Recipes

1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.

Recipes

A dense whole-rye Vollkornbrot pan loaf, cut to show its tight seeded crumb, with rye chops nearby.

Vollkornbrot (whole-rye loaf)

A dense whole-rye loaf with a sourdough preferment, soaked rye chops and sunflower seeds. It bakes in a long loaf pan and rests for 24–48 hours before slicing.

Germany
· Grains and starches
Photograph of Vinagrete (molho à campanha).

Vinagrete (molho à campanha)

Vinagrete, also called molho à campanha, is a Brazilian relish of finely chopped tomato, onion and peppers dressed with vinegar and olive oil. It is served with grilled meat and feijoada.

Brazil
· Condiments
Six small Vietnamese bánh mì baguettes with golden scored crusts on a perforated tray, one opened to show its airy crumb.

Vietnamese bánh mì bread

Six light baguettes with a thin crust and airy crumb, made from a Vietnamese home formula with bread flour, yeast, egg and butter.

Vietnam
· Grains and starches
A scored Vermont-style sourdough boule and cut half showing its pale wheat-forward crumb, with a little rye flour nearby.

Vermont-style rye levain bread

Jeffrey Hamelman's Vermont sourdough builds a liquid wheat levain before adding a modest measure of rye flour blend. The dough is folded, shaped and baked as two crusty loaves with a tender, open crumb.

Vermont
· Grains and starches
Photograph of Veloute sauce.

Veloute sauce

Veloute is a light stock sauce thickened with a blond roux, one of the French mother sauces, and the base for named sauces built on chicken, fish or veal stock.

France
· Condiments
A golden six-strand Czech vánočka with raisins, sliced almonds and a light dusting of icing sugar.

Vánočka (Czech braided Christmas bread)

A Czech enriched yeast loaf with raisins, lemon zest and almonds, braided from six strands, proofed twice and baked in two oven stages.

Czechia · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Pale amber usukuchi shoyu in a white ceramic dish, poured from a small vessel, with dry soybeans, wheat berries and salt in separate dishes.

Usukuchi shoyu

Usukuchi is Japan's light-coloured soy sauce, a Kansai style identified by its pale colour rather than by lower salt, with the colour set by production choices made during brewing.

Kansai
Condiments
Unsweetened yeast-raised Uruguayan tortas fritas, golden fried rounds with small central holes.

Uruguayan tortas fritas (leavened, fried rounds)

A University of the Republic of Uruguay recipe for ten yeast-raised tortas fritas. The dough rests for an hour, is divided into ten rounds with a hole in each, then fried in fat at 160°C and drained.

Uruguay · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
Photograph of Tucupi.
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Tucupi

Tucupi is a yellow, sour liquid from the Brazilian Amazon, made from the juice of bitter manioc that is settled, fermented and cooked. It is the base of duck in tucupi and tacacá.

Pará
· Condiments
Photograph of Trinidad tamarind sauce.

Trinidad tamarind sauce

A sweet, sour and spiced tamarind sauce from Trinidad, made from tamarind pulp with garlic, Scotch bonnet, culantro, cumin, anchar masala and brown sugar, served with doubles and pholourie.

Trinidad and Tobago
· Condiments
Photograph of Trinidad coconut chutney.

Trinidad coconut chutney

Trinidad coconut chutney is dried coconut roasted until charred, then ground on a stone with garlic, hot pepper, pimento and chadon beni to a coarse paste.

Trinidad and Tobago
Condiments
Thick round Chilean tortilla de rescoldo with a golden, ember-marked crust and a pale wheat crumb.

Tortilla de rescoldo

A Chilean hearth bread from Quilleco, leavened with instant yeast and bicarbonate, then cooked under hot ash in a traditional ember hearth.

Quilleco
· Grains and starches
Photograph of Tomato soy.

Tomato soy

Mary Randolph's tomato soy, a tomato condiment and not soybean sauce: tomatoes salted in layers for three days, boiled for a day, passed through a sieve and spiced with cloves, allspice, black pepper and cayenne.

Virginia
Condiments
Illustrative view of soft fermented Andean potatoes served with a little cloudy liquid.
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Tocosh

Peruvian Andean fermented potato: tubers held in water-fed earthen wells for a long lactic fermentation, giving an acidic food that can be dried and ground into flour for storage.

Huánuco, Peru
· Vegetables
Photograph of Tkemali.
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Tkemali

A Georgian sour plum sauce of cherry plums cooked with garlic, coriander, dill-family herbs and chilli. Its sourness comes from the fruit, and it is served as a condiment with grilled meat, poultry and potatoes.

