Country
What China cooks with
28 ingredients from the guide appear in the 15 catalogued dishes of China, in Asia. The most typical come first: used here often, and less so elsewhere.
Signature
Most typical of China
A–Z
Every ingredient in China’s dishes
Adzuki bean
1 dish here
Beef
2 dishes here
Black bean
1 dish here
Chicken
2 dishes here
Chili pepper
1 dish here
Chocolate
1 dish here
Coconut milk
1 dish here
Cooked rice
1 dish here
Corn starch
1 dish here
Edible mushroom
1 dish here
Egg
1 dish here
Egg yolk
1 dish here
Garlic
1 dish here
Glutinous rice flour
1 dish here
Goji
1 dish here
Margarine
1 dish here
Onion
1 dish here
Pandan leaf
1 dish here
Pork
2 dishes here
Rice vermicelli
1 dish here
Sichuan pepper
1 dish here
Soy sauce
1 dish here
Sugar
2 dishes here
Tofu
1 dish here
Vanilla
1 dish here
Vegetable oil
2 dishes here
Water
1 dish here
Wheat flour
1 dish here
Photo credits for this page (28)
Vegetable oil: Netojinn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pork: Father.Jack from Coventry, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chicken: Sakurai Midori · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Beef: F ASTILY · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sugar: Lauri Andler (Phantom) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Adzuki bean: Sanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Black bean: Sanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chili pepper: Takeaway · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chocolate: Mx. Granger · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coconut milk: Meursault2004 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Corn starch: Miansari66 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Egg: Flixtey · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Egg yolk: jefras a.k.a Joăo Estęvăo A. de Freitas · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Garlic: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Glutinous rice flour: Ocomejessian · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Goji: Pvt pauline · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Margarine: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rice vermicelli: Susan Slater · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sichuan pepper: Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Soy sauce: Tim Reckmann from Hamm, Deutschland · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tofu: DryPot · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Vanilla: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Water: Forbes Johnston from Winchester, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wheat flour: Veganbaking.net from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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