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1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.

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Two golden, porous coconut-chile surnoli pancakes topped with green chile and red onion, served with green chutney.

Coconut chile surnoli

Spongy rice-and-coconut pancakes associated with Goa, cooked on one side from a batter that a multicooker's yogurt programme lets rise overnight.

Goa, India · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Photograph of Teff injera, starter and tempered batter.

Teff injera, starter and tempered batter

Teff injera made from a three-day teff starter, a three-day main dough fermented under water, and a cooked tempering of part of the batter before griddling.

Ethiopia
Grains and starches
Photograph of Sangak (yeast gravel-tray home method).

Sangak (yeast gravel-tray home method)

A long, irregular Persian bread baked on a tray of gravel-like stones in a hot oven. This home method uses dried yeast and a mix of wholemeal and bread flour, with an overnight rest.

Iran
Grains and starches
Palestinian Taboon-style home-method wheat flatbreads, round, gently dimpled and browned in spots.

Taboon bread (Palestinian home method)

This Palestinian taboon method makes six small wheat flatbreads with a sticky yeast dough, fingertip dimples and a very hot domestic oven surface.

Palestine
· Grains and starches
Illustrative Sfiha from the published Palestinian-family-recipe adaptation: open round yeast bread with an even baked beef, tomato, onion and pepper topping.

Sfiha

A yeast-raised 8-inch flatbread topped with an evenly spread onion, tomato, pepper and spiced ground-beef mixture. This version follows a Palestinian family recipe shared with Amira Ibrahim and adapted for home baking.

Levant · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Illustrative Ramazan pidesi: a round Turkish Ramadan bread with a pressed lattice, yogurt-egg glaze, sesame and nigella.

Ramazan pidesi

This Ramadan pide is a large Turkish yeast bread patterned with a shallow lattice, brushed with egg and yogurt, and topped with sesame and nigella. This home method makes one 28–30 cm loaf and bakes it in a hot oven.

Turkey
· Grains and starches
Illustrative finished pita breads with a visible pocket; the image does not document a particular batch or guarantee puffing.

Pita

A yeast-raised wheat pocket bread; this measured oven version bakes eight soft rounds on a preheated stone or steel.

Lebanon
· Grains and starches
Plain round piadina romagnola flatbreads with small golden-brown griddle spots, stacked on a wooden board.

Piadina romagnola (Barbara Farinelli's home recipe)

Eight soft Romagna-style flatbreads made from type 00 wheat flour, lard, honey, baker's yeast, milk and salt. Rest the dough for an hour, roll 3–4 mm rounds and cook them quickly on a hot griddle or heavy pan.

Romagna
· Grains and starches
Illustrative still life of thin, crisp, twice-baked pane carasau sheets; not a specific source batch.

Pane carasau (Natasha Syanova’s home method)

Eight thin Sardinian sheets from a yeast dough of semolina, all-purpose flour, salt and water. Bake each round until it inflates, split it while hot, then bake the sheets again until crisp.

Sardinia
· Grains and starches
Three soft, skillet-cooked naan flatbreads with browned blisters, lightly brushed with butter and sprinkled with nigella and cilantro.

Naan

Naan is a South Asian wheat flatbread; this eight-piece home version uses a yogurt-enriched yeasted dough cooked on a hot skillet or griddle.

South Asia
· Grains and starches
A small stack of square Moroccan msemen flatbreads, golden and layered, on a plain ceramic plate.

Msemen

A square Moroccan layered griddle bread made from lightly yeasted wheat dough, stretched thin, folded with semolina and butter, and cooked until crisp and golden.

Morocco
· Grains and starches
One freshly baked round somun-style lepinja on a plain ceramic plate, with a lightly browned surface and a shallow diamond grid.

Lepinja (Balkan flatbread)

Six soft yeast-raised flatbreads using Jernej Kitchen’s home method.

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Illustrative golden olive fougasse with seven open slits.

Fougasse (olive bread)

A Provençal olive bread shaped as a flattened oval with seven open slits. This Le Cordon Bleu formula uses wheat flour, fresh yeast, olive oil and Kalamata olives.

Provence
· Grains and starches
A stack of thick Turkish bazlama flatbreads with lightly browned skillet spots on a plain ceramic plate.

Bazlama

This Turkish bazlama uses yeast, plain yogurt and olive oil for a soft dough cooked in a skillet. Shape it into twelve small or six larger rounds, flip as bubbles appear, and wrap the breads to keep them soft.

