A partial list by region of comfort foods around the world.
Afghanistan Comfort foods in Afghanistan are: •
Aushak – stuffed dumplings and sauce •
Bolani – filled flatbread • Borani Banjan or Borani-e-Banjan – baked
eggplant with yogurt sauce • Borani Kadoo or Borani-e-Kado – sweet and savory braised
pumpkin with
yogurt sauce • Chainaki – lamb stew, traditionally served in a bowl lined with
naan, and cooked in a clay vessel known as a
chainak • Chalaw or Challow – steamed
rice with spices •
Kabuli palaw or Qabuli Pulao – steamed rice with raisins, carrots, and lamb •
Mantu – meat-stuffed dumpling
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa garnished with fruit and cream Comfort foods in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa may include: • Braised lamb
shanks • Butterscotch apple
dumplings •
Mashed potatoes •
Porridge, topped with
brown sugar or
honey,
yogurt,
nuts, and
fruit Austria Austrian (and especially
Viennese) comfort foods may include the following foods: •
Apfelstrudel •
Fiakergulasch •
Fleischlaberln •
Frankfurter •
Frittatensuppe •
Grammelschmalz •
Grießnockerlsuppe •
Gulaschsuppe •
Käsekrainer •
Kaiserschmarrn •
Mannerschnitten •
Palatschinken •
Paprikahendl •
Sachertorte •
Schinkenfleckerln •
Schweinsbraten •
Topfenstrudel •
Wiener Schnitzel •
Zwetschkenknödel Brazil , a truffle-like confection •
Açaí na tigela •
Arroz e feijão •
Baião de dois, a variation of the traditional rice and beans prepared with green beans •
Bobó de camarão •
Brigadeiro, a dessert common in children
birthday parties •
Carne-de-sol •
Canjica •
Coxinha, a very popular chicken dumpling •
Churrasco •
Cuscuz •
Feijoada •
Flan •
Galinhada •
Moqueca •
Pão de queijo •
Virado Canada at the
Montreal restaurant
La Banquise •
Butter tart /
Tarte au sucre – small sweet tart-shaped pastries •
Cake •
Cheesecake •
Chili and beans •
Chocolate bars •
Fried chicken •
Ginger beef •
Grilled cheese sandwich •
Hamburger •
Macaroni and cheese •
Nanaimo bar •
Fatteh – meat soup on cooked rice with crisp flatbread with garlic sauce •
Ful medames – bean stew •
Hawawshi – pita bread stuffed with flavored meat •
Kushari – casserole of rice, macaroni, and vegetables •
Macarona béchamel – baked pasta dish with ground meat and béchamel sauce •
Sahlab – winter beverage from
Orchis flour •
Mulukhiyah – soup or stew made with
jute mallow leaves •
Om Ali – Pastry mixed with milk, nuts and sometimes coconut flakes topped with cream or butter and baked
France . A
madeleine de Proust is a French expression specifically referring to
Marcel Proust's description of comfort food in
In Search of Lost Time. •
Crème caramel – custard dessert •
French onion soup – onion soup with cheese and bread
Germany German comfort foods may include the following foods: •
Arme Ritter •
Auszogne •
Bouletten, Frikadellen, Fleischpflanzerl etc. •
Bratkartoffeln •
Flädlesuppe •
Sauerbraten •
Gyros – sliced rotisserie meat wrapped in flatbread •
Pastitsio – baked pasta dish with minced meat and béchamel sauce •
Dolmadakia – stuffed leaves •
Souvlaki – meat on a skewer •
Cart noodle – an à la carte noodle dish traditionally sold using carts •
Cha Chaan Teng – a Hong Kong style place to eat comfort food •
Dim Sum – small bite-sized portions of food served in small steamer baskets during
yum cha •
Egg Tart •
Hotpot •
Macaroni in
broth – a type of
Hong Kong-style western cuisine •
Put chai ko – a palm-sized pudding cake snack •
Siu Mei (including
char siu) – meats roasted on spits over an open fire or in a large rotisserie oven •
Goulash soup •
Madártej – meringue floating on crème anglaise •
Chaat – savoury snacks •
Curry •
Cutlet – deep-fried
fritter of meat or vegetables •
Dal chawal – spiced lentils and rice, particularly in North India •
Fish fry •
Kachori – spicy stuffed pastry from
Rajasthan •
Kadhi chawal – curd
curry with rice •
Puri – fried flatbread •
Masala Dosa – rice crepes, with or without a filling of potatoes and onion •
Khichdi – stew made with rice and legumes (lentils, mung beans) Sayur sop or sup ayam is Indonesian chicken soup that often sought during
flu. The warm soup contains chunk of chicken, bits of potato, carrot, and common
green bean served in chicken stock. Some are traditional Indonesian food and some are derived from
Chinese influences. Indonesian comfort foods include: •
Bakmi or
mie ayam – noodles (
mi) with pork (
bak) or chicken (
ayam) •
Bakso – meatball soup •
Bubur ayam – chicken
congee •
Mie goreng – fried noodle; •
Nasi goreng – fried rice • Sayur sop or sup ayam – Indonesian chicken and vegetables soup
Ireland Irish comfort food can include: •
Bangers and mash – sausages and mashed potatoes •
Coddle – meat and vegetable stew •
Colcannon – mashed potatoes with cabbage •
Cacciucco – fish stew •
Pasta all'amatriciana – pasta with
guanciale,
tomato sauce and
pecorino cheese •
Panna cotta – sweetened cream thickened with gelatin •
Chazuke/ochazuke – rice with green tea •
Miso soup – soybean-flavored clear soup •
Takoyaki – octopus balls
Lithuania •
Balandėliai – cabbage rolls •
Bulviniai blynai •
Cepelinai – potato dumplings • Curd doughnuts •
Honey cake • Kepta duona – fried garlic rye bread •
Koldūnai – flour-based dumplings •
Kugelis – potato casserole •
Kūčiukai – Christmas Eve poppy seed biscuits • Mushroom cookies •
Napoleon cake •
Tinginys –
chocolate salami • Varškėčiai –
curd pancakes or
dumplings •
White salad – boiled vegetable and mayonnaise salad
Philippines •
Adobo – A salt and vinegar marinated meat stew, with a large amount of local and regional variations. •
Arroz Caldo /
Lugaw – A thick, savory rice porridge, often served as breakfast, on rainy days, or when sick. •
Batchoy – A noodle soup with a variety of meats. •
Filipino spaghetti - Sweet and savory spaghetti •
Ginataan – A
coconut cream-based dessert soup with candied banana, sticky rice balls,
sagó (
tapioca balls), taro, and
langkâ (jackfruit). •
Bulalo – A beef
bone marrow soup. •
Puto – Steamed rice cakes •
Sinigang – A classification of sour soups with different configurations of meats, vegetables, and souring agents. •
Suman – Another type of glutinous rice cake •
Kapuśniak – sour cabbage soup (
sauerkraut soup) •
Rosół – chicken soup with fine noodles •
Łazanki – large flat noodles with fried sauerkraut • – pasta with cream and strawberries •
Sernik – baked cheesecake • – pickled herring •
Zasmażana kapusta - braised sauerkraut •
Zapiekanka – toasted open-face sandwich •
Arroz con pollo – rice with chicken • Carne Guisada – stewed beef • Mofongo relleno de mariscos, carne o pollo – Fried mashed green plantains stuffed with seafood, meat or chicken •
Chocolate salami – dessert made from
cocoa, broken biscuits and butter •
Ciorbă de perișoare –
sour soup with
meatballs •
Cozonac – sweet yeast dough •
Mititei – grilled
ground meat rolls •
Roasted eggplant salad – chopped roasted
eggplants •
Sarmale – stuffed cabbage leaves
Russia Russian comfort foods may include: •
Bliny – pancakes or crepes •
Borscht •
Golubtsy – cabbage rolls •
Syrniki –
cottage cheese pancakes •
Ukha – fish-based clear soup •
Vareniki – filled dumplings (see
pierogi for Poland) •
Vinegret – a salad made of diced vegetables, normally sour •
Zakuski – an array of dishes to supplement main courses
Singapore •
Kaya toast—toast with sweet coconut jam and cold butter, commonly served with coffee and soft-boiled eggs •
Milo—chocolate flavoured malt drink •
