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Thin golden-brown Gujarati methi thepla flatbreads with fresh fenugreek flecks and griddle spots.

Methi thepla

A Gujarati flatbread made with fresh fenugreek leaves, wheat, gram and millet flours, and spices. This batch makes about 11.

Gujarat · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Warm golden Colombian almojábanas, with a soft cheese-and-corn crumb on a ceramic plate.

Almojábanas

Small Colombian cheese breads made with precooked corn flour, queso fresco, mozzarella, eggs, milk and baking powder. This documented home version makes eight breads and is served warm.

Colombia
· Grains and starches
Thin golden farinata with lightly browned edges and chopped onion, cut into wedges in a shallow copper pan.

Farinata (Riviera dei Fiori recipe)

This farinata is a chickpea-flour batter baked with olive oil in a pan. The Riviera dei Fiori version makes six and uses a 200–250°C oven.

Riviera dei Fiori, Liguria · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Golden-flecked akki rotti, a vegetable-studded rice-flour flatbread on a ceramic plate.

Akki rotti (Karnataka rice-flour flatbread)

This Karnataka-style akki rotti mixes fine rice flour with vegetables, coconut, herbs and spices, then hand-pats and griddle-cooks the dough.

Karnataka · Modern method
· Grains and starches
A stack of round takakau skillet flatbreads with golden-brown patches and a light garlic-herb butter finish.

Takakau (skillet flatbread)

Christall Lowe's whānau takakau is an eight-piece wheat flatbread enriched with milk and oil or butter, rested briefly, then cooked one at a time in a skillet.

Aotearoa New Zealand · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Thin golden Socca nicoise chickpea pancake with toasted spots and a few crisp charred flecks, shown on its cooking pan.

Socca niçoise

A Nice socca batter of chickpea flour, water, olive oil and salt, spread thin on a 50-centimetre copper plate and baked very hot. This formula is distinct from the Genoese farinata page.

Nice, France · Modern method
· Grains and starches
A small stack of thin whole-wheat chapatis with golden-brown tawa spots.

Chapati

This measured chapati uses whole-wheat atta and water, with salt and oil or ghee optional. Rest the dough, roll it thin and cook through on a hot tawa; it is distinct from the partly cooked, puffed phulka route.

India
· Grains and starches
Three rustic pearl-millet rotis with browned tawa spots on an ivory plate.

Bajra roti

A pearl-millet flatbread shaped between sheets and cooked on a hot tawa. This home batch makes eight.

India · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Illustrative present-day whole-wheat puris, puffed and blistered from deep-frying; not a pani-puri shell or stuffed variant.

Whole-wheat puri (poori)

Firm whole-wheat dough rolled into small rounds and deep-fried until puffed. This version is unleavened and distinct from Bengali refined-flour luchi.

India · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Illustrative Rumali roti from the published wheat batch: very thin lightly spotted flatbread cooked on an inverted tawa and folded into soft quarters.

Rumali roti

Thin, soft wheat flatbreads rolled wide and cooked quickly on a hot tawa. Their name refers to a handkerchief.

India · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
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