Turkey
· Grains and starches
A basket of plain round Moroccan batbout breads with softly puffed golden-brown surfaces.

Batbout

A Moroccan yeast-raised semolina pocket bread cooked on a dry pan or griddle; this measured batch makes about twenty 4-inch rounds.

Morocco
· Grains and starches
A thin folded Staffordshire oatcake filled with mushrooms and melted cheese on a cream plate, beside oatmeal and flour.

Staffordshire oatcake

A North Staffordshire speciality, this soft yeast-raised oat-and-wheat pancake is cooked on a pan or griddle and folded around a savoury filling.

Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Thin golden-brown Swedish rye-and-wheat crispbreads, fork-pricked and lightly flecked with caraway, stacked on an ivory plate.

Knäckebröd

A Swedish home batch of eight thin rye-and-wheat crispbreads, yeast-risen once and baked until hard.

Sweden · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Three elongated golden Afghan naans with lengthwise grooves and nigella and sesame on an ivory platter.

Afghan naan

A long oval Afghan wheat bread, leavened with yeast, grooved along its length and baked until crisp outside and chewy within.

Afghanistan · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A stack of golden crescentine modenesi with one split to show its soft crumb.

Crescentine modenesi

Small Modenese yeast breads cooked between hot plates and served warm.

Modena province · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A tray of small round North East English stottie cakes from a twelve-round home recipe, softly browned with one showing its tender crumb.

Stottie cake

A North East England yeast bread baked as flat round cakes. Terence Laybourne's Newcastle home recipe makes twelve rounds about 1 inch thick and serves them warm.

Newcastle upon Tyne · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
Golden sesame shaobing with a visible spiral of sesame paste in its layered interior.

Beijing Sesame-Paste Shaobing

A Beijing-style yeast dough is layered with seasoned sesame paste, sealed into small buns, briefly pan-fried, seeded, and baked.

China · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A large golden Malooga round baked on a metal sheet, its edge torn to reveal soft semn-folded layers.

Malooga (Yemeni home-oven variation)

This Yemeni home-oven variation uses a yeast-raised wheat dough, folds it repeatedly with semn and oil, then bakes it as large rounds.

Yemen · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Two round Tunisian tabouna breads with golden, irregularly browned crusts on a warm ivory surface.

Tabouna

A Tunisian round semolina bread named for the clay oven in which it is traditionally baked, recorded here through one home-oven recipe.

Tunisia
Grains and starches
Golden, sesame-topped Iraqi samoon breads with tapered diamond ends on a plate.

Iraqi samoun

Iraqi diamond-shaped yeast breads topped with sesame and baked in a home oven.

Iraq · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A golden, fork-marked Roghni naan with a light butter sheen on a pale ceramic plate.

Roghni naan

A Pakistani-style enriched yeast naan, marked before baking and finished with butter. This home method serves five.

Pakistan · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Golden round Moroccan meloui with visible spiral layers; one torn piece reveals its thin laminated crumb.

Meloui

A Moroccan round laminated griddle bread; thin sheets of a lightly yeasted semolina dough are buttered, rolled into layered coils, sliced and flattened.

Morocco
· Grains and starches
One plain Burmese nan bya: a thin, softly bubbled wheat flatbread cooked on a pan, with light golden marks and no topping.

Nan bya: Sandi Wai’s Burmese plain naan

Sandi Wai’s eight-piece Burmese plain naan uses yeast and baking powder, rests for 30 minutes and cooks on a hot nonstick pan without oil.

Myanmar · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Two rustic Maltese-style ring breads with flour-dusted crust, one whole and one torn to show its crumb

Maltese ftira (yeast home version)

Two flattened Maltese-style ring breads made with dry yeast and baked in a domestic oven.

Malta · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Two wide, golden Greek Lagana loaves topped with sesame seeds on parchment.

Lagana (Diane Kochilas yeast version)

Diane Kochilas’s yeast-raised Lagana makes two wide, sesame-topped loaves for Clean Monday. Her Athens-neighborhood version is distinct from the unleavened Lagana also described in the recipe’s cultural context.

Greece · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Three golden, puffy Emirati khameer breads with sesame seeds; one torn to show its soft interior.

Khameer

A source-specific Emirati yeast-and-baking-powder bread: soft dough enriched with dry milk is rolled into four rounds and baked briefly in a 550°F oven until it puffs.

