Sauces

🇲🇽Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

Chiltomate

A Yucatecan salsa of roasted tomato, habanero, and sour orange.

🇦🇷Argentina

Chimichurri

Argentina's signature sauce of finely chopped parsley, garlic, oregano, red pepper flakes, olive oil, and red wine vinegar. Served with asado, sausages, and grilled meats.

🇲🇽Oaxaca, Mexico

Chintextle

A smoky Oaxacan paste of ground chiles, salt, and sometimes shrimp, used as a seasoning.

🇭🇳Honduras

Chismol

Chimol

Raw chopped tomato, onion, green pepper and coriander dressed with sour orange or lime, spooned onto grilled meat and beans.

🇺🇸United States

Chocolate Gravy

A sweet chocolate sauce thickened with flour and milk, spooned hot over biscuits — a Southern and Appalachian breakfast.

🇵🇱Poland

Chrzan

Polish grated horseradish, a pungent, spicy condiment served with meats, sausages, and eggs. A national staple, especially at Easter, white and sharp, served cold.

🇸🇹Sao Tome and Principe

Cocoa Sauce

Molho de Cacau

Unique Santomean sauce made from cocoa pulp; sweet-savory flavor; paired with fish or plantains; a sauce that showcases the islands' cocoa heritage; unlike anything else in world cuisine; the cocoa pulp sauce of Sao Tome; a creative use of the cacao fruit beyond chocolate.

🇵🇫French Polynesia

Coconut Sauce

Taioro

Taioro is a fermented coconut sauce with a deep savoury flavour, used as a condiment or base for shellfish preparations such as pahua taioro.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Colman's English Mustard

A fiercely hot yellow mustard from ground brown and white seed, sold as powder in a yellow tin or ready-mixed in a jar.

🇺🇸United States

Comeback Sauce

A Mississippi dipping sauce of mayonnaise, chili sauce, and spices — creamy, tangy, and slightly hot.

🇨🇩DR Congo

Congolese Hot Sauce

Pili pili

A very hot chili pepper sauce served with nearly everything in the Congo; made from pili-pili peppers, onions, garlic, and oil; occasionally dried and sprinkled on fruit; the Congolese condiment that adds fire to any dish; listed in Wikipedia's Congolese cuisine; the heat of Central African cuisine; found at every table and street stall.

🇬🇪Georgia

Coriander Sauce

Კინძმარი

A thin sauce of vinegar, water, crushed garlic and a great deal of chopped coriander, poured over grilled meat and fish.

🇺🇸United States

Corn relish

A sweet-tangy pickle relish of corn, peppers, onion, and celery in a vinegar brine.

🇵🇪Peru

Crema de Ají Verde

The creamy green chili sauce served with Peruvian pollería chicken and sandwiches.

🇺🇸New Orleans, United States

Creole mustard

A coarse, spicy brown mustard made with vinegar and horseradish, a Louisiana pantry staple.

🇸🇨Seychelles

Creole Sauce

Sos Kreol

Tomato-based sauce with onions, garlic, ginger, and Creole spices; used to accompany grilled fish, meat, and poultry; the foundational sauce of Seychellois cuisine; a versatile condiment that appears on nearly every plate; the essence of Creole flavour.

🇺🇸New Orleans, United States

Creole Sauce

A Louisiana tomato sauce simmered with onions, peppers, celery, garlic, and Creole seasonings.

🇺🇸United States

Crystal Hot Sauce

A Louisiana hot sauce of aged cayenne peppers and vinegar, milder and saltier than Tabasco.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Cumberland sauce

Cumberland sauce is a sharp redcurrant-and-orange sauce with port, served with game or ham.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Czech Tartar Sauce

Tatarská omáčka

Tangy sauce of pickles, capers and mayonnaise served with fried cheese and fish.

🇮🇩North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Dabu-Dabu

Sambal Dabu-Dabu

Manado-style raw tomato chili salsa with lime, fresh and fiery, a North Sulawesi staple.

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

Daqoos

دقوس

Daqoos is a spicy Emirati tomato sauce served with rice dishes, with fresh tomato flavor and a smooth, pourable consistency.

🇰🇼Kuwait

Daqoos Sabbar

دقوس صبار

A daqoos made with dried aloe or cactus pulp for a sharp, faintly bitter edge, served with fish rather than meat.

🇫🇷Burgundy, France

Dijon Mustard

Moutarde de Dijon

Strong smooth mustard from Dijon, made with verjus instead of vinegar.

🇧🇯Benin

Dja

A Beninese tomato, onion and pepper sauce cooked down until thick and intensely savoury.

🇩🇲Dominica

Dominican Pepper Sauce

Pepper Sauce

Hot pepper sauce made from Scotch bonnet peppers, onions, garlic, vinegar, and local spices; an ever-present condiment in Dominican cuisine; sold at the Saturday Roseau Old Market; used on everything from fish to bakes; the pepper sauce of Dominica; the heat of the island; a versatile condiment.

🇨🇦Halifax, Canada

Donair Sauce

Sauce donair

Sweet garlicky sauce made from evaporated milk, sugar, vinegar, and garlic, essential accompaniment to Halifax donairs.

🇹🇬Togo

Dzowé

A Togolese peanut sauce cooked with aromatics and served with a staple dough or rice.

🇩🇪Germany

Düsseldorf Mustard

Düsseldorfer Mostert

Specialty from Düsseldorf since the early 18th century, malty brown mustard made with brown and yellow seeds.

🇺🇬Uganda

Eshabwe

Ghee whipped with rock salt solution and cold water until it turns into a white, mousse-like sauce, served at Ankole ceremonies.

🇧🇹Bhutan

Ezay

ཨེ་ཙེ།

Raw or roasted chillies pounded with tomato, cheese, coriander, onion and salt into a rough relish put on the table with every meal.

🇬🇺Guam

Fina'denne'

The essential Chamorro condiment; as ubiquitous in Guam as ketchup in America; a spicy sauce made with soy sauce, vinegar, onions, garlic, and hot peppers; spooned over meat, poultry, fish, and rice or used as a dipping sauce; found in every household and restaurant; variations include lemon-based and tuba vinegar versions.

🇵🇭Philippines

Fish Sauce

Patis

A clear, amber fish sauce, the liquid byproduct of bagoong fermentation, used as a seasoning and dipping sauce.

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

Footi

A thick vegetable sauce with eggplant, okra, kidney beans, tomatoes, and bouillon cube; served over rice; a hearty Guinean everyday dish.

🇩🇪Frankfurt, Germany

Frankfurt Green Sauce

Frankfurter Grüne Soße

Cold green herb sauce from Frankfurt made with seven specific herbs, traditionally served with boiled eggs and potatoes.

🇺🇸United States

Fry Sauce

A Utah and Idaho condiment of ketchup and mayonnaise, sometimes with pickle relish.