60+ Foods That Start With V

There are so many different foods in the world, named for everything from the country they come from to the sweetness of their flavor. Fruits, vegetables, and special dishes can start with many letters, but how many start with V? Despite being one of the rarer letters you see, there are many foods that begin with V.

Velouté Sauce

This sauce offers a savory flavor, combining a roux with a vegetable, chicken, or beef stock. It is one of the common mother sauces used in French cooking, like béchamel or hollandaise sauce. The type of stock used determines what kind of velouté sauce it is. It is the base of many types of sauces, though it is mostly served on chicken or seafood dishes.

Vada Pav

Vada pav, which is sometimes spelled wada pao, is part of Indian cuisine. This fast-food dish is made of a deep-fried potato, which you put in a bread bun known as pav. Instead of baking the potato into the bun, you slice it open and place the potato inside. Some people serve this dish with green chilis or chutneys. Some people sell it as a vegetarian street food option in Mumbai, though it is sold in some parts of the world as the Bombay burger.

Valencia Orange

Valencia oranges first came to North America because of a man named William Wolfskill. Born in Kentucky, he became a naturalized Mexican citizen, granting him a bit of land to cultivate fruits and vegetables. He developed the orange as a hybrid fruit. While it doesn’t come from Valencia, Wolfskill chose the name to pay tribute to the sweetness of the orange tes in this Spanish municipality.

Vanilla

This spice can only be made by sourcing pollinated plants. There are only 3 different species typically used today, coming from the region of the world that was formerly Mesoamerica. It is one of the most expensive spices by weight, falling closely behind saffron. While Mexico remained the main producer of vanilla until the end of the 19th century, widespread production shifted that title to Indonesia as recently as 2018.

Veal

Veal is an expensive source of meat, using young cattle to produce tender cuts. Non-breeding cattle are used to produce it, though there are several different types. Bob veal, for example, comes from calves who are no more than a month old, while milk-fed or white veal comes from calves who are 20-24 weeks old.

Vindaloo

Vindaloo is a type of Indian curry. It is one of the most widely known staples in British Indian cuisine, which is why it is found on so many fusion restaurant menus. It has a reputation for its spice, often using pork as the main protein. However, some recipes include chicken, prawns, tofu, and other sources. This dish requires marinating in vinegar and garlic, though the earliest versions used red wine instead.

Velvet Tamarind

As a fruit-bearing tree, the velvet tamarind primarily grows in Africa. It goes by many names, named after the texture of the plant. While it can be used as a food, current studies show that using the bark and leaves has a medicinal impact. The fruits have a singular brown seed in the middle, which looks a lot like the seeds in watermelons.

Vadouvan

Vadouvan offers a blend of different spices like shallots and garlic. This French curry consists of different spices created during the influence of French culture in Pondicherry. While the actual recipe for this curry varies from one recipe to the next, the minimum blend of spices includes onions, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, garlic, and fenugreek. The spices then must be dried, crushed, mixed with castor oil, rolled, and dried a second time.

Vinegar

Vinegar is one of the most common items to keep stocked in a kitchen. With 5% to 8% acid by volume, the acids usually come from the double fermentation process. Vinegar gets its name from Old French, combining the Latin words for “wine” and “sour.” The fermentation of vinegar dates back as far as the production of alcohol.

Vermicelli

If you want a thin pasta to go with your next food that begins with V, think about vermicelli. By Italian standards, this type of noodle can be no more than 0.091 inches thick, which is thicker than spaghetti. Vermicelli is usually less than 0.06 inches thick in the United States and other regions. The first time that the word “vermicelli” was used to describe this pasta was in an Italian cookbook by Maestro Martino da Como. 

Other Foods That Begin With V

Here are some more foods that begin with V.

• Vaccarese grape
• Vacherin cake
• Vacherin Mont d’Or
• Vainita
• Valencia Pride mango
• Valerian root
• Valerian tea
• Van Dyke mango
• Vanilla cake
• Vanilla wafers
• Variegated screw pine
• Vasilopita
• Vegemite
• Vegetable hummingbird
• Vegetable marrow
• Vegetable mustard
• Vegetable oil
• Vegetable soup
• Velveeta processed cheese
• Velvet apple
• Velvet bean
• Velvet cake
• Velvet hammer
• Velvet shank
• Velvetleaf
• Venison
• Verdolaga
• Vermouth
• Verna lemon
• Vernaccia grape
• Verrine
• Vespolina grape
• Vicar Of Winkfield pear
• Vichyssoise
• Victoria plum
• Victorian sponge cake
• Vidalia onion
• Vienna sausage
• Viennese whirls
• Vietnamese cinnamon
• Vietnamese noodle soup
• Villafranca lemon
• Vinaigrette
• Vine spinach
• Vinho Verde
• Violet cauliflower
• Violet de Provence artichoke
• Virgin Mary
• Virginia creeper
• Vitis Vinifera
• Vivaldi potatoes
• Voavanga
• Vodka
• Volcano cake
• Volkamer lemon
• Vori Vori
• Vouvray

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