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Golden round Ecuadorian pan de yuca cheese buns, one cut open to show its soft interior

Ecuadorian pan de yuca: Laylita's version

Small cassava-starch cheese breads mixed in a processor, chilled, baked and briefly browned under a broiler. This is Laylita's Ecuadorian-style formula.

Ecuador · Modern method
· 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
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
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
A pan of golden, raisin-studded hot cross buns with white icing crosses, beside one opened bun showing its soft crumb.

Hot cross buns

These spiced fruit buns use yeast and baking powder in a soft wheat dough, then receive an icing cross after baking.

United States · Modern method
· Grains and starches
A small stack of plain round crumpets with porous tops and golden griddled sides.

Crumpets: King Arthur version

A yeasted milk-and-water batter cooked in greased rings, then turned to finish. This modern formula also includes baking powder.

Britain · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Finished Cretan barley-wheat paximadi rusks, twice-baked and served plain on a plate.

Paximadi kritiko (Cretan barley-wheat rusk)

Elena Paravantes gives a modern 50/50 whole-grain barley and wheat rusk recipe, shaped as one scored loaf, baked, separated into slices and dried in a low oven. The second rise has no stated duration.

Crete, Greece · Modern method
· Grains and starches
A golden raisin paska loaf in a paper mould, sliced to show its soft crumb.

Classic Ukrainian yeast paska

This Ukrainian Easter paska uses an enriched yeast dough with milk, eggs, butter, raisins and citrus zest. A sponge and two further rises precede baking in paper or parchment-lined moulds.

Ukraine · Modern method
· Grains and starches
A stack of thin porous teff injera on a warm ivory surface, one round folded back to show its soft texture.
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Teff injera with saved ersho and absit

A two-stage Ethiopian teff injera method begins with saved ersho, ferments the main batter beneath refreshed surface water, then adds cooked absit before a final warm rest and griddle baking.

Ethiopia · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
Pale, gently domed Ablo cakes in a leaf-lined woven basket, with one cut open to show the soft crumb.

Ablo (rice-based steamed bread)

Soft, lightly tangy steamed cereal bread documented across Benin and Togo. This page gives one measured rice-flour research method; maize-based Ablo and mixed-grain versions remain distinct traditions.

Benin
· Grains and starches
Illustrative finished multigrain millet idli: soft steamed, grain-speckled cakes served with coconut chutney.

Multigrain millet idli

Multigrain millet idli uses a source-specific naturally fermented grain and urad batter, then cooks it by steaming in moulds. The creator leaves some process measures unquantified.

Modern method
· Grains and starches
A single round multigrain millet dosa with a lightly browned, naturally mottled surface on a plain plate.

Multigrain millet dosa

Multigrain millet dosa uses a source-specific naturally fermented grain and urad batter, then cooks it by griddling. The creator leaves some process measures unquantified.

Modern 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
Dried Abacha, pale shredded cassava strips piled in a shallow earthenware bowl.
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Abacha

Abacha is a fermented cassava-strip preparation from southeastern Nigeria, sold wet or dried and later rehydrated for meals such as African salad.

Southeastern Nigeria
Grains and starches
A plain bowl of Western Kenyan fermented finger-millet uji, shown as smooth thin brown porridge.
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Western Kenyan fermented finger-millet uji

A thin, sour porridge of western Kenya made by fermenting unroasted finger-millet flour in water for a day or two, then diluting it and cooking it through.

Western Kenya · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
Anpan, soft golden wheat buns filled with sweet red-bean paste and topped with black sesame, one cut to show the filling.

Anpan

Anpan is a soft wheat bun filled with sweet red-bean paste and finished with egg wash and black sesame. This dough rises with commercial instant yeast.

Japan · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A shallow ceramic bowl and a small loose pile of pale dry white gari granules on a warm cream surface.
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White gari from fermented cassava

White gari is grated cassava fermented for three days, then pressed, sieved and toasted dry into a coarse West African meal eaten soaked or as a stiff porridge.

Benue State, Nigeria · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Two thick portions of salted sourdough focaccia with open crumb on an ivory platter.

Sourdough focaccia

This sourdough focaccia uses ripe starter in place of commercial yeast. Olive oil enriches the folded dough and coats the pan before a long proof and a crisp, salted bake.

United States · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Thick fermented ragi uthappam cooked until browned and topped with chopped onion and green chilli.

Ragi uthappam

Ragi uthappam turns fermented ragi, urad and idli-rava batter into thick griddle cakes topped with onion and green chilli.

Modern method
Grains and starches
Illustrative savory ragi paniyaram: round, browned finger-millet bites flecked with onion, curry leaf and mustard seed, cooked in a cavity pan.

Ragi paniyaram

Ragi paniyaram uses fermented ragi, urad and idli-rava batter mixed with spiced onion and cooked in an oiled mould.

Modern method
Grains and starches
Illustrative finished ragi idli: six soft, reddish-brown steamed finger-millet cakes with fine grain speckling on a ceramic plate, with coconut chutney beside them.

Ragi idli

Ragi idli uses a source-specific naturally fermented grain and urad batter, then cooks it by steaming in moulds. The creator leaves some process measures unquantified.

Modern method
· Grains and starches
Plain rice-and-urad dosa, thin and crisp with a golden lacy surface, folded on a stainless-steel plate beside separate coconut chutney.

Rice and urad dosa

Rice and urad dosa uses a source-specific naturally fermented grain and urad batter, then cooks it by griddling. The creator leaves some process measures unquantified.

Modern method
· Grains and starches
Illustrative thin reddish-brown whole-ragi dosa from an overnight fermented batter, folded on a plate with plain chutney served separately; not a photograph of the source video batch.

Ragi dosa

Ragi dosa uses a source-specific naturally fermented grain and urad batter, then cooks it by griddling. The creator leaves some process measures unquantified.

Modern method
· Grains and starches
A shallow cream bowl of pale, fluffy steamed Attiéké cassava granules on a warm ivory background.
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Attiéké from fermented cassava pulp

Attiéké is an Ivorian staple of grated cassava fermented with a traditional inoculum, then pressed, sieved, granulated, dried and steamed into fine couscous-like grains.

Côte d’Ivoire · Modern method
· Grains and starches