Foods That Start With Y

This page contains a list of foods that begin with the letter Y.

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Yabby

A freshwater crustacean endemic to Australia of the Parastacidae family. Yabbies have a delicate taste and a soft texture.

They may be served boiling, grilled, or roasted, or they can be incorporated to pasta and salads.

Yaki Udon

A dish made of stir-fried udon noodles.

Pork, veggies, and soy sauce are mixed into the noodles.

Pork may be replaced with chicken, beef, or fish, and vegetable combinations can vary from recipe to dish.

It is a popular Japanese snack that is often served at bars.

Yakisoba

Japanese stir-fried specialty made with noodles.

Meat, carrots, cabbage, onion, bean sprouts, and yakisoba sauce are incorporated into the noodles.

Yakisoba is served as a main or side dish.

Yakitori

Japanese grilled chicken skewers with a sweet-savory sauce drizzled on during grilling.

They are made of bite-sized pieces of meat.

They may also include eggs, leeks, mushrooms, and cherry tomatoes in varied variations of the classic dish.

Yam

The tuber of vines grown in the tropics and temperate zones.

It’s a big vegetable with tough brown or pale pink skin.

When grown, the flesh may range from white to yellow to pink.

Because the skin is difficult to peel, the yam is often baked in the skin, which softens after being subjected to heat.

When cooked, yams become mushy and starchy, with an earthy and bland flavor.

Yeast

A fungus used in cooking to convert sugar to alcohol during the fermentation process in beer and wine, or into carbon dioxide in non-alcoholic beverages and baking.

It is used as a leavening agent in baking to make the dough airy and supple.

For this reason, baking soda or baking powder might be substituted.

Yeast is used to make a variety of non-alcoholic drinks, including root beer, kefir, kvass, and kombucha.

Yellow Mombin

A tall, ovoid fruit with yellow flesh that has a pungent, sour flavor.

It is native to tropical America and belongs to the Anacardiaceae family.

This fruit may be eaten fresh or prepared into juice, jams, and marmalades.

Yellow Squash

A plant of the genusCucurbita.

It is a summer squash that is similar to zucchini.

The meat and skin of the veggie are both edible.

Yellow squash, like other squashes, is mostly made up of water.

It is rich in vitamins A and C, as well as calcium and iron.

Yew Berry

Taxus baccata, English yew, and European yew are all names for yew berries.

It is the fruit of an evergreen tree native to Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Except for the aril, a seed protrusion that may be swallowed, the majority of the plant is toxic.

They are eaten by some species of birds.

The leaves and seeds are both bitter and toxic.

Yogurt

A fermented milk product prepared using yogurt microorganisms.

Yogurt has a creamy and smooth texture as well as a somewhat sour taste.

It’s mostly water and protein, and it’s high in phosphorus, calcium, vitamin B12, and riboflavin.

It is available simple, flavored, or frozen as a dessert.

Yolk

The round and yellow part of the birds egg.

It is the component of an egg that can be separated from the white.

It is high in protein, vitamins A, D, E, and K, iron, calcium, zinc, and phosphorus due to its function in providing nutrition to growing chicks.

However, it has all of the cholesterol, fat, and calories found in eggs.

Yorkshire Pudding

This is a straightforward English recipe for a pudding made with eggs, milk, and flour.

It may be made in muffin pans or ramekins and served individually, or it can be baked on a big tray and served as a group.

This pudding is served as a main course with gravy or as a side dish with other meals.

Youngberry

A little red fruit that looks like a raspberry.

This is a rose family fruit that is a hybrid of raspberry, dewberry, and blackberry.

It has the texture of these berries: it is soft and juicy.

The flavor of youngberry is sweet.

Yukon Gold Potato

A potato variety that originated in Ontario, Canada.

The genus Solanum produces an oval-shaped tuber with smooth shallow eyes.

It has solid yellow meat that is coated by smooth, light yellow or golden skin.

It was originally grown in 1960.

Yuzu

A citrus fruit that looks like a little grapefruit. It is the Citrus junos species of the Rutacea family.

Yuzu contains a fragrant, aromatic zest that is utilized in the same way as lemon zest is.

When immature, the fruit is green; when completely ripe, it is yellow.

It is widely used in East Asian cuisines, where it originated.

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