Breads

🇦🇹Austria

Kaiser Roll

Kaisersemmel

Kaiser Roll is a dish made with a defined local recipe and ingredients.

🇷🇺Russia

Kalach

Калач

Kalach is a ring-shaped Russian white-wheat bread with a handle, historically sold as portable market food.

🇮🇳Hyderabad, India

Karachi biscuits

कराची बिस्कुट

Shortbread-style biscuits are baked with tutti-frutti and cashew in Hyderabad's Irani bakery tradition.

🇨🇿Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic

Karlovarsky suchar

Karlovarský suchar

Karlovarsky suchar is a bread or flatbread from Karlovy Vary, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇳🇴Norway

Kavring

Sweet, dried rye-based kavring; canonical home must be resolved with Swedish kavring.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Kaya Toast

Charcoal-grilled toast with coconut jam and butter, kopitiam breakfast staple, crispy charred toast with generous kaya and cold butter slab.

🇹🇷Kayseri, Turkey

Kayseri yağlaması

Kayseri yağlaması stacks hand-thin yufka layers with minced meat and tomato, cut into squares and eaten with yogurt — Kayseri's own layered dish.

🇬🇪Georgia

Khabizgina

Ხაბიზგინა

An Ossetian-style round khachapuri from Georgia's mountain regions, stuffed with cheese and mashed potatoes, baked into a filled flatbread.

🇬🇪Georgia

Khachapuri

Хачапури

Georgia's cheese bread, in a dozen regional shapes: sealed and flat in the west, open like a boat with an egg on the coast, layered in puff pastry in the city.

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

Khameer Bread

خبز الخمير

Khameer is a fermented Emirati bread with a soft, puffy crumb, slight sweetness, golden crust, and sesame or black-cumin seeds.

🇱🇾Libya

Khbeiza

Small stuffed breads baked with cheese, olives, tuna or harissa worked into the middle.

🇲🇦Morocco

Khobz (Moroccan Bread)

خبز

Round Moroccan hearth bread with a firm crust and close crumb, used to scoop stews and salads.

🇩🇿Algeria

Khobz Eddar

خبز الدار

Round semolina house bread enriched with egg and butter, decorated with seeds and baked for feast days.

🇲🇦Morocco

Khobz Ferran (Communal Oven Bread)

خبز الفرن

The Moroccan bread baked in a communal oven (ferran), a daily and neighborhood tradition

🇹🇳Tunisia

Khobz Mbesses

خبز مبسس

A traditional Tunisian semolina bread baked with olive oil and salt, dense and crumbly, served with stews, harissa and olive oil.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Khobz Tabouna

خبز طابونة

Round semolina loaf baked against the wall of a clay tabouna oven, with a dense chewy crumb and a blistered underside.

🇱🇾Libya

Khobza Mahwara

A semolina loaf brushed with saffron water and covered in sesame seeds, baked for celebrations.

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

Khubz al-jamri

خبز الجمري

Khubz al-jamri, bread buried and baked directly in hot sand and embers, is a distinct Bedouin technique-bread with real collectible appeal and is not a variant of the carried saj/rgag/shuraik breads.

🇷🇺North Caucasus, Russia

Khychin

Хычин

Thin rolled flatbreads from Karachay-Cherkessia stuffed with potato-and-cheese or herbed curd, griddled in butter.

🇦🇺South Australia, Australia

Kitchener Bun

A Kitchener bun is a soft Adelaide yeast bun rolled in coconut and filled with custard and jam at the centre.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Knysh

Книш

Knysh is a Ukrainian baked bread or pastry filled with potato, buckwheat, onion, or farmer cheese.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Kocho

ቆጮ

A dense, slightly tangy bread made from fermented enset pulp. The defining staple of Gurage and other southern Ethiopian cultures, often served with kitfo or ayib. A unique food born from the 'false banana' tree.

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

Komoch Nan

Көмөч нан

Bread baked directly in the ashes of a hearth or under a cast-iron lid buried in embers, coming out dense with a scorched crust.

🇭🇹Jérémie, Haiti

Konparèt

A dense coconut, ginger and spice bread from Jérémie, keeping for weeks and traditionally carried on long journeys.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Korovai

Коровай

Korovai is a Ukrainian braided wedding bread decorated with symbolic dough figures.

🇬🇷Thessaloniki, Greece

Koulouri

Κουλούρι

Greek sesame bread ring, a breakfast street food sold from carts, especially in Thessaloniki. Crispy outside and soft inside, a daily snack with coffee, a national staple.

🇲🇰North Macedonia

Kozinjak

Козинак

Sweet enriched Easter bread plaited from strands of egg-and-butter dough and glazed to a deep brown.

🇲🇦Morocco

Krachel (Sweet Anise Rolls)

كراكش

Soft Moroccan anise and sesame rolls enriched with orange blossom, served at breakfast or tea.

🇮🇱Israel

Kubaneh

כובנה

Yemenite enriched bread layered with butter and baked overnight in a sealed pot until the crust darkens and the inside pulls apart in buttery sheets.

🇫🇷Alsace, France

Kugelhopf

Alsatian brioche with raisins and almonds in a distinctive fluted mold.

🇷🇺Russia

Kulich

Кулич

Kulich is a tall cylindrical sweet Easter bread with dried fruits and white icing, symbolizes Christ's resurrection, tall shape with fluffy crumb, generous dried fruit, and white glaze.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Lavash

Լավաշ

Paper-thin unleavened bread slapped onto the wall of a clay tonir and peeled off seconds later, dried in stacks and revived with a sprinkle of water.

🇨🇭Basel, Switzerland

Lenten Tart

Fastenwähe

A flat yeast dough tart topped with caraway seeds, traditionally baked between Carnival and Easter in Basel and the Aargau.

🇷🇸Serbia

Lepinja

Лепиња

A soft round flatbread baked plain and split open to hold grilled meat, kajmak and onion.

🇽🇰Kosovo

Leqenik

A flat maize bread baked in a shallow pan, sometimes with cheese or greens worked into the batter, eaten torn into sour milk.

🇦🇹Carinthia, Austria

Lesachtal Bread

Lesachtaler Brot

Protected Lesachtal farmhouse bread is a sourdough grain loaf tied to local wood-fired baking traditions in Carinthia.