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🇮🇳India

Uttapam

उत्तपम

A thick, soft pancake made from fermented rice and lentil batter, topped with onions, tomatoes, and chilies. It is a South Indian breakfast favorite.

🇫🇮Finland

Uunilohi

Baked salmon, the everyday oven preparation.

🇧🇷Brazil

Uvalha

A small fragrant Brazilian Atlantic-Forest fruit used fresh, in juices and in homemade preserves.

🇺🇾Uruguay

Uvita

Sweet fortified red wine drunk as an aperitif or with dessert, closer to marsala than to port.

🇨🇳Xinjiang, China

Uyghur Nan Bread

馕

A wheel of dense wheat bread stamped in the centre with a nail pattern, sprinkled with sesame and onion, baked against the wall of a clay tandoor.

🇨🇳Xinjiang, China

Uyghur Pilaf

抓饭

Rice steamed over lamb, carrot and onion in mutton fat, sometimes with raisins or chickpeas, traditionally eaten with the hand.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Uzvar

Узвар

Uzvar is a Ukrainian compote brewed from dried apples, pears, plums, cherries, and raisins.

🇷🇸Herzegovina, Serbia

Uštipci

Torn pieces of yeasted dough dropped into hot oil and fried into irregular puffed balls, eaten hot with kajmak and cheese.

🇷🇸Serbia

Užička pršuta

Ужичка пршута

Užička pršuta is western Serbia’s dry-cured smoked ham, salted and matured in the mountain air around Užice and Zlatibor. The neighboring Zlatibor smokehouse tradition is part of the same regional identity.

🇻🇳Hue, Vietnam

Va tron (Hue Fig Salad)

Vả trộn

Va tron, the Hue salad of young figs with pork and sesame, is a named regional dish built on an ingredient with no other representation.

🇧🇷Brazil

Vaca Atolada

A rustic stew of beef ribs and cassava chunks simmered in a rich tomato and bean broth, with the cassava becoming soft and starchy.

🇨🇺Cuba

Vaca Frita

A Cuban shredded beef fried with garlic, lime, and onions, a daily and home classic

🇨🇭Fribourg, Switzerland

Vacherin Fribourgeois

A semi-soft raw cow's milk cheese from Fribourg with a washed rind and a buttery, nutty, grassy flavour, essential for traditional fondue.

🇨🇭Vaud, Switzerland

Vacherin Mont d'Or

Vacherin Mont-d'Or

A soft winter cheese bound in a spruce bark band, so runny at peak that it is eaten with a spoon or baked in its box with garlic and wine.

🇦🇷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.

🇮🇳Mumbai, India

Vada Pav

वड़ा पाव

A Mumbai street food of spiced potato fritter in a bread roll with chutneys. It is often called the Indian burger.

🇭🇺Hungary

Vadgombaleves

Southern Hungarian wild mushroom soup.

🇳🇴Norway

Vafler (Norwegian Waffles)

Vafler

Norwegian heart-shaped waffles, soft and sweet, served with brunost, sour cream, and cloudberry jam

🇳🇮Nicaragua

Vaho

A Nicaraguan steamed dish of beef, yuca, plantains, and vegetables in banana leaves, a festive and regional classic

🇳🇺Niue

Vaihalo

A Niuean porridge of arrowroot (pia) and scraped coconut, looser than nanē pia and often served as a sustaining breakfast.

🇲🇽Veracruz, Mexico

Vainilla de Papantla

Whole cured vanilla pods and extract from the Papantla region of Veracruz and Puebla, protected by Denominación de Origen.

🇦🇸American Samoa

Vaisalo

Vaisalo is a Samoan coconut-and-starch pudding or porridge cooked until soft, lightly sweet, and fragrant with fresh coconut.

🇫🇯Fiji

Vakalavalava

Grated cassava baked with shredded coconut, sugar and butter into a dense, chewy slab — Fiji's cassava cake.

🇫🇯Fiji

Vakalolo

Grated cassava mixed with coconut, ginger and sugar, wrapped in banana leaf and steamed, then covered in hot coconut caramel.

🇫🇯Lau Islands, Fiji

Vakasakera

Vakasakera is a Lau preparation of chopped leafy greens with fermented coconut and seafood folded through coconut milk; it is savoury, creamy, and softly textured.

🇨🇭Valais, Switzerland

Valais Apricot

Walliser Aprikose

Apricots from the Rhône valley terraces, small, deeply coloured and picked ripe rather than shipped hard.

🇨🇭Valais, Switzerland

Valais Dried Meat

Viande séchée du Valais

Beef cured with salt, herbs and mountain air, dried for weeks in the dry Rhône valley wind and served in thin slices with rye bread.

🇨🇭Valais, Switzerland

Valais Raw Ham

Walliser Rohschinken

Protected air-dried Valais ham is sliced thinly, with a firm texture and concentrated Alpine flavour.

🇨🇭Valais, Switzerland

Valais Rye Bread

Pain de seigle valaisan

A dense round loaf of mostly rye, dark and slightly sour, baked hard so it keeps for weeks in a mountain chalet.

🇨🇭Valais, Switzerland

Valais Williams Pear Brandy

Eau-de-vie de poire du Valais

Valais Williams Pear Brandy is a clear eau-de-vie distilled from Williams pears in the Valais, bottled as the protected Williamine spirit.

🇨🇿Moravian Wallachia, Czech Republic

Valassky Frgal

Valašský frgál

Large round sweet cake from Moravian Wallachia.

🇨🇱Chile

Valdiviano

Ancient broth with charqui, pumpkin, bread, eggs, and spices from Valdivia region, a historic Chilean stew, rich and dark.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Vale of Evesham Asparagus

Vale of Evesham Asparagus is a protected collective food or drink identity with a defined regional specification.

🇪🇸Valencian Community, Spain

Valencia Water Cocktail

Agua de Valencia

Agua de Valencia is a Valencian cocktail of fresh orange juice, sparkling wine, and spirits served chilled.

🇪🇸Valencian Community, Spain

Valencian Baked Rice

Arròs al forn

A Valencian oven-baked rice with pork ribs, chickpeas, morcilla, potatoes, tomatoes, saffron, and smoked paprika, traditionally made in a clay cassola.

🇪🇸Valencian Community, Spain

Valencian Easter Longaniza

Longaniza de Pascua

Longaniza de Pascua is a seasoned Spanish sausage traditionally prepared for the Easter table in Valencia.