Fish

Fish can be served raw or cooked by baking, boiling, simmering, grilling, or steaming. Cooks also cure, marinate, pickle, or smoke it.

Fish
Gluten-free
Allergen: fish

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

Category: Fish & seafood
Cooked most in: Asia, Europe, Africa
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 28 in the catalogue

Photo: Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use fish

Typical ways to cook or use it

Bake
Boil simmer
Cure
Grill
Marinade
Pickle
Raw
Smoke
Steam

Around the world

Where fish is cooked

28 dishes in the catalogue use fish. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list fish among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with fish

25 of the 28 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Panada
Indonesia
Bouillabaisse
France
Adjidjat
Algeria
Indigirka salad
Russia
Romazava
Madagascar
Baba-sharpanyna
Ukraine
Cachupa
Cabo Verde
Run down
Jamaica
Sate lilit
Indonesia
Yurma
Russia
Cotriade
France
Pempek
Indonesia
Pallu kacci
Indonesia
Pempek lenggang
Indonesia
Sinonggi
Indonesia
Celimpungan
Indonesia
Gulai
Indonesia
Tekwan
Indonesia
Lema
Indonesia
Pepes
Indonesia
Pindang
Indonesia
Binte biluhuta
Indonesia
Pempek Lenjer
Sichenyky
Rybnik

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: fish 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: Contains: fishChecked and not found: soy, eggs, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin: From: fishChecked and not found: egg, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten: None
Alcohol: None
Caffeine: None
Pork: None

Family

Related forms

Made from it: dried fish (dried), fish fillet, smoked fish (cured, smoked), stockfish (dried)
Kinds: anchovy, catfish, cod, eel, fish fillet, haddock, herring, milkfish, pike, salmon, shark, smoked fish, snakehead, snapper, spanish mackerel, tilapia, tuna, wahoo

Around the world

What fish is called

Names in 65 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
pescado
French
poisson · chair de poisson · viande de poisson · poisson comestible
Italian
pesce
German
Speisefisch · Fisch
Dutch
vis
Turkish
Balık · balık eti, balık yemeği
Russian
рыба
Polish
ryby konsumpcyjne
Arabic
سمك
Persian
ماهی (غذا)
Hebrew
דג מאכל
Hindi
भोजन के रूप में मछली

Show all 65 languages

Afrikaans
Vis
Aragonese
Peix
Armenian
Ձկնամիս
Asturian
pescáu · pexe como comida
Bangla
খাবার মাছ
Basque
arrain · arrain jangarri · jateko arrain · arrainki
Belarusian
рыба · ядомая рыба · мяса рыбы · свежая рыба
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
рыба · ядомая рыба
Brazilian Portuguese
peixe como alimento · carne de peixe · pescado
Cantonese
食用魚
Catalan
peix
Chinese
食用鱼
Croatian
riba kao hrana
Czech
rybí maso
Danish
spisefisk
Erzya
кал
Esperanto
fiŝaĵo
Estonian
Kala
Finnish
kala ruokana
Galician
pescado
Hausa
Kifi a cikin Abinci
Hungarian
ehető hal · étkezési hal · hal mint élelmiszer
Icelandic
Fiskur
Indonesian
Ikan
Interlingua
Pisce (alimento)
Japanese
魚肉 · 食用魚
Javanese
Iwak (panganan)
Kazakh
Балық еті
Korean
생선
Latvian
zivs kā ēdiens · ēdama zivs
Lingala
mbisi
Literary Chinese
魚肉
Lithuanian
žuvis
Macedonian
риба
Malay
ikan
Norwegian Bokmål
matfisk · fisk
Norwegian Nynorsk
matfisk · fisk
Piedmontese
Pess (aliment)
Punjabi
ਮੱਛੀ
Romanian
pește
Serbian
риба
Serbian (Cyrillic)
риба
Serbian (Latin)
jestive ribe
Serbian (Latin)
riba
Sinhala
මාළු
Slovenian
riba · riba kot hrana · užitna riba · sveža riba
Swedish
matfisk · fiskkött · fisk
Swiss High German
Speisefisch
Tamil
மீன் ஒரு மனித உணவு
Tatar
балык
Tatar (Cyrillic)
балык
Tatar (Latin)
balıq
Thai
ปลา
Traditional Chinese
食用魚
Udmurt
сиымон чорыг · чорыг сиён кадь
Ukrainian
риба
Vietnamese
cá · cá ăn được
Wu Chinese
食用鱼
Yiddish
ים–פיש
Zulu
Inhlanzi njengokudla

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: Q600396

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