Georgia
· Condiments
Three pale, round, tin-steamed dombolo portions on a ceramic plate, one split to show its soft crumb.

Tin-steamed dombolo (South African steamed bread)

This tin-steamed South African dombolo uses yeast dough with bread flour and olive oil. It rises twice, steams for about an hour, and is checked with a clean skewer.

South Africa
· Grains and starches
Illustrative Northern Thai thua nao khaep: a small stack of flat, dry brown fermented-soybean discs, one tilted upright to show its thin profile; visual interpretation, not a verified batch.

Thua nao (dried)

Northern Thai fermented soybean shaped while still soft into flat cakes and dried, so the bacterial soybean ferment becomes a durable, shelf-stable seasoning reserve.

Northern Thailand
· Legumes and seeds
Five golden round Guyanese tennis rolls on a plain ceramic plate.

Tennis rolls

Guyanese tennis rolls are small, round, sweet yeasted breads flavoured with lemon and vanilla. They are often split and eaten with cheddar; this recipe is separate from Guyanese plait bread.

Guyana
· Grains and starches
Photograph of Tahini sauce.

Tahini sauce

A Levantine sesame sauce of tahini thinned with water and brightened with lemon and garlic, the base of tarator served with falafel and shawarma, with Egyptian and Iraqi variants.

Levant
· Condiments
Palestinian Taboon-style home-method wheat flatbreads, round, gently dimpled and browned in spots.

Taboon bread (Palestinian home method)

This Palestinian taboon method makes six small wheat flatbreads with a sticky yeast dough, fingertip dimples and a very hot domestic oven surface.

Palestine
· Grains and starches
A bowl of pale sweet rice-miso glaze with a spoon, beside a lightly glazed cooked aubergine half.

Sweet miso glaze

A Japanese-style glaze of pale rice miso, water, sugar and rice vinegar, heated gently until it coats a spoon and spread over cooked aubergine, tofu or vegetables.

Japan · Modern adaptation
· Condiments
Sweet flour titiyas, thin CHamoru wheat flatbreads made with coconut milk and cream of coconut, lightly griddled until golden.

Sweet Flour Titiyas (CHamoru Coconut Flatbread)

A sweet, soft CHamoru flour titiyas made with wheat flour, coconut milk, butter and cream of coconut, rolled thin and cooked on a dry skillet.

Guam · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Whole small sweet gherkin pickles in clear golden spiced vinegar syrup, shown in a glass jar and a small serving dish.

Sweet gherkin pickles

Sweet gherkin pickles are small whole cucumbers preserved in a spiced, sweet vinegar syrup. This four-day U.S. canning method uses repeated hot-water soaks, staged syrup additions, and a boiling-water process.

United States
· Vegetables
Swedish-style mustard and dill sauce, a golden thick emulsion flecked with chopped dill.

Swedish-style mustard and dill sauce

Sweet mustard and Dijon whisked with sugar and white-wine vinegar, thickened with oil added slowly and finished with fresh dill: a hovmästarsås-style sauce for salmon.

Sweden
· Condiments
Surinamese puntjes, pointed yeast rolls with a light semolina coating and a pressed crosswise seam.

Surinamese puntjes

Pointed, yeast-raised Surinamese rolls with a light crumb and a thin crust, shaped with a pressed seam and baked with a semolina coating.

Suriname · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Korean sulppang, a soft steamed wheat bread made with makgeolli, topped with apple and cranberry beans.

Sulppang (makgeolli bread)

A soft Korean steamed wheat bread leavened with dry yeast and raw makgeolli, with apple pieces and fresh beans folded through the surface.

Republic of Korea
· Grains and starches
Photograph of Sukuti.
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Sukuti

Sukuti is Nepali dried meat, most often buffalo, cut into thin strips, seasoned with spices, dried over smoke or in the sun, and later fried or roasted before eating.

Nepal
Meat
Illustrative pair of slender Lao sticky-rice baguettes from Saeng Douangdara’s personal recipe variation, showing a golden scored crust and soft pale crumb.

Sticky-rice baguette for khao jee pâté (Saeng's Kitchen version)

This four-baguette sticky-rice dough is the bread component of Saeng Douangdara’s khao jee pâté recipe. She presents the sticky-rice addition as her own variation; it is not a universal or traditional Lao baguette formula.

Laos
· Grains and starches
Photograph of Steak Diane and peppercorn pan sauces.

Steak Diane and peppercorn pan sauces

Steak Diane is a restaurant pan sauce of seasoned butter, Worcestershire and parsley, often flamed; the related peppercorn cream sauce is reduced from cream and crushed peppercorns for steak.