United Arab Emirates · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Illustrative yeast-raised Turkish spinach-and-feta gözleme folded into a thin rectangular parcel and griddle-browned.

Gözleme (spinach and feta)

A yeast-and-yogurt dough is rolled into a large thin sheet, filled with spinach, onion and feta, folded closed, then cooked on an oiled griddle. This is Özlem Warren’s spinach-and-cheese family-style version.

Turkey · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
An onion-topped Argentine fugazzeta with a wedge showing melted cheese sealed between two layers of bread-like dough

Fugazzeta

An Argentine-style onion-topped yeast bread with mozzarella and Emmental sealed inside.

Argentina · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A thick, round golden-brown Amdo balep loaf with a cut wedge showing its wheat crumb, on an ivory plate.

Amdo balep (oven-baked home version)

This oven-baked Amdo balep uses yeast, whole-wheat and white flour, a long covered rise and a two-sided bake in a heavy oven-safe pot.

Amdo · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Golden closed spinach-and-cheese pide with a sealed top seam; one cut piece shows the leafy filling.

Topped and filled pide

Turkish home-style yeast dough is shaped into closed boats around spinach and cheese, then baked hot until the crust is golden.

Turkey · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Two grooved oval Noon barbari loaves with golden roomal-glazed crust and sesame seeds.

Noon barbari

A yeast-raised Iranian flatbread with a crisp roomal-glazed crust, long grooves and a soft interior.

Iran · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
A golden round Uyghur gosh-naan, pan-fried and sealed around lamb and onion, with one wedge showing the cooked filling
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Gosh-naan

Gosh-naan is a Uyghur meat-filled bread in one family recipe: lamb, onion and cumin are sealed in yeast dough, pan-cooked, and checked at a safe centre temperature.

Uyghur communities · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
Photograph of Taftoon.

Taftoon

Persian yeast-raised flatbreads, rolled thin, seeded and cooked in a dry skillet.

Iran · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Three thin, round aish baladi flatbreads with bran-speckled, browned surfaces on a bakery tray.

Aish baladi (Egyptian whole-wheat pita)

This home adaptation of Egyptian aish baladi uses a refrigerated yeast biga, whole-wheat dough, bran dusting and a very hot baking surface to make 16 pocketed rounds.

Egypt · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Three golden English muffins, one fork-split to show their open crumb.

English muffins: King Arthur yeast-preferment version

King Arthur’s six-piece English muffin batch uses a yeast preferment, two folds and a skillet or electric griddle; it is distinct from the sourdough-and-yeast version already catalogued.

United States · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Three lightly browned baiji mo flatbreads on a ceramic plate, one split to show its plain interior.

Baiji mo (Bai ji mo)

This Shaanxi-associated yeast flatbread uses a simple water dough, coiled shaping and a skillet bake. It is the bread used in roujiamo, not the filled meat dish.

Shaanxi · Modern method
· Grains and starches
A single golden Uzbek-style non with a raised rim, stamped centre and a few nigella seeds on a plain ceramic plate.

Uzbek-style non

A home-oven adaptation of Central Asian non, with a stamped centre and raised rim. This batch makes one bread.

Uzbekistan · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A glossy, golden Armenian Matnakash flatbread with deep crosshatched finger furrows.

Matnakash

A soft Armenian oval bread with a glossy surface and deep finger grooves, made here with a rye or whole-wheat flour scald and an overnight cold fermentation.

Armenia
· Grains and starches
A finished round Lebanese man’oushe topped with za’atar and sesame, with a golden rim on a plain plate.

Man’oushe

Lebanese za’atar flatbread made from yeast dough, baked on a heated stone or heavy sheet pan until its rim is golden.

Lebanon
· Grains and starches
Soft Iraqi khubz tannour flatbread with toasted blisters on parchment in a home-oven setting

Iraqi khubz tannour (home oven)

A soft, water-only Iraqi wheat flatbread adapted for a domestic oven with parchment and a preheated baking stone or inverted sheet.

Iraq
· Grains and starches
Golden Genovese focaccia in a baking tray, its olive-oil and salt dimples visible beside an airy cut crumb.

Genovese focaccia: Ezio Rocchi's version

Fresh-yeast focaccia with olive oil and brine in its dimples, made in two 30 × 40 cm trays. It is separate from the sourdough focaccia formula.

Liguria · Modern method
· Grains and starches