Region
What Eastern Europe cooks with
75 ingredients from the guide appear in the 63 catalogued dishes of Eastern Europe, in Europe. The most typical come first: used here often, and less so elsewhere.
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Most typical of Eastern Europe
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Every ingredient in Eastern Europe’s dishes

Apple
1 dish here

Bacon
2 dishes here

Baker's yeast
1 dish here

Beef
4 dishes here

Black pepper
3 dishes here

Blackcurrant
1 dish here

Bread
1 dish here

Bread crumbs
1 dish here

Broth
1 dish here

Buckwheat flour
2 dishes here

Butter
4 dishes here

Cabbage
1 dish here

Carrot
5 dishes here

Cheese
2 dishes here

Chicken
1 dish here

Chili pepper
2 dishes here

Common bean
1 dish here

Crouton
1 dish here

Cucumber
2 dishes here

Dill
1 dish here

Dough
4 dishes here

Edible mushroom
4 dishes here

Egg
10 dishes here

Fish
3 dishes here

Flour
7 dishes here

Fried onion
1 dish here

Garlic
4 dishes here

Ham
1 dish here

Ham hock
1 dish here

Herring
1 dish here

Honey
1 dish here

Ketchup
1 dish here

Lamb meat
1 dish here

Lard
1 dish here

Linseed oil
1 dish here

Liver
1 dish here

Maize flour
3 dishes here

Mayonnaise
2 dishes here

Milk
3 dishes here

Millet
3 dishes here

Minced meat
3 dishes here

Mustard
2 dishes here

Mutton
1 dish here

Nettle leaf
1 dish here

Oatmeal
1 dish here

Onion
12 dishes here

Paprika
2 dishes here

Parsley
2 dishes here

Pea
3 dishes here

Pickled cucumber
1 dish here

Poppy seed
1 dish here

Pork
3 dishes here

Pork ribs
1 dish here

Pork skin
1 dish here

Potato
15 dishes here

Powdered sugar
1 dish here

Quark
2 dishes here

Rice
1 dish here

Salo
4 dishes here

Sauerkraut
5 dishes here

Sausage
1 dish here

Scallion
2 dishes here

Sorrel
2 dishes here

Sour cream
9 dishes here

Sourdough
1 dish here

Spinach
1 dish here

Sugar
2 dishes here

Table salt
10 dishes here

Tomato paste
1 dish here

Veal
2 dishes here

Vegetable oil
2 dishes here

Water
3 dishes here

Watermelon
1 dish here

Wheat flour
3 dishes here

Yogurt
1 dish here
Photo credits for this page (75)
Mustard: Rainer Zenz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Salo: Roland Geider ( Ogre ) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Maize flour: Miansari66 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Potato: McKay Savage from London, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Buckwheat flour: Veganbaking.net from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Millet: Thamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Water: Forbes Johnston from Winchester, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Quark: SKopp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Apple: George Chernilevsky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Bacon: Lara604 from Seattle, WA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Baker's yeast: ElinorD · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Beef: F ASTILY · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Blackcurrant: George Chernilevsky · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bread: Bake Across Europe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bread crumbs: Tiia Monto · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Broth: Mariuszjbie · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Butter: Jacek Halicki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cabbage: Kolforn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Carrot: MOs810 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chicken: Sakurai Midori · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chili pepper: Takeaway · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Common bean: Jay Superthato · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Crouton: Bi-frie ( talk ) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cucumber: Nikodem Nijaki · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Dill: SA, The Green Ark Bostanie · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Egg: Flixtey · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Fish: Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Flour: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Fried onion: Hartej.hundal · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Garlic: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ham: Renee Comet (Photographer) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Ham hock: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Herring: Chris Olszewski · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ketchup: Nenad Stojkovic from Srbija · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Lamb meat: Pujanak · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Lard: Ssemmanda will · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Linseed oil: Jocian 12:16, 19. Jan. 2015 (CET) · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons
Liver: Poupou l'quourouce · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Milk: Santeri Viinamäki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Minced meat: Rainer Zenz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Mutton: Tvabutzku1234 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Nettle leaf: Danny Steven S · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Oatmeal: Yonygg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Paprika: Gnu-Bricoleur · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Parsley: Bi-frie ( talk ) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pea: David Adam Kess · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pickled cucumber: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Poppy seed: Odedr · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Pork: Father.Jack from Coventry, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pork ribs: Gunawan Kartapranata · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pork skin: Pufui PcPifpef · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Powdered sugar: Ɱ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rice: Musclewingz Yueyua · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sausage: gcardinal from Norway · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Scallion: Evan-Amos · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Spinach: Scudsvlad · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sugar: Lauri Andler (Phantom) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Table salt: Dubravko Sorić SoraZG on Flickr · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tomato paste: SKopp · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Veal: Jeff Kubina · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Vegetable oil: Netojinn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Watermelon: Don miraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wheat flour: Veganbaking.net from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Yogurt: Nithyasrm · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons