Sauces

🇬🇪Georgia

Adjika

Аджика

A pounded paste of hot red pepper, garlic, coriander seed, blue fenugreek and salt, made wet as a sauce or dry as a coarse rub.

🇦🇫Afghanistan

Afghan Chatni

چتنی

Coriander, green chilli, garlic and walnut pounded with vinegar into a fiery green sauce.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Agrio de Naranja

A Dominican condiment of sour orange juice, lime, garlic, and hot sauce, served with sancocho. A tangy, acidic sauce that cuts the richness of the stew.

🇫🇷Provence, France

Aioli

Aïoli

Provencal garlic mayonnaise made with olive oil, served with vegetables and fish.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Ajilimójili

A Puerto Rican sauce of garlic, cilantro or culantro, olive oil, and vinegar, used as a marinade and finishing sauce.

🇨🇴Colombia

Ají (Panamanian)

Ají

A fresh Latin American table sauce of chopped chili, onion, cilantro or culantro, and vinegar; Panama's ají and Colombia's ají criollo are served with fried foods, soups, and rice.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Ají Criollo

A Dominican hot sauce of ají dulce (sweet chili), garlic, vinegar, and cilantro, served with snacks and meals. A mild, tangy, aromatic condiment, a national staple.

🇨🇴Colombia

Ají de Piña

A Colombian pineapple and chili sauce, sweet and spicy, served with empanadas and grilled meats. A coastal and party condiment, fresh and tangy.

🇸🇴Somalia

Ambola

A Somali sour relish or sauce served with rice, meat and flatbreads.

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda

Antiguan Pepper Sauce

Pepper Sauce

Hot pepper sauce made from scotch bonnet peppers, onions, garlic, vinegar, and local spices; a staple condiment on every Antiguan table; used on everything from fish to fungee; a fiery, flavourful sauce; the pepper sauce of Antigua; the heat of the island; a versatile condiment.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Awaze

አዋዜ

A thick fiery dipping sauce made by blending berbere with oil, water and sometimes tej or wine. Served alongside grilled meats, raw beef (tere siga) or anywhere you want extra heat.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Pepper Sauce

Scotch bonnets blended with mustard, turmeric, onion and vinegar into a thick yellow sauce that sits on every table on the island.

🇮🇩Bali, Indonesia

Balinese Raw Sambal

Sambal Matah

Balinese raw chili salsa with shallots, lemongrass, and coconut oil, fresh and aromatic.

🇵🇭Philippines

Banana Ketchup

A sweet ketchup made from bananas, dyed red, a Filipino invention born from a tomato shortage in WWII.

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

Baobab Leaf Sauce

Sauce feuilles de baobab

A thick sauce from fresh or dried baobab leaves with potash, soumbala, and meat or fish; the leaves are mucilaginous and thicken the sauce; used in 64% of tô sauces in Burkina Faso.

🇺🇸United States

Barbecue Sauce

A thick, sweet-tangy American sauce of tomato, vinegar, sugar, and spices, brushed on or served alongside smoked meats.

🇸🇴Somalia

Basbaas

A tangy, hot Somali sauce made with green chilies, tomatoes, tamarind, and coriander; also known as shigni; no Somali meal is complete without it; the condiment that adds heat and tang to every dish; served alongside rice, pasta, and meat dishes; the Somali answer to hot sauce; found at every table and restaurant.

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Bavarian Sweet Mustard

Bayerischer Süßer Senf

Bavarian sweet mustard invented in the 19th century, traditionally paired with Weißwurst and Leberkäse.

🇫🇷France

Bearnaise Sauce

Sauce Bearnaise

Egg yolk and butter emulsion with tarragon and chervil, served with steak.

🇧🇪Belgium

Belgian Mayonnaise

Mayonaise

Belgium's creamy egg-and-oil sauce, the essential frites companion.

🇧🇪Belgium

Belgian Paprika Frituur Sauce

Zigeunersaus

Sweet tomato, onion and paprika sauce served over Belgian frites and snacks.

🇧🇯Benin

Beninese Sauce Rouge

Sauce rouge

Tomato-based sauce with fried meat or fish, onions, and palm oil; the most common sauce in Benin; served over wô, amiwo, or akassa; the everyday sauce of Beninese cuisine.

🇧🇳Brunei

Binjai Sauce

Cacah Binjai

A sour-spicy binjai relish served as a dipping sauce with ambuyat. Wild-mango-like binjai supplies the sharp fruitiness; chilli and aromatics bring the heat.

🇺🇸United States

Blue Cheese Dressing

A creamy, tangy dressing made with crumbled blue cheese, mayonnaise, buttermilk, and seasonings.

🇧🇪Belgium

Brazil Sauce

Sauce Brasil

Creamy curry-fruit frites sauce invented in Belgium, a standard at the frituur.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Bread sauce

Bread sauce is a warm British sauce of milk, onion, cloves, and breadcrumbs served with roast poultry.

🇩🇰Denmark

Brun Sovs

Danish brown sauce served with frikadeller and pork.

🇨🇭Geneva, Switzerland

Café de Paris Sauce

Café de Paris

A complex butter sauce of herbs, mustard, anchovies, liver, brandy and spices, served melting over grilled entrecôte, invented in Geneva in the 1940s.

🇨🇲Cameroon

Cameroonian Piment

Piment

Habanero-type chillies crushed raw with onion, garlic and a little oil into a fresh, fiercely hot relish put beside grilled fish and soya.

🇺🇸United States

Carolina Gold

A South Carolina barbecue sauce of yellow mustard, vinegar, and spices, distinctive for its color and tang.

🇺🇸United States

Carolina Style

The Carolina barbecue tradition of whole-hog pork with a thin, sharp vinegar-and-pepper sauce.

🇬🇾Guyana

Cassareep

Juice pressed from bitter cassava and boiled down with spice into a black, bitter-sweet syrup that both flavours and preserves.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Catara

Indigenous sauce from the Amazon and Guayana made from yare — the pressed juice of bitter cassava — reduced with chilli and, traditionally, bachaco ants.

🇨🇱Chile

Chancho en Piedra

Variation of pebre with more sauce-like consistency, ground in stone mortar, a traditional Chilean salsa, smooth and fresh.

🇲🇦Morocco

Charmoula (Chermoula)

شرمولة

A Moroccan fish marinade of cilantro, parsley, garlic, cumin, paprika, lemon, and oil.

🇺🇸Chicago, United States

Chicago-style relish

A neon-green, sweet pickle relish essential to the Chicago-style hot dog.