Dishes made with starch
7 dishes from around the world that list starch as a main ingredient.
Pancake
🇺🇸 United States and 5 moreFlat cakes made from batter, cooked on a griddle or pan and served sweet or savoury
Main dish, Breakfast, Snacks
Turkish delightVegan
🇹🇷 Turkey and 5 moreSoft, chewy cubes of starch and sugar, often flavored or filled with nuts or fruit
Sweet or dessert, Snacks, Tea time
Tulumba
🇪🇬 Egypt and 5 moreDeep-fried batter sticks soaked in sweet syrup
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
Fish ball魚丸
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreSoft balls of minced fish, boiled or fried, eaten across Asia and Northern Europe
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Muhallebiمهلبی
🇮🇷 Iran and 5 moreA smooth milk pudding thickened with rice flour or starch, served cold
Sweet or dessert
Karaageから揚げ
🇯🇵 JapanJapanese marinated and deep-fried bite-sized chicken or fish
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Casserole
🇺🇸 United States and 2 moreA baked main dish of meat or vegetables bound with starch in a deep pan
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.
- Turkish delight: c.berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tulumba: The original uploader was ChildofMidnight at English Wikipedia ., CC BY 2.0, source
- Pancake: Brandon Martin-Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Muhallebi: E4024, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Karaage: Ocdp, CC0, source
- Fish ball: Wing11803, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Casserole: No machine-readable author provided. Db~commonswiki assumed (based on, Public domain, source