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
- 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
Cheeses and cheese spreads
Cheeses used as a spread and cheese spreads include:
Fruit spreads and preserves
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:
Yeast extract spreads include:
