Sago

Also called sabudana

Sago is a flour starch made from the stem. Cooks pair it with fish.

Category: Grains, flours & pasta
Part used: Stem
Cooked most in: Asia
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 11 in the catalogue

Photo: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use sago

Cooking with it

Sago pearls cook very quickly.

Goes well with

fish

Around the world

Where sago is cooked

11 dishes in the catalogue use sago. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Asia10

Countries whose dishes use it most

Indonesia 10

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

Origins

The 1940s · Malaysia
Sago became an important staple for Malay and Melanau communities in Sarawak during the Japanese occupation.

On the table

Dishes made with sago

7 of the 11 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Pais
Indonesia
Sinonggi
Indonesia
Randang porridge
Indonesia
Papeda
Indonesia
Tekwan
Indonesia
Ne porridge
Indonesia
Sago bread
Indonesia

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

Around the world

What sago is called

Names in 56 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
Sagú · Sagu
French
Sagou
Italian
sago · sagù
Portuguese
sagu
German
Sago · Perlsago
Dutch
sago
Russian
Саго
Polish
Sago · Sabudana
Arabic
ساغو · الساغو
Persian
ساگو
Hebrew
סאגו
Hindi
साबूदाना

Show all 56 languages

Bangla
সাগু
Basque
Sago
Belarusian
Сага
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
сага
Brazilian Portuguese
sagu
Cantonese
西米
Catalan
sagú
Central Dusun
Sagu
Chinese
西米 · 西谷米
Czech
ságo
Danish
Sago
Divehi
ސާގު · Sago
Esperanto
saguo
Estonian
Saago
Filipino
Sago · Tapioca
Finnish
Saago
Gujarati
સાબુદાણા
Hausa
Mai hikima
Icelandic
Sagó
Ido
Saguto
Indonesian
sagu
Japanese
サゴ · サゴヤシ · サクサク
Javanese
Sagu
Kannada
ಸಬ್ಬಕ್ಕಿ
Kazakh
Саго
Korean
사고
Latin
Sagum
Lingua Franca Nova
Sago
Lithuanian
Sagas
Madurese
Sagu
Malay
Sagu
Malayalam
പനനൂറ്
Marathi
साबूदाणा · साबुदाणा · शाबूदाणा
Minangkabau
Sagu (pohon)
Norwegian Bokmål
Sago
Scots
Sago
Simplified Chinese
西米
Simplified Chinese (China)
西米
Simplified Chinese (Singapore)
西米
Slovenian
sago
Sundanese
Sagu
Swedish
Sago · Sagopalmer · Sagogryn · Palmmärg
Tamil
சவ்வரிசி · சௌவரிசி
Telugu
సగ్గుబియ్యం
Thai
สาคู (แป้ง)
Tok Pisin
Saksak
Traditional Chinese
西米
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
西米
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
西米
Ukrainian
Саго
Vietnamese
Sago
Western Panjabi
ساگو

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: Q218778

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