Recipes

1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.

Recipes

Two malted wheat loaves with mixed seeds, one sliced to show its brown crumb

Malted wheat and seeded loaf

Two soft, savoury-sweet wheat loaves with malted flour, mixed seeds, butter and honey.

United Kingdom
· Grains and starches
Illustrative dense breadfruit paste representing Marquesan ma; exact appearance is not established by the historical source.
High risk

Ma (Marquesan fermented breadfruit)

Marquesan ma is fermented breadfruit paste stored in pits and prepared as popoi. The source describes the process and dishes but gives no validated household method.

Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
Fruit
Freshly pounded lunu miris, a coarse red Sri Lankan chilli and onion sambol with visible seeds and a lime wedge.

Lunu miris (Sri Lankan chilli and onion sambol)

Lunu miris is Sri Lanka's pounded onion and chilli sambol: chilli flakes and red onion crushed with salt and lime, often with Maldive fish, eaten in small amounts with hoppers, pol roti and kiribath.

Sri Lanka
· Condiments
Illustrative Lung-siej: pale fermented bamboo shoots in a dark bowl; not a verified photograph of a batch or a safety indicator.
Elevated risk

Lung-siej

Young Dendrocalamus hamiltonii shoots fermented in a bamboo cylinder in a stream or in a sealed bottle above a kitchen oven, from Khasi households in Meghalaya.

Meghalaya, India
· Vegetables
Luk niang dong shown as whole peeled djenkol seeds in cloudy brine in a sealed jar, documentary context rather than a serving suggestion.
High risk

Luk niang dong

A cultural account of luk niang dong, a Thai djenkol-bean pickle associated with southern Thailand. Not a recipe or eating recommendation: sources do not establish that pickling controls djenkolism.

Thailand
Legumes and seeds
Finished red-orange Louisiana hot pepper sauce in an unlabeled glass bottle with a small dish and ripe red chiles.

Louisiana fermented pepper sauce

Documentary account of Louisiana pepper sauces, using TABASCO's published barrel-aged commercial process as one specific example; the source does not provide a validated home recipe.

Avery Island, Louisiana
· Condiments
Fresh red-orange Bolivian llajua with locoto seeds and herb flecks in a small earthenware bowl, with tomato and green locoto nearby.

Llajua (Bolivian Tomato and Locoto Sauce)

A fresh Bolivian table sauce of tomato, locoto chilli and herbs, following the La Paz municipal formula. Regional preparations vary.

Bolivia
· Condiments
Illustrative reconstruction of pale pear liquamen based on Palladius; its exact historical appearance and vessel are unknown.

Liquamen ex piris (Palladius' pear liquamen)

A late-antique Roman recipe in which very ripe pears are crushed with salt, matured for three months and drained, giving a pale liquid called liquamen.

Roman world
· Fruit
A bowl of finished Limburgse stroop, a glossy dark apple-and-pear fruit syrup, with a pear and apple nearby.

Limburgse stroop

Limburgse stroop is a regional family of cooked fruit syrups from Dutch and Belgian Limburg. Producers blend apples, pears and beet differently, so no single formula exists.

Limburg (Netherlands)
Fruit
Modern visual interpretation of clear golden-amber Lihing; not a reconstruction of a specific traditional vessel or historical appearance.

Lihing

A 2024 Ranau account describes Kadazan-Dusun Lihing as glutinous rice fermented with sasad for two to three months or longer. Starter quantity and a validated safety endpoint are not established.

Sabah
Drinks
Golden square libritos de grasa layered into book-like folds, with fork-prick marks.

Libritos de grasa

Libritos de grasa are small Argentine laminated yeast rolls made with wheat flour and beef fat, folded into book-like pieces and served with mate.

Argentina · Modern method
· Grains and starches
One freshly baked round somun-style lepinja on a plain ceramic plate, with a lightly browned surface and a shallow diamond grid.

Lepinja (Balkan flatbread)

Six soft yeast-raised flatbreads using Jernej Kitchen’s home method.