London
· Condiments
A small ceramic bowl of thick, reddish-brown ssamjang-style sauce with sesame seeds and fine green onion flecks.

Ssamjang-style wrapping sauce

Doenjang and gochujang stirred together with sesame oil and seeds, a little honey, water, raw garlic and spring onion: a thick, savoury sauce for lettuce wraps with rice.

Korea
· Condiments
Korean duyu, a freshly blended unstrained soy drink made with cooked soybeans, cold water, toasted sesame and salt.

Soy milk (duyu)

A Korean-style soy drink of cooked whole soybeans blended with cold water, sesame and salt and served at once; tofu-making soy milk is a different, filtered milk.

Korea · Modern adaptation
· Legumes and seeds
Photograph of Sos ti malis.

Sos ti malis

A Haitian hot sauce of habanero or Scotch bonnet, onion, shallot and garlic, softened in vinegar and lime, simmered briefly and served on grilled or fried meat and seafood.

Haiti
· Condiments
Photograph of Solar-tent dried usipa, utaka and ndunduma.
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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.

Malawi · Traditional method
· Fish and seafood
Photograph of Smooth avocado sauce.

Smooth avocado sauce

A pourable sauce of ripe avocado, lime, chile, herbs and onion, blended or mashed to a smooth body. It is an avocado sauce, not every green taquería sauce.

Mexico · Traditional method
Condiments
Illustrative small-batch ajvar-style relish: a thick, spoonable red pepper and eggplant spread in a ceramic bowl.

Small-batch ajvar-style relish

A small roasted red-pepper and eggplant relish with sunflower oil, wine vinegar, garlic and salt. It is a modern ajvar-style trial, not a validated winter preserve or a copy of a commercial formula.

North Macedonia
· Condiments
Photograph of Sikil p’ak.

Sikil p’ak

Sikil p’ak is a Yucatecan dip of toasted, ground pumpkin seeds mixed with roasted tomato, habanero, onion and herbs, served with tortilla chips or warm tortillas. Its name is built from Maya words for pumpkin seed and tomato.

Yucatán
Condiments
A ceramic bowl of Sichuan paocai, with crisp radish, cabbage and long bean in seasoned brine.

Sichuan paocai

Sichuan paocai is a family of vegetables, most often radish, fermented by lactic-acid bacteria in a salted, spiced brine in a water-sealed pottery jar, with mature brine kept and reused.

Sichuan
· Vegetables
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 Shito.
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Shito

Shito is a hot Ghanaian pepper condiment with fish-rich, oil-cooked and fresh pepper forms; this measured version follows a recipe collected in Ghana’s Northern Region.

Ghana · Traditional method
· Condiments
Homemade shiro dashi, a clear pale amber seasoned stock in a glass jar, less concentrated than bottled versions.

Shiro dashi (light soy dashi concentrate)

Shiro dashi is a pale Japanese seasoning stock of kombu and bonito dashi, light soy sauce, mirin and salt, used to flavour dishes without darkening them.

Japan
· Condiments
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 Sawse camelyne (cameline sauce).

Sawse camelyne (cameline sauce)

A medieval English sauce of pounded dried currants, nut kernels, bread crusts and warm spices, tempered with vinegar. It is an unfermented sauce from The Forme of Cury, not a preserving recipe.


Condiments
Photograph of Sawse blanche for capons (almond and verjuice sauce).

Sawse blanche for capons (almond and verjuice sauce)

A pale English sauce from The Forme of Cury, about 1390, of blanched almonds ground to a dust, tempered with verjuice and seasoned with powdered ginger. It is a historical sauce, not a modern bechamel.


Condiments
Photograph of Sauce chien (Antillean herb sauce).

Sauce chien (Antillean herb sauce)

Sauce chien is a fresh French Antillean sauce of chopped chives, parsley, garlic, shallot and hot pepper, steeped in hot water with oil and lime.

Guadeloupe
Condiments
Photograph of Shidni.

Shidni

Shidni, also called shigni, is a Somali tomato, chilli and tamarind sauce. An everyday version is fried for about five minutes; a festive chutney with dates and mango cooks for about two hours under the name basbaas alla-bari.

Somalia
Condiments
Illustrative Malaysian sambal tumis: thick cooked red chilli paste with a light ring of separated oil, in a plain ceramic bowl.

Sambal tumis

Sambal tumis is a Malaysian chilli paste fried in oil until it breaks, then simmered with tamarind and sugar, used as a condiment and as a cooking base.

Malaysia
· Condiments