Salak

Salacca zalaccaAlso called Salacca zalacca, Snake-fruited palm, Snake-skinned fruit and Snake fruit

Salak is a crunchy fruit. Cooks ferment it.

Plant-based
Gluten-free
No listed allergens

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

Category: Fruit
Part used: Fruit
Family: Arecaceae
Texture: Crunchy
Cooked most in: Asia
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 1 in the catalogue

Photo: Crisco 1492 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use salak

Typical ways to cook or use it

Ferment

Preparing it

Remove the scaly skin before eating.

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

Crunchy

Around the world

Where salak is cooked

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

Dishes by continent

Asia1

Countries whose dishes use it most

Indonesia 1

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

Origins

Native to: Indonesia

On the table

Dishes made with salak

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

Asinan Bogor
Indonesia

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: salak 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 salak is called

Names in 58 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
Salacca zalacca
French
Salacca zalacca · Salak
Italian
Salacca zalacca
Portuguese
Salacca zalacca
German
Salakpalme · Schlangenhautfrucht · Schlangenfrucht · Salak-Palmen
Dutch
salak · Salacca edulis · Snake fruit · Slangefruit
Turkish
Salak (bitki)
Russian
Салак · Salacca edulis · Salacca zalacca · Змеиный фрукт
Polish
Oszpilna jadalna · Salacca edulis · Salak · Salacca zalacca
Arabic
سالاكة مألوفة
Persian
سالاک
Tamil
சலக்

Show all 58 languages

Albanian
Salacca zalacca
Aragonese
Salacca zalacca
Asturian
Salacca zalacca
Azerbaijani
İlan meyvəsi
Balinese
Salak
Banjar
Salak
Basque
Salacca zalacca
Brazilian Portuguese
Salacca zalacca
Bulgarian
Salacca zalacca
Catalan
Salacca zalacca
Cebuano
Salacca zalacca
Central Dusun
Bogung
Chinese
蛇皮果 · 栽培蛇皮果
Czech
salaka jedlá · salak
Egyptian Arabic
سالاكه مالوفه
Esperanto
Salacca zalacca
Extremaduran
Salacca zalacca
Finnish
salaki · Salacca zalacca
Galician
Salacca zalacca
Ido
Salacca zalacca
Indonesian
salak · Tanaman salak · Salacca zalacca · Salak Nglumut
Interlingua
Salacca zalacca
Interlingue
Salacca zalacca
Irish
Salacca zalacca
Japanese
サラク · サラカヤシ · サラッカ
Javanese
salak
Komi
Салак · Salacca zalacca
Komi-Permyak
Салак · Salacca edulis · Salacca zalacca
Korean
살라크
Latin
Salacca zalacca
lbe
Салак · Salacca edulis · Salacca zalacca
Lithuanian
Valgomoji salakpalmė
Madurese
Salak
Malay
Pokok Salak · Salak
Malayalam
സലാക്കാ സലാക്കാ · Salacca zalacca
Occitan
Salacca zalacca
Romanian
Salak
Simplified Chinese
蛇皮果
Simplified Chinese (China)
蛇皮果
Slovak
Salaka
Sundanese
salak
Swedish
Salak · Salacca zalakka · Sallak
Thai
สละ
Traditional Chinese
蛇皮果
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
蛇皮果
Udmurt
Салак · Salacca edulis · Salacca zalacca
Ukrainian
Salacca zalacca
Vietnamese
Salak
Volapük
Salacca zalacca
Waray
Salacca zalacca
Western Mari
Салак

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: Q840615

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