Dipping sauce

Dipping sauce
A dip or dip sauce is a common condiment for many types of food. Dips are used to add flavor or texture to a food, such as pita bread, dumplings, crackers, chopped raw vegetables, fruits, seafood, cubed pieces of meat and cheese, potato chips, tortilla chips, falafel, and sometimes even whole sandwiches in the case of jus. Unlike other sauces, instead of applying the sauce to the food, the food is typically placed or dipped into the sauce.
Dips are commonly used for finger foods, appetizers, and other food types. Thick dips based on sour cream, crème fraîche, milk, yogurt, mayonnaise, soft cheese, or beans are a staple of American hors d'oeuvres and are thicker than spreads, which can be thinned to make dips. Celebrity chef Alton Brown suggests that a dip is defined based on its ability to "maintain contact with its transport mechanism over of white carpet".
Dips in various forms are eaten all over the world and people have been using sauces for dipping for thousands of years.
List of dips
Some types of dip include:
Ajika, a spicy, subtly flavoured dip in Caucasian cuisine, based on hot red pepper, garlic, herbs and spices
Ajvar, made from red bell peppers with garlic, found in Bosnian cuisine and Serbian cuisine
Artichoke dip
Au jus, a salty beef broth or gravy especially used for dipping french dip sandwiches
Baba ghanoush, a dip made from eggplant, popular in the Eastern Mediterranean and parts of South Asia
Bagna càuda, a regional dish of the Italian Piedmont
Banana ketchup, a Filipino condiment made from bananas; used similar to tomato ketchup
Barbecue sauce, often used for grilled and fried meats in the United States
Bean dip, dip made from refried beans
Blue cheese dressing, commonly used as a dip for raw vegetables or buffalo wings
Buffalo sauce, often used as both a coating for Buffalo wings as well as a standalone dipping sauce for other foods
Cheese sauce
Chile con queso, used in Tex-Mex cuisine with tortilla chips
Chili oil, used as a dipping sauce for meat and dim sum
Chimichurri, a dip from Argentina made of parsley, garlic, and oregano
Chocolate, a dip for various fruits, doughnuts, profiteroles and marshmallows
Chogochujang, a variant of gochujang. A dip for seafood including hoe, oyster, and wakame, or for raw vegetables.
Chutney, used with snacks like deep fried samosas and pakoras, dosa and idli
Clam dip, a kind of condiment for dipping crackers and chips
Cocktail sauce, a dip for seafood made from ketchup or chili sauce and horseradish
Comeback sauce, a dip for chicken fingers made from mayonnaise and chili sauce
Crab dip, a thick dip popular in Maryland usually made from cream cheese and lump crab meat
Curry ketchup, also called Currygewürzketchup in Germany, is a spicier form of ketchup
Duck sauce, a modern variation of plum sauce
Fish sauce (garum), or nam pla, used in southeastern Asian cuisines as a dip for snacks and other foods
Fish paste or bagoong, fermented fish paste, used in southeastern Asian cuisines as a dip for rice dishes
Fondue, a blend of melted cheese and wine in which bread is dipped
French onion dip
Fritessaus, a leaner form of mayonnaise from The Netherlands
Fry sauce, a dip eaten with french fries, onion rings, chicken strips, and other deep fried foods
Garlic butter sauce, used for dipping seafood, chicken, beef and pizza; plain clarified butter or drawn butter are more common with lobster, crab or clams
Gravy, used as a dipping sauce for bread, such as in Maghreb cuisine
Guacamole, avocadoes mashed with lime juice, onions, tomatoes, and herbs; commonly eaten with tortilla chips
Hazelnut butter or hazelnut spread is commonly used as a dip for crackers and cookies
Hollandaise
Honey, a common dip for chicken and biscuits
Honey mustard
Horseradish sauce, often with horseradish mixed with sour cream and/or mayonnaise
Hot sauce or chili sauce, a spicy dip made from peppers
Hummus, a Levantine dip of ground chickpeas and sesame tahini with spices and lemon juice
Jus, a meat broth often served with sandwiches such as French dip and Italian beef
Ketchup (also called catsup or tomato sauce), often used with french fries, onion rings, and a wide variety of other foods
Kiwi onion dip, a New Zealand snack food served with potato chips, crackers, or chopped vegetables
Marinara sauce, a tomato sauce served with breadsticks, pizza, etc.
Mayonnaise, the basis for many dips, on its own a dip for cold chicken; vegetables; french fries; and seafood
Mexicali dip, sour cream-based with Mexican cuisine-inspired spices
Mint sauce, a sauce made with ground mint leaves and vinegar or yogurt
Mắm nêm, is a sauce made of fermented fish
Mkhali (colloquially pkhali), Georgian vegetable purées thickened with walnut paste and often rolled into balls
Muhammara, a Near Eastern hot pepper and walnut dip
Mustard, ground seeds of the mustard plant; variants are used in Asian cuisine
Nacho cheese dip, for dipping tortilla chips
Nam chim, Thai dipping sauces which most often contain chili peppers
Nam phrik, Thai chili pastes which are also used as dips for vegetables and fried fish
Nước chấm (Vietnamese), mixes of chili peppers and fish sauce
Prik Nam Pla (Thai), mixes of chili peppers and fish sauce
Pebre, a Chilean mix of tomato, onion, chile, and coriander
Pico De Gallo
Pimento cheese
Plum sauce, used for dipping fried noodles, dumplings, and other foods
Ranch dressing, buttermilk flavored salad dressing popular in the United States
Remoulade, often used with fried foods such as fish, or chips (french fries or fries)
Romesco, used as a dip or as a condiment for other dishes
Salsa, used often with tortilla chips
Sambal, for fish, chicken, etc.
Satsivi, a walnut dip in Georgian cuisine
Smetana, a common dip for bliny, pelmeni, vareniki
Sour cream, on its own or combined with mayonnaise and/or other ingredients, a common dip for potato chips
Soy sauce, often served in small saucers for dipping a variety of East Asian foods; for sushi and sashimi, prepared wasabi is mixed in
Spinach dip, for tortilla chips and vegetables
Sriracha sauce
Sweet and sour sauce, a generic term for many styles of sauce
Taramosalata, a Near Eastern dip of carp or codfish roe
Tartar sauce, commonly used with seafood
Tentsuyu, a Japanese dipping sauce
Tirokafteri, a feta-based Greek meze
Tkemali, a cherry plum sauce in Georgian cuisine
Toyomansi, a Filipino meat or fish dip made with soy sauce and calamansi juice; chilis may also be added to create "silimansi"
Tzatziki and similar sauces used for dipping include tarator and Raita
Tương, a dipping sauce made from fermented soybeans in Vietnamese cuisine
Vinegar, used as a dip for grilled meats, and steamed crabs; Balsamic vinegar is also commonly used as a dipping sauce for bread
Vin Santo, into which cantucci (biscotti) are dipped
See also
Chips and dip
List of food pastes
List of foods
List of sauces
List of spreads
Paste (food)
Condiment
Chutney
References
Sauces
World cuisine