List of meat dishes facts for kids

Meat dishes are super popular all over the world! Some are made with just one type of meat, like beef or chicken. Others mix two or more meats, or can be made with different meats depending on what you like, such as the yummy enchilada!

Steak and lobster is a surf and turf dish.

Awesome Meat Dishes from Around the World

Here's a list of some cool meat dishes from different countries. Some use one type of meat, while others mix a few together!

• Anticucho – A popular and affordable dish from the Andes mountains. It's often made with beef, especially beef heart, and cooked on a skewer.
• Baeckeoffe – A French casserole dish made with mutton, beef, and pork.
• Bangers and mash – A classic British dish with sausages and mashed potatoes.
• Barbacoa – A type of meat, usually beef, goat, or lamb, cooked slowly until it's super tender.
• Berner Platte – A traditional Swiss dish from Bern. It's a big plate with different smoked meats and sausages, served with sauerkraut and potatoes.
• Bobotie – A South African dish with spiced minced meat baked with an egg topping.

Bobotie

• Breaded cutlet – A thin piece of meat covered in breadcrumbs or batter, then fried or baked until crispy.
• Brunswick stew – A hearty stew from the U.S. that can be made with pork, chicken, or mutton.
• Burgoo – A spicy stew from Kentucky, USA. It can be made with pork, chicken, or mutton.
• Cabeza guateada – A traditional Argentinian dish made with a cow's head cooked in an earth oven.
• Carne pinchada – A Nicaraguan dish where meat, like beef or chicken, is marinated in a sauce with beer or wine.
• Churrasco – A Brazilian style of barbecue where different meats are grilled on skewers.
• City chicken – A dish that looks like chicken but is actually made from cubes of pork or veal on a skewer.
• Cockentrice – A historical dish from the Middle Ages. It's a mix of a pig's upper body sewn onto the lower half of a chicken or turkey!
• Compote – A dish made from game meat, like deer or wild boar.
• Discada – A mixed meat dish from northern Mexico. It's cooked on a large metal disc, like a plow disc, over a fire.
• Durus kura – A whole roasted chicken dish.

Durus kura or Chittagonian Musallam

• Enchilada – A popular Mexican dish with a tortilla wrapped around a filling, often meat, and covered in sauce.
• Escalope – A boneless piece of meat that's been flattened to make it tender and cook quickly. It's often coated and fried.
• Farsu magru – A traditional Sicilian meat roll dish, usually made with beef or veal.
• Fricassee – A way of cooking meat where it's cut into pieces, lightly fried, and then stewed in a creamy sauce.

A fricassee dish prepared using conch

• Guyanese pepperpot – A Guyanese stew made with meats like beef, pork, and mutton.
• Gyro – A Greek dish with meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie, often served in pita bread.
• Haggis – A traditional Scottish dish made from sheep's offal mixed with oatmeal and spices, cooked in a sheep's stomach.
• Jerusalem mixed grill – A grilled meat dish from Jerusalem. It mixes chicken hearts, spleens, and liver with lamb, seasoned with spices.
• Jugging – A cooking method where a whole animal, usually game, is stewed for a long time in a tightly closed pot.
• Kelaguen – A dish from Guam where meat, often chicken or beef, is marinated in lemon juice and spices.

Kelaguen

• Kibbeh nayyeh – A Middle Eastern dish made from raw minced lamb or beef mixed with bulgur and spices.
• Korean barbecue – A Korean way of cooking meat, like beef, pork, or chicken, often grilled right at your table!
• Larb – A type of Lao meat salad, usually made with chicken, beef, duck, fish, or pork.

Larb khua mu, a stir-fried northern Thai larb made with pork, in Chiang Mai

• Lomo a lo pobre – A Peruvian dish with beef tenderloin topped with fried eggs, French fries, and fried onions.
• Maksalaatikko – A Finnish liver casserole traditionally eaten at Christmas.
• À la Maréchale – A fancy cooking method where tender meats are coated in egg and breadcrumbs, then fried.
• Mikoyan cutlet – A popular, affordable ground meat patty from the Soviet Union, similar to a hamburger.
• Mixed grill – A dish with a variety of grilled meats, like sausages, chops, and steak.
• Mixiote – A traditional Mexican meat dish, often made with mutton or rabbit, cooked slowly in a pit or oven.

Mixed-meat mixiote

• Pamplona – A grilled stuffed-meat dish from Uruguay, often made with chicken, pork, or beef.
• Pastramă – A popular deli meat from Romania, traditionally made from lamb, pork, or mutton.
• Pljeskavica – A grilled meat patty, popular in Balkan countries, similar to a hamburger.
• Potjevleesch – A traditional French Flemish dish, meaning "potted meat." It uses three or four different meats held together with gelatin.

Potjevleesch (at top)

• Pyttipanna – A Swedish dish with diced potatoes, onions, and meat, often served with a fried egg.
• Rat-on-a-stick – A snack eaten in Thailand and Vietnam, where a roasted rat is served on a skewer.
• Ražnjići – A type of Balkan kebab, with pieces of meat grilled on a skewer.
• Riz gras – A West African dish of rice cooked with meat and vegetables.
• Sapu Mhicha – A special dish from Nepal, made with buffalo tripe stuffed with bone marrow, then boiled and fried.

Sapu Mhicha

• Sate kambing – The Indonesian name for "mutton satay," which are grilled skewers of lamb.
• Sauerbraten – A traditional German pot roast, often made with beef, marinated for days in vinegar and spices.
• Sautéed reindeer – A traditional dish from Finland, made with thinly sliced reindeer meat.
• Schlachteplatte – A hearty German mixed meat dish with boiled pork belly and fresh sausages.

Schlachteplatte

• Seswaa – A traditional meat dish from Botswana, made with beef or goat meat.
• Shaokao – Chinese barbecue, with various meats and vegetables grilled on skewers.
• Shish kebab – A dish with pieces of meat and vegetables grilled on a skewer.
• Smokie – A West African dish where an unskinned sheep or goat carcass is quickly cooked with a blowtorch.
• Souvlaki – A popular Greek fast food with small pieces of meat grilled on a skewer.
• Stew peas – A Jamaican stew with red peas and salted meat, often beef or pork.
• Suanla chaoshou – A Sichuan Chinese dish with spicy sauce over steamed, meat-filled dumplings.
• Surf and turf – A dish that combines seafood, like lobster or shrimp, with red meat, like steak.
• Toad in the hole – A traditional English dish with sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding batter, usually served with gravy.
• Turducken – A dish made by deboning and stuffing a chicken into a duck, and then stuffing the duck into a turkey.
• Tushonka – A type of canned stewed meat, very popular in Russia.
• Wurstsalat – A German sausage salad.
• Yakiniku – A Japanese term for grilled meat, often referring to Korean-style barbecue.
• Zoervleis – A regional meat dish from the Limburg region, often made with horse meat.

Meat Dishes by Type

Beef Dishes

Steak tartare is a meat dish made from finely chopped or minced raw beef.

Fish Dishes

Goat Dishes

Isi ewu is a goat meat dish prepared using goats heads.

Lamb and Mutton Dishes

Meatball Dishes

Pork Dishes

Poultry Dishes

Chicken noodle soup is a chicken dish.

Sausage Dishes

Seafood Dishes

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