Methi thepla
A Gujarati flatbread made with fresh fenugreek leaves, wheat, gram and millet flours, and spices. This batch makes about 11.
Recipes
1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.
Recipes
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.
Kulcha
A plain North Indian kulcha uses an all-purpose wheat dough with yogurt, baking powder and soda, then rests and cooks on a hot tawa; optional seeds and roasting fat finish it.
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.
Jowar bhakri
Jowar bhakri is an unleavened sorghum flatbread, hand-patted or gently rolled and griddle-cooked across parts of Maharashtra and Karnataka.
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.
Setaka no takana-zuke
Giant red mustard leaves are dried, layered with salt and chile, pressed in a wooden tub, drained after a week and left through the rainy season.
Biltong braaibroodjie
Chopped biltong, sweet onion, cream cheese and Cheddar fill bread toasted in a hinged grid over gentle coals, then finished with biltong dust.
Cashew-apple wine
Vinho de caju is a seasonal alcoholic drink made from expressed cashew-apple juice. In southern Guinea-Bissau, an ethnographic account records a simple press-and-strain method, while harvest timing and local trade shape its place.
Elevated risk
Smoked fish and agushie stew
Ghanaian agushie stew combines melon-seed paste with tomatoes, peppers, palm oil and smoked fish, and is served with rice, yam or plantain.
Elevated risk
All-grain American red ale
A deep amber-red American ale brewed from pale, Munich, CaraVienne and chocolate malts, bittered with Columbus hops and finished with Amarillo.
High risk
Smen
North Africa's matured butter: soured milk churned, the butter washed, heavily salted and left for months until lipolysis turns it into a pungent, cheese-like seasoning used a spoonful at a time.
Elevated risk
Weizen, extract method
A German-style wheat beer made with wheat extract, a short hop boil and a hefeweizen yeast, using cold water to top up the fermenter.
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.
Aceda
Aceda is Sudan’s firm cereal porridge, commonly made from sorghum and shaped into a smooth mound. Some versions use fermented dough; fermentation is not universal.
Cultured buttermilk
Cultured buttermilk is skim milk soured with a lactic starter into a tangy drink. This Canadian home method sets the milk without churning cream.
Tomato ketchup
Tomato ketchup is a smooth, sweet-sour tomato sauce whose modern form grew from an older family of savoury ketchups; this version follows a tested home-canning recipe.
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.
A surströmming meal
A Swedish late-summer meal of commercially prepared surströmming, tunnbröd, potatoes, onion and cultured cream. This is a serving preparation; the specialist fish fermentation is not made at home here.
Elevated risk
Natto with retail starter and an oven-light incubator
A 250 g soybean batch uses one of nine retail-natto portions and a towel-wrapped oven-light setup; the thermometer location and starter-pack mass are unknown.
Crème fraîche
Crème fraîche is cream soured by lactic cultures into a thick, mild topping. It suits fruit and desserts as well as soups, sauces and other savoury dishes.
Elevated risk
Natto with liquid starter in a foam box
Liquid natto starter is mixed through pressure-cooked soybeans and incubated in a warmed foam box; the creator gives no incubation temperature.
Elevated risk
Zambian munkoyo from maize meal and munkoyo root
A creamy, mildly sour Zambian cereal drink in which the dug roots of wild legumes supply both the enzymes that break the cooked starch down and the microorganisms that then ferment it.
Elevated risk
Unseasoned rice vinegar
Japanese komezu is a pale, unseasoned rice vinegar made through alcoholic and acetic fermentation; rice, water, koji and yeast shape its character.
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.
White-rice yakju with rice-flour nuruk
A 2021 study's white-rice yakju: steamed Hanareum rice ferments with rice-flour nuruk and takju yeast for 11 days, then the clear upper liquid is filtered and centrifuged.
Red cabbage sauerkraut
Red cabbage shredded, salted and fermented in its own brine; the pigment gives a deep violet kraut with a sharper flavour than the white-cabbage form.
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.
Elevated risk
Namibian oshikundu (ontaku) with sorghum malt
A Namibian everyday drink of pearl-millet flour scalded with hot water, thinned with sorghum malt and bran and soured quickly by a spoonful of the previous batch.
Asparagus with cho-gochujang
A Korean banchan of blanched asparagus dressed with a sweet-sour cho-gochujang sauce; Hyosun's version cools the spears in ice water before tossing.
High risk
Ogiri-okpei from Prosopis seeds
Ogiri-okpei is a Nigerian condiment of cooked Prosopis africana cotyledons left to ferment spontaneously in leaf-lined containers, then ground and dried.
Elevated risk
Roasted sesame sauce for noodles or hot pot
An untested sesame-paste sauce with soy, black vinegar, sugar, sesame oil and garlic, drafted for hot-pot dipping or noodles.
Elevated risk
Maroua cochette from cooked rice and malt
An alcoholic rice beer from Maroua, Cameroon, brewed from boiled rice flour with some malt and started with chai or bili-bili.
Elevated risk
Malawian thobwa with corn and sorghum flour
A thick, sweet-sour Malawian drink of boiled maize flour into which sorghum flour is stirred before an overnight spontaneous fermentation.
Elevated risk
Dahyangheukmi yakju
A clear Korean rice wine made with aromatic Dahyangheukmi pigmented rice, matching rice-flour nuruk and takju yeast.
High risk
Cacciatore salami
Small Italian hunter-style salami of lean pork, firm fat, salt, pepper and garlic, mildly acidified and dry-matured; protected as Salamini Italiani alla Cacciatora DOP.