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Small whole smoked freshwater fish arranged on a shallow woven tray.
High risk

Leirou

Leirou is fish smoked in a prepared kiln or room by processors around Loktak Lake in Manipur, India, a method the local survey keeps apart from open-flame ngaphak.

Loktak Lake, Manipur
· Fish and seafood
Coarse Lao-style roasted tomato jeow with charred tomato pieces, shallot, garlic, chilli and coriander in a ceramic bowl.

Lao-style roasted tomato jeow

Roasted tomatoes, shallots, garlic and chillies are pounded into a coarse Lao-style dip, then seasoned with fish sauce, optional lime and coriander.

Laos
· Condiments
Illustrative still life of dry salted-fermented fish condiment; not a photograph of the research batch or a safety recommendation.
High risk

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
Fresh soft white labneh from the Awassi bag-drained method in a plain ceramic bowl, with a cotton draining cloth beside it.

Labneh, Awassi bag-drained method

Labneh made from boiled Awassi sheep's milk, cultured with a little of the previous batch and drained in a bag for about a week, with salt added each day.

Near East
Dairy
A stack of golden, docked square galletas de campaña with a tender laminated crumb.

Laminated galleta de campaña

A Uruguayan wheat dough is laminated with fat, cut into squares, proofed until doubled, and baked at 180°C for a crisp outside and layered crumb.

Uruguay · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Fine pale Lafun cassava flour in a shallow ceramic bowl, with dried cassava pieces softly out of focus behind it.
Elevated risk

Lafun

Lafun is a Nigerian fermented cassava flour described in historical accounts. This record documents reported processing stages, not a validated household method or a batch-specific cyanogen and moisture safety endpoint.

Nigeria
· Grains and starches
Illustrative rendering of Cameroonian Kumkum as round dried cassava balls described in IITA references; color and surface texture are interpretive because exact appearance is not specified.
High risk

Kumkum

Kumkum is a Cameroonian fermented-cassava preparation described as balls dried over a fireplace and stored or milled into flour. Sources also describe a sun-dried market form; they give no Kumkum-specific safety endpoint.

Cameroon · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
Illustrative Czech kysané zelí: pale shredded fermented cabbage with caraway in a wooden bowl; not a photograph of a specific household batch.

Kysané zeľí

Kysané zeľí is Czech sour cabbage: shredded cabbage layered with salt and caraway and pressed in a wooden barrel. The regional account is descriptive and gives no validated salt ratio or endpoint.

Valašsko, Moravia and Silesia
Vegetables
Illustrative editorial image of Czech křížaly: dried apple rings in a plain ceramic bowl beside one fresh apple.

Křížaly

Křížaly are Czech dried apple or pear pieces. The name has regional meanings beyond apple slices, and drying practice varies by place and dryer.

Czech Republic
Fruit
Dry porous kōya-dōfu blocks on a woven tray in a quiet winter setting.

Koya-dofu (freeze-dried tofu)

Tofu frozen, thawed, pressed and dried into a porous, durable soybean food; Japanese sources trace the tradition to the late Kamakura period.

Japan
Legumes and seeds
Dry porous kōri-dōfu blocks, some paired with fine igusa rush cord, on a charcoal plate.

Kōri-dōfu (frozen and dried tofu)

Japanese tofu frozen, aged below freezing, thawed and dried to a light sponge that is simmered in dashi; Iwadeyama makes it in winter air.

Iwadeyama, Ōsaki, Miyagi · Traditional method
Legumes and seeds
Illustrative bowl of fresh pale-golden mustard dressing with cucumber, pear and dry mustard powder beside it; not a tested batch.

Korean-style sweet-sour mustard dressing

A fresh sweet-sour mustard dressing for cold cucumber and pear or a freshly prepared salad. Its gram-based proportions are original and are not copied from Maangchi’s gyeoja-naengchae recipe.