Hainanese chicken rice •
Bak kut teh—pork ribs dish cooked in broth
South Korea •
Tteokbokki –
rice cakes in spicy chili stew •
Mandu – dumplings with various fillings •
Haejang-guk – vegetables and meat in beef broth •
Chocolate con churros –
hot chocolate drink with
fried dough • Savoury
coca • '''' ("Sea and Mountain") dishes, which combine meat and seafood •
Embutido, a generic name for different kinds of cured
pork meat, including
fuet (a characteristic type of dried sausage),
salchichón or longaniza (salami) and different kinds of cold cut
botifarra. •
Cordero asado – grilled
lamb • Fried seafood, such as
boquerones fritos (fried
anchovies) and
calamares fritos (fried
squid) •
Gazpacho – cold vegetable soup •
Jamón serrano – Serrano ham • Sausage, such as
chorizo,
morcilla, and
salchichón •
Sobao – sweet bread •
Tarta de Santiago – almond cake or tart
Switzerland is an emblematic Swiss comfort food. Traditional Swiss cuisine is characterized by its simplicity and extensive use of dairy products like cheese, cream and butter. Fruits (often apple compote) are also used in many (main) dishes, notably
Älplermagronen and
Maluns. •
Älplermagronen – pasta, potatoes, cream, cheese, and onions •
Capuns – stuffed leaves •
Cholera – filled pastry •
Fondue – melted cheese sauce for
dipping •
Maluns – potato pieces slow-fried in butter •
Pizzoccheri – buckwheat-and-wheat pasta with cheese •
Raclette – melted cheese •
Rösti – grated potato pancake with various accompaniments •
Wähe – pastry shell with custard and various ingredients
Taiwan •
Beef noodle soup •
Dan zai noodles – noodles and prawn with broth •
Minced pork rice •
Red bean soup •
Small sausage in large sausage – grilled sausage in a rice casing •
Kuru fasulye – bean and tomato stew •
Mercimek Çorbası – a soup based on lentils •
Yaprak Sarma - stuffed grape leaves •
Pide Ukraine Ukrainian comfort foods include, but aren't limitied to: •
Borscht — beetroots soup, also there are few variants: •
Green borscht • White borscht • Cabbage borscht •
Deruny — potato pancakes with sour cream •
Holubtsi — small, medium or large rolls with prepared rice •
Cabbage roll •
Grape leaves roll •
Kasha — kind of porridge • Kolach — sweet, round shaped pastry •
Mlynci — pancakes. • Nalysnyky — pancakes with fillings •
Pampushky — small savory or sweet yeast-raised bun • Pyrizhky — baked or fried small donuts with different (mostly fruits or meat) fillings. (Not to be confused with Polish
PiErogi or Russian
PirogI) •
Syrnyky — fried
quark pancakes, garnished with
sour cream • Varennia — jam •
Varenyky — Filled dumplings cooked at boiling water •
Vinegret — Beans and potato salad colored with beetroots
United Kingdom is a
British comfort food. United Kingdom comfort foods include: • Bacon butty (
bacon sandwich) •
Bangers and mash – sausages and mashed potatoes •
Biscuit •
Beef stew •
Cauliflower cheese •
Chicken tikka masala •
Curry – India-inspired stew over rice •
Egg and soldiers – toast sliced into approximately six to eight pieces lengthwise, to dip into soft-boiled egg yolk •
Fish and chips •
Fish finger sandwich •
Fried chicken •
French fries • Fruit
crumble – stewed fruit with crumbly topping •
Meat and potato pie •
Pork pie •
Rice pudding •
Toad in the hole – sausages baked in
Yorkshire pudding United States is an
American comfort food. American comfort foods may include the following foods: •
Beef stew •
Biscuits and gravy •
Breakfast cereal •
Burritos such as
Green bean casserole, and
Tuna casserole •
Cheeseburgers •
Chicken and dumplings •
Chicken fried steak •
Chocolate •
Chowders:
Clam chowder,
Shrimp chowder,
Corn chowder, etc.
Cake, •
Pepperoni rolls •
Pizza •
Red beans and rice ==See also==