Pão doce (Hawaiian Portuguese sweet bread)
This Hawaiian Electric pão doce is an enriched yeast bread with milk, eggs, melted butter and sugar, baked as two loaves or shaped into small rolls.
Recipes
1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.
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Lachha paratha with coriander and cumin
A layered wheat paratha, rolled with ghee, coriander, garlic and cumin and cooked on a tawa. This batch makes twelve.
Baghrir
Moroccan semolina pancakes made from a thin yeast batter, rested until foamy and cooked on one side until the surface sets with a honeycomb of holes. This source-specific batch makes sixteen 5-inch pancakes.
Khakhra
A thin Gujarati wheat flatbread, pressed and roasted over low heat until crisp and lightly browned.
Methi thepla
A Gujarati flatbread made with fresh fenugreek leaves, wheat, gram and millet flours, and spices. This batch makes about 11.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bajra roti
A pearl-millet flatbread shaped between sheets and cooked on a hot tawa. This home batch makes eight.
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.
Hot cross buns
These spiced fruit buns use yeast and baking powder in a soft wheat dough, then receive an icing cross after baking.
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.
Rumali roti
Thin, soft wheat flatbreads rolled wide and cooked quickly on a hot tawa. Their name refers to a handkerchief.
Makki di roti
A Punjabi maize-flour flatbread cooked on a tawa. This version adds a little whole-wheat flour and fresh fenugreek.
Missi roti
A chickpea-and-wheat flatbread made with spices, onion and herbs, rolled and cooked on a tawa. This batch makes sixteen.
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.
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.
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.
Elevated risk
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.
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.
Pâte fermentée
Pâte fermentée is a bread preferment made from salted, yeasted dough set aside to ferment and mixed into a later batch, carrying developed dough and fermentation products with it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
High risk
Abacha
Abacha is a fermented cassava-strip preparation from southeastern Nigeria, sold wet or dried and later rehydrated for meals such as African salad.
Elevated risk
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.
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.
Elevated risk
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.
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.
Ragi uthappam
Ragi uthappam turns fermented ragi, urad and idli-rava batter into thick griddle cakes topped with onion and green chilli.
Ragi paniyaram
Ragi paniyaram uses fermented ragi, urad and idli-rava batter mixed with spiced onion and cooked in an oiled mould.
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.
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.
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.
Elevated risk
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.
Mawè
Mawè is a spontaneously fermented maize or other cereal dough from Benin and neighbouring West Africa, soured by lactic bacteria and yeasts and used as the base for cooked pastes, porridges, breads and drinks.
Fruit yeast water
Fruit yeast water is a spontaneously fermented liquid made by soaking fruit in water, with or without sugar, to grow yeast for starting bread dough or a separate flour starter.