Flatbreads

🇲🇽Mexico

Gorditas Zacatecanas

Zacatecas-style gorditas, often with a red chile filling.

🇲🇹Gozo, Malta

Gozitan Ftira

Ftira Għawdxija

Flat sourdough base topped or filled with sliced potato, ġbejniet, tomato, onion, olives and anchovy, then baked.

🇺🇸United States

Greek-Style Pizza

A New England Greek-American pizza with a thick, oily, chewy crust and a bold, herbed sauce.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Dal Puri

Dal Puri

Flatbread stuffed with split peas and spices, served wrapped around a curry; of Indo-Caribbean origin, shared with Trinidad; commonly filled with goat, chicken, or conch curry; a popular street food in Grenada; found at roti shops and roadside vendors; the dal puri of the Spice Isle; a filling, portable meal.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Roti

Roti

Thin, pliable flatbread wrapped around heavy portions of curried chicken, goat, potato, or conch (lambi); the standard working lunch across Grenada; influenced by Trinidad's Indo-Caribbean tradition; messy, intensely flavorful, and highly portable; found at small storefronts near the market in St. George's; the lunch of the Spice Isle.

🇺🇸United States

Grilled Pizza

Pizza dough grilled over coals until blistered, then topped and finished on the grill.

🇹🇷Turkey

Gözleme

A hand-rolled village flatbread folded over fillings such as white cheese, spinach, potatoes, or minced meat, then cooked on a heated griddle (sac) until lightly crisp and golden. Women are often seen rolling and cooking gözleme at market stalls and roadside stops across Turkey.

🇳🇮Nicaragua

Güirilas

Nicaraguan sweet corn cakes made from fresh, tender corn, griddled until golden and typically eaten with crema and cheese.

🇲🇦Morocco

Harcha (Semolina Rounds)

حرشة

Moroccan semolina griddle cakes, dense and golden, served with butter, honey, or jam. A breakfast and tea-time staple, crumbly and savory

🇨🇦Canada

Hawaiian Pizza

A Canadian-invented pizza topped with ham and pineapple, set on a tomato-cheese base.

🇪🇷Eritrea

Injera

እንጀራ

Ethiopia's iconic sourdough flatbread, made from a fermented batter of teff flour and water, cooked into a large spongy round covered in tiny 'eyes'. It serves as both plate and utensil for nearly every Ethiopian meal.

🇰🇼Kuwait

Iranian Bread

خبز إيراني

Large flat rounds slapped onto the wall of a clay tanoor and pulled off blistered, sold from Iranian-run bakeries all over Kuwait.

🇦🇼Aruba

Johnny Cake

Johnny cake; a traditional Aruban fried bread; made with flour, water, yeast, lard, and sugar; fried in oil; served with cheese or bacalao (salt cod); a popular snack and breakfast item; a feature of roadside snack-bars; a staple of Aruban street food

🇮🇳Karnataka, India

Jolada Roti

ಜೋಳದ ರೊಟ್ಟಿ

A Karnataka flatbread of jowar (sorghum) flour, cooked on a griddle.

🇮🇳India

Jowar Roti

ज्वार की रोटी

A flatbread made from sorghum flour, a staple in Maharashtra and Karnataka. It is gluten-free, thick, and served with spicy curries.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Katma

Катма

Thin, yeasted breakfast flatbread/pancake.

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

Kattama

Каттама

Dough rolled thin, brushed with fat or fried onion, coiled and flattened again, then pan-fried so it separates into flaky layers.

🇮🇳Kerala, India

Kerala Parotta

കേരള പരോട്ട

A soft, flaky, multi-layered flatbread from Kerala made from all-purpose flour. It is a key accompaniment to Kerala beef fry and chicken curry.

🇩🇿Algeria

Kesra

كسرة

Flat semolina bread cooked on a heavy iron plate, either as a thick galette or as a very thin, layered rougag.

🇮🇳Gujarat, India

Khakhra

ખાખરા

Thin wheat dough is rolled flat and dry-roasted until crisp, often with fenugreek or spices in Gujarat.

🇾🇪Yemen

Khobz al Tawa

Khobz al Tawa is a thin Yemeni flatbread cooked on a metal griddle rather than in a tandoor; it is drier and keeps longer than the thicker tandoor bread Saluf.

🇪🇭Western Sahara

Khobz Sahrawi

Dense, round bread staple of the Sahrawi diet; traditionally baked in the embers of a fire; versatile bread served at every meal, used as a utensil to scoop up meats, stews, and sauces; the everyday bread of Western Sahara.

🇪🇭Western Sahara

Khoubz Laftir

Unleavened bread prepared without salt, sugar, or yeast; only barley mixed with water, buried in a clean hole with fire above; soaked in meat sauce after baking; a nomadic bread that uses the desert itself as the oven.

🇸🇦Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia

Khubz Ahmar

خبز أحمر

Khubz Ahmar is a soft Al-Ahsa bread whose reddish crumb and subtle sweetness come from dates incorporated into the dough.

🇸🇸South Sudan

Kisra

Sorghum batter fermented for days and spread paper-thin on a hot iron plate, peeled off in sheets and stacked to be torn and dipped.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Kita

ቂጣ

A round unleavened Ethiopian flatbread sometimes called 'Ethiopian pizza' for its size and shape. Cooks quickly on a mitad and forms the base of chechebsa.

🇷🇸Serbia

Komplet Lepinja

Комплет лепиња

A flatbread hollowed out, filled with kajmak and pork dripping, topped with a raw egg and returned to the oven until the egg sets.

🇳🇴Norway

Krotekake

Hardanger flatbread with a distinctive cross-hatch pattern.

🇮🇳India

Kulcha

कुलचा

A leavened flatbread from North India, typically baked in a tandoor. It is softer and thicker than naan, often topped with sesame seeds or stuffed.

🇪🇷Eritrea

Kulwa

Eritrean dish of lamb or beef chunks fried with berbere spices, ghee, tomatoes, and onions; drier than zigni, more like a stir-fried tibs; served with rice or injera to mop up the sauce; a TasteAtlas-listed dish.

🇦🇹Vorarlberg, Austria

Käsdönnala

Käsdönnala is a Vorarlberg flatbread spread with sour cream, onion and mountain cheese, then baked until bubbling.

🇮🇳India

Lachha Paratha

लच्छा पराठा

A multi-layered flaky paratha from North India, made by pleating and coiling the dough before rolling. Each layer separates when torn.

🇮🇱Israel

Laffa

לאפה

Large soft flatbread baked against the wall of a taboon oven, used to wrap shawarma and grill meats rather than to be split like pita.

🇬🇷Greece

Lagana

Λαγάνα

Greek flatbread, oval and soft, sprinkled with sesame, baked only on Clean Monday. A Lenten tradition, a national bread, soft and chewy, a once-a-year specialty, a Clean Monday staple.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Lahmacun

Լահմաջո

A paper-thin round of flatbread topped with a savory mixture of finely minced lamb or beef, onions, tomatoes, and parsley, seasoned with cumin and chili flakes. Baked rapidly in a stone oven until the edges are charred and crisp. Eaten rolled up with parsley and a squeeze of lemon.

🇮🇸Iceland

Laufabrauð

Iceland's thin, leaf-patterned fried bread, a Christmas and festive classic.