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Punjabi makki di roti made with maize flour, fenugreek and wheat flour, cooked golden on a tawa.

Makki di roti

A Punjabi maize-flour flatbread cooked on a tawa. This version adds a little whole-wheat flour and fresh fenugreek.

Punjab · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A stack of flat golden missi roti with browned tawa spots, onion, chilli and coriander flecks, topped with a small pat of butter.

Missi roti

A chickpea-and-wheat flatbread made with spices, onion and herbs, rolled and cooked on a tawa. This batch makes sixteen.

India · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
Plain maize tortillas made from nixtamalized masa, stacked with one folded to show their soft flexible structure; editorial image, not a photograph of a particular batch.

Maize tortillas

Fresh nixtamalized maize is ground into masa, pressed into thin rounds and cooked on a comal. This Mexican home formula uses food-grade cal viva and makes about 20 tortillas.

Mexico · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
A stack of crisp Scottish oatcakes on a pale ceramic plate.

Scottish oatcakes

A thin Scottish oatcake of medium oatmeal, butter, salt, bicarbonate of soda and boiling water. This measured oven adaptation differs from older girdle methods and soft, yeasted Staffordshire oatcakes.

Scotland
· Grains and starches
A fruit-studded bara brith tea loaf with a buttered slice and tea

Bara brith

Bara brith is Wales’s speckled fruit loaf, made in both yeasted bread forms and the widely served modern tea-loaf style. This version soaks dried fruit in strong tea before mixing it with self-raising flour, spice, sugar and egg.

Wales
· Grains and starches