List of spreads

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

Butter is often served for spreading on bread with a butter knife.

Aioli – sauce made of garlic, salt, and olive oil of the northwest Mediterranean
Ajvar^[1] – Southeast European condiment made from red bell peppers, eggplants, garlic, and oil
Amlu – Moroccan spread of argan oil, almonds, and honey
Bacon jam^[2]
Bean dip – sometimes used as a spread^[3]^[4]
Beer jam^[5]
Biber salçası – Anatolian paste made from red chili peppers or sweet long peppers and salt
Biscoff – sweet paste made from Biscoff biscuits
Butter^[6]

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
Chocolate spread^[7]
- 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^[8]
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^[9] – 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^[10]
Guacamole
Heinz Sandwich Spread^[11]
Honey^[12]
Hummus^[13] – 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.
Smörgåskaviar – a fish roe spread eaten in Scandinavia and Finland
Kartoffelkäse
Kaya (jam) – coconut jam, commonly eaten as kaya toast
Kyopolou^[14] – Bulgarian and Turkish spread made from roasted eggplants and garlic
Lady's Choice
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^[15]
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^[16] – 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
- Almond butter
- Cashew butter
- Hazelnut butter
- Peanut 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^[17]
- Chopped liver^[18]
- Liver pâté
- Pheasant paste
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^[14] – 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^[19] – vegetable spread popular in Romania and Moldova