Dishes made with table salt
11 dishes from around the world that list table salt as a main ingredient.
Pizza
🇮🇹 Italy and 4 moreFlatbread topped with tomato, cheese and baked at high heat
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
AkaraVeganàkàrà
🇳🇬 Nigeria and 5 moreWest African bean fritters, deep-fried and eaten hot as street food or breakfast
Street food, Breakfast, Snacks
Pain au chocolatVegetarian
🇫🇷 France and 2 moreA flaky pastry filled with bars of dark chocolate
Pie or savoury pastry, Breakfast, Snacks
CendolVeganꦕꦺꦤ꧀ꦝꦺꦴꦭ꧀
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 5 moreGreen rice flour jelly with coconut milk, palm sugar syrup and ice
Drink, Snacks
ParmigianaVegetarian
🇮🇹 Italy and 5 moreEggplant slices fried, layered with cheese and tomato sauce, then baked
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
MagiritsaMeatμαγειρίτσα
🇬🇷 GreeceGreek lamb offal soup eaten to break the Easter fast
Soup, Dinner
Moin moin
🇳🇬 Nigeria and 1 moreSteamed bean pudding from Nigeria, often served with rice or on its own
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
RupjmaizeVegan
🇱🇻 LatviaDense, dark rye bread flavored with caraway and malt from Latvia
Bread
DibiMeat
🇸🇳 Senegal and 1 moreSenegalese fire-grilled meat, often served with onions and bread
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Ofada rice
🇳🇬 NigeriaUnpolished Nigerian rice, often served with spicy pepper stew in uma leaf
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Ewedu soupVegan
🇳🇬 Nigeria and 1 moreA Nigerian soup made from jute leaves, often paired with fufu or iyan
Soup, Lunch, Dinner
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Neapolitan pizza: Valerio Capello at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cendol: Supardisahabu, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Dibi: Kalsoum17, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Akara: AkinkuotuFunmi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Moin moin: Rka11111, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ofada rice: Ijeoma, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pain au chocolat: Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ewedu soup: Rhodadara, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Parmigiana: Flickr.com user "Blue Lotus", CC BY 2.0, source
- Magiritsa: Andrew Dalby, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rupjmaize: Bearas, CC BY 3.0, source