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Adzuki Beans
A small, deep-red East Asian legume sweetened into a paste (*anko*) that fills mochi, daifuku, and dorayaki — and the secret sweet ingredient in Japanese desserts everywhere.
Below are foods that contain the letter Z anywhere in the name. Each of the 12 foods below opens to a full profile.
List of Foods That Contain Z
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Calzone
A folded Neapolitan pizza — the same leavened dough as pizza, sealed around a filling of ricotta, mozzarella, cured meats, and sometimes tomato sauce, then baked until puffed and charred.
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Gazpacho
A cold Andalusian soup of raw blended tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, garlic, and olive oil — peasant food turned summer staple.
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Gyoza
Japanese pan-fried dumplings — thin dough wrappers filled with pork and cabbage, cooked in a two-step technique of frying then steaming to produce a crispy bottom and tender top.
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Pizza
A round of yeasted flatbread topped with sauce, cheese, and toppings, oven-baked at high heat — born in Naples and now eaten everywhere.
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Pretzel
A baked knot-shaped bread dipped in lye solution before baking — the alkaline bath creates the glossy, mahogany crust and distinctive chewy-crisp bite; Bavaria's signature bread, inseparable from beer culture.
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Schnitzel
A thin, breaded cutlet fried in clarified butter — Austria's Wiener Schnitzel must be veal; Germany's Schnitzel uses pork; both are pounded paper-thin, coated in flour, egg wash, and fine breadcrumbs, and fried until golden.
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Zatar
A Levantine herb blend combining sumac, sesame seeds, and dried thyme or oregano — sprinkled on bread with olive oil for breakfast across Lebanon, Syria, Israel, and Palestine, with countless regional variations.
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Zeppole
Italian fried dough pastries — deep-fried choux or yeasted dough balls dusted in powdered sugar or filled with pastry cream, sold at street fairs across Italy and a fixture of St. Joseph's Day (March 19) celebrations.
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Ziti
A long, hollow, smooth Italian pasta tube, baked into casseroles in southern Italy and Italian-American cuisine — particularly the iconic "baked ziti" of family gatherings.
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Zuppa Toscana
A creamy Tuscan-style soup of Italian sausage, kale, potatoes, and cream — popularized in the U.S. by Olive Garden but rooted in older country cooking from Tuscany.
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Zwetschgenkuchen
A German plum cake of dark Italian prune-plums arranged on a yeasted or shortcrust base, baked to a glossy purple, often served with whipped cream in late summer.
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