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List of condiments

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Ketchup and mustard on fries
Various grades of U.S. maple syrup

A condiment is a supplemental food (such as a sauce or powder) that is added to some foods to impart a particular flavor, enhance their flavor,[1] or, in some cultures, to complement the dish, but that cannot stand alone as a dish. The term condiment originally described pickled or preserved foods, but now includes a great variety of flavorings.[2] Many diverse condiments exist in various countries, regions and cultures. This list includes notable worldwide condiments.

Condiments

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Biber salçası ("pepper paste") is a part of cuisines of Anatolia
Chutneys
Vegetables served with a green goddess dressing dip
Guacamole is an avocado-based dip that originated with the Aztecs in Mexico.[3]
Ketchup is a sweet and tangy sauce, typically made from tomatoes, vinegar, a sweetener, and assorted seasonings and spices.
Mostarda is an Italian condiment made of candied fruit and a mustard-flavored syrup.
Olive oil and olives
  • Aioli – West Mediterranean sauce of garlic and oil
  • Ajvar – Balkan condiment
  • Amba – Mango pickle condiment
  • Alfredo sauce – Creamy pasta dish with butter and cheese
  • Au jus – Meat gravy made from cooking juices
  • Barbecue sauce – Sauce used as a marinade, basting, topping, or condiment
  • Béarnaise sauce – Sauce made of clarified butter and egg yolk
  • Béchamel sauce – French white sauce based on roux and milk
  • Black pepper – Ground fruit of the family Piperaceae
  • Biber salçası – Paste made from peppers or tomato and salt, originating in Turkey
  • Butter – Dairy product
  • Chili peppers – Genus of flowering plants
  • Caramel – Confectionery product made by heating sugars
  • Cheese – Curdled milk food product
  • Chili oil – Condiment made from chili peppers
  • Chili sauce – Condiment prepared with chili peppers
  • Chimichurri – Green, uncooked sauce for meat
  • Cranberry sauce – Sauce or relish made from cranberries
  • Cream – Dairy product
  • Chocolate spread – Sweet chocolate-flavored paste
  • Chocolate syrup – Chocolate-flavored condiment used as a topping or ingredient
  • Chrain – Horseradish paste
  • Chutney – South Asian condiments made of spices, vegetables, and fruit
  • Cocktail sauce – Condiment served usually with seafoods
  • Coleslaw – Salad consisting primarily of finely-shredded raw cabbage
  • Compote – Dessert of fruit cooked in syrup
  • Crushed red pepper – Condiment or spice made from red peppers
  • Dip – Type of sauce
  • Disodium inosinate - umami paste
  • Fish paste – Paste made of fish meat
  • Fish sauce – Condiment made from fish
  • Fritessaus – Dutch condiment, usually served with French fries
  • Fruit preserves – Preparations of fruits, sugar, and sometimes acid , jams, and jellies
  • Fry sauce – Condiment for French fries
  • Garlic sauce – Sauce with garlic as a main ingredient
  • Garum – Historical fermented fish sauce
  • Glutamate flavoring – Generic name for flavor-enhancing compounds based on glutamic acid and its salts
  • Gravy – Sauce made from the juices of meats
  • Harissa - North African paste of roasted red peppers, hot peppers, spices, oil, and other flavor ingredients
  • Hoisin sauce – Sauce commonly used in Chinese cuisine
  • Hollandaise sauce – Sauce made of egg, butter, and lemon
  • Honey – Sweet and viscous substance made by bees mostly using nectar from flowers
  • Honey dill – Condiment
  • Horseradish – Species of flowering plants in the cabbage family Brassicaceae
  • Hummus – Middle Eastern chickpea puree dish
  • Icing – Food producing method
  • Jalapeños – Hot pepper
  • Kachumbari – Tomato-onion salad
  • Karo – Syrup made from corn used as food additive
  • Ketchup – Sauce used as a condiment
  • Khrenovina
  • Kyopolou – Bulgarian-Turkish dish
  • Lemon – Yellow citrus fruit
  • Lettuce – Species of annual plant of the daisy family, most often grown as a leaf vegetable
  • Ljutenica – Vegetable relish or chutney in Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian and Turkish cuisines
  • Mango chutney – Indian chutney made from unripe mangoes
  • Maple butter – Confection made from maple syrup
  • Maple syrup – Syrup made from the sap of maple trees
  • Marinara sauce – Tomato sauce with herbs
  • Marmalade – Preserve made from citrus fruits
  • Mashed Potatoes
  • Matbucha — a North African condiment
  • Mayonnaise – Thick cold sauce
  • Meringue – Type of dessert or candy
  • Mignonette sauce – Condiment served with oysters
  • Milk – Nutrient-rich liquid produced by mammals
  • Milkette – Name of various beverages and foods made of equally mixed parts
  • Miso – Traditional Japanese seasoning
  • Monkey gland sauce – South African sauce
  • Muhammara – Red pepper dip from Lebanese cuisine
  • Murri – An Arabian condiment.
  • Mustard – Condiment made from mustard seeds
  • Nacho cheese – Tortilla chip dish
  • Nutritional yeast – Type of deactivated yeast
  • Old sour – Fermented key lime juice used in sauces
  • Olive oil – Liquid fat made from olives
  • Oyster sauce
  • Pepper, black – Ground fruit of the family Piperaceae
  • Pepper jelly – Preserve made with hot peppers
  • Peanut butter – Paste made from ground peanuts
  • Pesto – Sauce made from basil, pine nuts, Parmesan, garlic, and olive oil
  • Piccalilli – British relish of chopped pickled vegetables and spices
  • South Asian pickle – Pickled varieties of vegetable and fruit
Homemade mango pickle
Three relishes here accompany Nshima (top right), a cornmeal product in African cuisine
  • Relish – Cooked, pickled, or chopped vegetable or fruit used as a condiment
  • Remoulade – Mayonnaise-based cold sauce
Making vinaigrette salad dressing
  • Salad dressing – Condiment
  • Salad dressing spread – Salad dressing and mayonnaise substitute
  • Salsa – Condiment used in Mexican cuisine
  • Salsa golf – Cold sauce of mayonnaise and tomatoes
  • Salsa verde – Spicy Mexican sauce based on tomatillos
  • Salt – Mineral composed of sodium chloride
  • Sambal – Indonesian spicy relish or sauce
  • Sauerkraut – Finely sliced and fermented cabbage
  • Sesame oil – Edible oil from sesame seed
  • Sesame seeds – Plant cultivated for its edible seeds
  • Skyronnes
  • Sour cream – Fermented dairy product
Traditional Korean soy sauce
  • Soy sauce – East Asian liquid condiment
    • Sweet soy sauce – Sweetened aromatic soy sauce, originating from Java, Indonesia
  • Sprinkles – Tiny multi-colored candy topping
  • Steak sauce – Brown sauce for seasoning of steaks
  • Sriracha sauce – Thai hot sauce
  • Sumbala – Fermented locust beans used as condiment in cooking in Nigeria
  • Sweet chili sauce – Condiment primarily used as a dip
  • Syrup – Thick, viscous solution of sugar in water
  • Tahini – Middle Eastern condiment made from sesame
  • Tartar sauce – Mayonnaise-based cold sauce
  • Tekka – miso-condiment
  • Teriyaki sauce – Japanese marinade
  • Tomato – Edible berry
  • Toum – Garlic sauce common in the Levant
  • Truffle oil – Oil with truffles or synthetic flavouring
  • Tzatziki – Cold cucumber–yogurt dip, soup, or sauce
  • Vegenaise – American vegan food company
  • Velouté sauce – Classic French sauce
Various vinegars
Close-up image of za'atar, a blend of herbs, sesame, and salt
  • Za'atar – Levantine herb or herb blend
  • Zacuscă – Romanian-Moldovan dish

