Breads

🇱🇷Liberia

Liberian Cassava Flour Bread

Cassava Flour Bread

A traditional loaf combining wheat flour with fermented, dried cassava flour, giving the bread a faintly tangy aroma and a denser, softer crumb.

🇱🇷Liberia

Liberian Cornbread

Cornbread

A cake-like Liberian cornmeal bread bound with eggs, milk, butter, sugar, and nutmeg rather than the crumbly unsweetened style of American cornbread.

🇱🇷Liberia

Liberian Rice Bread

Rice Bread

A lightly sweet Liberian quick bread made with rice flour, often enriched with banana or coconut.

🇱🇷Liberia

Liberian Sour Bread

Sour Bread

A lightly fermented Liberian loaf with a tangy crumb, part of the country's home-baking tradition and eaten at breakfast or with tea.

🇮🇳Bihar, India

Litti chokha

Aloo chokha

Sattu-filled wheat dough is roasted over coals, cracked open with ghee, and served with smoky mashed vegetables.

🇧🇪Wallonia, Belgium

Liège Spice Bread

Pain d'Épices Liégeois

Dense honey-and-spice bread from Liège, baked with rye flour and gingerbread spices.

🇬🇪Georgia

Lobiani

Ლობიანი

The same flat round bread as khachapuri, filled with mashed spiced kidney beans and often bacon fat instead of cheese.

🇫🇯Fiji

Lolo Buns

Lolo buns are soft Fiji bread rolls flavoured with coconut cream, baked until the crust colours and the crumb stays tender.

🇨🇿Lomnice nad Popelkou, Czech Republic

Lomnicke suchary

Lomnické suchary

Lomnicke suchary is a bread or flatbread from Lomnice nad Popelkou, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇮🇳West Bengal, India

Luchi

লুচি

A Bengali deep-fried bread made from refined flour, similar to puri but softer and smaller. It is served with aloo dum or cholar dal.

🇱🇺Luxembourg

Luxembourg Dark Bread

Schwaarztbrout

Dense, dark country loaf of mixed rye and wheat flour.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Maarouk

معروك

A soft, sweet brioche-like bread flavoured with mahleb and filled with date paste, traditionally baked for Ramadan in Lebanon and Syria.

🇲🇴Macao

Macanese Meat Loaf

Capela

Macanese meat loaf; a baked meat loaf made with minced meat, sausage, onions, and spices; topped with a layer of mashed potato; a Macanese comfort food; a fusion of Portuguese and Chinese ingredients; the meat loaf that is a Macanese home cooking classic.

🇵🇱Kraków, Poland

Maczanka Krakowska

A Kraków dish of sliced roast pork layered in caraway sauce with bread, soaked and served. A traditional Kraków specialty, hearty and savory, a regional classic, served warm.

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Madungo Bakes

A Vincentian arrowroot bake or bread, dense and lightly sweet, made from arrowroot flour and coconut. It reflects the island's long-standing arrowroot-growing and milling tradition.

🇵🇱Silesia, Poland

Makówki

A Silesian Christmas dessert of poppy seeds, bread, honey, nuts, and dried fruit, layered and served cold. A festive, sweet, nutty dish, a regional Christmas Eve tradition.

🇲🇹Malta

Maltese Bread

Ħobż tal-Malti

Round sourdough loaf with a thick, dark, blistered crust and an open, chewy crumb, baked in wood-fired ovens.

🇮🇲Isle of Man

Manx Bonnag

Bonnag

Traditional Manx soda bread, originally a flat unleavened barley griddle cake, now typically an oven-baked fruit bread made with buttermilk, bicarbonate of soda, flour, butter, and dried fruit (currants or sultanas); a daily teatime and breakfast staple on the Isle of Man.

🇸🇻El Salvador

Marquezote

A Salvadoran sweet bread with panela, cinnamon, and ginger, a daily and coffee classic

🇧🇴La Paz, Bolivia

Marraqueta

A Bolivian French-style bread roll, crispy outside and soft inside, a La Paz and daily staple.

🇨🇱Chile

Marraqueta

Chile's national bread, a crusty white loaf divided into four connected rolls with light airy interior, a daily staple.

🇺🇾Uruguay

Marsellés

Twin-lobed Vienna-style roll dusted in maize flour, split and filled for sandwiches.

🇧🇪Ghent, Belgium

Mastel

Mastel is a round Ghent spice bread with a dense crumb, traditionally split and toasted.

🇦🇲Armenia

Matnakash

Մատնաքաշ

Soft oval loaf scored into a lattice by dragging the fingers through the dough before baking — the name means 'drawn by hand'.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Mazanec

Sweet yeast bread with raisins and almonds, baked for the Czech Easter table.

🇲🇼Malawi

Mbatata Buns

Soft, slightly sweet yeasted buns made with mashed sweet potatoes, flour, milk, butter, eggs, and sugar; a tender, golden-crumbed roll popular for breakfast and snacks in Malawi.

🇬🇪Georgia

Mchadi

Მჭადი

A flat, unleavened cake of coarse cornmeal and water cooked on a griddle or in a clay pan, eaten hot with cheese and beans. Walnut-enriched mchadi is a recognised form, but the plain corn bread is the canonical item here.

🇬🇪Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

Megrelian Khachapuri

Მეგრული ხაჭაპური

The round khachapuri with a second layer of cheese melted over the top as well as sealed inside, baked until the surface blisters.

🇯🇵Japan

Melonpan

メロンパン

A round bun with a crackled sugar-cookie crust on top, named for its melon-like appearance, not flavor.

🇿🇦South Africa

Mielie Bread

Mieliebrood

A southern African sweet corn bread baked or steamed with whole corn kernels - mieliebrood in South Africa, steamed in corn leaves as sinkwa sembila in Eswatini

🇸🇦Aseer, Saudi Arabia

Mifa Bread

خبز ميفة

Clay oven bread from southern Saudi (Asir, Jazan, Najran), baked in wood-fired tannour oven with smoky flavor and charred crust, distinctive woodfire aroma with charred spots and soft melt-in-mouth interior, a southern regional specialty.

🇵🇹Alentejo, Portugal

Migas à Alentejana

Migas à Alentejana fries crumbled bread with garlic, olive oil, and pork crackling until the crumbs hold together beside grilled meats.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Milinki

Милинки

Small rolled buns of filo or soft dough brushed with butter and cheese, baked touching each other so they pull apart in a sheet.

🇺🇸United States

Milk Toast

A comfort dish of warm milk poured over toasted bread, sweetened with sugar and butter.

🇹🇿Zanzibar City, Tanzania

Mkate wa Kumimina

Zanzibari rice bread of soaked ground rice, coconut milk and cardamom, poured into a pan and baked into a soft round.

🇰🇲Comoros

Mkatra Foutra

A staple Comorian flatbread made with flour, water, sugar, yeast, salt, coconut milk, and beaten egg; baked on a ghee-brushed griddle and sprinkled with sesame seeds; brought by Omani traders; a beloved breakfast and snack bread.