Breads & Pastries
Flatbreads, loaves and buttery baked goods.
157 dishes
Injera
Spongy sour flatbread that doubles as plate and utensil.
Ethiopia ·
Nationwide 
Meat Pie
Hand-sized pastry filled with minced beef and gravy.
Australia ·
Nationwide Povitica
Povitica is a rolled sweet bread filled with walnuts, sugar and cinnamon, baked in a long spiral loaf.
Croatia ·
Nationwide 
Sopaipilla
Sopaipilla is a Chilean round fried dough of pumpkin and flour, eaten plain, dipped in pebre, or topped with sweet chancaca syrup.
Chile ·
Nationwide 
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Crumpets
Crumpets are soft, round British griddle cakes with a spongy, holey surface, toasted and served with butter that melts into the pockets.
United Kingdom ·
Northern Europe 
Lefse
Soft potato flatbread rolled with butter and sugar.
Norway ·
Nationwide Mchadi
Mchadi is a plain Georgian cornbread, pan-fried into small round cakes and eaten with cheese or bean stew.
Georgia ·
Nationwide 
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Perepichka
A golden yeast-dough pastry wrapped around a smoked pork sausage - Kyiv's favourite street snack, sold from kiosks and eaten on the move.
Ukraine ·
Kyiv 
Rugbrod
Rugbrod is a dense Danish rye bread, dark and sour, sliced thin for smorrebrod or eaten with butter and cheese.
Denmark ·
Nationwide Damper
Damper is a simple Australian soda bread of flour, water and salt, traditionally baked in the coals of a campfire or in a camp oven.
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Fairy Bread
Fairy bread is an Australian party treat: white bread buttered and covered with tiny rainbow sprinkles, cut into triangles.
Hornazo
Hornazo is the lard-enclosed meat pie of Salamanca and Extremadura, filled with chorizo, longaniza and pork loin and baked for the Lunes de Aguas romería.
Spain ·
Salamanca province (Castilla y León) and the northern Cáceres countryside in Extremadura Kitcha
Kitcha is a thin Ethiopian flatbread of wheat flour and water baked on a griddle, often crumbled into a spiced butter dish called kitcha fitfit.
Mahamri
Mahamri are East African coconut doughnuts, spiced with cardamom, served with pigeon peas or tea for breakfast.
Kenya ·
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Pirukas
A small hand-shaped Estonian yeast bun filled with pork, kohupiim curd, cabbage, or potato, and sold at every bakery and market in the country.
Estonia ·
Nationwide in Estonia, with strong traditions in Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu, Haapsalu, Viljandi, and the eastern Seto region (where a rye-flour version is also made) 
Rupjmaize
Rupjmaize is Latvia's national rye bread: dark, dense and sourdough-leavened with a chewy crust, served at almost every meal and baked all over the country.
Latvia ·
Nationwide