Flatbreads

🇲🇻Maldives

Roshi

ރޮޝި

Thin wheat flatbread is cooked on a hot surface; Huni Roshi and Masroshi add coconut or tuna fillings.

🇬🇾Guyana

Roti

A soft, thin Guyanese flatbread served with curried chicken, goat or vegetables in Indo-Guyanese homes and roti shops.

🇸🇷Suriname

Roti

A soft, thin Surinamese flatbread served wrapped around curry chicken, potato and vegetables at home and in roti shops.

🇮🇳India

Roti (Chapati)

रोटी

An unleavened whole-wheat flatbread cooked on a dry griddle. It is the daily bread across North India, rolled thin and puffed over an open flame

🇲🇾Malaysia

Roti Bom

Dense, multi-layered roti with ghee, dense rich texture with sweet ghee flavor and many layers, a decadent mamak creation.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Roti Canai

Roti Prata

Flaky flatbread made with flour and ghee, stretched and folded, served with dhal and curry, flaky layers with crispy exterior and soft interior.

🇫🇯Fiji

Roti Parcel

A soft roti wrapped around curry — potato, chicken, goat or bean — folded into a square and sold in paper.

🇸🇴Somalia

Roti Somali

Roti

Layered Somali roti cooked on a hot griddle and served with meat or tea.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Roti Tisu

Paper-thin crispy flatbread, often cone-shaped, extremely thin and crispy with golden brown color and sweet coating, a theatrical mamak creation.

🇰🇲Comoros

Roti ya Houma Pampa

A Comorian griddled flatbread rolled around a savoury filling and eaten hot from island stalls.

🇩🇿Algeria

Rougag

رقاق

Very thin sheets of semolina dough spread with the hand on a hot plate and cooked in seconds until dry and brittle.

🇮🇳India

Rumali Roti

रुमाली रोटी

An extremely thin, handkerchief-like flatbread from the Mughlai tradition. It is cooked on an inverted kadai and folded like a handkerchief.

🇮🇶Iraq

Ruqaq Bread

رقاق

Very thin dough spread over a convex metal dome and cooked in seconds into a large, brittle sheet.

🇸🇴Somalia

Sabaayad

A traditional Somali flatbread, flaky and layered like paratha; made with flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, milk, oil, and coriander; the dough is repeatedly coated with oil and folded before being flattened and fried; crispy outside, soft inside; came to Somalia through Indian cooking along the trade routes; served with stews and meat dishes like beef suqaar; a breakfast and lunch staple.

🇮🇳Maharashtra, India

Sabudana Thalipeeth

साबूदाना ठळीपीठ

A Maharashtrian fasting flatbread made from sago, potato, and peanuts. It is crisp and flavorful.

🇬🇾Guyana

Sada Roti

Plain unleavened flatbread cooked on a tawa and clapped between the hands to soften, eaten with chokas at breakfast.

🇮🇩Maluku, Indonesia

Sago Flatbread

Sagu Lempeng

Papuan sago flatbread, flat sago sheets cooked over fire, traditional staple of Papua.

🇱🇨Saint Lucia

Saint Lucian Roti

Roti

Flatbread originating from India, widely enjoyed in Saint Lucia; thin dough filled with curried meats, vegetables, or chickpeas; reflects the Indian influence on the island's cuisine; commonly eaten for lunch or dinner; served with chutney or hot sauce; the roti of Saint Lucia; a Caribbean-Indian fusion; an everyday food.

🇧🇿Yucatán Peninsula, Belize

Salbute

Salbutes

A Yucatecan puffed tortilla topped with chicken or turkey, tomato, and pickled onion.

🇾🇪Yemen

Saluf

Ṣalūf

Saluf is a thick Yemeni tandoor bread baked against the hot wall of an oven, with a chewy crumb and smoky blistered crust that distinguishes it from griddle-cooked Khobz al Tawa.

🇱🇾Libya

Sand Bread

Khobz mallah

Unleavened dough buried in hot sand and embers in the desert and dug out, brushed off and eaten.

🇮🇷Iran

Sangak

سنگک

Long flatbread baked directly on a bed of hot pebbles, which leave dimples across the underside, made from wholemeal dough.

🇨🇳China

Scallion Pancake

葱油饼

A savoury, flaky flatbread of wheat dough layered with scallions and oil, pan-fried until crisp and golden, a northern Chinese street food staple.

🇮🇹Florence, Italy

Schiacciata

Tuscan dimpled olive-oil flatbread.

🇨🇳Beijing, China

Sesame Flatbread

烧饼

A layered wheat flatbread coated in sesame seeds and baked against the wall of a drum oven, sometimes split and stuffed with braised meat.

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

Shelpek

Шелпек

A Kazakh thin fried flatbread, served with tea or main courses

🇯🇴Jordan

Shrak

شراك

Paper-thin unleavened bread stretched over the fists and cooked in seconds on the domed convex saj griddle.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Shulyky

Шулики

Shulyky are Ukrainian baked flatbread pieces topped with honey and poppy seeds for Makoviy.

🇺🇸United States

Sicilian Pizza

A thick, square, spongy pizza with a crisp bottom, baked in an oiled pan.

🇫🇷Nice, France

Socca

Chickpea flour flatbread from Nice, cooked in a wood-fired oven.

🇸🇴Somalia

Somali Cornbread

Muufo

A traditional Somali flatbread, thicker and denser than canjeero; made from corn or wheat flour and baked in a tinaar (clay oven); puffy and uniquely thick; popular in southern Somalia; eaten with stews and soup, or at breakfast with honey, sugar, subag (ghee), and black tea; cut into pieces, topped with sesame oil and sugar, then mashed with tea; its portability suited the nomadic life.

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

Somun

Round leavened flatbread baked in a wood oven so it puffs hollow, split open and filled with ćevapi — and baked in vast quantity for Ramadan iftar.

🇲🇽Mexico

Sopes

Thick, palm-sized corn masa cakes with pinched edges to hold beans, meat, lettuce, cream, cheese, and salsa.

🇰🇪Kenya

South Sudanese Chapati

Chapati

Flatbread influenced by Indian and East African traditions; wheat flour dough rolled thin and cooked on a griddle; eaten with stews, used to wrap ful, or eaten with tea; common in urban areas; a versatile bread that complements South Sudanese dishes.

🇺🇸St. Louis, United States

St. Louis-Style Pizza

A thin, cracker-crust pizza with Provel cheese and a sweet sauce, cut into rectangles — a St. Louis signature.

🇺🇸United States

Stromboli

An Italian-American rolled bread filled with meats, cheeses, and peppers, baked and sliced.