Region
What Southern Asia cooks with
65 ingredients from the guide appear in the 45 catalogued dishes of Southern Asia, in Asia. The most typical come first: used here often, and less so elsewhere.
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Most typical of Southern Asia
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Every ingredient in Southern Asia’s dishes

Banana
1 dish here

Batter
1 dish here

Beef
1 dish here

Besan
1 dish here

Bread roll
1 dish here

Butter
1 dish here

Cardamom
1 dish here

Carrot
1 dish here

Cauliflower
1 dish here

Cheese
1 dish here

Chicken
2 dishes here

Chickpea
2 dishes here

Chili pepper
4 dishes here

Cinnamon
1 dish here

Coconut
2 dishes here

Coconut milk
2 dishes here

Coffee
1 dish here

Common bean
1 dish here

Coriander seed
2 dishes here

Cucumber
1 dish here

Egg
1 dish here

Eggplant
2 dishes here

Galangal
1 dish here

Garlic
2 dishes here

Ginger
2 dishes here

Holy Basil
1 dish here

Indonesian bay leaf
1 dish here

Kurt
1 dish here

Lamb meat
2 dishes here

Lemon juice
1 dish here

Lemongrass
1 dish here

Lime
1 dish here

Mango
1 dish here

Milk
4 dishes here

Mint
2 dishes here

Mustard oil
1 dish here

Mutton
1 dish here

Olive
1 dish here

Olive oil
1 dish here

Onion
3 dishes here

Paneer
1 dish here

Pea
1 dish here

Peanut oil
1 dish here

Potato
3 dishes here

Pumpkin
1 dish here

Rice
8 dishes here

Rice flour
4 dishes here

Rice vermicelli
1 dish here

Rose water
1 dish here

Saffron
2 dishes here

Sausage
1 dish here

Scallion
3 dishes here

Semolina
1 dish here

Shallot
1 dish here

Sugar
4 dishes here

Sweet potato
1 dish here

Table salt
3 dishes here

Tomato
1 dish here

Tomato paste
1 dish here

Tuna
1 dish here

Turmeric
1 dish here

Water
1 dish here

Water buffalo milk
1 dish here

Wheat flour
1 dish here

Yogurt
2 dishes here
Photo credits for this page (65)
Mint: Commonists · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Saffron: Hubertl · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Yogurt: Nithyasrm · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chickpea: AlixSaz · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rice: Musclewingz Yueyua · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Milk: Santeri Viinamäki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Lamb meat: Pujanak · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Scallion: Evan-Amos · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Rice flour: Nithyasrm · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chili pepper: Takeaway · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coriander seed: Sanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Banana: Krzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Batter: Father.Jack from Coventry, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Beef: F ASTILY · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Besan: AlexanderVanLoon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bread roll: SKopp · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Butter: Jacek Halicki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cardamom: Thamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Carrot: MOs810 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cauliflower: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chicken: Sakurai Midori · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cinnamon: formulatehealth · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coconut: Tom Ek · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coconut milk: Meursault2004 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coffee: Julius Schorzman · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Common bean: Jay Superthato · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cucumber: Nikodem Nijaki · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Egg: Flixtey · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Galangal: Ruth Hartnup from Vancouver, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Garlic: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ginger: Sanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Holy Basil: Mokkie · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Indonesian bay leaf: Herusutimbul · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Kurt: Paul Munhoven · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Lemon juice: Ovinus Real · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Lemongrass: Unknown photographer · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Lime: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Mango: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Mustard oil: Biswarup Ganguly · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Mutton: Tvabutzku1234 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Olive: Juan Emilio Prades Bel · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Olive oil: Jacek Halicki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Paneer: Nithyasrm · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pea: David Adam Kess · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Peanut oil: KISUMAR123 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Potato: McKay Savage from London, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pumpkin: George Chernilevsky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Rice vermicelli: Susan Slater · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rose water: Pheno Geno Roses · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sausage: gcardinal from Norway · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Semolina: Sanjay ach · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Shallot: HaJunkiyada · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sugar: Lauri Andler (Phantom) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sweet potato: Llez · 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
Tuna: George Alexander Ishida Newman from Japan · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Turmeric: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Water: Forbes Johnston from Winchester, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Water buffalo milk: Gaurav_Dhwaj_Khadka · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wheat flour: Veganbaking.net from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons