Flatbreads

🇺🇸United States

Stuffed Pizza

A Chicago deep-dish variant with a top crust over the filling — sauce on top, cheese inside.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Suf Fitfit

ሱፍ ፍትፍት

A breakfast of torn injera dressed with ground flaxseed, oil and aromatics.

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

Taba Nan

Таба нан

A Kazakh bread baked on coals between two frying pans., a traditional and ancient bread

🇵🇸Palestine

Taboon Bread

خبز طابون

Thick, dimpled flatbread baked directly on hot stones in a clay taboon oven, which leaves pits across the surface.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tacos

The essential Mexican street food: fillings wrapped in small corn tortillas, dressed at the table.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tacos al carbon

Grilled-meat tacos, charred over coals.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tacos al Pastor

Corn tortillas filled with thin slices of marinated pork cooked on a vertical spit, finished with pineapple, onion, cilantro, and salsa.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tacos de adobada

Tacos of pork marinated in a red adobo chile sauce.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tacos de bistec (Steak tacos)

Steak tacos of thin, griddled beef.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tacos de cabeza

Tacos of slow-cooked head meat — cheek, tongue, or brain — from the barbacoa pit.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tacos de Canasta

Mexico City's 'basket tacos': small tacos filled with potato, beans, or chicharrón, steamed in a basket-lined container and sold warm.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tacos de chapulines

Grasshopper tacos, toasted and seasoned.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tacos de chuleta (Pork chop tacos)

Pork chop tacos of griddled, bone-in chops.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tacos de costilla (Rib tacos)

Rib tacos of slow-cooked beef ribs.

🇲🇽Mexico City, Mexico

Tacos de gaonera

Mexico City-style tacos of thinly sliced, grilled beef, often served late at night.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tacos de lengua

Tacos of slow-cooked beef tongue, tender and rich.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tacos de oreja

Tacos of crunchy, slow-cooked pig's ear.

🇲🇽Baja California, Mexico

Tacos de Pescado

Baja-style fish tacos of battered, fried white fish in corn tortillas with cabbage slaw and a creamy chile sauce.

🇲🇽Sinaloa, Mexico

Tacos gobernador

Sinaloa's governor taco: a flour tortilla stuffed with cheese and shrimp, griddled until crisp.

🇲🇽Puebla, Mexico

Tacos Árabes

Puebla's Middle Eastern-inspired tacos: spit-roasted pork (trompo) served on soft flour tortillas with salsa and pineapple.

🇮🇷Iran

Taftoon

نان تافتون

Thin round bread with a pocked surface baked fast against the oven wall, softer than lavash and sold folded in quarters.

🇳🇪Niger

Taguella

A traditional Tuareg flatbread baked in the hot sand of the Sahara: a thick, unleavened galette of millet, wheat, or sorghum flour is buried under hot sand and embers, then broken into pieces and eaten with a meat or tomato sauce.

🇮🇳India

Tandoori Roti

तंदूरी रोटी

An unleavened whole-wheat flatbread cooked in a tandoor. It is thinner and chewier than naan, with a smoky flavor from the clay oven.

🇨🇷Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Tanelas

Corn tortillas from Guanacaste, large and thin, traditional and rustic, a distinctive Costa Rican corn preparation, pliable and authentic.

🇮🇶Iraq

Tannour Bread

خبز تنور

Flat rounds of dough slapped onto the inside wall of a clay tannour oven and peeled off blistered a minute later.

🇱🇾Libya

Tannour Bread

Khobz tannour

Rounds of dough slapped onto the wall of a clay oven fired with olive wood and peeled off blistered a few minutes later.

🇨🇷Costa Rica

Tayuyas

A Costa Rican street snack of a thick griddle corn tortilla split open and stuffed with beans, cheese, and often chicharrón.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Telba Fitfit

ጤፍ ፍትፍት

Torn bread or injera mixed with ground flaxseed, spices and oil as an Ethiopian breakfast.

🇮🇳Maharashtra, India

Thalipeeth

ठळीपीठ

A multigrain flatbread from Maharashtra made from various flours and spices. It is served with white butter and curd.

🇮🇳Gujarat, India

Thepla

થેપલા

A thin Gujarati flatbread made with whole wheat, gram flour, and fenugreek leaves. It is a travel-friendly bread.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Thyme Flatbread

منقوشة زعتر

Flat dough spread with a paste of dried thyme, sumac, sesame and olive oil and baked on the floor of a hot oven.

🇪🇷Eritrea

Timtim Fitfit

Timatim Firfir

Eritrean bread salad of torn injera mixed with diced tomatoes, onions, jalapenos, and olive oil; a fresh, cold dish; similar to Ethiopian timatim fitfit; served as a light meal or side; refreshing in the highland heat.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tlacoyos

Oval blue-corn masa cakes stuffed with fava beans or chicharrón, then grilled and topped with nopales, cheese, and salsa.

🇲🇽Oaxaca, Mexico

Tlayuda

A large, thin, crispy Oaxacan tortilla spread with asiento and beans, then topped with quesillo, cabbage, and tasajo or chorizo.

🇵🇦Panama

Tortilla Changa

A Panamanian street snack of a hot dog wrapped in a tortilla with cheese and sauce, griddled until crisp.

🇦🇷Argentina

Tortilla Criolla

A rustic Argentine flatbread of wheat flour, fat, and salt, baked in a clay oven or on a griddle. A northwest and countryside staple, eaten with stews or mate.