Vegetable oil

Also called plant oils, plant oil, cooking oil and edible oil

Vegetable oil is an oil made from fruits or seeds. Cooks use it for deep-frying, dressings, and seasoning.

Category: Fats & oils
Part used: Fruit, seed
Cooked most in: Asia, Africa, Europe
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 71 in the catalogue

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In the kitchen

How to use vegetable oil

Typical ways to cook or use it

Deep fry
Dressing
Season

Around the world

Where vegetable oil is cooked

71 dishes in the catalogue use vegetable oil. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

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

On the table

Dishes made with vegetable oil

48 of the 71 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Coto makassar
Indonesia
Hallaca
Venezuela
Bouillabaisse
France
Ekuru
Nigeria
Dambu
Niger, Nigeria
Wasawasa
Ghana
Fried rice
China
Indigirka salad
Russia
Harşo
Şekerpare
Tsybryki
Belarus
Caluk noodles
Indonesia
Taweşeht
Ofada rice
Nigeria
Shuizhu
China
Klatak Satay
Indonesia
Sovanî
Otak-otak
Indonesia
Kanji rumbi
Indonesia
Sapo tahu
Indonesia
Snail satay
Indonesia
Rujak cingur
Indonesia
Ayam goreng Kalasan
Indonesia
Ayam tangkap
Indonesia
Jepara grilled opor
Indonesia
Pallumara Ikan Sunu
Indonesia
Timphan
Indonesia
Bika Ambon
Indonesia
Molen banana
Indonesia
Sambal tuktuk
Indonesia
Dadar gulung
Indonesia
Gandasturi
Indonesia
Lapis talas Bogor
Indonesia
Rice Jamblang
Indonesia
Sambal asam udueng
Indonesia
Siomay
Indonesia
Acehnese Murtabak
Indonesia
Pallu kacci
Indonesia
Citruk
Indonesia
Eel rujak
Indonesia
Lentho
Indonesia
Sambal ganja
Indonesia
Pempek panggang
Indonesia
Bakso Balungan
Indonesia
Bola Ubi
Indonesia
Cilung
Indonesia
Getuk Goreng
Indonesia
Kayu jabuk
Indonesia

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

Family

Related forms

Kinds: coconut oil, corn oil, olive oil, palm oil, peanut oil, sesame oil, soybean oil

Around the world

What vegetable oil is called

Names in 83 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
aceite vegetal
French
huile végétale
Italian
olio vegetale
Portuguese
óleo vegetal · óleo de plantas · gorduras vegetais
German
Pflanzenöl · vegetabilisches Öl · Öl, pflanzlich · pflanzliches Öl
Dutch
plantaardige olie · plantaardige oliën · plantaardige olien
Greek
φυτικό λάδι
Turkish
Bitkisel yağ · nebati yağ
Russian
растительное масло · растительные масла · растительные жиры · растительный жир
Polish
oleje roślinne
Arabic
زيت نباتي · زيوت نباتية · الزيت النباتية · زيت الطعام
Persian
روغن گیاهی

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Afrikaans
Plantaardige olie
Albanian
vaj perimesh · vaj vegjetal
Aragonese
aceite vechetal
Armenian
բուսական յուղ
Aromanian
Untulemnu
Asturian
aceite vexetal
Azerbaijani
Bitki yağı
Bangla
সাদা তেল
Bashkir
үҫемлек майы · үҫемлек майҙары · йәшелсә майҙары
Basque
landare-olio · Landare olio
Belarusian
алей · алеі
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
алей · расьлінны алей
Breton
eoul plant
Bulgarian
растително масло
Cantonese
植物油
Catalan
oli vegetal
Central Kurdish
ڕۆنی ڕوەکی
Chinese
植物油 · 含油种子
Chuvash
Тип çу
Czech
rostlinný olej
Danish
Vegetabilsk fedtstof og olie
Egyptian Arabic
زيت نباتى
Esperanto
legoma oleo
Estonian
taimeõli
Finnish
kasviöljy
Galician
aceite vexetal · Óleo vexetal
Georgian
მცენარეული ზეთი
Guarani
ka’avo ñandyry · ñandyry ka’avo
Hausa
man girki
Hebrew
שמן צמחי
Hindi
वनस्पति तेल
Hungarian
növényi olajok · növényi eredetű olajok · növényolaj · növényolajok
Icelandic
Grænmetisolía
Inari Sami
šaddo-oljo
Indonesian
minyak nabati
Irish
ola glasraí · ola · ola phlandúil
Japanese
植物油 · 植物油脂 · プラントオイル
Javanese
Lenga janganan
Korean
식물성 기름 · 식물유 · 식물유지 · 식물성 유지
Kyrgyz
Өсүмдүк майы
Latvian
augu eļļa · dārzeņu eļļa
Macedonian
растително масло
Malagasy
Menaka zavamaniry
Malay
minyak sayuran · minyak sayur · minyak tumbuhan
Malayalam
സസ്യ എണ്ണകൾ
Maltese
żejt veġetali
Marathi
वनस्पती तूप
Nepali
तरकारी तेल
Northern Sami
šaddoolju
Norwegian Bokmål
vegetabilsk olje
Norwegian Nynorsk
planteolje · vegetabilsk olje · vegetabilsk feitt
Occitan
òli vegetal
Ossetic
Зети
Picard
eule végétal
Piedmontese
euli vegetal
Romanian
ulei vegetal · uleiuri vegetale · ulei de gătit · ulei din plante
Scots
vegetable ile
Serbian
биљно уље
Serbian (Cyrillic)
биљно уље
Serbian (Latin)
Biljno ulje
Serbian (Latin)
biljno ulje
Simplified Chinese
含油种子
Simplified Chinese (China)
含油种子
Skolt Sami
šâddoljj · rääʹssoljj
Slovenian
rastlinsko olje
Swedish
vegetabilisk olja
Tatar
үсемлек мае · үсемлек майлары · үсемлекләр мае
Thai
น้ำมันพืช · ไขมันพืช
Traditional Chinese
含油種子
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
植物油
Ukrainian
рослинні жири і олії
Upper Sorbian
rostlinski wolij
Urdu
روغن نباتی
Venetian
ojo vezetałe
Vietnamese
dầu thực vật
Welsh
olew llysiau · oel llysiau
Western Panjabi
نباتاتی تیل
Zulu
Amafutha emifino

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: Q4739805

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