Glossary Z

Zapiekanki refer to baked foot-long, open-faced baguettes topped with sauce and cheese. It is one of snacks found in the country and fondly called as "Polish Pizza".

Zapravka is the Russian culinary term that means "dressing of food with flavours"

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Zartar Blend refers to a herb and spice blend from Lebanon. A blend of zaatar (a marjoram-like herb), sumac bark and chick peas or sesame seeds. It is common in foods from the Middle East. Zartar Blend can be found in Middle Eastern food shops or spice stores.

Zaru refers to Japanese cooking implement; a shallow bamboo basket used to drain things. Zaru Soba, a cold Soba noodles are served on a Zaru during summer, accompanied by a small bowl filled with dipping sauce.

Zaru Soba is a food from Japan made of Soba noodles served cold with strips of dry seaweed and dipped in cold sauce with horse radish and chopped green onions.

Soba is a Japanese noodles made from buckwheat flour.

Zarzamora is the Spanish word for "blackberry"; a wild blackberry.

Zarzuela is a Spanish word for casserole.

Zarzuela refers to a colourful seafood stew/casserole that is made of shellfish, which is typically consist of seafoods like mussels, squid, prawns, spiny lobster, hake and eel which are cleaned and prepared and added to a chopped mixture of onions, garlic, tomatoes and sweet peppers and sweated in oil.

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Zasaharivanie is the Russian term for the process referring to crystalization of jams and preserves

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Zasolka is the Russian term that refers to the process of preserving meat, fish, fruits and vegetables with the aid of salt

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Zastil is referring to an old-Russian dish still prepared in Akhangelsk, Vologodsk, Perm and Kirov regions of Russia.

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