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 flavour or texture of the food.
Spreads
- Aioli â sauce made of garlic, salt, and olive oil of the northwest Mediterranean
- Ajvar â Southeast European condiment made from red bell peppers, eggplants, garlic, and oil
- Amlu â Moroccan spread of argan oil, almonds, and honey
- Bacon jam
- Bean dip â sometimes used as a spread
- Beer jam
- Biber salçasñ â Anatolian paste made from red chili peppers or sweet long peppers and salt
- Biscoff â sweet paste made from Biscoff biscuits
- Bovril - salty meat extract paste
- Butter
* Bretel butter
* Rucava white butter
- Chutney â sauce of the Indian subcontinent of tomato relish, a ground peanut garnish or a yogurt, cucumber, and mint dip
- Cheong â various sweetened Korean foods in the form of syrups, marmalades, and fruit preserves
- Chocolate spread
- Gianduja
- Nocilla â a spread similar to Nutella sold in Spain and Portugal
- Nutella â a popular brand of sweetened hazelnut cocoa spread
- Nutkao
- Citadel spread â paste made of peanut butter, oil, sugar, and milk powder
- Clotted cream
- 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 â pork spread containing onions and spices, from Quebec
- Dulce de leche â confection from Latin America prepared by slowly heating sweetened milk
- Egg butter
- Electuary (Larwerge) â a honey-thickened juice spread popular in Switzerland, often made with forest fruit such as juniper or pine
- Féroce â made of avocadoes, cassava, olive oil, lime juice, salt cod, garlic, chili peppers, hot sauce, and seasonings, from Martinique
- Filet américain â Belgian variation of steak tartare
- Flora
- Foie gras
- Guacamole
- Heinz Sandwich Spread
- Honey
- Hummus â a spread of Middle Eastern origin made from cooked, mashed chickpeas blended with tahini, lemon juice, and garlic; standard garnish in the Middle East includes olive oil, a few whole chickpeas, parsley, and paprika
- SmörgÃÂ¥skaviar â a fish roe spread eaten in Scandinavia and Finland
- Kartoffelkäse
- Kaya (jam) â coconut jam, commonly eaten as kaya toast
- Kyopolou â Bulgarian and Turkish spread made from roasted eggplants and garlic
- Lard
- Latik â also known as "coconut caramel", a traditional Filipino sweet syrup made from coconut milk and sugar
- Liver spread â also known as "lechon sauce", a Filipino spread made from pureed cooked pork or chicken liver with spices, vinegar, and brown sugar
- Ljutenica â vegetable relish or chutney in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Serbia
- Manjar blanco â term used in Spanish-speaking world to a variety of milk-based delicacies
- Manteca colorá â Andalusian spread prepared by adding spices and paprika to lard, cooked with minced or finely chopped pieces of pork
- Maple butter
- Margarine
- Marmite â British spread made from yeast extract
- Marshmallow creme
- Mett â minced raw pork seasoned with salt and black pepper, popular in Germany and Poland
- Mint jelly
- Moambe â also referred to as palm butter or palm cream
- Mayonnaise
- Miracle Whip
- 'Nduja â a spicy, spreadable pork sausage or salumi from Calabria, Italy
- Nut butter
- Almond butter
- Cashew butter
- Hazelnut butter
- Peanut butter
- Obatzda â a Bavarian cheese spread, prepared by mixing two thirds aged soft cheese, usually Camembert and one third butter
- Palm butter â a spread made of palm oil designed to imitate dairy butter
- Paprykarz szczeciÃ
Âski â Polish spread made from ground fish, rice, tomato paste, vegetable oil, onion, salt and spices
- Pâté
- Chopped liver
- Liver pâté
- Pheasant paste
- Pesto â a paste that traditionally consists of crushed garlic, European pine nuts, coarse salt, basil leaves, and hard cheese such as Parmigiano-Reggiano or Pecorino Sardo, all blended with olive oil
- Peabutter
- Pimento cheese
- Pindjur â Bulgarian, Serbian, Bosnian and Macedonian spread which ingredients include red bell peppers, tomatoes, garlic, vegetable oil and salt
- Plum butter
- Powidl - a type of fruit spread prepared from the prune plum, that is popular in Central Europe.
- Magiun of Topoloveni - a Romanian traditional plum butter that does not contain sweeteners or other additives, which has received a Protected Geographical Status from the European Union in 2011.
- Remoulade â European cold sauce based on mayonnaise
- Rillettes â French paste made with pork or other meats and sometimes with anchovies, tuna, or salmon
- Schmaltz â rendered (clarified) chicken or goose fat
- Sobrassada â typical from the Balearic Isles, made from pork, paprika, salt, and other spices
- Sunflower butter
- Tahini â paste made from ground, husked, hulled sesame seeds
- Tapenade â Provençal spread of puréed or finely chopped olives, capers, and anchovies
- Taramasalata â 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
- Teewurst â a German sausage made from two parts raw pork (and sometimes beef) and one part bacon, it contains 30 to 40 percent fat, which makes it particularly easy to spread
- Vegemite â a thick, dark brown Australian food spread made from leftover brewers' yeast extract with various vegetable and spice additives
- Zacuscàâ vegetable spread popular in Romania and Moldova
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Cheeses and cheese spreads
Cheeses used as a spread and cheese spreads include:
Fruit spreads and preserves
Fruit spreads and preserves include:
Yeast extract spreads
Yeast extract spreads include:
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