Dishes made with spice
188 dishes from around the world that list spice as a main ingredient.
Banana chipVegan
🇵🇭 Philippines and 4 moreCrispy slices of banana, fried or dried, eaten as a snack or sweet
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
Fesenjānفسنجان
🇮🇷 Iran and 5 morePersian stew of pomegranate, walnuts and poultry, served with rice
Main dish, Dinner
Gefilte fishFish or seafood
🇵🇱 Poland and 5 morePoached patties of seasoned fish, often topped with carrot
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
MansafMeatمنسف
🇯🇴 Jordan and 3 moreLamb cooked in fermented yogurt sauce, served over rice and flatbread
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Ginger snapVegetarian
🇦🇺 Australia and 5 moreA crisp biscuit flavoured with ginger and spices, popular in many countries
Sweet or dessert, Tea time, Snacks
Christmas cake
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 5 moreCakes served at Christmas, often rich with fruit, nuts or cream
Sweet or dessert, Tea time, Snacks
HaleemMeat
🇮🇳 India and 7 moreA slow-cooked stew of wheat, lentils, meat and spices
Stew or curry, Breakfast, Lunch
Suckling pigMeat
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 moreWhole roasted piglet, prized for its tender meat and crisp skin
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Pastillaبسطيلة
🇲🇦 Morocco and 2 moreNorth African pie with layers of thin pastry and a savory or sweet filling
Main dish, Dinner, Lunch
Stuffed peppers
🇧🇬 Bulgaria and 5 moreBell peppers filled with seasoned mixtures and cooked until tender
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Aloo gobiVegetarianआलू गोभी
🇮🇳 India and 2 morePotato and cauliflower cooked with turmeric and spices
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
UpmaVegetarian
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreA soft, savoury porridge made from roasted semolina or rice flour
Main dish, Breakfast, Dinner
Mince pie
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreSmall sweet pies filled with spiced fruit mincemeat, eaten at Christmas
Pie or savoury pastry, Tea time, Snacks
Hyderabadi biryani
🇮🇳 IndiaBasmati rice and spiced meat cooked together in the Hyderabad style
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Baked beans
🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreWhite beans slow-cooked in a sweet or savory sauce, often served hot or on toast
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
BhajiVegetarian
🇮🇳 India and 4 moreSpiced vegetable fritters from the Indian subcontinent, often sold as street snacks
Street food, Snacks
Dahi vadaVegetarian
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreLentil fritters soaked in spiced yogurt and served as a cold snack
Street food, Snacks
Dal makhaniVegetarian
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreCreamy black lentils slow-cooked with butter and spices
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
HareesMeat
🇦🇲 Armenia and 5 moreWheat and meat cooked to a soft, porridge-like dish for festive and religious meals
Main dish, Dinner, Lunch
KielbasaMeat
🇵🇱 Poland and 5 moreA family of seasoned sausages from Poland and Eastern Europe
Sausage or cured food, Lunch, Dinner
LebkuchenVegetarian
🇩🇪 Germany and 1 moreGerman spiced honey cakes and cookies, often enjoyed at Christmas
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
Bak kut tehMeat肉骨茶
🇲🇾 Malaysia and 3 morePork ribs in a spiced herbal broth, served with fried dough and condiments
Soup, Breakfast, Lunch
Wat
🇪🇹 Ethiopia and 1 moreEthiopian and Eritrean stew thickened with onions and spiced butter
Stew or curry, Lunch, Dinner
CharcuterieMeat
🇫🇷 FranceFrench tradition of cured, cooked, and preserved meats, often from pork
Sausage or cured food
Mole
🇲🇽 Mexico and 1 moreA thick, complex Mexican sauce made with chilis, nuts, spices and sometimes chocolate
Sauce, pickle or ferment, Lunch, Dinner
Saag
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreLeafy greens cooked with spices, eaten with bread or rice across the Indian subcontinent
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
KabanosMeat
🇵🇱 Poland and 5 moreLong, thin, smoked pork sausage from Poland, often eaten as a snack or appetiser
Sausage or cured food, Snacks
KısırVegan
🇹🇷 TurkeyTurkish salad of fine bulgur, parsley and tomato paste, served at room temperature
Salad or side, Lunch, Dinner
Chole bhatureVegetarian
🇮🇳 IndiaChickpea curry served with deep-fried, puffy bread
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Hot cross bunVegetarian
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 3 moreA sweet, spiced bun with a cross on top, eaten at Easter
Bread, Breakfast, Snacks
ZwiebelkuchenMeat
🇩🇪 GermanyGerman savoury pie with onions, bacon, cream and caraway on a leavened crust
Pie or savoury pastry, Lunch, Dinner
Black puddingMeatmarag dhubh
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 moreA sausage made from animal blood, fat and cereal, cooked in a casing
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
TafelspitzMeat
🇦🇹 Austria and 1 moreBeef simmered in broth, served with apple-horseradish and potatoes
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Roujiamo肉夹馍
