Sauces

🇵🇪Peru

Salsa Huancaína

Aji amarillo, cheese and milk blended into Peru's famous yellow sauce for potatoes and vegetables.

🇨🇷Costa Rica

Salsa Lizano

National condiment since 1920, tangy, slightly sweet vegetable sauce with mild spice, used on gallo pinto, eggs, rice, and beans.

🇲🇽Mexico

Salsa macha

A crispy, oily salsa of dried chiles, garlic, and seeds, fried until crackling.

🇲🇽Mexico

Salsa ranchera

A cooked tomato-chile salsa, the classic table salsa.

🇨🇴Colombia

Salsa Rosa

Colombian pink sauce of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, and sometimes whiskey or pineapple. The national condiment for hot dogs, burgers, and salchipapas.

🇮🇹Piedmont, Italy

Salsa Verde

Piedmontese green sauce of parsley, garlic, capers, anchovies, olive oil, and bread or vinegar. Served with bollito misto and fish.

🇲🇽Mexico

Salsa verde

A tomatillo salsa, tangy and green, raw or cooked.

🇧🇳Brunei

Sambal

Surinamese Sambal

Sambal is a chilli condiment made across Indonesian and Malay kitchens, with ground aromatics, oil, and regional ingredients

🇧🇳Brunei

Sambal Belacan

Raw condiment of fresh chilies pounded with toasted shrimp paste and lime juice, fresh chili heat with pungent belacan aroma and bright lime acidity, a daily staple.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Sambal Tumis

Cooked chili paste sautéed with aromatics until oil separates, used as base for many dishes, oil separation (pecah minyak) with deep red color and caramelized flavor.

🇦🇸American Samoa

Samilolo

Samilolo is a Samoan coconut-based sauce cooked with aromatics and seasoning, spooned over fish, roots, or other communal dishes.

🇧🇪Belgium

Samurai Sauce

Sauce samouraï

Spicy orange curry-mayonnaise frites sauce created in Belgium in the 1980s.

🇸🇨Seychelles

Satini Reken

Satinin Rekin

Boiled skinned shark, finely mashed and cooked with squeezed bilimbi juice and lime, mixed with sautéed onion, pepper, salt, and turmeric; a distinctive sour taste from the bilimbi; a unique Seychellois dish typically served with rice, lentils, and shredded green papaya.

🇬🇪Georgia

Satsebeli

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Satsebeli is a pourable Georgian tomato-and-pepper sauce sharpened with herbs, garlic and spices, served with grilled meats and bread.

🇹🇬Togo

Sauce Adémè

A slimy sauce made from leafy greens (corète/spinach); a traditional Beninese sauce; the leaves give it a mucilaginous texture similar to okra; served with pâte.

🇧🇪Belgium

Sauce Andalouse

A Belgian creamy sauce with tomatoes, peppers, and mayonnaise, a frites and daily classic

🇹🇩Chad

Sauce aux Feuilles de Haricots

Feuilles de Haricots

Chadian sauce of bean leaves; tan bi moujoh in local language; prepared with peanut paste; one of the ten most essential Chadian sauces; leafy greens cooked into a rich, earthy sauce; served with boule or kissar; a plant-based staple of southern Chad.

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

Sauce Bengedo

A cowpea-leaf sauce from Burkina Faso, cooked down with aromatics and eaten with tô.

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

Sauce Boulvaka

A jute leaf (Corchorus tridens) sauce with tomatoes, onions, and soumbala; the jute leaves give it a mucilaginous texture; a traditional Burkinabè leaf sauce.

🇹🇩Chad

Sauce Charmout

Chadian sauce made with charmout (dried meat); the rehydrated meat gives the sauce an intense, concentrated flavor; cooked with onions, tomatoes, and spices; a traditional way to preserve meat for the dry season; served with boule or kissar; a Sahelian specialty shared with Sudan.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Sauce Chien

A Creole condiment served with accras and grilled fish; a sauce made with onions, garlic, parsley, chives, thyme, lime juice, and oil; the sauce chien that is the essential Guadeloupean condiment.

🇲🇱Mali

Sauce d'Arachide

A Malian peanut sauce served over tô or rice; listed in Wikipedia's Malian cuisine; meat simmered in a rich peanut sauce with tomatoes, onions, and spices; similar to tigadeguena but may vary in preparation; a foundational sauce of Malian cuisine; the peanut is the defining ingredient; a hearty, nutty, and satisfying dish.

🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire

Sauce Feuille

Cassava or potato leaves pounded fine and simmered for hours with palm oil, smoked fish and sometimes peanut paste into a dark green sauce.

🇹🇬South (Cotonou / Porto-Novo / Fon-Yoruba), Togo

Sauce Gboman

A tomato-based sauce with local spinach and leafy greens; a southern Benin specialty; served with wô or akassa; a nutritious everyday sauce.

🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire

Sauce Gombo

Fresh okra grated to a slippery green sauce with smoked fish, pepper and sometimes soumbara, eaten by drawing threads of it up with a ball of foutou.

🇲🇱Mali

Sauce Gombo

A sticky, viscous okra sauce served over tô or rice; the okra is pounded to release its mucilage, creating the characteristic slippery texture; a beloved Malian sauce also called 'sauce noire' (black sauce); one of the most common sauces in Malian cuisine; eaten with meat or fish; the texture is the tell of a good version.

🇹🇩Chad

Sauce Gombo

Chadian okra sauce; fresh or dried okra finely chopped and cooked with beef, onions, garlic, and kanwa (natron); the okra releases its mucilage to create a viscous, clinging sauce; prized for its texture; served with boule or kissar; one of the ten most essential Chadian sauces.

🇧🇯Benin

Sauce Goussi

A sauce made from ground pumpkin seeds (egusi); thick and nutty; served with akassa, piron, or wassa-wassa; a beloved Beninese sauce; rich in protein.

🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire

Sauce Graine

Palm nuts boiled and pounded, the pulp strained and cooked down with fish, crab or beef until the bright red oil rises to the top.

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

Sauce Kirikiri

A Burkinabè leaf sauce prepared from cassia tora greens with onion, seasoning and sometimes meat or fish.

🇹🇩Chad

Sauce Longue

Chadian sauce made with grilled meat, smoked or fresh fish; extremely viscous, requiring years of practice to eat cleanly; a source of national pride; President Tombalbaye once served it to French guests who ended up covered in sauce; served with boule; a dish that tests your eating skill.

🇲🇱Mali

Sauce Noire

A Malian 'black sauce' made with gumbo (okra); listed in Wikipedia's Malian cuisine; the dark color comes from the pounded okra and sometimes dried leaves; a viscous, earthy sauce served over tô or rice; related to sauce gombo but with a darker color; a traditional sauce that reflects the resourcefulness of Malian cooking.

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

Sauce Oseille

A sorrel or hibiscus leaf sauce with meat, dried fish, soumbala, and peanut powder; the leaves give it a tangy, slightly sour flavour; a traditional Burkinabè sauce served with tô.

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

Sauce Vouaga

A seasonal Burkinabè sauce made from kapok calyx and aromatics, served with tô.

🇺🇸United States

Sausage Gravy

A Southern breakfast gravy of crumbled sausage, flour, milk, and black pepper, served over biscuits.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Senafich

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Ethiopia's homemade mustard sauce — ground mustard seeds whisked with garlic, ginger, vinegar and turmeric for a sharp, sinus-clearing condiment served with kitfo, tibs and azifa.