Dishes made with starch
12 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
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
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
FishcakeFish or seafood
🇯🇵 Japan and 5 moreMinced fish mixed with starch, shaped and cooked as patties or balls
Main dish, Snacks, Lunch
ShuizhuMeat水煮
🇨🇳 ChinaSichuan-style poached meat with chilies and hot oil
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.
- Pancake: Brandon Martin-Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Karaage: Ocdp, CC0, source
- Shuizhu: Liu Nan, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Fish ball: Wing11803, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Casserole: No machine-readable author provided. Db~commonswiki assumed (based on, Public domain, source
- Fishcake: Jon Sullivan, Public domain, source