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Snakehead

ChannidaeAlso called Channidae

Snakehead is a fish with tender flesh. Cooks pickle or steam it.

  • Fish
  • Gluten-free
  • Allergen: fish

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

Part used
Muscle
Family
Channidae
Texture
Tender
Cooked most in
Asia
Snakehead, whole

Photo: Amaury Laporte · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use snakehead

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Pickle
  • Steam

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Tender

Around the world

Where snakehead is cooked

2 dishes in the catalogue use snakehead. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

  • Myanmar 1

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

Origins

Native to
Africa, Asia

On the table

Dishes made with snakehead

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Talabaw

    Myanmar

  • Khô cá lóc

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: snakehead 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

A kind of
fish
Kinds
striped snakehead

Around the world

What snakehead is called

Names in 58 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Channidae

  • French

    Channidae · Snakehead · Têtes-de-serpent

  • Italian

    Channidae

  • Portuguese

    Channidae

  • German

    Schlangenkopffische · Channoidei · Schlangenkopffischartige · Channidae

  • Dutch

    slangekopvissen · Slangkopvissen · Channidae

  • Turkish

    Channidae

  • Russian

    змееголовые · Channoidei · Channidae

  • Polish

    Żmijogłowowate · Ophiocephalidae · Żmijogłowcowate · Channidae

  • Arabic

    شنات

  • Persian

    ماهیان سرماری

  • Hebrew

    ראשנחשיים

Show all 58 languages

  • Albanian

    Channidae

  • Aragonese

    Channidae

  • Asturian

    Channidae

  • Bangla

    সর্পমাথা

  • Basque

    Channidae

  • Bikol

    Talusog

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Channidae

  • Bulgarian

    змиеглавови · Channidae · чаниди

  • Cantonese

    生魚

  • Catalan

    Cànnid · Channidae · Cànnids

  • Cebuano

    Channidae

  • Central Dusun

    Badus

  • Chinese

    鳢科 · 生魚 · 乌鳢科

  • Czech

    hadohlavcovití · Channoidei · Channidae · hadohlavec

  • Egyptian Arabic

    شنات

  • Esperanto

    Ĥanedoj

  • Extremaduran

    Channidae

  • Finnish

    käärmeenpäät · Käärmeenpääkalat · Channidae · Käärmeenpää

  • Galician

    Channidae

  • Goan Konkani

    Chikale

  • Ido

    Channidae

  • Indonesian

    Channidae

  • Interlingua

    Channidae

  • Interlingue

    Channidae

  • Irish

    Channidae

  • Japanese

    ライギョ · タイワンドジョウ科 · タイワンドジョウ亜目 · タイワンドジョウ属

  • Kazakh

    Жылынбастылар

  • Kazakh (Arabic)

    جىلىنباستىلار

  • Kazakh (Cyrillic)

    Жылынбастылар

  • Kazakh (Latin)

    Jılınbastılar

  • Korean

    가물치과 · 가물치아목

  • Kyrgyz

    Жыланбаштар

  • Latin

    Channidae

  • Lithuanian

    Žalčiagalvinės · Channidae

  • Malay

    haruan · aruan · ruan · Channidae

  • Malayalam

    പാമ്പിൻതലയുള്ള മീൻ

  • Navajo

    Tłʼiishtsiiʼí

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    slangehodefisker · Channoidei · Channidae

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    ormehovudfiskar

  • Occitan

    Channidae

  • Pampanga

    Bulig

  • Romanian

    Channidae

  • Simplified Chinese

    鳢科

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    鳢科

  • Swedish

    Ormhuvudfiskar · Channidae

  • Swiss German

    Schlangechopffisch · Schlangenkopffisch

  • Thai

    วงศ์ปลาช่อน · Channidae

  • Traditional Chinese

    鱧科

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    鱧科

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    鱧科

  • Ukrainian

    Змієголові

  • Uzbek

    Ilonbosh

  • Vietnamese

    họ Cá quả · họ Cá lóc · cá lóc · họ Cá sộp

  • Volapük

    Channidae

  • Waray

    Channidae

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: Q503788

Photos

Photo: Amaury Laporte · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons