- See also: Drugs and alcohol, Dwarven diet, and Fauna and flora
The nations of Thedas each have their own variety of dishes and individual drinks.
Dishes[]
Cupcake, Candies, Cookies and Desserts served in Tevinter.
Breads[]
- Biscuit – a round cake of bread usually served with savory meals.[1][2]
- Whole grain biscuit[3]
- Breads
- Bark bread – a suggested alternative to black lichen bread should one be worried about the toxicity of black lichen.[4]
- Black bread[5]
- Braided honey and date bread[6]
- Bread roll[7]
- Breadstick - some varieties have rosemary.[8]
- Brown bread[9]
- Robust loaf - a crusty loaf of brown bread.[8]
- Buns[10]
- Butter puff – a bread made with butter folded into the dough allowing it to become puffy and softer than usual bread. It is also used as a treat for dogs in Orlais.[11]
- Crumpets[12]
- Dark bread[13]
- Dried bread[14]
- Flatbread
- Honey loaf[17]
- Lichen bread – bread made from lichen.[18]
- Peasant bread – a common type of hearty bread eaten by Dalish and city elves in Orlais. It is made with grease, salt and wheat in equal parts. It is topped with sugar[19], butter, and jam but can also be used with stew.[20]
- Pumpkin bread – a Tevinter baked good that is a favorite of Dorian Pavus.[21]
- Raider Queen's bread of many tongues – a bread created by a Rivaini pirate. It consists of flour, baking powder, salt, butter, brown sugar, molasses, eggs, and bananas. The creator recommends Par Vollen bananas, but bananas from Rivain can be a suitable substitute.[22]
Raider Queen's Bread of Many Tongues
- Sweet bread[23]
- Sweet roll[24]
- Thin bread[25]
- Wrap – described as "soft".[26]
- Whole grain bread[3]
- Ryott bread[27]
Refreshments and starters[]
- Blood orange salad – a Nevarran salad of bitter greens with blood orange slices served on top.[28]
- Canapé – a type of hors d'œuvre.[29]
- Couscous salad – a salad from Rivain comprised of couscous with many varieties. One variety includes red bell peppers and mint.[30]
- Crab cakes – considered a "classic" in Kirkwall. One of the more creative variations designs the dish to more closely resemble crabs.[31]
- Dried bread and fruit[14]
- Eggs à la Val Foret – an Orlesian egg dish served with a cream sauce[32] and a poached egg.[33]
- Fluffy mackerel pudding – celery, pepper, mackerel, diced onion, mustard, salt, Antivan pepper, ground mace, cardamom seed, and eggs. It is also known as Feast Day Fish.[34][35]
- Fried crab legs – a substitute for the Orzammar dish of fried young giant spiders.[36]
- Fried young giant spiders – a common food in Orzammar, usually served with an alcohol-based sauce that varies in every eating establishment.[36]
- Roasted cave beetles – eaten by the dwarves.[37][38]
- Roasted chicken salad[39]
- Roasted prawns – a possible substitute for cave beetles. They are said to have the same taste and texture.[38]
- Shredded meat and cheese – commonly used as a spread by the dwarves.[40]
- Snails dressed in butter and oil – a simple Avvar dish.[41]
- Snail and watercress salad – a non-traditional dish inspired by Avvar cuisine featuring snails with watercress. It is designed to appeal to lowlander palates.[41]
- Stuffed deep mushrooms – a dish derived from various Orzammar deep mushroom dishes. They are stuffed with cheese and spinach.[42]
- Tentacle salad - a Tevinter starter or side.[43]
Rations, tavern, street, and travel food[]
Various meals, rations, and foods are noted to be used during travel or sold in taverns. Preserved foods are an important method of food preparation in various cultures in Thedas. They are used during times of hardship, travel, and to save the bounty of previous seasons.[44]
- Armada special - a sandwich that comes with meat and cheese. For additional cost you can add more meat and cheese, greens, pineapple, or make it "Nevarran" meaning vegetarian.[45]
- Beer nuts[46]
- Bread and cheese[47]
- Breaded cheese wands - can be served as a bottomless option[45]
- Bronto steak[45]
- Carta fries - served as a side to a bronto steak.[45]
- Chicken wings – sold in The Rusted Horn as 'Wyvern Wings'.
- Crow feed – made of rice, butter, and onions. This meal is cheap and was named after the Antivan Crows.[48]
- Deep fried fish[49][50]
- Deep Roads crispers - come in thre flavors: mild, medium, or paragon.[45]
- Fereldan hearty scones – scones filled with cheese and bacon.[51]
- Fish pockets – from the island of Seheron, they consist of crisp vegetable and seasoned fish in soft wraps.[52]
- Fish wrap – fish wrapped in thin bread from the island of Seheron.[25]
- Fish of the Day with pear slaw[53]
- Free Marches mash-up - can be made vegetarian[45]
- Fried bread
- Greens with Antivan, Orlesian, or house dressing - can have chicken or beef added or be made "full Dalish"[45]
- The Hanged Man stew – the tavern’s featured dish. Every morning it is made with a different "mystery meat".[56]
- Honey cake with figs[53]
- Jerky[57]
- Peanut butter and sausage special[59]
- Pickled eggs – made with eggs, sugar, salt, and vinegar. They are popular in Ferelden.[60] There are a variety of types and they can be made to one's tastes. They are considered a Fereldan cure-all for those who are under the weather or recovering from illness.[61]
Pig Oat Mash
- Pig oat mash – a constant dish and sworn hangover cure at The Hanged Man. It is made with dried salt pork or smoked bacon, dried rolled oats, ale or water, apples and berries.[62]
- Pork hand pies with fresh herb sauce[63]
- Meat skewer – a portable snack. One known version is a skewer of meat, cheese, and wine-soaked fruit eaten by Orlesian nobles while out on hunts (specifically those nobles who are not very interested in the hunt to begin with).[64]
- Poison stings – a Tevinter travel sweet that is comprised of chocolate-coated orange peels. They have a crunchy yet chewy texture and taste both sour and sweet. This food was eaten by Dorian Pavus when he was traveling from Tevinter to Ferelden. "Poison stings" is the colloquial name.[65]
- Rations – a fixed amount of food, for travel or aid. They commonly contain dried meats, nuts, and other simple foodstuffs.[66][67]
- Dry rations[68]
- Grey Warden pastry pockets – comprised of meat, potatoes, onions, and pastry. They are used as rations by Grey Wardens during their patrols. The Orlesian Grey Wardens have devised their own version which uses the less sturdy Orlesian puff pastry.[69]
- Hardtack[70]
- Provisions[71]
- Qunari rations[72]
- Sausage sauced with nut butter stuffed in a bun[73]
- Savory pie with spinach[53]
Fish and vegetable skewers
- Sea monster kebab - can be made vegetarian[45]
- Soup of the month - the soup served changes monthly[53]
- Spiced fried lentils[63]
- Stuffed vine leaves – a common tavern appetizer in Tevinter. The leaves are stuffed with rice, herbs, and sometimes minced meat. They can be topped with lemon juice and tzatziki sauce.[74]
- Taste of Ferelden bread and cheese - a spread of bread and cheeses from Ferelden. Can upgrade to have a full cheese wheel.[45]
- Treviso energy balls – a famine food invented and used during the occupation of Treviso in the Qunari Wars or the New Exalted Marches, comprised of peanut butter, oats, and dried fruit.[75]
- Turnip and mutton pie – served in Fereldan taverns such as the Rusty Horn.[47] They are common tavern fare and consist of turnips, chunks of lamb, and a buttery crust.[76]
- Unidentified meat – Tevinter tavern food that is prone to being over exaggerated, when in reality it is simply chicken legs served with Nevarran flat bread.[77]
Dips, dressings, gravy, and sauces[]
- Apples stewed in brandy sauce[6]
- Applesauce[78][79]
- Antivan dressing - served on top of a bed of greens. [45]
- Cherry sauce[80]
- Cheese sauce[81][82]
- Citrus bagna cauda - an anchovy and garlic sauce from Antiva.[83]
- Cream sauce[32][83]
- Deep mushroom cream sauce – a sauce favored in Orzammar. It is served with seared nug.[84]
- Dragon blood sauce[85]
- Fresh herb sauce[63]
- Hot sauce[86]
- House dressing[45]
- Llomerryn red sauce – a Rivaini sauce served with almost anything. It is made of pulped tomatoes, onions, red peppers, brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, mustard powder, hot pepper powder, salt, cinnamon sticks, allspice, cloves, fennel seeds, dill seeds, mustard seeds, black peppercorns, bay, and garlic.[87]
- Mushrooms cooked in ale – a sauce recommended to be served over roast nug.[88]
- Mushroom sauce[89]
- Nesting roast gravy – a gravy made from the pan juices of a nesting roast.[90]
- Nut butter sauce[73]
- Orlesian dressing[45]
- Orlesian sauce[45]
- Plum sauce[91]
- Red wine marinade[92]
- River-herring gravy – a gravy as white as apple blossoms made of river-herring.[93]
- Special sauce – a sauce infused with the essence of fifty-two herbs. It is prized for the ability to help with “inadequacy”.[94]
- Toffee sauce - used as a topping on sweets.[95]
- Tzatziki sauce[74]
- Yogurt dip – a dip common in Nevarra, often served with flat bread.[15]
Soups and stews[]
- Antivan seafood soup - an Antivan soup that comprises of sea bass, nocen shrimp, striped cod, squid, saffron, and salt. [96]
- Barley soup[97]
- Butter soup – water, potatoes, cinnamon, star anise, clove, bay, peppercorns, salt, noodles, cream, and butter.[87]
- Cabbage stew[98]
- Dalish seafood soup[99]
- Deepstalker stew[100]
- Denerim-rabbit stew – made with rat.[101]
- Enchantment soup – a soup made by Sandal. Its edibility is unknown.[102]
- Fereldan potato and leek soup – a creamy soup comprised of leeks and potatoes. It is usually served with a side of toasted bread, however one version of the recipe recommends adding chickpeas toasted to a crouton-like texture instead.[103]
- Fereldan turnip and barley stew – a hearty stew of oil, white beans, onions, carrots, celery, garlic, stock, turnips, turnip greens, sausage, pot barley, cumin, salt, pepper, herbed wine vinegar, and additional herbs such as dried basil and oregano.[104]
- First Day festival stew[105]
- Fish chowder – a thick and creamy soup that is well known in Antiva City.[106][107]
- Hearty chum - a Qunari stew made with fish heads[43]
- Lamb and pea stew – a stew comprised of lamb and peas.[108] It is considered to be a hearty and humble dish, and is so common in Ferelden that it is seen as being almost synonymous with the nation.[109]
- Lentil soup – made with lentils and onions. A cross-cultural dish that spans nations, and is eaten both inside and outside of alienages.[110]
- Merrill's blood soup – a rich soup with a misleading name, made from beetroot and topped with roasted chickpeas.[111]
- Mutton stew [112]
- Mystery stew[113]
- Nettle soup[114]
- Nordbotten fruit stew – a dish used to re-hydrate dried fruits. It contains dried apricots, pitted prunes, raisins, mixed dried fruits (cherries, apples, cranberries, etc), lemon or orange, cinnamon, cloves, sugar or honey, water and brandy.[115]
- Potato stew[83]
- Ram stew[116]
- Sauced eels - a Qunari stew [43]
- Sweet and sour cabbage soup – a Fereldan stew comprised of cabbage, tomatoes and other vegetables. It is typically more solid than liquid and is often paired with dark bread.[117]
- Turnip stew[118][112]
- Turnip-goat stew[119]
- Wild rabbit stew[19]
Main courses[]
Alamarri Pickled Krone
- Alamarri pickled krone – a traditional preserved food of the Alamarri. The recipe includes krone, pine pitch, druffalo dung, and brine (optional).[121]
- Apple cheesy butter noodles[79]
- Baked fish – an Avvar dish. Fish is wrapped in pungent leaves and clay before being cooked on banked coals.[122]
- Baked krone with honey – krone served with honey as a dipping sauce.[121]
- Beans and bread[123]
- Boiled roots[124]
- Braised nug with elfroot[125]
- Braised ram with all the trimmings[126]
- Broiled boar head[127]
- Bug-cakes[82]
- Cacio e pepe[128] – a classic Antivan dish common among rich and poor alike. Though it is a simple recipe composed of three ingredients; pasta, pepper and a dry cheese, it is notoriously easy to get wrong.[129]
- Cheese Toast[82]
The dish called Dalish Deep Forest Comfort
- Dalish deep forest comfort – a dish made by Dalish clans in southern Orlais. Traditionally it contains wood-burrowing beetles, halla butter, string squash, garlic, mushrooms, elfroot, hot red pepper, rock salt, halla cheese, pine nuts, and edible wildflowers (borage, chicory, etc). Spinach can be used instead of elfroot, brined goat cheese instead of halla cheese, "regular" butter instead of halla butter, tomatoes instead of beetles, and noddles instead of string squash.[130]
- Dumplings
- First Day chicken – a dish served on First Day in some parts of Orlais.[131]
- Fish in salt crust – an Avvar dish. Fish is wrapped in pungent leaves and salt before being cooked on banked coals over the whole day.[132]
- Fried fish[133]
- Fried mush[135]
- Fried leeks and potatoes[136]
- Gilded swan with river-herring gravy – an eastern spice, flour, gold leaf, river-herring, swan, and egg yolk.[93]
- Glazed krone[127]
- Gnocchi – a well-known Antivan dish.[137] The dish can also be topped with a rich creamy sauce and leeks.[81]
- Goat custard – a broiled goat head, not to be confused with the dessert.[127]
- Gravy on fish[134]
- Griddle cake - an Anderfels dish, can be topped with strawberries.[138]
- Grilled halla[139]
- Grilled poussin – a Chasind favorite; the small bird is cooked in a large pot for a prolonged period of time, making sure to marinate and baste the meat.[140]
Skewered squid, salad, and olives as served at the Cobbled Swan.
- Grilled skewered squid - Tevinter food, served with a tentacle salad, and orange slices.[141]
- Grilled Treviso with citrus bagna cauda - an Antivan dish, featuring a fish named after the city.[83]
- Gruel[142]
- Halla cakes[143]
- Ham
- Anderfels smoked ham – this ham is said to taste of despair[144][145], though this is only rumor or on word of the importers. One glaze for this ham is made of apricots and apples.[146]
- Avvar ham[147]
- Ham and herbs[141]
- Ham stuck with cloves[148]
- The Jade Ham – a ham described as being honeyed well with wild flowers, seasoned and spiral-cut. The wildflower glaze is said to render it as hard as jade.[146]
- Jellied ham[149]
- Orlesian ham[150]
- Seleny ham[151]
- Smoked ham[146][152]
- Treviso ham[153]
- Herbed chicken and biscuits[154]
- Isskap - a Qunari dish that uses melon.[155][156]
Jellied pigs feet
- Jellied meats[60]
- Khachapuri - a Tevinter dish, one variety has three cheeses.[157]
- Liver[158]
- Lutefisk[159]
Mad Bernard's Gift of Flesh
- Mad Bernard's Gift of Flesh – a nesting roast unlike any other. It involves a whole wyvern, stuffed with a whole gurn, stuffed with a horse, stuffed with a large halla (horns and all), stuffed with a swan, stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a quail, stuffed with a bunting that choked on a gold piece.[90]
- Meat pies
- Dove pie – a pie made with live doves, for the theater of the meal.[93]
- Nug bacon and egg pie – a traditional Fereldan dish and one type of farmer's pie.[160]
- Pigeon pie[6]
- Pork pie[161]
- Starkhaven fish and egg pie[160] – the ingredients for this dish are three deboned fish from the Minanter River (carp, trout or other species), dried currants, sliced almonds, hard boiled eggs, thickened cream, spices,[162] butter, flour, fish broth, milk, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and fried whitebait or other small fish.[163]
Starkhaven fish and egg pie.
- Unmentionable pie – a Fereldan dish. It is a meat pie which uses the parts of an animal that are typically considered undesirable.[127][164]
- Venison pasty – a hand pie filled with venison. In Serault it is served with curls of goat cheese.[93]
- Nesting roast – this dish classically consists of quail stuffed in a pheasant stuffed in a swan. It is served with gravy made from the pan juices.[90]
- Noodles
- Nug-gets[84][166]
- Nug-loaf[167]
Orlesian Nug-Nug dish.
- Nug-Nug – an Orlesian dish that is plated to look like a nug peeking out of its burrow. It is made of ground meat (beef is preferred), parsley, eggs, salt, crushed cumin or mustard seeds, black pepper, cooked rice, tomatoes, onions, and chives.[62]
- Oysters
Tevinter oyster platter and bowl of fruit served at the Cobbled Swan
- Pan fried fish[50]
- Paella – an Antivan dish made with rice, saffron, and various other ingredients.
- Pancake – a breakfast food with sweet and savory varieties.[170]
- Crepes – a very thin pancake that can be filled with sweet or savory ingredients.[159]
- Hearth cake – a pan-made Dalish cake that traditionally uses hardwood ash and halla butter, though baking powder and other types of butter can be substituted. The original recipe calls for flour, hardwood ash, halla butter, sugar, mixed dried fruit (currants, cranberries, etc), eggs and milk.[171] The Dalish use whatever dried fruit is on hand. Though one could use hot peppers in this dish, this is not recommended.[172]
- Nug pancakes – a savory pancake made with nug. It is a favorite among dwarven children and is featured in a dwarven folk song.[84][173] If one is adverse to eating nug, other meats can be substituted.[166]
Crustacean pasta, a Tevinter dish.
- Pasta
- Porridge – a basic meal served for breakfast. It tends to differ across countries.[131][174][175]
- Poutine - made of cheese curds, gravy, and potato fries[8]
- Pudding – a sweet or savory dish that is cooked by being boiled or steamed. It can be covered in gravy or chocolate.[180]
- Rack of ribs[127][164]
- Ram chops[126]
- Ram cutlet[126]
- Rarebit - a Nevarran dish made of cheese sauce with ale, mustard, or worchisire sauce served on toast. A common food for apprentices.[82]
- Rice and boiled vegetables[181]
- Roast
- Gurgut roast with lowlander spices and mushroom sauce – Avvar fare, seasoned with prized spices which are considered a delicacy.[89]
- Roast boar – one cooking method involves stuffing the boar with apples.[182][183] Another has it served with a side of candied yams.[184]
- Roast chicken[185][186][187][43]
- Roast duck[133]
- Roast hog[188]
- Roast lamb[189]
- Roast turkey – a common food among the Chasind.[190]. It is also a popular dish in the Free Marches, where it is often served at feasts and dinner parties of the rich and nobility, along with various sides.[191]
- Roast wyvern – a common food among Orlesians[90][192] and the Avvar.[193]
- Roasted nug[88][130]
- Roasted phoenix – one of the most infamous meals in Thedas. It is served with sweet red wine.[194]
- Roasted rabbit[195][196]
- Slow-roasted nug-let[197]
- Spit-roasted nug[43]
- Spit-roasted nug with hot sauce[86]
Feast served in Starkhaven
- Roasted cabbage[134]
- Roasted cabbage with gravy[134]
- Salted meat
- Salted halla[165]
- Sandwiches
- Sausage – there are about twelve different kinds of sausage which are unnamed but mentioned in The Last Court.[93]
- Scrambled eggs[134]
- Scrambled eggs with gravy[134]
- Steak
- Seared nug – usually served with a deep mushroom cream sauce.[84]
- Simmering partridge – partridge served in a pot with white beans and sweet onions.[200]
- Smoked meat
- Souffle[205]
- Venison souffle[205]
- Stir-fry[76]
- Stuffed cabbage – a seasoned cabbage head stuffed with meat.[206]
- Venison with apples stewed in brandy sauce[6]
- Wandering hills – a delicacy from the Anderfels, not to be confused with the mountain range.[207]
- Wild meat and mushrooms[208]
- Roasted giant spider legs[37]
- Roasted venison with wild greens – roast venison seasoned with mint and pepper, served with wild greens and sweet pastries. It is paired with wine.[209]
- Spiced nug[187]
- Spit-roasted deepstalker[37]
Sides and snacks[]
Feast served in Kirkwall.
