Beef

🇧🇷Brazil

Paçoca de Carne Seca

A dry pounded mixture of sun-dried beef and cassava flour crushed together in a mortar, an everyday Northeastern staple eaten as a side or stuffing.

🇫🇷France

Pepper Steak

Steak au poivre

Steak crusted with cracked peppercorns and served with a creamy pan sauce.

🇨🇺Cuba

Picadillo

Picadillo a la criolla

A Cuban ground beef hash with olives, raisins, and capers, a daily and home classic

🇧🇴Cochabamba, Bolivia

Pique Macho

A Cochabamba platter of sautéed beef chunks, sausage, fries, onions, peppers, tomatoes, and boiled eggs in a spicy sauce.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Pleah Sach Ko

ប្លះសាច់គោ

Raw beef ceviche marinated in lime juice, dressed with fish sauce, prahok, shallots, garlic, and fresh herbs, topped with roasted ground rice and crushed peanuts.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Posta Mirandesa

Posta Mirandesa is a Portuguese meat dish from Trás-os-Montes, cooked with local seasoning until the defining cut is tender and well browned.

🇫🇷France

Pot-au-Feu

Slowly boiled beef and vegetables, served as broth then meat and vegetables.

🇮🇳India

Qeema

قیمہ

Minced beef or mutton fried down with onion, tomato, ginger and garam masala until the fat separates, sometimes with peas or potato.

🇬🇺Guam

Riyenu

Riyenu is a potato and ground-beef stuffing with peppers, olives, and raisins; the savoury-sweet mixture is served as a seasoned Chamorro filling or side.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Roast Beef

A rib or sirloin joint roasted rare in the middle and rested, carved thin, and served with horseradish and its own pan juices.

🇧🇴La Paz, Bolivia

Saice Paceño

A La Paz-style minced beef hash with peas, potatoes, and spices, a regional comfort dish.

🇺🇸United States

Salisbury Steak

A seasoned ground-beef patty served with brown gravy — a retro American dinner.

🇳🇺Niue

Salted Beef

Povi Masima

Povi masima is beef brined or preserved with salt, then simmered until tender and used in stews, soups, or communal meals; the long cooking softens the beef and concentrates its savoury flavour.

🇮🇹Rome, Italy

Saltimbocca alla Romana

Roman veal scaloppine topped with prosciutto and a sage leaf, sautéed in white wine. The name means 'jumps in the mouth' for its lively flavor.

🇩🇪Berlin, Germany

Schnitzel Holstein

Schnitzel Holstein tops a breaded veal cutlet with a fried egg, anchovy fillets, capers and toast.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Scotch Beef

Scotch Beef is a protected collective food or drink identity with a defined regional specification.

🇧🇼Botswana

Seswaa

Botswana's national dish — beef or goat meat boiled in a three-legged iron pot with only salt, water, and cooking oil, simmered until tender, then pounded and shredded; served at funerals, weddings, and independence celebrations.

🇯🇵Japan

Shabu-shabu

しゃぶしゃぶ

Thinly sliced beef swished briefly in a light kombu broth at the table, dipped in ponzu or sesame.

🇧🇹Bhutan

Shakam Paa

ཤ་སྐམ་པ།

Air-dried beef, hard as wood before cooking, simmered or fried with dried chillies and radish until it softens just enough to chew.

🇨🇳Tibet, China

Shapta (Tibetan Stir-Fried Yak)

Shapta

Shapta, strips of yak or beef stir-fried with onion and chilli, is a named Tibetan dish served everywhere on the plateau.

🇧🇴Cochabamba, Bolivia

Silpancho

A Cochabamba dish: thin, breaded and fried beef cutlet over rice and boiled potatoes, topped with a fried egg and tomato-onion-parsley salad.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Sinig

ስንግ

Ethiopian stuffed jalapeños — peppers split and filled with seasoned onions, lentils, beef or ayib. Beautiful on a beyaynetu and shockingly addictive.

🇮🇩East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Smoked Beef

Se'i Sapi

East Nusa Tenggara smoked beef strips, traditionally made with venison, now beef, over wood fire.

🇺🇸United States

Steak de Burgo

An Iowa steakhouse cut: a tender steak topped with a garlic-butter sauce with herbs.

🇺🇸United States

Steak Diane

A pan-seared steak finished with a brandy-cream-mushroom sauce, often flambéed at the table.

🇫🇷France

Steak Frites

Grilled steak served with french fries, the quintessential French bistro dish. The classic bone-in cut is cote-a-l-os, the rib steak of the brasserie canon.

🇹🇭Thailand

Suea rong hai

เสือร้องไห้

Suea rong hai ("crying tiger") is grilled beef brisket sliced and served with nam chim chaeo.

🇯🇵Kansai, Japan

Sukiyaki

すき焼き

Thinly sliced beef and vegetables simmered in sweet soy-dashi at the table, dipped in raw egg.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Sunday Roast

A joint of beef, lamb, pork or chicken roasted and carved, served with roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables, stuffing and a jug of meat gravy.

🇮🇩West Java, Indonesia

Sweet Fried Beef

Empal Gepuk

West Javanese sweet spiced fried beef, pounded thin and braised in palm sugar and spices.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Tafelspitz

Boiled beef simmered with root vegetables and spices, served with apple-horseradish sauce and clear broth, a classic Viennese imperial dish.

🇹🇼Tainan, Taiwan

Tainan Beef Soup

台南牛肉湯

Tainan's clear-broth beef soup breakfast, built around thin slices of fresh beef and a light, aromatic stock.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Tatarsky Biftek

Tatarský biftek

Raw minced beef tartare with egg yolk, capers, onion and gherkin, served with topinky.

🇨🇳Guangdong, China

Teochew Beef Hot Pot

潮汕牛肉火锅

Teochew beef hot pot uses precisely cut fresh beef dipped briefly in a clear broth, with noodles, vegetables, and herbs at the table.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Tere Siga

ጥሬ ሥጋ

Literally 'raw meat' — fresh beef served in long strips or hand-cut chunks with mitmita, awaze and niter kibbeh for dipping. A celebration food rooted in Ethiopia's centuries-old butchery culture, often carved tableside.

🇺🇸Texas, United States

Texas Brisket

Texas Brisket Sandwich

Beef brisket slow-smoked for 12-18 hours over oak until a black bark forms over melt-in-your-mouth fat and meat.