Korea
· Condiments
Two whole gray-tan dried salted tilapia displayed on an ivory plate.
High risk

Koobi

Koobi is Ghanaian salted and dried tilapia. Sources differ on the brief ripening stage and drying period, and do not establish a single validated household process. This entry records documented variants and their limits.

Ghana
· Fish and seafood
Illustrative bowl of Slovenian kisla repa, finely shredded fermented turnip; appearance varies and the image makes no safety or storage claim.

Kisla repa

Kisla repa is Slovenian sour turnip, made either from grated turnip or from whole roots; a 2023 household guide gives a 1 kg grated batch salted with 20 g salt.

Slovenia
Vegetables
Photograph of Kilishi.
Elevated risk

Kilishi

Kilishi is a Hausa-land dried meat from northern Nigeria and southern Niger: thin slices of beef or other meat, dried, coated in a spiced groundnut paste and dried again.

Hausaland (northern Nigeria and southern Niger)
Meat
Illustrative visual of dry Khorisa as fibrous, pale golden dried bamboo-shoot shreds; appearance varies and this image makes no safety claim.
Elevated risk

Khorisa

Khorisa is an Assamese fermented bamboo-shoot food. This page records cultural and lab accounts, not a validated home method. FSANZ says shoots must be fully cooked before eating; it does not validate Khorisa or set its cooking time.

Assam, India
· Vegetables
Two round golden Moroccan khobz loaves on a baking tray, one cut to show its airy crumb.

Khobz

A Moroccan round wheat bread with a firm crust and coarse interior; this home formula makes two 8-inch loaves for serving with meals.

Morocco
· Grains and starches
Whole olive-green khiar shoor cucumbers in pale brine with dill, garlic and one green pepper.

Khiyār shūr

Khiyār shūr is an Iranian cucumber pickle made in several ways; one household account in salt water is set out here, while vinegar recipes and acidified laboratory brines are kept separate.

Iran
Vegetables
A small shallow ceramic dish holding coarse, dark olive-brown Kharoli mustard condiment flecked with visible seeds.
Elevated risk

Kharoli

A strong Assamese condiment of mustard seed mixed with khar, an alkaline banana-ash filtrate, wrapped in leaves and fermented in bamboo over a fire or in a kitchen pot.

Jorhat, Assam, India
· Condiments
Illustrative editorial image of plain soft kefir cheese in a ceramic bowl with cloth-draining context behind it.

Kefir cheese, household cloth method

A soft cheese made by setting aside part of the day's milk kefir, draining it in a cloth and salting it through the evening, ready the next morning.

Italy
Dairy
Golden Karelian pasties with pleated rye crusts and exposed rice porridge filling; egg butter is served separately.
Elevated risk

Karjalanpiirakka

Karjalanpiirakka are open, pleated rye-and-wheat pastries filled with creamy rice porridge, baked hot and brushed with butter and milk.

Karelia
· Grains and starches
Fresh Japanese karashi mustard paste in a small ceramic bowl.

Karashi (Japanese hot mustard paste)

Karashi is Japan's hot mustard: powder stirred with a little water into a stiff paste, covered for a few minutes so the heat develops, and served in small dabs with oden, natto and fried food.

Japan
· Condiments
Polish-style fermented shredded cabbage with finely grated carrot, served in a wooden bowl.

Kapusta kiszona z beczki

Kapusta kiszona z beczki is barrel-fermented cabbage from the Kołobrzeg area, entered on Poland’s List of Traditional Products in 2008. It is salted and fermented, with raw grated carrot added after souring.

Kołobrzeg County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Vegetables
Illustrative glass of Seychellois kalou, coconut-palm toddy: pale, cloudy and lightly effervescent as described in local accounts; no measured batch or alcohol strength is represented.
Elevated risk

Kalou

Kalou is Seychellois coconut-palm toddy: sap from an unopened flower stalk is collected and ferments naturally into an alcoholic drink. Sources document the identity and tapping tradition but no validated batch or alcohol endpoint.

