Tapenade (Marseille)
A Provençal olive spread built around olives and capers, with anchovy, garlic, lemon and olive oil in Marseille’s current recipe. Both coarse and finely worked versions are documented.
Recipes
1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.
Filtered to
Recipes
Katyk (qatiq)
Katyk is a traditional fermented milk of Turkic-speaking peoples, made by souring heated milk with lactic bacteria, often with a spoonful of the last batch, into a thick, sour curd.
Kakisu (persimmon vinegar)
Japanese vinegar from ripe persimmons: yeast turns the fruit sugar to alcohol and acetic bacteria turn that to acid; made at home in a month and by makers in Wakayama and Nagasaki over several years.
Jachnun (Yemenite Jewish overnight pastry)
Jachnun is a rolled, butter-layered wheat pastry baked covered for hours at very low oven heat and served warm, often with grated tomato and schug.
Ihwaju
Thick, sweet Korean rice wine made with a rice-based starter called ihwagok and almost no added water, fermented into a paste that is eaten with a spoon or thinned with cold water.
Ají de tomate de árbol
An Ecuadorian hot sauce built on tamarillo, a tart fruit that gives a sharper, fleshier base than ordinary tomato salsa.
Elevated risk
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.
High risk
Turep starch (Ainu lily-bulb starch)
Starch released from giant woodland lily bulbs by pounding, washed out in water, settled and dried: the refined fraction of an Ainu process that also yields fermented cakes from the residue.
High risk
Salted Mushrooms
Salted mushrooms are a traditional wild-mushroom preserve, especially of Finnish and Russian milk caps, made by layering boiled mushrooms with coarse salt or keeping them under brine, and kept cold.
Hogao
A slow-cooked Colombian sauce of tomato, onion and scallion that serves as the base of many dishes and as a topping for arepas and patacones.
Elevated risk
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.
Elevated risk
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.
Elevated risk
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.
Ají picante (Colombian table ají)
A fresh Colombian table condiment of chopped herbs, scallion and tomato in a vinegar and chile base, served beside fried and filled dishes.
Ecuadorian salsa de maní
A warm, creamy peanut sauce thickened with milk and seasoned with onion, cumin and achiote, served over potatoes and llapingachos in Ecuador.
Elevated risk
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.
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.
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.
High risk
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.
High risk
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.
High risk
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.
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.
Mead
Mead is an alcoholic drink made by fermenting diluted honey with yeast, then racking and ageing it. The honey, not refined sugar, is what makes it mead.
Wine Vinegar
Wine vinegar is made by the aerobic oxidation of wine's alcohol into acetic acid by bacteria, producing a sour, wine-derived condiment used in dressings, sauces, marinades and preserved foods.
Elevated risk
Istanbul bulgur and rice boza
A thick, pale Turkish winter drink of bulgur and rice cooked to a soft cereal base, sweetened with grape molasses and fermented for two days.
High risk
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.
Mint sauce
Finely chopped fresh mint steeped in a sweet and sharp liquid of white wine vinegar, sugar and water, the sauce traditionally served with roast lamb in Britain.
Gueuze
Belgian beer blended from young and mature spontaneously fermented lambics, then refermented in the bottle to natural carbonation. The recipe follows a 2,600-litre blend studied in 2024.
Chonggak-kimchi (ponytail radish kimchi)
Small ponytail radishes keep their greens attached and ferment in a flour-and-chile seasoning paste.
Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Reggio Emilia
Protected Italian vinegar made only from cooked grape must, fermented and aged in a battery of wooden barrels for at least 12 years: sweet, sharp and syrupy.
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.
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.
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.
Elevated risk
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.
Elevated risk
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.
Elevated risk
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.
Elevated risk
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.
Elevated risk
Zimbabwean chibuku from red sorghum malt
A cloudy Zimbabwean beer brewed from malted red sorghum, given a two-day lactic souring and then a longer alcoholic fermentation.
Judima
Judima is a Dimasa fermented rice drink from Assam. A 2022 Dhansiri account describes humao starter and rice fermentation, but sources disagree on the thembra bark species and do not provide a complete or validated home batch.
Elevated risk
Andong soju
Andong soju is a rice spirit from North Gyeongsang, distilled from steamed rice and wheat nuruk. This method makes the starter before fermenting the rice mash in a jar.
Appam and hoppers
Appam, or hoppers, are South Indian and Sri Lankan rice pancakes made from a fermented coconut-and-rice batter and cooked in a curved pan to a crisp lacy rim and a soft, spongy centre.
Elevated risk
Apong
Apong names Mising rice beverages in Assam, including pale Nogin and ash-associated Po:ro. Sources describe distinct preparations and do not establish one unified household recipe or validated safety endpoint.
Elevated risk
Light-yellow maize tella from Mekelle
A pale Ethiopian maize tella, brewed from maize baked into a kita pancake at a gentler heat and then fermented in three stages with barley malt, gesho and water.
Elevated risk
Brown maize tella from Mekelle
A darker Ethiopian maize tella, brewed from maize baked into a hot, dry kita pancake and then fermented in three stages with barley malt, gesho and water.
Elevated risk
Kathmandu chhyang with marcha starter
A Kathmandu rice beer in which a marcha starter saccharifies and ferments cooked white rice, the mash later thinned with water for drinking.
Old Dhaka bakarkhani
A firm, layered bread from Old Dhaka, made with mawa and ghee and baked until lightly browned.
Alsatian kouglof
An enriched Alsatian yeast ring with raisins and almonds, kneaded with butter, proofed in a fluted mould and baked until browned.
Elevated risk
Angami Zutho rice beer with piazu
Angami rice beer from Nagaland. A surveyed method mixed cooked rice with piazu, fermented it for about four days in summer or a week in winter, then added water and filtered it. The starter ratio leaves the rice-weight basis unclear.
Musalais
Musalais is a fermented grape drink documented among Uyghur producers in A’wati, southern Xinjiang. A studied process combines grape juice and heated pomace extract before spontaneous fermentation.
Feteer meshaltet
Egyptian layered pastry made from a soft wheat dough stretched thin, folded with ghee, and baked until crisp and golden. Serve plain with sweet or salty accompaniments.