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Deutsch: Unbedingt probieren / Español: Obligatorio probar / Português: Imperdível experimentar / Français: À essayer absolument / Italian: Da provare assolutamente

Must-try refers to foods, dishes, or culinary experiences that are highly recommended due to their exceptional quality, uniqueness, or cultural significance. These items are often considered essential for anyone looking to fully experience the cuisine of a particular region, restaurant, or culinary tradition.

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Mustamakkara refers to Finnish blood sausage, black pudding. Mustamakkara literally means "black sausage" that is typical to the town of Tampere in southwestern Finland. Mustamakkara sausages are made with pork, pork fat, blood, barley or rye grits and flour, onion and salt. The brownish-black, grainy-textured sausages are boiled and fried, nowadays thrice baked in oven, and served hot with lingonberry jam. Essentially a version of blood sausage, Mustamakkara is a mixture of pig’s blood, crushed rye, flour, and pork that is stuffed into an animal intestine casing. Whether cooked over a fire, in an oven, or in a boiling pot of water, Mustamakkara is almost indefinitely served with a side dish of lingonberry jam. When enjoying the food in Finland, lingonberry jam will almost certainly be something that you will come across.

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Deutsch: Senf
Mustard may refer to the Mustard plant, one of several plants, having seeds that are used for the condiment or a paste or sauce made from mustard seeds used as a condiment.

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Mustasa is a Filipino term for mustard greens

Mustazzolus refers to a typical dessert from Oristano, one of the 7 Regions of Sardinia which are made from concentrated wort, flour, yeast and sugar.

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Musubi refers to one of the popular foods in Hawaii which is made of sliced Spam (canned meat loaf) wrapped with cooked rice and nori. Musubi is very similar to the Japanese sushi, but makes used of Canned meat loaf, Spam

Nori is a paper-thin toasted sheets of seaweed used in Japanese cooking for wrapping Sushi

Mut refers to a Vietnamese sticky sweet candy that can be prepared from fruits, vegetables, or seeds cooked in syrup until translucent.

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Mutabak refers to an Arabic sweet or savoury pastry turnovers usually stuffed with cheese, banana or meat

Mutabbal refers to a dip from Lebanon which is made with baked aubergines and garlic.It is a type of food popular in Lebanon, Syria and Turkey. It is usually served as a side dish Please see Mtabbal. Mutabbal is known in English as Baked Eggplant Dip and is also called Mutabbal, Moutabbal, Baba Ghannouj, Baba Ganushe, Baba Ghannuj. Lebanon lies to the east of the Mediterranean and shares borders to the north and east with the Syrian Arab Republic, and to the south with Israel/Palestinian Territory

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Mutta Chikkiyathu is one of the simple foods from Kerala, India which is made from scrambled eggs which are cooked plain or with usually chopped onions and salt and pepper to taste.

Scrambled eggs are basically the eggs that are stirred when cooked and without any added ingredients on it.

In Kerala, India, they call Mutta Chikkiyathu (scrambled eggs) an Omelette when they are cooked with chopped onions, usually and some spices, and salt and cooked like Pancakes, flipped like Pancakes and looked like Pancakes.

Picture below is Mutta Chikkiyathu (Scrambled eggs) served to me during my first breakfast in Allepey, Kerala served with slices of fresh Tomatoes (Thakkali)

To see the difference, picture below is an Omelette served in a Chaya Kada/ Chayakadda on my way to Munnar

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