- Antivan olives – soaked in vinegar and stuffed with capers.[210]
- Boiled turnip[76]
- Brandy-soaked cherries[211]
- Breaded cheese wands[45]
- Candied yams[184]
- Fried potatoes[87]
- Fried peppers[212]
- Hard-boiled eggs[213]
- Honey carrots – a common side in Orlais that is traditionally sweet due to honey.[214]
- Jarred olives[215]
- Jellied eels – a common Fereldan dish.[127][164]
- Mashed turnip[76]
- Pear slaw[53]
- Peeled grapes[216]
- Pickles[217]
- Sera's yummy corn – yellow corn that is usually stolen, then washed, baked, and eaten.[171] Other varieties of corn are not approved for use in this recipe, though they would work fine.[218]
- Roasted chestnuts[219]
- Roasted figs[220]
- Roasted potatoes[87]
- Roasted turnip[76]
- Smoked bacon[104]
- Steamed beans[93]
- Steamed turnip[76]
- Stir-fried turnip[76]
- Toast[221]
- Toasted bread – used for dipping in stews.[103]
- Toasted chickpeas[103]
- Wine-soaked fruit[64]
Baked goods, desserts, and sweets[]
- Bread pudding – a dessert made with stale bread, eggs, milk or cream, and other ingredients depending on whether it is to be sweet or savory.[222]
- Cakes
- Apple cake[223]
- Cake with apples[224]
- Cake with nutmeg[225]
- Chocolate cake[226] – a Fereldan recipe that was often made by the Cousland family cook, Nan.[227]
- Cupcakes[226]
- The Exquisite Misery – a petite four that is topped with powdered deep mushroom and gold dust.[229]
- Found Cake – a chocolate cream cake topped with white frosting and strawberries.[230]
- Hazelnut torte - a hazelnut cake layered with apricot preserves and topped with chocolate icing [231]
- Honey cake[232]
- Lamprey cake – not actually made with real lampreys. This cake is designed to resemble the creature and bring the "spirit" of it to the table.[233]
- Lemon cake[234]
- Petit fours[229]
- Pound cake[235]
- Round cake – often topped with poppy seeds and honey.[200]
- Sugar cake – made with strawberries and sugar-cream icing on a pound cake. It is often used as a gift, and is seen as a good pick-me-up, and is sold by merchants.[235]
- Sugar cake – a cake which shares its name with other dishes. This recipe calls for a "humble" cake (rather than a pound cake) to be topped with butter, sugar and almonds. It is also seen as a great gift and as a good pick-me-up after traveling all day, and sold by merchants.[236]
- Sugar-drizzled lemon cake – a type of lemon cake that was used by the Antivan Crows on a job to assassinate templars.[237]
- Sugarcake – a dense cake usually topped with powdered sugar.[238]
- Sweet cake[239]
- Wedding cake[240]
- Candy
- Black licorice candy – can be salted.[12]
- Bon-bons[241]
- Candied almonds[242]
- Candied fruit[219]
- Candied sage leaves - a popular snack in Nevarra [8]
- Candy cane[226]
- Carastian candy – candied chocolates from Tevinter. Judging by the name, it is a specialty of the city of Carastes.[244]
- Peppermints[241]
- Spun sugar[245]
- Sugar-biscuit candy[246]
- Sweetmeat – a confectionery treat. Sometimes it takes the form of candy-coated fruit.[247]
- Toffee[248]
- Unnamed candied nuts with spice – an Orlesian candy that is sweet until swallowed, when it then leaves a spicy aftertaste.[249]
- Churro - an Antivan dessert.[179]
- Cobbler
- Cookies
- Custard
- Donuts[226]
- Ice cream[258]
- Coffee Ice - a treat made in Minrathous, it tastes like coffee with a texture "like snow", it is topped by cream and toffee sauce. [95]
- Orlesian guimauves – "guimauve" is another name for marshmallow. They can be used in hot cocoa.[259][260]
- Pastries
- Antivan apple grenade – a hot pastry filled with apple and made to resemble the Antivan Crows' fire grenades in both shape and heat.[261]
- Cinnamon rolls[262] – this pastry is one of Varric's favorites.[263]
- Croissant[264] – an Orlesian pastry, one that Vivienne eats every morning.[265]
- Honey and nut pastry – a pastry common in Tevinter.[266]
- Macaroon[226]
- Marie du Lac Erre's sweet ruin – an Orlesian dish that triggered fighting among the nobility. One version of this recipe contains butter, sugar, chocolate, vanilla extract, flour, orange or mint extract, baking powder, and and milk.[256]
- Unnamed blueberry pastry[267]
- Varric's favorite pastry – a pastry created by Devon after consulting Varric Tethras on his favorite pastry.[268]
The Blessed Apple, a pie made from golden apples in Orlais.
- Pie
- Apple pie[269]
- The Blessed Apple – flour, salt, butter, water, apples, brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Golden apples from Lady's Orchard are preferred.[270]
- Elderberry pie - eaten in Ferelden and Tevinter [252]
- Gooseberry pie[271]
- Minced pie – filled with finely chopped fruit and sweet things.[272][273]
- Rhubarb pie[252]
- Pudding[274]
- Blancmange – an Orlesian white pudding made from milk or heavy cream. Its name means "white eating". It is served with a variety of toppings to compliment its own mild, sweet taste. Some possible toppings are toasted almonds, ribbons of fresh mangoes, red grape compote, cherry sauce, or white chocolate curls and whole jasmine flowers. The latter is an arrangement favored by Vivienne.[80]
- Caramel pudding[274]
- Dessert pudding[275]
- Jam pudding[112]
- Rice pudding[276]
- Scones
- Sour cherries in cream – an Orlesian dessert made of black cherries, cherry sauce, and whipped cream. In Orlesian cuisine it is eaten when a lighter dessert is required.[277]
- Sticky figs rolled in nuts[278]
- Sticky jellies[279]
- Tart[280][281]
Drinks[]
- For a complete list of alcoholic beverages, see Drugs and alcohol.
- Alcohol
- Absinthe - an anise-flavoured spirit derived from herbs, common in Orlais.[283][284]
- Beer - one of the most popular drinks in Thedas, especially in Ferelden and Orzammar. Some variants are ales, lagers, malts, and stouts.[285][286][287]
- Brandy - a liquor produced from distilling wine, Antiva seemingly producing a majority of Thedosian brandy.[288]
- Cider - a drink made from fermenting crushed fruit, the most common being apple.[104]
- Cocktails and mixed drinks[289]
- Gin - a distilled drink often flavored with juniper berries.[289]
- Liqueur - contain more sugar and have a lower alcohol content than liquor[231]
- Liquors - drinks that are outside other categories and are not cocktails or mixed drinks.
