Breads

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Pitka

Питка

Round enriched loaf scored across the top, baked for name days, Christmas Eve and the greeting of guests, who tear a piece and dip it in salt and honey.

🇬🇾Guyana

Plait Bread

A soft, faintly sweet white loaf braided before baking, the bread eaten with pepperpot at Christmas.

🇹🇷Turkey

Pogača

Flat round loaf baked for holidays, weddings and the breaking of the Ramadan fast, sometimes brushed with butter and stacked in layers.

🇺🇸United States

Popovers

Airy, hollow rolls of egg batter baked in tall tins until puffed and golden.

🇭🇺Hungary

Poppy Seed Bread Pudding

Mákos guba

Poppy Seed Bread Pudding is a bread pudding with stale kifli, poppy seeds, sugar, and milk.

🇼🇸Samoa

Pork Buns

Keke Pua'a

Samoan pork buns; dough filled with spiced pork and onions; baked or steamed; often served snack and street food; influenced by Chinese bun traditions; found at bakeries and markets across Samoa; soft, savory, and filling; a TasteAtlas-listed snack.

🇲🇴Macao

Pork Chop Bun

Pai Bao

Macau's version of a sandwich; a crispy, freshly baked baguette stuffed with a juicy, tender grilled pork chop; simple but delicious; no vegetables or sauce, just meat and bread; the grilled charcoal flavor on the pork is the key; a Macanese street food classic; found at Tai Lei Loi Kei in Taipa.

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Pork Floss Bun

Rou Song Bao

Sweet-savory bun topped with pork floss; soft bread with butter and mayonnaise, topped with fluffy, savory pork floss; a cha chaan teng and bakery classic; the combination of sweet bread and salty pork floss is addictive.

🇬🇧Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Potato Bread

Fadge

Mashed potato worked with flour and butter, rolled thin, cut into triangles and cooked on a griddle, then fried at breakfast.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Potato Scone

Scottish potato scones are flat griddled rounds made from mashed potato, flour, and butter.

🇬🇧Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Pratie Oaten

Pratie Oaten is a County Antrim breakfast cake of mashed potato and oats, fried or griddled.

🇵🇱Poland

Proziaki

Proziaki is a bread or flatbread from Subcarpathian Voivodeship, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇲🇰North Macedonia

Prženi Lepčinja

Пржени лепчиња

Slices of bread dipped in beaten egg and fried, salted and eaten for breakfast or as a child's supper.

🇨🇴Colombia

Pudín de Pan

Colombian bread pudding of stale bread, milk, eggs, sugar, and raisins, baked until golden. A rustic, comforting home dessert, served warm or cold.

🇺🇸United States

Pueblo Bread

A round, hand-shaped loaf of Native American Pueblo baking, baked in an adobe horno oven.

🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Pumpernickel

Heavy slightly sweet rye bread from Westphalia, baked at low temperatures for up to 24 hours.

🇮🇳India

Puri

पूरी

A deep-fried, puffy whole-wheat bread from North India. It is served at breakfast, festivals, and special meals, often with potato curry or chole.

🇧🇷Minas Gerais, Brazil

Pão de Queijo

Small, round cheese breads made from tapioca starch and cheese, crisp on the outside and chewy inside, originating in Minas Gerais.

🇵🇰Lahore, Pakistan

Qatlama

قتلمہ

Layered dough brushed with a spiced gram-flour and chilli paste, coiled, flattened and deep-fried into a crisp, oily disc.

🇹🇯Tajikistan

Qurutob

Қурутоб

Torn fatir is softened with a sauce of dissolved qurut and topped with onion, herbs, and fresh vegetables.

🇧🇷Brazil

Rabanada

A Brazilian-style French toast of bread slices soaked in milk and egg, fried until golden, then coated in sugar and cinnamon syrup.

🇹🇷Turkey

Ramazan pidesi

Ramazan pidesi, the round sesame-topped loaf sold only in the Ramadan hour before iftar with queues around the bakery, is a hard-seasonal named bread and a genuine collectible moment.

🇨🇳China

Red Bean Paste Bun

豆沙包

A soft steamed bun filled with sweetened azuki paste, eaten at breakfast or as a dim sum sweet.

🇱🇷Liberia

Rice Bread

Liberian Rice Bread

A sweet, dense Krio bread made from rice flour, sugar, over-ripe bananas, and groundnut oil; traditionally baked for parties, weddings, and celebrations, especially in Freetown.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Rohlik

Rohlík

Crescent-shaped everyday Czech bread roll, eaten at every breakfast.

🇷🇴Romania

Romanian Pretzels

Covrigi

Soft twisted rings of bread baked all day and sold hot from window kiosks, topped with coarse salt, poppy or sesame seed.

🇿🇦South Africa

Roosterkoek

Dough rolls grilled over open coals on a braai grid until crisp and smoky outside, split while hot and loaded with butter, cheese, or braaied meat.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Root Bread

Wurzelbrot

A rustic sourdough bread shaped like a twisted root, with a dark, crackly crust and an open, chewy crumb, baked across Switzerland.

🇨🇴Colombia

Roscón

A Colombian sweet, soft bagel filled with arequipe or guava jam, dusted with sugar. A bakery staple, eaten with coffee or hot chocolate.

🇮🇩Jakarta, Indonesia

Roti buaya

Roti buaya, the metre-long crocodile-shaped bread carried by the groom at a Betawi wedding, is a named ceremonial item and is unlike anything else in the catalog.

🇫🇮Finland

Round Rye Loaf

Limppu

Traditional Eastern Finnish dark sour rye bread, round and bulbous, dense and heavy with milder flavor.

🇩🇰Denmark

Rugbrød (Rye Bread)

Rugbrød

Denmark's dense, dark sourdough rye bread, the base for smørrebrød and a daily staple.

🇴🇲Oman

Rukhal Bread

خبز رخال

Rukhal is a very thin Omani crepe-like bread with pliable centers and lightly crisp edges, served with honey, cheese, or eggs.

🇫🇮Finland

Rye Bread

Ruisleipä

Dense, dark sourdough rye bread, Finland's national bread since 2017, with distinctive sour flavor and dense texture.

🇱🇻Latvia

Rye-Wheat Bread

Rudzu kviešu maize

Mixed bread with at least 51% rye flour, yeast-fermented, balancing rye aroma with softer texture.

🇮🇸Iceland

Rúgbrauð

Iceland's dense, sweet dark rye bread baked underground in geothermal heat for 24 hours.