When you can provide photos or description of a food you've seen or heard of but don't know its English name.
Questions tagged [food-identification]
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What is this gourd-like vegetable?
I don't know the name of the fruit in English and hence I'm attaching the figure if it.
I don't know the exact name of the vegetable. But I'm guessing the following names: sponge gourd, luffa cylindrica, luffa.
What is the exact name of the fruit?
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Astringent Dishes
Are there any dishes that make prominent use of astringency? I understand that often some of the ingredients in a dish are astringent, but are there any dishes where astringency is deliberately developed and centered?
In other words, are there any…
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Chips/Fries Bake Identification
Not sure if this belongs here but I've a family recipe that is effectively a pasta bake but instead of pasta you use skinny chips (UK) / french fries (USA).
It came from an Aunt who lived in Canada who came home to the UK. The recipe is as…
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What is this spiky-leaved Mexican plant with large seed pods?
Is this plant edible? Location: Mexico
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What is this cut of meat? Ideas on what to make?
I have this leftover chunk of meat in my freezer, and I foolishly did not label it. Does anyone recognize it?
I just need to know enough to be able to cook it. At the very least whether it is beef or pork :) Feel free to suggest what I should…
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Looking for the name of a Peruvian dish
I used to work with two people from Peru. One day, they brought in a dish that they called "Planta", although I think that just referred to the fact that it had a lot of mashed plantain in it. What I remember from it is that there was a base of…
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Help needed to identify the seeds
I've received the following seeds from one relatives, used in our for some recipes. I want to know what this seeds are.
They taste bitter like fenugreek seeds, and the person who bought it calls it Irani Seeds.
Any help would be appriciated.
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Light green squash-like ingredient in Indonesian cuisine
We've traveled to Indonesia years ago and there was this ingredient I had never tasted before which has had me looking for years. I had it in gado-gado many times there, including in an Indonesian restaurant in North America which had me very…
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What could hair-like protrusions from a banana's surface be?
I was peeling a banana, and noticed thin, hair-like protrusions coming from the stem-side top of the fruit. There were only 5 or 6, and they were sticking straight up, about an inch in height.
At first, I thought one of my own hairs had fallen onto…
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What is this Austrian dish? It resembles potato croquettes?
I'm searching for a recipe or just anyone who knows this dish, I think it sounds like 'rostitachen' but I can't find any recipes online or anything about it!
They are like potato croquettes filled with cheese and veg or mushrooms.
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What is this Austrian pork dish called?
A traditional Austrian pork dish, served with potato croquettes, vegetables, mushrooms and gravy
From: https://i.stack.imgur.com/aZ9zA.jpg
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Vietnamese burnt sugar beverage
A while ago we ate at a Vietnamese restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown. We were given these nice burnt sugar-flavored beverages to drink, but unfortunately the staff did not speak fluent English so I don't know what it was called.
I've tried in…
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What are yellow sushi radishes called?
I'm considering growing some sushi radishes, but what are they called, because I'm considering growing some this summer after ordering them from a seed catalog.
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Help identifying Turkish dessert
Anyone familiar with Turkish cuisine know what this is? I had this in Istanbul. All I could gather from the owner was that it is made of milk.
The texture was like a very moist cake. The taste was milky and sweet (but not very sweet). That is…
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Are these vestigial seeds in a "seedless" orange?
Two recent organic navel oranges had a lot of these 2-x-head-of-a-pin-sized seed-like things. Each orange had maybe 25 of them clinging to the very center membrane in the orange. I allowed them to dry overnight and they do seem to feel like seeds,…
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