- Mead - made of honey and water fermenting, common in Ferelden and among the Avvar and Chasind.[293][294]
- Port - a sweet, fortified red wine.[289][152]
- Rum - a drink distilled from sugar.[283][289][231]
- Whiskey - a distilled liquor made from fermented mashed cereal grains such as barley malt, corn, rye, and wheat.[286][289]
- Wine - produced all across Thedas, it includes black, red, sparkling, white, and yellow wines.[286][289][152]
- Coffee – a major export of Antiva.[295][296][231]
- Cocoa – also called hot cocoa. It is a favorite drink of The Iron Bull, who likes to add Orlesian guimauves to it.[259] Other ways to dress it include whipped cream and a dusting of cinnamon.[298]
- Cioccolata calda - Antivan hot chocolate[168]
- Juice
- Punch[145]
- Spicy punch[145]
- Tea
- Almond tea[303]
- Bitter tea – an unspecified tea served during the Fourth Blight. It was so bitter as to be astringent.[177]
- Black tea[304]
- Black tea with juniper[305]
- Brynnlaw curled leaf tea[306]
- Fires of Change tea[307]
- Ginger tea[82]
- Gingerwort truffle tea - an old recipe, can have magical side effects for some people.[308]
- Herbal tea[304]
- Lattenfluss tea[307]
- Lavender tea[82]
- Mint tea[215]
- Anderfels mint tea[309]
- Nameless Tevinter tea[305]
- Rivaini spice tea blend – a blend of cinnamon, ginger, and clove. It is known for its healing properties and is a tea that Empress Celene uses to stave off headaches.[310]
- Rivaini tea[311]
- Rivaini tea blend – another classic tea blend from Rivian known for its healing properties. This blend consists of licorice root, oregano, lemon verbena, and peppermint. It is also rumored to be a blend that Empress Celene uses to stave off headaches.[312]
- Rosehips tea[313]
- Spiced tea[219]
- Stripweed tea – a popular tea in Tevinter.[314]
- Unsweetened tea[176]
- Verimensis tea – Tevinter's most famous tea, it is said to be the most expensive drink in all of Thedas.[194]
Trivia[]
- In Thedas, both types of "pudding" exist; the British pudding, which is a sweet or savory steamed dish made with flour and served either as dessert or as part of the main meal, and the North American pudding, which is a flavored, custard-like dessert.
- Crepes are more commonly made with wheat flour-based batter and sweet toppings. If the toppings are salty, they are typically called galettes.
- There are custard connoisseurs across Thedas.[220]
- Antivan food is heavily influenced by Italian food and culture, with aspects of Spanish food.
- In Antiva, meals for the upper class consist of the traditional ten Italian courses.[315] Both nobles and commoners alike typically eat rather late at night.
- Avvar baked fish and fish in salt crust involve similar cooking methods and pungent leaves, but they are two different dishes, as one calls for clay and the other salt. The salt version likely exists to make the dish more accessible for those cooking at home.
- The Avvar trade goat milk for arms and weapons with the dwarves.[316]
- Ferelden cuisine has a variety of pies that fall under the category of "farmer's pie".
- Nevarra places a lot of weight on the plating and presentation of meals; they view food as something that needs to be as visually appealing as it tastes.[28]
- It was common for Nevarran dragon hunters to use powdered dragon blood to season their food.[85]
- The Hivernal Feast in Orlesian highlands has roots in yearly hunts when the local residents would hunt the hivernal dragons that nested there in the winter. They would use the meat for various recipes and salt whatever they could not eat within a period of time.[150]
- Orzammar holds a competition for "Orzammar's Best Sauce". The competition for this title is so high that it drives competitors to concoct schemes to steal rivals' recipes. This has led to sauce recipes being guarded by the establishments that create them.[36]
- A jam maker in Orzammar has begun trying to make their own from individually imported ingredients, in order to make it more affordable.[317]
- While all sauces used for fried young giant spider are alcohol-based, they generally do not use lichen ale in the sauce recipes.[36]
- White Seleney wine is described as being effervescent in The Gilded Horn's Drink List.
- Roast turkey is a popular and common among Free Marcher nobility[191] and was even served at Sebastian Vael's birthday.[318]
- City elves in alienages across Thedas typically some element of famine food where they eat street animals and rats.
- While the cookbook notes that Orlesians have "sensitive palates", this aspect is contradicted by the heavily spiced and season nature of a majority of Orlesian cuisine.
Gallery[]
Food at Val Royeaux cafe
Concept art of Fereldan food from the Art of Dragon Age Inquisition.
John Epler. 
