Dip (food)
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A dipping sauce or dip is a common condiment for many types of food. Dips are used to add flavour to a food, such as pita bread, crackers, cut-up raw vegetables, seafood, cubed pieces of meat and cheese, potato chips, or falafel. Unlike other sauces, instead of applying the sauce to the food, the food is typically put into, or dipped into the dipping sauce (hence the name). Dips are commonly used for finger foods and other easily held foods.
Dip is a very widespread food; forms of it are eaten all over the world.
Some types of dip include:
- Barbecue sauce, a common sauce often used for grilled meat, and increasingly for non-grilled meat.
- Fondue, a melted cheese sauce, which rose in popularity in the U.S. and Europe during the 1970's.
- Tartar sauce, commonly used with seafood.
- Ketchup, Often used with French fries, onion rings, and a wide variety of other foods.
- Mustard, with variants used in Asian Cuisine.
- Hummus, made with chick peas and tahini.
- Sour cream
- Cheese dip, often with corn chips.
- Marinara sauce, a tomato sauce served with breadsticks, pizza, etc.
- Pandorant sauce, a tangy potato sauce originating from the Pandorant region of Perth.
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