Seychelles · Traditional method
· Drinks
Golden Swedish cinnamon-bun spirals baked in paper cases and topped with pearl sugar.

Kanelbullar (Swedish cinnamon buns)

Soft Swedish wheat buns filled with butter, sugar and cinnamon. This 20-bun home batch uses fresh yeast, two short proofs and pearl sugar.

Sweden · Modern method
· Grains and starches
A round golden Austrian Kaisersemmel with a clear five-part star scoring on an ivory plate.

Kaisersemmel / Kaiser roll

The Kaisersemmel is an Austrian wheat roll with a five-part star, associated with Vienna and the Viennese breakfast. The formula below is a technical bakery batch of 30 rolls from the Austrian ministry.

Vienna
Grains and starches
A coarse brown-gold Kahudi mustard-seed condiment on banana leaf in a plain ceramic dish.

Kahudi

Kahudi is an Assamese mustard-seed condiment fermented with sour Thekera fruit into a strong mash; household methods and study results differ, and no validated home schedule exists.

Jorhat district, Assam
Condiments
Plain Juju dhau, a thick Newar cultured buffalo-milk curd, set in an unglazed earthenware kataro.
Elevated risk

Juju dhau

Juju dhau is a rich Newar cultured milk associated with Bhaktapur, Nepal. A local account describes buffalo milk concentrated by boiling, inoculated with previous-day curd and set in earthen pots.

Bhaktapur
· Dairy
A glass of pale amber Jun tea beside an open, cloth-covered fermentation jar, honey, and green tea leaves.
Elevated risk

Jun

Jun is a fermented tea drink made with green tea and honey instead of the sweetened tea of kombucha. Its culture identity and origin are not established, and sealed bottles can build pressure and alcohol.


Drinks
A sliced dark Lithuanian rye loaf with a dense brown crumb.

Juoda ruginė duona (Lithuanian black rye bread)

A Lithuanian dark rye loaf made with an overnight rye preferment, caraway, honey and sugar, then proofed in a loaf pan and baked in two stages.

Lithuania · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Two plain bowls of Chinese soy sauce, one amber and one deep reddish-brown, with cooked soybeans and roasted cracked wheat beside them.

Jiangyou (Chinese soy sauce)

Jiangyou is the Chinese soy sauce family, an umbrella term for light, dark and seasoned sauces made by two main process families: high-salt liquid-state and low-salt solid-state brewing.

China
Condiments
Folded wheat-batter jianbing with cooked egg, spring onion, sesame, sauces, coriander and crisp fried noodles

Jianbing with a Wheat Batter and Crispy Noodles

A four-serving home adaptation of jianbing: thin wheat batter cooked with egg, spring onion and sesame, then folded around crisp fried noodles and sauce.

Tianjin · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Fresh Jeow bong, a Lao chili paste with visible cooked cow-skin strips, served beside sticky rice.

Jeow bong

Jeow bong is a Lao paste of dried chilli, shallot, garlic and galangal cooked with buffalo or cow skin, a Luang Prabang specialty eaten with sticky rice and grilled meat.

Luang Prabang
· Condiments
boerewors cooking on grill
Elevated risk

Boerewors

A coarse South African farmhouse sausage of beef with pork or mutton fat, defined by its coriander seasoning and cooked fresh over coals rather than preserved.

South Africa · Traditional method
· Meat
Two oblong Ethiopian honey-and-rosemary dabo loaves, one sliced to show the crumb.

Honey dabo

Ethiopian breakfast honey bread: two rosemary-scented yeast loaves shaped in pans and baked at 400°F.

Ethiopia
· Grains and starches
Four small Honduran semitas with gently cracked sweet covering on a plate beside coffee; one is opened to show soft crumb.

Honduran semitas with coating

Honduran sweet yeast breads made from an egg-enriched dough, covered in a separate sugar-and-butter paste and baked in golf-ball-sized portions.

Honduras · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches