint, served in a plain ceramic bowl.
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Brovada DOP

Source-specific Brovada DOP producer method for Friuli Venezia Giulia turnips and red-grape marc. This records a regulated producer process; it is not a validated home-scale recipe.

Friuli Venezia Giulia · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Illustrative original photograph of mature nozawana-zuke, long leafy turnip-green pickles, in a ceramic bowl

Nozawana-zuke (Nozawanazuke)

Nozawana greens salted in a barrel and weighted overnight, a Nagano household pickle sampled after about two weeks and soured by a month.

Nagano, Japan · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Finished Sagohachi-zuke: cucumber, carrot and daikon coated with cooked rice and rice-koji grains from the Fukushima regional pickle.

Sagohachi-zuke

A traditional Japanese koji pickle from the Tohoku region: vegetables pickled in a matured bed of cooked rice, rice koji and salt, where koji enzymes bring sweetness alongside the salt.

Nihonmatsu · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Finished Tokyo bettara-zuke: thick pale daikon slices with glossy rice-koji dressing and a few rice grains on a ceramic plate.

Bettara-zuke

A sweet, crisp Japanese daikon pickle from Tokyo's Nihonbashi district, made by salting fresh radish and dressing it in rice koji, sugar or koji amazake without the heavy drying used for takuan.

Nihonbashi, Chuo City, Tokyo · Traditional method
· Vegetables
A cucumber partly buried in a ceramic rice-bran bed for nukazuke, with another cucumber nearby.

Nukazuke cucumber in a rice-bran bed

Cucumber ferments in a maintained rice-bran bed seeded through repeated vegetable scrap picklings; the record includes the starter-bed method.

Japan · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Whole cooked and pickled Almagro aubergines, one stuffed with red pepper, served in paprika-red dressing with fennel.

Berenjena de Almagro

A protected aubergine preserve from Ciudad Real in Spain: tender fruit of the local Dealmagro variety, cooked briefly and then fermented in a vinegared, paprika-seasoned dressing.

Aldea del Rey, Almagro, Bolaños de Calatrava, Calzada de Calatrava, Granátula de Calatrava, Valenzuela de Calatrava and Viso del Marqués · Traditional method
Vegetables
Pantelleria capers preserved in sea salt, served in a shallow ivory dish.

Cappero di Pantelleria

A protected Sicilian product: unopened caper buds from the island of Pantelleria, dry-salted with sea salt in a two-stage process that encourages lactic fermentation.

Pantelleria · Traditional method
Vegetables
Illustrative close-up of dried mustard-leaf gundruk, dark fermented leaves in a plain earthenware bowl; not a documented photo of a particular batch.
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Mustard-leaf gundruk (Brassica juncea)

Mustard leaves wilted, bruised and packed tight into an earthenware vessel to sour without salt, then sun-dried into dark tangled pieces that carry Himalayan meals through the year.

Nepal · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Glossy red-orange Korean kkakdugi, chunky seasoned radish cubes with green onion in a shallow ceramic bowl.

Kkakdugi

A radish kimchi cut into cubes and seasoned with gochugaru, fish sauce, garlic and ginger, eaten fresh or fermented a few days at room temperature.

Korea · Traditional method
· Vegetables
A small bowl of finished Thai pak-kaat-dorng: yellow-green wilted mustard leaves and broad stems with a slight sheen of brine.

Pak-kaat-dorng (sweet rice-wash method)

Thai sweet mustard greens wilted in sun, packed in earthenware under a salt and palm-sugar brine with rice-wash water, then sunned three to five days.

Thailand · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Finished Thai pak-kaat-dorng shown as yellow-green preserved mustard leaves and ribbed stalks in a small open serving bowl.

Pak-kaat-dorng (dry-salted rice method)

Pak-kaat-dorng is a Thai fermented mustard-green pickle, prepared here by dry-salting and kneading the wilted greens with cooked rice.

Thailand · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Two folded quarters of napa-cabbage kimchi, red-seasoned between the leaves and served on a pale ceramic plate

Baechu kimchi

Napa cabbage salted, seasoned with a paste of gochugaru, garlic, ginger and salted seafood, and left to sour through lactic fermentation; Korea's everyday winter preserve.

Korea · Traditional method
· Vegetables
A shallow white bowl of chopped Kiso Sunki, the salt-free fermented red-turnip leaves and stems, showing olive-green leaves and muted pink-purple stem pieces.
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Sunki

Sunki is a salt-free pickle from Japan's Kiso valley: red-turnip leaves fermented with a retained starter from the previous year's batch.

Kiso, Nagano, Japan · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Illustrative finished Sinki, dried fermented radish-root shreds in muted tan and brown tones, loosely arranged in a plain bowl.
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Sinki

Sinki is a salt-free, fermented radish-taproot product dried after fermentation. Published jar and pit accounts use different conditions; neither supplies a validated home-preservation endpoint.

Himalaya, Nepal · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Illustrative finished Northeast Chinese suan cai made from napa cabbage, shown as soft, translucent pale golden leaves on a plain ceramic plate.
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Suan cai

Chinese cabbage or mustard greens salted and held under a weight until lactic fermentation turns them sour; northeastern and southern China keep distinct traditions of it.

China · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Illustrative finished Sicilian-style green brine olives: whole muted green olives submerged in pale brine, with a few served in a plain bowl.
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Sicilian-style green brine olives

Green-ripe olives are fermented in seasoned, vinegar-adjusted brine; UC ANR gives size-dependent salt concentrations and multi-month handling.

Traditional method
· Vegetables
Whole olive-gold Setaka pickled takana leaves with thick stems, alongside finely chopped takana in a small bowl.

Setaka no takana-zuke

Giant red mustard leaves are dried, layered with salt and chile, pressed in a wooden tub, drained after a week and left through the rainy season.

Chikugo Region, Fukuoka, Japan · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Illustrative red cabbage sauerkraut served in a ceramic bowl beside a crock of cabbage in violet brine.

Red cabbage sauerkraut

Red cabbage shredded, salted and fermented in its own brine; the pigment gives a deep violet kraut with a sharper flavour than the white-cabbage form.

Traditional method
· Vegetables
A bowl of firm fermented dill pickles and cucumber spears with dill seed.

Fermented dill pickles

Trimmed cucumbers layered with dill and covered with a salt brine containing 5% vinegar, weighted and fermented three to six weeks.

United States · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Original editorial depiction of dried Rayo-sag gundruk as dark, crinkled fermented leaves on a woven drying tray; the plant variety is not visually identifiable.
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Rayo-sag gundruk

Wilted and shredded Brassica rapa rayo-sag leaves, packed under warm water in earthenware, fermented five to seven days, then sun-dried as Nepali gundruk.

Himalaya, Nepal · Traditional method
· Vegetables
An original editorial depiction of dried radish-leaf gundruk, dark fermented greens in an earthenware bowl.
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Radish-leaf gundruk

Radish greens wilted, packed into an earthen pot with warm water and fermented without salt, then sun-dried into Nepal's dark, sour gundruk.

Himalaya, Nepal · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Finished baek-kimchi cabbage with radish, carrot and green onion in pale brine.

Baek-kimchi (white napa-cabbage kimchi)

Napa cabbage is brined and filled with pear, radish, alliums, chives and fruit; this Korean kimchi omits red pepper flakes.

Korea · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Traditional Kyoto shibazuke: purple perilla-stained eggplant pickle with cucumber in a plain ceramic bowl.

Shibazuke (Kyoto eggplant and perilla pickle)

Eggplant and perilla are layered with cucumber, myoga and chiles, pressed with salt and left to mature into Kyoto’s sour purple pickle.

Kyoto City, Japan · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Indonesian sayur asin: olive-green fermented mustard leaves and intact pale stems in a shallow white bowl.

Sayur asin

Indonesian salted mustard cabbage, wilted, rubbed with 2.5 to 5% salt by weight, and fermented covered in boiled-rice liquid.

Indonesia · Traditional method
· Vegetables
A small white bowl of dark olive-green pickled spiderflower greens in their brine.

Pak-sian-dong

Young spider-flower greens packed with salt and cooked rice and left to sour for a few days; a Thai leafy-vegetable ferment eaten as a sharp side dish.

Thailand · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Illustrative finished pak-gard-dong: wilted, fermented mustard leaves from the documented salt-then-sugar method. This image does not establish batch safety or a preservation endpoint.

Pak-gard-dong (salt-then-sugar method)

Pak-gard-dong is a Thai mustard-green pickle salted first and drained, then fermented with sugar added to the drained greens.

Thailand · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Yeolmu mulkimchi, young summer radish greens in a pale, chili-seasoned broth.

Yeolmu mulkimchi

Summer water kimchi of young radish, seasoned with fish sauce and chiles, brined in salted water with cooked flour.

Korea · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Illustrative serving of pa-kimchi: whole green onions coated in red chilli seasoning.

Pa-kimchi

Pa-kimchi is a Korean kimchi of whole green onions salted, dressed with chilli and fish sauce, and fermented until pungent and sour.

South Jeolla, Korea · Traditional method
· Vegetables

OSU measured kimchi

Kimchi of salted napa cabbage and daikon with garlic, green onion and red pepper, kept at room temperature one to four days, then refrigerated.

Korea · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Thin slices of amber-brown smoked daikon pickle on a ceramic plate, with a whole iburigakko behind.

Iburigakko

Iburigakko is Akita pickled daikon dried with smoke before it is fermented in rice bran.

Akita Prefecture · Traditional method
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