Pancakes

🇮🇩Aceh, Indonesia

Aceh Stuffed Pancake

Martabak Aceh

Aceh-style martabak with curry sauce, influenced by Indian Muslim cuisine, crispy and aromatic.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Apam Balik

Min Chiang Kueh

Thick or thin pancake with peanut and corn filling, crispy edges with generous filling and balanced sweetness.

🇮🇳Kerala, India

Appam

അപ്പം

A soft, bowl-shaped rice pancake from Kerala and Sri Lanka with lacy, crispy edges and a fluffy center. It is often served with stew or coconut milk.

🇲🇦Morocco

Baghrir (Thousand-Hole Pancakes)

بغرير

Yeasted semolina pancakes cooked on one side so hundreds of tiny holes open across the surface.

🇷🇼Rwanda

Banana Pancakes

Pancakes made with mashed ripe bananas mixed into the batter, cooked on a griddle; a sweet breakfast or snack using Rwanda's abundant bananas; popular in urban cafes and guesthouses.

🇻🇳Hue, Vietnam

Banh Beo

Bánh bèo

Bánh bèo is a Hue steamed rice cake served in small saucers with shrimp flakes, scallion oil, crispy pork skin, and sweet fish sauce.

🇻🇳Hanoi, Vietnam

Banh Cuon

Bánh cuốn

Steamed rice flour rolls filled with minced pork and wood ear mushrooms, topped with crispy fried shallots and served with nuoc cham.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Banh Xeo

Bánh xèo

Crispy turmeric rice crepe filled with shrimp, pork, and bean sprouts, wrapped in rice paper with fresh herbs and dipped in nuoc cham.

🇳🇵Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Bara (Wo)

बरा

Ground black lentils are seasoned, shaped into a Newari pancake, and fried plain or with egg or minced meat.

🇺🇸United States

Beggar's Purse

A delicate hors d'oeuvre of a crêpe or phyllo purse tied with a chive or scallion ribbon, filled with caviar or a creamy filling.

🇧🇷Brazil

Beiju

A thin, crispy cassava starch crepe from the Amazon, folded over cheese, coconut, or other fillings.

🇷🇺Russia

Blini

Блины

Blini are thin yeasted pancakes made from buckwheat or wheat flour, served with caviar, sour cream, jam, or smoked salmon, symbol of sun and Maslenitsa dish, thin delicate texture with yeast rise and golden color.

🇪🇪Estonia

Blood Pancake

Verikäkk

Blood pancake or dumpling made with blood, flour and spices, a traditional alternative to blood sausage.

🇫🇮Finnish Lapland, Finland

Blood Pancake

Verilettu

Pancake made with blood (often reindeer), flour, eggs, served with lingonberry jam, a traditional iron-rich dish.

🇱🇻Latvia

Blood Pancakes

Asins pankūkas

Pancakes made with blood and barley or rye flour, a traditional winter dish, hearty and rich.

🇮🇹Modena, Italy

Borlengo

Borlengo is a named Italian pancake from Modena, made as a distinctive flour-based or filled form with the ingredients and cooking finish associated with that local tradition.

🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Bourriol

Bourriol is an Auvergne savory pancake made from buckwheat batter, often served with a hearty filling.

🇮🇪Ireland

Boxty

Bacstaí

A traditional Irish potato pancake with grated raw potatoes and flour, fried golden, a regional and daily classic.

🇧🇪Liège, Belgium

Boûkète

Boûkète is a thin Liège buckwheat pancake, a savoury-sweet local griddle preparation.

🇳🇱North Brabant, Netherlands

Brabant Sugar Waffle

Brabantse suikerwafel

A soft Brabant yeast waffle with a caramelised sugar crust and tender interior.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Bramboráky

Zemiakové Placky

A Czech fried potato pancake with garlic, marjoram, and caraway, a street and side classic

🇧🇪Brussels, Belgium

Brussels Waffle

Gaufre de Bruxelles / Brusselse wafel

A Belgian light, airy, rectangular waffle with crisp edges, served with powdered sugar, cream, or chocolate, a national and street icon.

🇫🇷Brittany, France

Buckwheat Galette

Galette de sarrasin

Galette de sarrasin is Brittany’s thin buckwheat crêpe, folded around savory fillings.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Bánh khọt (Vietnamese Mini Savory Pancakes)

Bánh khọt

Banh khot is made with small crisp coconut-batter cups topped with a prawn and eaten wrapped in mustard leaf.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Cachapa

Batter of grated fresh sweetcorn cooked on a griddle into a thick, sweet pancake, folded over queso de mano and butter.

🇸🇴Somalia

Canjeero

The staple bread of Somalia — a fermented, pancake-like flatbread with a spongy texture and slightly sour flavor; called canjeero in the south and laxoox in the north; smaller, thinner, and sweeter than Ethiopian injera; eaten at breakfast with honey and ghee, or with stews and soups; made fresh every day; a fixture of virtually every Somali household; the bread that defines Somali identity.

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

Chabab

شباب

Sweet fluffy Emirati pancakes flavored with cardamom and saffron, topped with date syrup, cream cheese, or honey, light and fluffy texture with distinct cardamom aroma and golden color, a breakfast staple.

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

Chalpak

Чалпак

Soft discs of dough fried flat until puffed, served hot with cream, honey, or jam at breakfast.

🇳🇵Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Chatamari

चतामरी

Rice-flour batter is spread into a thin Newari crepe and topped with minced meat, egg, or vegetables before cooking.

🇺🇸United States

Chicken and Waffles

Fried chicken atop a crisp waffle, doused in syrup — a Southern soul-food classic.

🇮🇹Italy

Chisciöl

Chisciöl is a named Italian pancake from Tirano, made as a distinctive flour-based or filled form with the ingredients and cooking finish associated with that local tradition.

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Chitoi Pitha

চিতই পিঠা

Plain rice-flour cakes cooked in a covered clay mould until spongy on one side, eaten with molasses, coconut or a bowl of spicy bhorta.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Cholermus

A deep-fried pancake or fritter from Obwalden, made of stretched yeasted dough filled with apples or cherries, dusted with sugar.

🇨🇷Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Chorreadas

Fresh corn pancakes made from ground corn, milk, and salt, an indigenous recipe from Guanacaste, can be sweet or savory.

🇮🇹Italy

Ciaffignone

Ciaffignone is a thin savory pancake from Manciano in southern Tuscany, cooked as a delicate batter and commonly folded around pecorino for a salty, soft-centred bite.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Coconut Pancake

Serabi

Small pancakes made from rice flour and coconut milk, cooked in clay pans, sweet or savory.