Grilled Meats

🇮🇳India

Tandoori Chicken

तंदूरी चिकन

Chicken marinated in yogurt and tandoori spices, roasted in a clay oven. It is one of India's most iconic grilled dishes.

🇮🇳India

Tandoori Momos

तंदूरी मोमोज़

Momos marinated in tandoori spices and grilled in a tandoor. A fusion street food popular in North Indian cities.

🇪🇬Egypt

Tarb

طرب

Egyptian grilled lamb, often marinated in garlic, lemon, and spices and charred over coals.

🇧🇯Benin

Tchatchanga

Grilled or braised spiced meat (mutton, beef, or lamb); a popular street grilled meat; sold at markets and bus stations; served with pili-pili and onion; a Cotonou and Bohicon specialty.

🇯🇵Japan

Teriyaki

照り焼き

Grilled or pan-fried meat or fish glazed with a glossy soy-mirin-sugar sauce (tare).

🇹🇷Central Anatolia, Turkey

Testi Kebab

Testi Kebabı

A Cappadocian stew of lamb, vegetables, and spices slow-cooked inside a sealed clay pot (testi) that is cracked open at the table. The clay vessel locks in moisture and flavor, producing a tender, aromatic dish unique to central Anatolia.

🇬🇷Greece

Tigania

Τηγανιά

Pan-fried pork with leeks and wine; a taverna meze staple.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Tike Kebab

Tikə kabab

Cubes of lamb marinated in onion juice and grilled over vine or fruit-wood coals, served with grilled tomato and raw onion in sumac. Liver and other offal skewers are a serving form, not a separate canonical kebab.

🇹🇷Black Sea Region, Turkey

Tokat kebabı

Tokat kebabi, lamb strung with aubergine, tomato, garlic and potato and cooked in a wood-fired oven, is a named city dish with dedicated ocakbasi.

🇧🇦Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Travnicki Cevap

Travnički ćevap

Travnički ćevap are short, square-cut beef sausages from Travnik, grilled and served in somun.

🇦🇷Argentina

Trucha Patagónica

Patagonian trout (brown or rainbow) from the region's pristine lakes and rivers, grilled, smoked, or baked. A staple of Andean-Patagonian cuisine, often served with calafate sauce.

🇦🇷Argentina

Ubres

Beef udder, parboiled and grilled until crispy outside and soft inside. A less common achura with a delicate, fatty flavor, served at traditional asados.

🇸🇿Eswatini

Umgcwembe

Traditional Swazi platter of grilled meat served with pap and spinach on a wooden tray.

🇯🇵Japan

Unagi Kabayaki

鰻の蒲焼

Freshwater eel split, grilled, and lacquered with a sweet soy glaze, served over rice or alone.

🇹🇷Şanlıurfa, Turkey

Urfa Kebabi

Minced lamb kebab from Şanlıurfa, milder and thicker than Adana.

🇺🇾Uruguay

Uruguayan Asado

Asado

Beef ribs, sausages and offal cooked slowly over wood embers raked under a low grill, salted and nothing else.

🇦🇷Argentina

Vacío

A flank cut of beef grilled slowly over moderate heat until the outside is crusty and the inside is juicy and medium-rare. Popular at asados for its rich, beefy flavor.

🇷🇸Serbia

Vešalica

Вешалица

Thin slices of smoked pork neck grilled over charcoal until the edges catch, served plain with onion and bread.

🇳🇦Namibia

Wild Mushrooms

Omajova

Giant edible fungi that grow on termite mounds in northern Namibia — a seasonal delicacy, grilled or fried with butter and onions; one of the most prized wild foods of the Owambo region.

🇮🇩Surakarta (Solo), Indonesia

Wrapped Satay

Sate Buntel

Solo-style minced goat meat wrapped in membrane fat, grilled over charcoal.

🇨🇬Republic of the Congo

Ya Jean

Barbecued lamb, beef, or goat cooked twice over charcoal, often wrapped in parchment paper for the second cooking to keep it tender.

🇯🇵Japan

Yakiniku

焼肉

Korean-style tableside grilling of bite-sized beef, pork, and offal, dipped in tare sauce.

🇯🇵Japan

Yakitori

焼き鳥

Chicken pieces threaded on bamboo skewers and grilled over binchotan charcoal, glazed with tare or salt.

🇯🇵Japan

Yakizakana

焼き魚

Whole fish or fillets grilled over charcoal or flame, often served with grated daikon.

🇹🇭Thailand

Yum Pla Muk

ยำปลาหมึก

Spicy grilled squid salad with red onions, cilantro, mint, and a lime-chili dressing.

🇿🇲Zambia

Zambian Maputi

Maputi

Roasted maize on the cob or maize kernels; a popular street snack across Zambia; maize roasted over charcoal or open flame; smoky and slightly charred; sold at roadside stalls and markets; the grab-and-go snack that uses Zambia's staple crop; cheap, filling, and ubiquitous.

🇯🇴Jordan

Zarb

زرب

Bedouin pit barbecue: marinated lamb and chicken with vegetables lowered on racks into a sand-covered underground oven and left for hours.

🇹🇷Aegean Region, Turkey

Çökertme kebabı

Cokertme kebabi, meat over straw-cut fried potatoes and garlic yoghurt, is a named Bodrum-peninsula dish.

🇹🇷Aegean Region, Turkey

Çöp şiş

Cop sis, the tiny offcut skewers of Selcuk and Germencik eaten by the dozen wrapped in flatbread, is a named local institution rather than a size variant.

🇹🇷Bursa, Turkey

İskender Kebab

İskender Kebabı

Slices of döner kebab laid over pieces of pide bread, topped with hot tomato sauce, melted butter, and a side of yogurt. Created in the city of Bursa in the 19th century by a chef named İskender Efendi, it is one of the most beloved kebab dishes in Turkey.