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Australia

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Azerbaijan

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Bangladesh

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Belgium

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  • "Bicky" sauce – a commercial brand made from mayonnaise, white cabbage, tarragon, cucumber, onion, mustard and dextrose
  • Brasil sauce – mayonnaise with pureed pineapple, tomato and spices[4]
  • Samurai sauce
  • Sauce "Pickles"– a yellow vinegar based sauce with turmeric, mustard and crunchy vegetable chunks, similar to Piccalilli
  • Sauce andalouse
  • Zigeuner sauce – cuisine 'gypsy style' – A "gypsy" sauce of tomatoes, paprika and chopped bell peppers, borrowed from Germany

Canada

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Chile

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Ají with lime

China

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Shacha sauce with coriander
Sweet bean sauce

France

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Georgia

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Germany

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Ghana

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Greece

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Taramosalata with garnishes

India

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Indian mixed pickle, containing lotus root, lemon, carrot, green mango, green chilis, and other ingredients
Mirchi ka salan (left) and dahi chutney (right) served as side dishes for Hyderabadi biryani
A cucumber and mint raita

Italy

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Capuliato
  • Alioli – a Mediterranean sauce made of garlic and olive oil
  • Agliata – a garlic sauce and condiment in Italian cuisine
  • Traditional balsamic vinegar of Modena
  • Capuliato – a Sicilian condiment based upon dried tomatoes
  • Garum – a fermented fish sauce used as a condiment.
  • Gremolata
  • Olio extravergine d'oliva
  • Pesto – a sauce consisting of crushed garlic, European pine nuts, coarse salt, basil leaves, hard cheese such as Parmigiano-Reggiano (also known as Parmesan cheese) or Pecorino Sardo (cheese made from sheep's milk), all blended with olive oil.
  • Saba – a condiment made from boiling down must, the grape mush left over from making wine.
  • Salmoriglio
  • Vincotto

Indonesia

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Traditional sambal terasi served on stone mortar with garlic and lime

Iran

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Torshi liteh made with vinegar, eggplants and herbs

Japan

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Miso paste
Shichimi tōgarashi
Prepared wasabi

Korea

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Korean condiments: gochujang, jeotgal (salted seafood), jangajji (pickled vegetables), kimchi
Home-made ganjang (soy sauce) and doenjang (soybean paste)

Lebanon

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Malaysia

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Mexico

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Pico de gallo

Norway

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Pakistan

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Dahi chutney (at right) with Mirchi ka salan

Philippines

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Atchara, made from pickled green papaya
Latik atop cassava suman
Palapa, a spicy Maranao condiment made from sakurab and various spices

Russia

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Spain

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Sweden

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Smörgåskaviar tops a cottage cheese sandwich

Switzerland

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Taiwan

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Thailand

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At top is nam phrik pla salat pon, a condiment in Thai cuisine, served here with a selection of raw vegetables in Khorat, Thailand

Trinidad and Tobago

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United Kingdom

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Cumberland sauce atop duck confit crepes
Marmite
A mass-produced brand of pickled walnuts

United States

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Vietnam

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See also

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List articles

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References

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  1. ^ "Merriam-Webster: Definition of condiment". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
  2. ^ Smith, Andrew F. (May 1, 2007). The Oxford companion to American food and drink. Oxford University Press. pp. 144–146. ISBN 978-0-19-530796-2. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
  3. ^ Zeldes, Leah A. (November 4, 2009). "Eat this! Guacamole, a singing sauce, on its day". Dining Chicago. Chicago's Restaurant & Entertainment Guide, Inc. Retrieved November 5, 2009.
  4. ^ D&L Archived August 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, La William
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