Vegetables

🇧🇷Brazil

Quibebe

A Brazilian pumpkin dish cooked down with onion and pepper into a thick savory mash.

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Radi

Radi is a long white Bavarian radish cut into spirals, salted to draw out its peppery juice and served cold.

🇲🇽Mexico

Rajas con crema

Roasted poblano strips simmered with cream, onion, and corn.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Ravimbomanga

Sweet potato leaves stewed with dried shrimp, tomato and garlic into a dark green laoka.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Ravitoto

Cassava leaves pounded to a coarse green pulp and cooked slowly with pork belly, garlic and ginger, often finished with coconut milk on the coast.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Ravoliva

Malagasy leafy greens cooked with rice, aromatics and sometimes meat as a homestyle relish.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Roast Breadfruit

Whole breadfruit roasted directly on coals or a fire until the skin is black, then peeled and sliced as a starch alongside ackee or fish.

🇷🇸Serbia

Roasted Peppers with Garlic

Белолућене паприке

Bell peppers roasted whole until the skins blacken, peeled and dressed with garlic, vinegar, oil and salt while still warm.

🇵🇪Arequipa, Peru

Rocoto Relleno

Arequipa's signature: rocoto peppers stuffed with ground meat, vegetables, and spices, baked with a creamy cheese sauce.

🇲🇽Mexico

Romeritos

A Christmas dish of dried shrimp patties and romerito greens in a mole sauce.

🇳🇴Norway

Rotmos (Swede Purée)

Rotmos

A Norwegian swede (rutabaga) purée, golden and sweet, served with pinnekjøtt and smalahove

🇨🇰Cook Islands

Rukau

Taro Leaves

Rukau is young taro leaves cooked down in coconut cream with onion, sometimes enriched with corned beef or lamb as a side dish.

🇮🇸Iceland

Rófustappa

Iceland's mashed turnips with butter and sugar, a daily and essential side

🇩🇰Denmark

Rødkål (Red Cabbage)

Rødkål

A Norwegian sweet-sour red cabbage, served with ribbe and Christmas dinners, a festive and daily staple. A national and Christmas classic, a tangy and sweet side, a traditional and colorful cabbage, a side dish.

🇸🇩Sudan

Sabaroag

A Sudanese vegetable preparation cooked with onion, tomato and local spice.

🇵🇰Sindh, Pakistan

Sai Bhaji

سائي ڀاڄي

Spinach cooked down with chana dal, tomato, aubergine and dill into a thick green mash, eaten with plain or fried rice.

🇱🇨Saint Lucia

Saint Lucian Fried Plantain

Fried Plantain

Plantains sliced and fried until golden; a standard side dish in Saint Lucia; often served with the national dish; a sweet and savory accompaniment; a staple of island cuisine; the fried plantain of Saint Lucia

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda

Saltfish and Eggplant

Antiguan dish of rehydrated salted cod sauteed with eggplant (locally called troba) that collapses into silky submission; finished with a squeeze of lime; a traditional Antiguan preparation; eggplant is also known as troba on the island; the saltfish and eggplant of Antigua; a savoury, silky combination.

🇮🇳Punjab, India

Sarson Ka Saag

सरसों का साग

A Punjabi dish of mustard greens slow-cooked and blended, served with makki ki roti and white butter. A winter specialty.

🇷🇸Serbia

Sataraš

Сатараш

Onion, pepper and tomato stewed down in oil until soft and sweet, eaten hot as a side or cold with bread.

🇫🇯Fiji

Sea Grapes

Nama

Clusters of green sea grapes harvested from the reef and eaten raw with coconut cream, lime and chilli.

🇰🇷South Korea

Seasoned Bellflower Root

도라지나물

Bellflower roots salted, rinsed, and stir-fried with sesame oil and garlic, with a firm texture and a pleasant herbal bitterness.

🇰🇷South Korea

Seasoned Fernbrake

고사리나물

Rehydrated fiddlehead ferns slow-simmered in a savory broth with soy sauce, sesame oil, and garlic, a classic bibimbap ingredient.

🇰🇷South Korea

Seasoned Spinach

시금치나물

Blanched spinach seasoned with sesame oil, garlic, soy sauce, and sesame seeds, a standard banchan and bibimbap topping.

🇿🇦South Africa

Seven Colours (Seven Colours Meal)

Sewe kleure

A South African Sunday meal with seven colorful sides (rice, pap, beetroot, carrot, cabbage, squash, potato), a festive and family tradition. A national and cultural classic

🇸🇨Seychelles

Seychelles Sweet Potato

Sweet potatoes grown in Seychelles; used in sweet ladob alongside plantains; boiled with coconut milk, sugar, nutmeg, and vanilla; a key ingredient in the islands' signature dessert; grown in backyard gardens across the archipelago.

🇮🇶Iraq

Sheikh Mahshi

شيخ محشي

Aubergines or courgettes hollowed, fried and filled with minced lamb and pine nuts, then baked in tomato or yoghurt sauce.

🇧🇩West Bengal, Bangladesh

Shukto

শুক্তো

Mildly bitter mixed-vegetable stew with bitter gourd, drumstick, plantain and radish in a milk and mustard base, eaten first in a Bengali meal.

🇻🇺Vanuatu

Simboro

Grated root vegetables (banana, cassava, yam, or taro) or island cabbage leaves rolled into a log shape, wrapped in banana leaves, and simmered in coconut cream; a lighter alternative to laplap, popular in the Shepherd Islands; widely available at market food stalls.

🇮🇪Ireland

Sloke

Slocán

Purple laver seaweed simmered into a dark purée and served with butter or fried bread.

🇲🇺Mauritius

Smothered Greens

Touffé brède

Leafy greens — chayote vine, watercress, mustard leaf or pumpkin shoot — wilted with garlic, onion and a little water until they collapse into their own liquor.

🇲🇾Kelantan, Malaysia

Solok Lada

Solok Lada stuffs green chillies with coconut, fish and aromatics before steaming or simmering them.

🇹🇻Tuvalu

Solomei

Solomei is a Tuvaluan breadfruit preparation, cooked and mashed or pounded with coconut into a soft, starchy vegetable dish.

🇸🇧Western Solomon Islands (Western / Choiseul / Isabel), Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands Seaweed

Solomon Islands seaweed is fresh edible marine algae served raw or lightly dressed with coconut, lime, or chilli as a crisp vegetable side.

🇬🇷South Aegean, Greece

Soufiko

Σουφικό

Rustic baked medley of eggplant, zucchini, peppers and potato in tomato and olive oil, the Ionian version of briam.

🇺🇸Southern United States, United States

Southern-Style Green Beans

Green beans simmered long with bacon or ham hock until soft and savory.