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Standard reference material peanut butter
Peanut butter being spread on white bread

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, which may be considered bland without it.

Spreads

Ajvar (10844189665)
Ajvar atop bread
BreadButterKnife
Butter is often served for spreading on bread with a butter knife.
Chopped liver
Chopped liver on bread
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Kartoffelkäse atop bread
Mettbroetchen
Mettbrötchen as served in Germany
  • Aioli – sauce made of garlic, salt, and olive oil of the northwest Mediterranean
  • Ajvar – Southeast European condiment made from red bell peppers, eggplants, garlic, and oil
  • Amlu – Moroccan spread of argan oil, almonds, and honey
  • Bacon jam
  • Bean dip – sometimes used as a spread
  • Beer jam
  • Biber salçası – Anatolian paste made from red chili peppers or sweet long peppers and salt
  • Biscoff – sweet paste made from Biscoff biscuits
  • Butter
  • Rucava white butter
  • Bretel butter
  • Chocolate butter
  • Chutney – sauce of the Indian subcontinent of tomato relish, a ground peanut garnish or a yogurt, cucumber, and mint dip
  • Cheong – various sweetened Korean foods in the form of syrups, marmalades, and fruit preserves
  • Chili con carne
  • Chocolate spread
    • Gianduja
    • Nutella – a popular brand of sweetened hazelnut cocoa spread
    • Nutkao
  • Citadel spread – 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 – pork spread containing onions and spices, from Quebec
  • Dulce de leche – confection from Latin America prepared by slowly heating sweetened milk
  • Egg butter
  • Electuary (Larwerge) – a honey-thickened juice spread popular in Switzerland, often made with forest fruit such as juniper or pine
  • Féroce – made of avocados, cassava, olive oil, lime juice, salt cod, garlic, chili peppers, hot sauce, and seasonings, from Martinique
  • Filet américain – Belgian variation of Steak tartare
  • Flora
  • Foie gras
  • Guacamole
  • Heinz Sandwich Spread
  • Honey
  • Hummus – a dip of Arab origin, spread, or savory dish 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
  • Smörgåskaviar – a fish roe spread eaten in Scandinavia and Finland
  • Kartoffelkäse
  • Kaya (jam) – coconut jam, commonly eaten as kaya toast
  • Kyopolou – Bulgarian and Turkish spread made from roasted eggplants and garlic
  • Lard
  • Latik – also known as "coconut caramel", a traditional Filipino sweet syrup made from coconut milk and sugar
  • Liver spread – also known as "lechon sauce", a Filipino spread made from pureed cooked pork or chicken liver with spices, vinegar, and brown sugar
  • Ljutenica – vegetable relish or chutney in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Serbia
  • Manjar blanco – term used in Spanish-speaking world to a variety of milk-based delicacies
  • Manteca colorá – Andalusian spread prepared by adding spices and paprika to lard, cooked with minced or finely chopped pieces of pork
  • Maple butter
  • Margarine
  • Marmite
  • Marshmallow creme
  • Mett – a preparation of minced raw pork seasoned with salt and black pepper that is popular in Germany and Poland
  • Mint jelly
  • Moambe – also referred to as palm butter or palm cream
  • Mayonnaise
  • Miracle Whip
  • Nut butter
  • Obatzda – a Bavarian cheese spread, prepared by mixing two thirds aged soft cheese, usually Camembert and one third butter
  • Palm butter – a spread made of palm oil designed to imitate dairy butter
  • Paprykarz szczeciński – Polish spread made from ground fish, rice, tomato paste, vegetable oil, onion, salt and spices
  • Pâté
  • Pesto – 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 – 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 – European cold sauce based on mayonnaise
  • Rillettes – French paste made with pork or other meats and sometimes with anchovies, tuna, or salmon
  • Schmaltz – rendered (clarified) chicken or goose fat
  • Sobrassada – typical from the Balearic Isles, made from pork, paprika, salt, and other spices
  • Sunflower butter
  • Tahini – paste made from ground, husked, hulled sesame seeds
  • Tapenade – Provençal spread of puréed or finely chopped olives, capers, and anchovies
  • Taramasalata – 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 – 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 – a thick, dark brown Australian food spread made from leftover brewers' yeast extract with various vegetable and spice additives
  • Zacuscă – vegetable spread popular in Romania and Moldova


Cheeses and cheese spreads

Benedictine (condiment)
Benedictine used as a dip

Cheeses used as a spread and cheese spreads include:

Fruit spreads and preserves

Rinse appelstroop on spoon
A spoonful of “rinse appelstroop” (sweet and sour apple butter), a Dutch syrup specialty made from apple and sugar beet juice.
Yujacha (yuja tea)
Yuja-cheong

Fruit spreads and preserves include:

Yeast extract spreads

Marmite thick spread toasted bread
Marmite spread on toasted bread

Yeast extract spreads include:

See also

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