Ingredient

Caramel

Caramel is made from sugar. Cooks use it as a dressing and pair it with table salt.

Made from: Sugar
Dishes: 1 in the catalogue

Photo: Rainer Zenz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use caramel

Typical ways to cook or use it

Dressing

Cooking with it

To make caramel, slowly heat sugar to around 170 °C (340 °F). Glucose or invert sugar can be added to prevent crystallization.

Goes well with

table salt

On the table

Dishes made with caramel

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

Goxua

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include caramel.

Family

Related forms

Made from: sugar

Around the world

What caramel is called

Names in 76 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
caramelo · rapadura · caramelos
French
caramel
Italian
caramello
Portuguese
caramelo
German
Karamell · Karamelisierung · Karamellisierung · Zuckerkaramell
Dutch
karamel · E150a · E150d · E150b
Greek
καραμέλα
Turkish
karamel
Russian
карамель · Е150c · Е150d · Е150a
Polish
karmel
Arabic
كراميل · كاراميل · الكراميل · الكاراميل
Persian
کارامل

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كراميل
Albanian
karameli
Armenian
կարամել
Azerbaijani
Karamel
Bangla
ক্যারামেল
Banjar
karak gula
Bashkir
карамель
Basque
karamelu
Belarusian
карамель
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
карамэль
Betawi
gula ganting
Breton
karamel
Bulgarian
карамел · горена захар · крокант · крокан
Cantonese
焦糖
Catalan
caramel
Chinese
焦糖 · 黑蜜
Croatian
karamela
Czech
karamel · E 150a · E150
Danish
karamel
Egyptian Arabic
كراميل
Esperanto
karamelo
Estonian
karamell
Filipino
karamelo
Finnish
karamelli
Galician
caramelo
Georgian
კარამელი
Hebrew
קרמל · קירמול · E150 · קרמליזציה
Hindi
दग्धशर्करा
Hungarian
karamell
Icelandic
karamella · töggur · karamellur · tagga
Ido
karamelo
Indonesian
karamel
Irish
caramal
Japanese
キャラメル · カラメル色素 · カラメルソース · カラメル
Javanese
karamèl
Kannada
ಕ್ಯಾರಮೆಲ್
Kazakh
карамель
Kazakh (Arabic)
كارامەل
Kazakh (China)
كارامەل
Kazakh (Cyrillic)
карамель
Kazakh (Kazakhstan)
карамель
Kazakh (Latin)
karamelʹ
Kazakh (Türkiye)
karamelʹ
Korean
캐러멜 · 설탕 졸임 · 기름사탕 · 캬라멜
Kyrgyz
карамель
Latin
caramellum · calamellum
Latvian
karameles
Limburgish
Sjloek
Lithuanian
karamelė
Luxembourgish
Karamell
Macedonian
карамела
Malay
karamel · gula hangus
Min Nan Chinese
caramel
Mingrelian
კარამელი
Norwegian Bokmål
karamell
Norwegian Nynorsk
karamell
Occitan
caramèl
Romanian
caramel · caramelă
Serbian
karamela
Serbian (Latin)
karamel
Simplified Chinese
焦糖
Simplified Chinese (China)
焦糖
Simplified Chinese (Singapore)
焦糖
Slovak
karamel · E150
Slovenian
karamela
Swedish
karamell
Tamil
கேரமல்
Thai
คาราเมล
Traditional Chinese
焦糖
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
焦糖
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
焦糖
Ukrainian
карамель · E150
Urdu
محروق · کرامیل · Caramel · کیرامل
Uzbek
karamel
Vietnamese
caramel · Đường thắng · kẹo đắng · nước màu
Welsh
caramel
Wu Chinese
焦糖

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q183440

Photos