Breads

🇱🇷Liberia

Banana Rice Bread

Banana-Rice Bread

Liberian quick bread combining ripe banana with rice flour for a moist, fragrant crumb.

🇨🇦Canada

Bannock

Fried or baked bread dough, Indigenous and Métis traditional food, staple across Canada from Scottish fur traders.

🇨🇳China

Baozi (Steamed Filled Buns)

包子

Yeasted wheat buns pleated shut round pork and cabbage, beef, or vegetables, steamed in stacked bamboo baskets.

🇷🇺Russia

Baranki

Баранки

Hard ring-shaped scalded-dough crackers somewhere between a bagel and a biscuit; the smaller drier versions are sushki.

🇶🇦Qatar

Baranyoush

برانيوش

Bread cooked with sugar, molasses, or date honey alongside grilled or fried fish — a traditional Qatari ghabga dish celebrated by chef Noof Al Marri of the Desert Rose Café.

🇭🇰Guangdong, Hong Kong

Barbecue Pork Buns

叉烧包

Steamed white buns that split into three at the top, filled with diced barbecued pork in a sweet-savoury sauce.

🇪🇪Mulgimaa, Estonia

Barley Scone

Karask

Traditional barley flour quick bread, light and fluffy, a rustic Estonian specialty.

🇮🇪Ireland

Barmbrack

Bairín breac

An Irish sweet fruit bread with tea-soaked raisins and sultanas, a Halloween and daily classic.

🇨🇭Basel, Switzerland

Basler Brot

Basler Brot is a dish made with a defined local recipe and ingredients.

🇲🇦Morocco

Batbout (Pocket Bread)

بطبوط

Small Moroccan griddle breads puffed into pockets, served plain or split around a savoury filling.

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Bavarian Pretzel

Bayerische Breze

Traditional Bavarian pretzel shaped like folded arms for prayer, with a thin dark brown crust and juicy tender interior.

🇷🇴Transylvania, Romania

Beaten Bread

Pâine bătută

A rustic Transylvanian bread whose crust is charred in the oven and then beaten with a stick to crack it open, revealing a soft crumb.

🇮🇳Uttar Pradesh, India

Bedmi Puri

बेदमी पूरी

A deep-fried puffy bread from Uttar Pradesh made with wheat and urad dal flour. It is served with aloo sabzi and pickles for breakfast.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Johnny Bread

Johnny Bread

Sweet, scone-like bread made from flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, butter, milk, and eggs; traditionally cooked in a cast-iron skillet on the stovetop; served with codfish breakfast or with butter, jam, honey, or cheese

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Massa Sovada

Pão Doce

Enriched sweet bread made with flour, eggs, milk, sugar, butter, and yeast; light and fluffy like brioche; served at Portuguese Holy Spirit festivals (Festa do Divino Espírito Santo); a Bermudian-Portuguese specialty. Bermudian Portuguese families serve this sweet, enriched bread at holidays and family tables.

🇧🇲Bermuda

Bermuda Raisin Bread

Raisin Bread

A sweet Bermuda yeast bread generously studded with raisins, traditionally baked in long loaves and served with butter or cheese.

🇮🇳Punjab, India

Bhatura

भटूरा

A deep-fried leavened bread from Punjab, larger and softer than puri. It is the classic companion to chole in chole bhature.

🇺🇸United States

Biscuits and Gravy

Biscuits ’n’ Gravy

Soft, flaky Southern biscuits smothered in a creamy sausage gravy, a quintessential American breakfast.

🇪🇪Estonia

Black Bread

Must leib

Traditional Estonian black bread made from dark rye flour with malt syrup, served with most meals.

🇨🇩DR Congo

Bobolo

Cassava fermented, pounded and packed into a long stick wrapped in leaves, then steamed until firm and slightly sour.

🇱🇸Lesotho

Bohobe ba Polata

Baked Basotho wheat bread cooked in a flat cast iron pot (pitsa ea polata) with hot coals from cow dung placed on the lid and underneath, producing a golden-brown crust. Traditionally served at special occasions and celebrations.

🇲🇽Mexico

Bolillo

The classic Mexican white bread roll, crusty outside and soft inside, used for tortas and breakfasts.

🇬🇮Gibraltar, Gibraltar

Bollos de Hornazo

A sweet and dry bread similar to Spanish hornazo; made with flour, sugar, eggs, butter, and aniseed; eaten around Easter and Christmas; unlike Spanish versions, Gibraltarian hornassos typically don't have hard-boiled egg decoration; glazed with beaten egg and sometimes decorated with hundreds and thousands.

🇵🇹Madeira, Portugal

Bolo do Caco

Bolo do caco is a Madeiran flatbread cooked on a hot stone or griddle and split for garlic-and-parsley butter.

🇵🇹Azores, Portugal

Bolo lêvedo

Bolo lêvedo is a Portuguese bread from São Miguel Island, made from wheat dough and baked or griddled for a distinct crust and crumb.

🇧🇶Bonaire

Bonaire Pan Bati

Pan Bati

A savory pancake made from cornmeal, thicker than Dutch pancakes with a slightly sweet taste from added sugar; traditionally made from leftover funchi; can be eaten with jam or butter for breakfast or with savory stews; means 'smash bread' in Papiamentu

🇷🇺Russia

Borodinsky Bread

Бородинский хлеб

Dark sourdough rye scented with coriander and sweetened with molasses, named for the 1812 Borodino battle.

🇺🇸Boston, United States

Boston Brown Bread

A steamed, dark, sweet bread made with rye, cornmeal, and molasses, traditionally served with baked beans.

🇦🇺Australia

Boston Bun

A large spiced sweet bun enriched with dried fruit and often mashed potato in older recipes, baked flat and finished with thick passionfruit icing and a sprinkle of desiccated coconut.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Brascidèla

Brascidèla is a dish made with a defined local recipe and ingredients.

🇸🇴Somalia

Bread and Halwa

Rooti iyo xalwo

A traditional Somali dinner dish — slices of bread served with xalwo (a gelatinous confection); a simple but beloved combination; the bread soaks up the sweet, spiced halwa; a dish that combines the everyday with the celebratory; served at dinner and special occasions; the bread and halwa of Somali evenings; a unique sweet-savory pairing.

🇩🇪Germany

Bread Rolls

Brötchen

Fresh breakfast rolls in various types including wheat, rye, whole grain, and milk rolls.

🇽🇰Kosovo

Bread Under the Sač

Bukë nën Saç

Round bread baked under a metal sač dome over embers, a Kosovo tradition.

🇦🇩Catalonia, Andorra

Bread with Tomato

Pa amb tomaquet

Catalonia's simplest dish: rustic bread toasted and rubbed with ripe tomato, drizzled with olive oil and salt, the foundation of Catalan meals.

🇫🇷Pays de la Loire, France

Brioche

Rich enriched bread made with generous butter and eggs, tender cake-like crumb with golden crust.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Bublik

Бублик

Bublik is a ring-shaped bread roll boiled then baked, similar to bagel but sweeter.