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Carob

Ceratonia siliquaAlso called Ceratonia siliqua, locust bean, St John's-bread and locust-tree

Carob is a fruit whose pods are used in cooking. It is sold as a powder and used in baking.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Fruit
Part used
Pod
Family
Fabaceae
Cooked most in
Africa
Top country
Algeria
Carob, plant

Photo: Nevit Dilmen ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use carob

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake

Preparing it

Dry freshly harvested pods to prevent rot. Separate the seeds from the pulp for further processing.

Cooking with it

Heat crushed pods to caramelize their sugars when making carob molasses.

Shopping

Choosing and storing carob

Sold as
Powder

On the table

Dishes made with carob

1 of the 2 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Obo Ẹgwa

    Nigeria

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: carob in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Around the world

What carob is called

Names in 73 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Ceratonia siliqua · Garrofera · Algarrofín · Algarrobera

  • French

    caroubier · carroube · caroubiers · carroubier

  • Italian

    carrubba

  • Portuguese

    alfarrobeira · Figueira de Pitágoras · Figueira do Egipto · Figueira-do-egito

  • German

    Johannisbrotbaum · Johannisbrot · Karob · Karuben

  • Dutch

    Johannesbroodboom · Johannesbrood · Carobbe · Sint-Jansbroodboom

  • Greek

    χαρουπιά · Χαρούπι · Κερωνία · Κερατέα

  • Turkish

    keçiboynuzu · harnup · keçi boynuzu · harnup ağacı

  • Russian

    рожковое дерево · цератония стручковая · цареградские стручки · кэроб

  • Polish

    szarańczyn strąkowy · drzewo karobowe · karob

  • Arabic

    خروب · الخرنوب · خرنوب · الخروب

  • Persian

    الخروب، الجزایر

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  • Afrikaans

    johannesbroodboom

  • Asturian

    algarrobu

  • azb

    گئچی بوینوزو

  • Azerbaijani

    buynuzcuqlu seratoniya · buynuz ağacı

  • Basque

    algarrobo

  • Belarusian

    ражковае дрэва

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    ражковае дрэва

  • Bikol

    Karob

  • Bulgarian

    рожков · рошков

  • Catalan

    garrofer · garrofa · garrovers · garrofera

  • Central Kurdish

    خەرنووب

  • Chinese

    长角豆

  • Croatian

    rogač

  • Czech

    rohovník obecný

  • Danish

    johannesbrød

  • Egyptian Arabic

    خروب

  • Esperanto

    karobarbo · karobo · karobujo

  • Estonian

    harilik jaanikaunapuu · Jaanikaunapuu · Ceratonia siliqua · Harilik jaanileivapuu

  • Filipino

    carob

  • Finnish

    johanneksenleipäpuu

  • Galician

    alfarrobeira

  • Georgian

    კერატი · კერატი (მცენარე)

  • Hebrew

    חרוב · Ceratonia siliqua · עץ חרוב · חרוב מצוי

  • Hungarian

    szentjánoskenyérfa

  • Ido

    karubiero · karubo

  • Inari Sami

    juhánâsleibimuorâ

  • Indonesian

    belalang · belalang (tumbuhan) · pohon karub · roti Santo Yohanes

  • Irish

    carúb

  • Japanese

    キャロブ · カロブ

  • Kabyle

    axerrub · tasliɣwa

  • Korean

    케럽

  • Kurdish

    xernûf

  • Latin

    Ceratonia siliqua

  • Latvian

    jāņmaizītes koks · pāksteņa ceratonija · kerobs · karobs

  • Lithuanian

    saldžioji ceratonija

  • lld

    vaina

  • Macedonian

    рогач

  • Malayalam

    കരോബ്

  • Maltese

    ħarruba

  • Manx

    billey locust · poanrey locust · Ceratonia siliqua

  • Neapolitan

    selléccura

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    johannesbrødtre

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    johannesbrødtre

  • Occitan

    carrobièr · Corropièr · Carobièr · Corrobièr

  • Romanian

    roșcov · roşcov

  • rsk

    Хлєбичок

  • Sardinian

    carruba

  • Serbian

    рогач

  • Simplified Chinese

    长角豆

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    长角豆

  • Slovak

    rohovník obyčajný · svätojánsky chlieb · karob

  • Slovenian

    rožičevec

  • Swedish

    Johannesbröd · Johannesbrödträd · Johannesbrödsträd · carob

  • Tachelhit

    tikiḍa

  • Thai

    คารอบ

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    長角豆

  • Tunisian Arabic (Arabic)

    خروب

  • Tyap

    a̱la̱nzeam

  • Ukrainian

    рожкове дерево

  • Upper Sorbian

    wšědny rohowc

  • Veps

    sar'vutpu

  • Vietnamese

    Minh quyết

  • Walloon

    caroubî

  • Wu Chinese

    长角豆

  • Yiddish

    באקסער

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: Q68763

Photos

Photo: Nevit Dilmen ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons