Fish

🇺🇸United States

Calabash-Style Seafood

A North Carolina coast style of lightly battered, deep-fried seafood named for the town of Calabash.

🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau

Calulu

A Lusophone West African fish dish of fish, greens, okra and aromatics simmered together.

🇸🇳Saint-Louis, Senegal

Capitaine à la Saint-Louisienne

Nile perch stuffed with a paste of its own flesh, herbs, garlic and chilli, then baked and served with a lemon and onion sauce.

🇮🇹Genoa, Italy

Cappon Magro

A monumental Genovese seafood-and-vegetable timbale layered over a ship's biscuit, dressed with green sauce and crowned with prawns. A historic aristocratic dish.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Carp with Honey

Короп з медом

Whole carp baked or braised in a honey-and-onion glaze, a Polissya river-fish festive dish where sweetness balances the mud-rich flesh.

🇫🇷France

Carpe frite sundgauvienne

Carpe frite sundgauvienne is beer-battered or flour-coated carp fried crisp, a Sundgau specialty served hot.

🇪🇸Barcelona, Spain

Catalan Baked Salt Cod

Bacallà a la llauna

Bacallà a la llauna is Barcelona salt cod floured, fried, and finished with tomato, garlic, paprika, and parsley.

🇫🇷France

Catigot d'anguilles

Catigot d’anguilles is an eel stew simmered with aromatics and wine or stock until the fish is tender.

🇷🇺Russia

Caviar

Икра

Caviar consists of salted sturgeon roe, including osetra, sevruga, and beluga varieties.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Cazón en adobo

In Andalusia, Cazón en adobo is dogfish marinated in vinegar, garlic, oregano, and paprika, then fried.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Cazón Frito

A Venezuelan coastal dish of seasoned school shark (cazón) fried until crisp, served with lime, tostones or arepas, a popular eastern seafood specialty.

🇨🇦British Columbia, Canada

Cedar-Plank Salmon

Saumon sur planche de cèdre

Salmon cooked on cedar plank, Indigenous technique, BC specialty with smoky cedar flavor.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Cetí

Ceti

Translucent river fry, no longer than a fingernail, netted at the mouths of the northern rivers and fried in whole spoonfuls as fritters or in an omelette.

🇵🇪Lima, Peru

Ceviche

Fresh raw fish cured in lime juice with red onion, aji amarillo, and cilantro. Peru's national dish.

🇲🇽Mexico

Ceviche Colima

A Colima ceviche of seafood cured in lime with tomato, onion, and a hint of soy.

🇨🇴Colombia

Ceviche Colombiano

A Colombian ceviche of fresh fish or shrimp marinated in lime juice, onions, and cilantro, served with soda crackers. A coastal appetizer, tangy and fresh.

🇲🇽Mexico

Ceviche de Sierra

A Pacific ceviche of sierra mackerel cured in lime with onion, cilantro, and chile.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Ceviche Dominicano

Dominican ceviche of fresh fish or conch marinated in lime juice, onions, peppers, and cilantro, served with crackers. A coastal appetizer, tangy and fresh.

🇵🇦Panama

Ceviche Panameño

Panamanian ceviche of fresh corvina or shrimp cured in lime with onion, cilantro, and hot pepper, served in a cup.

🇻🇳Hanoi, Vietnam

Cha Ca La Vong

Chả cá Lã Vọng

Hanoi turmeric fish with dill, marinated fish chunks pan-fried with turmeric and galangal, served tableside with rice noodles, peanuts, and shrimp paste.

🇹🇩Chad

Chadian Dried Fish

Poisson Séché

Dried, salted, and smoked fish from Lake Chad and the Chari River; a preservation method for riverine communities; rehydrated and cooked into sauces; a protein source for communities far from fresh fish; intensely flavored and long-lasting; fish is consumed everywhere in Chad.

🇲🇼Malawi

Chambo

Tilapia (Oreochromis species) from Lake Malawi, the country's most prized freshwater fish; usually grilled, fried, or cooked in a simple tomato stew and served with nsima.

🇲🇽Mexico

Charales

Tiny lake fish, dried or fried whole and seasoned with lime and chile.

🇵🇪Peru

Chicharrón de Pescado

Peruvian crispy fried fish chunks, battered and deep-fried until golden. Served with salsa criolla and fried yuca.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Chien Chuon

ចៀនឆ្លង

Whole fish deep-fried until crisp, topped with a sweet and sour sauce of ginger, garlic, tomato, and pineapple.

🇯🇵Japan

Chikuwa

ちくわ

Chikuwa is a hollow tube of grilled fish paste, browned on the outside and eaten as a Japanese seafood product.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Chillo Frito

Dominican fried red snapper (chillo), crispy outside and tender inside, served with tostones and lime. A coastal restaurant classic, especially in Boca Chica and Samaná.

🇵🇪Lambayeque, Peru

Chinguirito

Dried guitarfish prepared as a northern Peruvian seafood dish, especially associated with Lambayeque.

🇵🇹Lisbon Region, Portugal

Choco Frito

Setúbal choco frito is tender cuttlefish coated and fried until crisp, usually served with lemon, salad, or chips.

🇨🇳Sichuan, China

Chongqing Grilled Fish

重庆烤鱼

Chongqing grilled fish is cooked whole, then simmered in a tray of chilli oil with vegetables and aromatics for sharing.

🇮🇱Israel

Chraime

חריימה

White fish poached in a fierce red sauce of tomato, paprika, chilli, garlic and cumin — a Libyan and Tunisian Jewish dish eaten on Friday nights.

🇫🇴Faroe Islands

Christmas Eve Fish

Aftanfiskur

The time-honoured dish for Christmas Eve; air-dried fermented cod (ræstur fiskur) served with sperðil (sheep tallow sausage); an ancient and very simple food habit; rarely observed today, only by older generations in the north; a traditional Faroese holiday dish.

🇲🇰Ohrid, North Macedonia

Cironka

Циронка

Small lake fish from Ohrid and Prespa salted and dried in the sun into stiff, intensely savoury strips.

🇻🇺Vanuatu

Citrus Baked Fish in Coconut Cream

Vanuatu citrus-baked fish is wrapped in banana leaves with lemon, orange, coconut cream, and seasoning, then roasted until the flesh flakes.

🇮🇪Connacht, Ireland

Clare Island Salmon

Clare Island Salmon is a protected farmed salmon product from Ireland’s west coast.

🇳🇷Nauru

Coconut Fish

Nauruan coconut fish is raw fish marinated in lime and folded through coconut milk with island seasonings.