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Pâté spread atop bread
This is a list of spreads. A spread is a food that is literally spread, generally with a knife, onto food items such as bread or crackers. Spreads are added to food to enhance the flavor or texture of the food, which may be considered bland without it.
Spreads
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Ajvar atop bread
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Chopped liver on bread
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Kartoffelkäse atop bread
- Aioli — sauce made of garlic, salt, and olive oil of the northwest Mediterranean
- Ajvar[1] — Southeast European condiment made from red bell peppers, eggplants, garlic and oil
- Amlu – Moroccan spread of argan oil, almonds and honey
- Apple butter - Caramelized, concentrated apple sauce
- Bacon jam[2]
- Bean dip – sometimes used as a spread[3][4]
- Beer jam[5]
- Biber salçası — Anatolian paste made from red chili peppers or sweet long peppers and salt
- Biscoff — Sweet paste made from Biscoff biscuits
- Butter[6]
- Rucava white butter
- Chocolate butter
- Chutney — sauce of the Indian subcontinent of tomato relish, a ground peanut garnish or a yogurt, cucumber and mint dip
- Cheong — various sweetened Korean foods in the form of syrups, marmalades and fruit preserves
- Chocolate spread[7]
- Citadel spread — paste made of peanut butter, oil, sugar and milk powder
- Clotted cream[8]
- Coconut jam - a general term for coconut-based jams in Southeast Asia. Coconut jams include kaya of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore; sangkhaya of Thailand; and matamis sa bao, latik, or kalamay of the Philippines.
- Cookie butter
- Cretons — pork spread containing onions and spices, from Quebec
- Dulce de Leche — confection from Latin America prepared by slowly heating sweetened milk
- Egg butter
- Electuary (Larwerge) — a honey-thickened juice spread popular in Switzerland, often made with forest fruit such as juniper or pine
- Féroce[9] — made of avocados, cassava, olive oil, lime juice, salt cod, garlic, chili peppers, hot sauce, and seasonings, from Martinique
- Filet américain — Belgian variation of Steak tartare
- Flora
- Foie gras[10]
- Guacamole
- Heinz Sandwich Spread[11]
- Honey[12]
- Hummus[13]
- Smörgåskaviar – a fish roe spread eaten in Scandinavia and Finland
- Kartoffelkäse
- Kaya (jam) – coconut jam, commonly eaten as Kaya toast
- Kyopolou[14] — Bulgarian and Turkish spread made from roasted eggplants and garlic
- Latik - also known as "coconut caramel", a traditional Filipino sweet syrup made from coconut milk and sugar.
- Liver spread - also known as "lechon sauce", a Filipino spread made from pureed cooked pork or chicken liver with spices, vinegar, and brown sugar.[15]
- Ljutenica — vegetable relish or chutney in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia
- Lox
- Manjar blanco — term used in Spanish-speaking world to a variety of milk-based delicacies
- Manteca colorá[16] — Andalusian spread prepared by adding spices and paprika to lard, cooked with minced or finely chopped pieces of pork
- Maple butter
- Margarine
- Marshmallow creme
- Mint jelly
- Moambe – also referred to as palm butter, or palm cream
- Mayonnaise
- Miracle Whip
- Nut butter
- Palm butter – a spread made of palm oil designed to imitate dairy butter
- Paprykarz szczeciński — Polish spread made from ground fish, rice, tomato paste, vegetable oil, onion, salt and spices
- Pâté[17]
- Pesto
- Peabutter
- Pimento cheese
- Pindjur[14] — Bulgarian, Serbian, Bosnian and Macedonian spread which ingredients include red bell peppers, tomatoes, garlic, vegetable oil and salt
- Remoulade — European cold sauce based on mayonnaise
- Rillettes — French paste made with pork or other meats and sometimes with anchovies, tuna or salmon
- Schmaltz — rendered (clarified) chicken or goose fat
- Sobrassada — typical from the Balearic Isles, made from pork, paprika, salt and other spices.
- Sunflower butter
- Tahini – paste made from ground, husk hulled sesame seeds
- Tapenade — Provençal spread of puréed or finely chopped olives, capers and anchovies
- Taramasalata — Greek meze made from salted and cured roe of the cod, carp or grey mullet mixed with olive oil, lemon juice, and bread or potatoes
- Tartar sauce
- Zacuscă[19] — vegetable spread popular in Romania and Moldova
- Various spreads
Bacon jam atop bread
Cashew butter being ground
Peanut butter in a jar
Cheeses and cheese spreads
Benedictine used as a dip
Cheeses used as a spread and cheese spreads include:
- Almogrote
- Alouette cheese
- Beer cheese
- Benedictine
- Brie – sometimes used as a spread
- Cheez Whiz
- Cervelle de canut
- Cold pack cheese
- Cream cheese
- Creole cream cheese
- Cup cheese
- Catupiry
- Dairylea
- Easy Cheese
- Farmer cheese – sometimes used as a spread
- Fromage blanc[20][21]
- Fromage fort
- Laughing Cow
- Liptauer
- Moretum
- Obatzda
- Pimento cheese
- Port wine cheese
- Pub cheese
- Requeijão
- Rushan cheese
- Tirokafteri
- Prim
Fruit spreads and preserves
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A spoonful of “rinse appelstroop” (sweet and sour apple butter), a Dutch syrup specialty made from apple and sugar beet juice.
Fruit spreads and preserves include:
- Apple butter
- Apricot Jam
- Bar-le-duc jelly
- Berry Jam
- Birnenhonig[22]
- Cabell d'àngel
- Chutney[23]
- Coconut jam
- Confit[24][25]
- Confiture[26]
- Confiture de lait
- Conserves[23]
- Eggplant jam
- Fruit butter
- Fruit curd
- Guava jelly[27]
- Hagebuttenmark – a fruit preserve made from rose hips, sugar and sometimes red wine
- Lekvar
- Lingonberry jam
- Marmalade
- Nièr beurre
- Pepper jelly
- Powidl – a plum butter prepared without additional sweeteners or gelling agents
- Quince cheese[28]
- Sirop de Liège – prepared using evaporated fruit juices
- Tomato jam
- Ube halaya – also known as Ube jam
- Yuja-cheong
- Fruit spreads and preserves
Close-up view of a coconut jam
Pancakes with lingonberry jam
Homemade English marmalade
A jar of nièr beurre
Red pepper jelly
Powidl plum butter
Yeast extract spreads
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Marmite spread on toasted bread
Yeast extract spreads include:
- AussieMite
- Cenovis
- Guinness Yeast Extract
- Marmite
- Marmite (New Zealand)
- Oxo
- Promite
- Vegemite
- Vitam-R
See also
- Fondue
- List of butter dishes
- List of condiments
- List of dips
- List of food pastes
- List of syrups
- Spoon sweets – sweet preserves, served in a spoon as a gesture of hospitality in Greece, the Balkans, parts of the Middle East, and Russia
- Yogurt
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Further reading
- Krampner, Jon (2013). Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food. Columbia University Press. 320 pages.
External links
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