🇨🇳 ChinaFlatbread filled with stewed meat, a street food from Shaanxi, China
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
White puddingputóg bhán, marag gheal
🇮🇪 Ireland and 1 moreA sausage of oatmeal, fat and sometimes pork, without blood, from Ireland and Scotland
Main dish, Breakfast, Dinner
Soto
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 3 moreIndonesian soup of spiced broth, meat and vegetables with many regional versions
Soup, Lunch, Dinner
MandiMeatمندي
🇾🇪 Yemen and 5 moreMeat and spiced rice cooked together in an underground pit
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Ackee and saltfishFish or seafoodaki ah saalfish
🇯🇲 JamaicaJamaica’s national dish of salted cod and ackee fruit cooked with spices
Main dish, Breakfast
Khoreshخورش
🇮🇷 Iran and 4 moreSlow-cooked Persian stew, served hot with rice
Stew or curry, Lunch, Dinner
SfihaMeatصَفِيحَة
🇱🇧 Lebanon and 5 moreLevantine flatbread with a seasoned minced meat topping
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Welsh cakeVegetarianpicau ar y maen
🇬🇧 United KingdomRound, spiced cakes cooked on a griddle, filled with currants or sultanas
Sweet or dessert, Tea time, Snacks
Paneer tikkaVegetarian
🇮🇳 IndiaGrilled spiced paneer cubes served hot, often with vegetables and chutney
Main dish, Snacks, Dinner
SbitenVegan
🇷🇺 Russia and 2 moreHot honey drink with spices, once Russia’s winter staple
Drink
şalgamVegan
🇹🇷 Turkey and 1 moreA sour, salty fermented drink of purple carrot and turnip from southern Turkey
Drink, Snacks, Dinner
Gudeg
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 2 moreYoung jackfruit slow-cooked in coconut milk and spices, a specialty of Yogyakarta
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Pongal
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreRice cooked in milk, central to the Tamil harvest festival
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Tea eggVegetarian茶叶蛋
🇨🇳 China and 3 moreEggs simmered in spiced tea, marbled with dark lines under the shell
Street food, Snacks
Stuffed squash
🇹🇷 Turkey and 5 moreSquash or zucchini filled with rice and sometimes meat, simmered or baked
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Tafelspitz: RobertK, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Kısır: Noumenon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hyderabadi biryani: Dheerajk88, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lebkuchen: No machine-readable author provided. Zerohund~commonswiki assumed (bas, CC BY 2.5, source
- Upma: Intodustin, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kielbasa: Mariuszjbie, CC BY 3.0, source
- Pastilla: kochtopf, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Mole: William Neuheisel, CC BY 2.0, source
- Ackee and saltfish: gailf548, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mansaf: Abdulla aljammal, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Haleem: Miansari66, Public domain, source
- Aloo gobi: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Dahi vada: Mdsmds0, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Dal makhani: Charles Haynes, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Mince pie: Alcinoe, Public domain, source
- Bak kut teh: Chainwit., CC BY 4.0, source
- Chole bhature: MaharajaMandy, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Roujiamo: Steetsweet, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kabanos: Sokołów SA, CC BY 3.0, source
- Khoresh: Roozitaa, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Zwiebelkuchen: Biezl, Public domain, source
- Black pudding: Alexbrn, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Soto: Sakurai Midori, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mandi: Miansari66, CC0, source
- Hot cross bun: Cjorsch, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Paneer tikka: Sonja Pauen - Stanhopea, CC BY 2.0 de, source
- Pongal: Jennifer Kumar, Public domain, source
- şalgam: Anatolianpride, Public domain, source
- Gudeg: christian razukas, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Sbiten: Schekinov Alexey Victorovich, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stuffed squash: Bazel, Public domain, source
- Banana chip: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Fesenjān: stringparts, CC BY 2.0, source
- Ginger snap: Samuel Wiki, CC0, source
- Gefilte fish: Olaf.herfurth, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Suckling pig: Joan Sebastián Araújo Arena, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Christmas cake: Martin Belam, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Stuffed peppers: Alice Wiegand, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Baked beans: Silar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bhaji: balu, CC BY 2.0, source
- Harees: Krista, CC BY 2.0, source
- Saag: Miansari66, Public domain, source
- Charcuterie: Wilfredor, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- White pudding: O'Dea, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sfiha: Bazel, Public domain, source
- Welsh cake: Moochocoogle at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Tea egg: Daniela Eftimova, CC BY-SA 4.0, source