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Roux

Roux is made with flour and sometimes paprika. Cooks use it to thicken dishes.

Cooked most in
The Americas
Top country
United States
Roux, prepared

Photo: Roger469 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use roux

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Thicken

Made from

Cooking with it

Darker roux has less thickening power than lighter roux. For dark roux, vegetable oil can be used in place of clarified butter; whole butter can burn at high temperatures.

Around the world

Where roux is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses roux. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

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

Origins

  1. The 1400s · Türkiye

    Roux was used in Ottoman and Turkish cooking by the 15th century.

On the table

Dishes made with roux

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Shrimp étouffée

    United States

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

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What roux is called

Names in 39 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Roux

  • French

    Roux

  • Italian

    roux

  • Portuguese

    roux

  • German

    Mehlschwitze · Einbrenne · Einbrenn

  • Dutch

    roux

  • Greek

    Ρου

  • Turkish

    Meyane

  • Russian

    Ру · Мучная пассеровка

  • Polish

    Zasmażka

  • Persian

    روو

  • Hebrew

    רביכה

Show all 39 languages

  • Albanian

    Qulli

  • Basque

    Roux

  • Bavarian

    Eihbrenn

  • Catalan

    roux

  • Chinese

    奶油炒麵糊 · 乳酪麵粉糊

  • Croatian

    Zaprška · Ajnpren

  • Czech

    jíška

  • Danish

    Roux

  • Esperanto

    brunaĵo

  • Georgian

    რუ

  • Hungarian

    rántás

  • Icelandic

    Smjörbolla

  • Indonesian

    Roux

  • Japanese

    ルー · ルウ

  • Javanese

    Roux

  • Korean

    루

  • Lower Silesian

    Einbrenne

  • Luxembourgish

    Roux

  • Macedonian

    запршка

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    jevning · roux

  • Serbian

    Zaprška

  • Slovak

    zápražka · zásmažka

  • Slovenian

    prežganje

  • Swedish

    redning · Roux

  • Thai

    รู

  • Ukrainian

    Ру (кулінарія)

  • Vietnamese

    Roux

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
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q746427

Photos

Photo: Roger469 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons