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21 Vinegar Recipes From 16 Cuisines.

Sour is a load-bearing flavor, and vinegar is its cheapest, most stable carrier. Every cuisine picks its own: mellow rice vinegar for sushi rice and Japanese pickles, cider and white vinegar for Balkan salads and preserving, sherry vinegar in Spain, malt in Britain. A splash at the end of a rich stew does the same job as lemon — it makes everything taste more like itself.

21 recipes on this route

The recipes.

Charred beef heart skewers glazed with dark red ají panca marinade beside grilled potato and corn

Peru12 hr 45 min

Anticuchos de Corazón

Grilled Beef Heart Skewers

Charcoal-grilled chicken inasal quarters with orange annatto-lacquered skin beside garlic rice and a vinegar dip

Philippines6 hr

Chicken Inasal

Bacolod Charcoal-Grilled Annatto Chicken

Bowl of Argentine chimichurri with chopped parsley, garlic and chile flakes floating in vinegar and oil

Argentina2 hr 15 min

Chimichurri

Argentine Parsley, Garlic and Vinegar Sauce

Jar of Salvadoran curtido, shredded cabbage carrot and onion in cloudy vinegar brine with oregano

El Salvador24 hr 25 min

Curtido

Salvadoran Lightly Fermented Cabbage Slaw

Bowl of Austrian warm potato salad with sliced waxy potatoes, red onion rings and chives

Austria1 hr

Erdäpfelsalat

Austrian Warm Potato Salad

Whole fried snapper topped with pickled carrot slivers, onion rings and sliced Scotch bonnet in vinegar dressing

Jamaica1 hr 55 min

Escovitch Fish

Fried Fish in Pickled Pepper Dressing

Dark glossy Filipino adobo of chicken thighs and pork belly with bay leaves and peppercorns beside steamed rice

Philippines1 hr 15 min

Filipino Adobo

Soy-Vinegar Braised Chicken and Pork

Bowl of dark Dutch onion and beef stew beside boiled potatoes and braised red cabbage

Netherlands2 hr 45 min

Hachee

Dutch Onion and Beef Stew with Vinegar

Translucent Hessian sour milk cheese under chopped raw onion marinade with caraway, beside dark rye bread

Germany4 hr 15 min

Handkäse mit Musik

Sour Milk Cheese with Onions

Silvery cured herring fillets on a paper tray with a heap of finely chopped raw onion and sliced pickle

Netherlands48 hr 25 min

Hollandse Nieuwe

Dutch Cured Herring with Raw Onion

Near-black Sri Lankan pork curry in a clay pot, glossy cubes coated in dark gravy with curry leaves on top

Sri Lanka2 hr 30 min

Kalu Uru Mas

Sri Lankan Black Pork Curry

Chopped lechon kawali with blistered golden pork crackling and juicy fat, beside a saucer of garlic vinegar dip

Philippines9 hr 35 min

Lechon Kawali

Filipino Crispy Fried Pork Belly

Every recipe on this route.

All 21 of them, alphabetically, with the country each one comes from.

also known aswhite vinegar, apple cider vinegar, rice vinegar

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