Pancakes

🇳🇱Groningen, Netherlands

Groningen Bacon Pancakes

Spekdikken

Savory pancakes from Groningen cooked in a waffle iron with bits of bacon, made with rye flour, butter, and stroop.

🇭🇺Budapest, Hungary

Gundel Palacsinta

Walnut crêpe with chocolate sauce.

🇸🇩Sudan

Gurasa

Gorrassa

A thick, soft wheat pancake cooked on a griddle and eaten with meat stew poured over it until it soaks through.

🇯🇵Hiroshima, Japan

Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki

広島風お好み焼き

Layered okonomiyaki with batter, cabbage, yakisoba noodles, and egg stacked rather than mixed.

🇹🇭Bangkok, Thailand

Hoi Thod

หอยทอด

Crispy mussel pancake with egg batter, bean sprouts, and garlic chives, topped with sweet chili sauce.

🇭🇺Great Hungarian Plain, Hungary

Hortobágyi Pancake

Hortobágyi palacsinta

Hortobágyi pancake is a savoury crepe filled with meat stew and topped with sour cream and paprika sauce.

🇻🇳Hue, Vietnam

Hue Savory Pancake

Bánh khoái

Bánh khoái is Hue's small, thick, crisp-edged pancake filled with shrimp, pork, and bean sprouts, served with herbs and Hue's rich sesame-peanut dipping sauce.

🇲🇻Maldives

Huni Hakuru Folhi

ހުނި ހަކުރު ފޮޅި

Coconut and palm jaggery pancakes — grated coconut cooked with hakuru (palm jaggery) wrapped in a thin batter, a traditional Maldivian sweet.

🇲🇲Myanmar

Husband and Wife Snack

မုန့်လင်မယား

Rice-flour batter cooked in a dimpled griddle with quail egg, spring onion and chickpea, then two halves pressed together into a ball.

🇯🇵Japan

Imagawayaki

今川焼き

A round, filled pancake cooked in a mold, with red bean, custard, or savory fillings.

🇺🇸United States

Johnnycake

A flat cornmeal griddle cake from New England and the South, crisp-edged and simple.

🇺🇬Uganda

Kabalagala

Ripe sweet bananas mashed with cassava flour and fried into small dense pancakes, sold in stacks by the roadside.

🇦🇹Austria

Kaiserschmarrn

Kaiserschmarrn is a thick airy pancake torn into caramelised pieces, served with plum or fruit compote in Austria and neighbouring traditions.

🇮🇳India

Kal Dosa

கல் தோசை

A soft, thick dosa from Tamil Nadu cooked on a flat griddle without much oil. It has a pillowy texture and is served with chutneys.

🇫🇮South Karelia, Finland

Karelian Crepe

Sultsina

Traditional Karelian dish, cross between crêpe and flatbread, unleavened rye dough with farina filling, eaten immediately.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Katimeria

Κατιμέρια

Katimeria are Cypriot fried pancakes folded around fresh anari or drizzled with honey.

🇮🇷Kermanshah, Iran

Khagineh

خاگینه

Eggs are folded into a sweet or savoury Iranian pancake, with saffron, yoghurt, or herbs depending on the regional form.

🇹🇭Thailand

Khanom Bueang

ขนมเบื้อง

Crispy Thai crepes filled with sweet meringue and shredded coconut, an ancient royal street snack.

🇱🇦Laos

Khanom Krok

ขนมครก

Small coconut cream pancakes with a crisp edge and soft, custardy center, cooked in a cast-iron pan.

🇧🇹Bumthang, Bhutan

Khur-le

ཁུར་ལེ།

Buckwheat or wheat batter poured onto a hot griddle into a thick pancake, eaten with datshi or ezay at breakfast in the Bumthang valleys.

🇰🇷South Korea

Kimchi Pancake

김치전

A simple pancake made with well-fermented kimchi in a flour batter, pan-fried until crispy and tangy.

🇰🇪Kenya

Kimyet

A sweet Kenyan pancake or griddle cake served at breakfast with tea.

🇹🇩Chad

Kissar

Chadian fermented flatbread or crepe; made from semolina or flour of rice, maize, or sorghum; mixed with other ingredients and fermented for at least six hours; more consumed in cities than in the countryside; accompanied by sauces like moulkhiya, tomato, gombo, and charmout; a staple of Chadian culinary art.

🇮🇷Iran

Kookoo Sib Zamini

کوکو سیب زمینی

Persian potato patties made from mashed potatoes, eggs, saffron and turmeric, fried until golden, a popular street snack and side.

🇱🇮Liechtenstein

Kratzate

A torn, thick pancake in the wider Alpine tradition, known in Liechtenstein as Kratzate and served sweet or savoury.

🇵🇱Poland

Krokiety

Polish croquettes: thin crêpes filled with meat, mushrooms, or cabbage, breaded and fried until golden. A party and restaurant staple, crispy and savory, served with barszcz.

🇮🇱Israel

Lachuch

לחוח

Spongy Yemenite pancake cooked on one side only, its surface covered in open holes, used to scoop soup and stew.

🇩🇯Djibouti

Lahoh

A batter of sorghum or wheat left to sour overnight and cooked on one side only, coming out spongy and covered in holes.

🇬🇷Greece

Lalagites

Λαλάγγιτες

Lemnos pancakes of thin dough crisped in butter and folded over myzithra cheese and honey, cooked to order in village cafeneia.

🇭🇺Hungary

Layered Pancakes

Rakott palacsinta

Layered pancakes are Hungarian crepes layered with cottage cheese or jam and baked as a casserole.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Lithuanian Crepes

Blynai

Thin crepes or yeast-risen pancakes, sometimes mixed with grated apple or potato, filled with meat, cheese, or mushrooms.

🇧🇪Liège, Belgium

Liège Waffle

Gaufre de Liège / Luikse wafel

A Belgian dense, sweet yeast waffle with caramelized sugar pearls, a national and street icon.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Lokše

Thin unleavened pancakes of cooked mashed potato and flour, dry-fried on a hot plate and spread with goose fat, poppy seed and sugar, or duck liver.

🇮🇸Iceland

Lummur

Small, thick sugar-dusted pancakes.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Lívance

A Czech small yeast pancakes served with jam and powdered sugar, a breakfast and daily classic

🇲🇬Madagascar

Mahorais Cassava Pancakes

Mokary

Small fermented pancakes made from cassava or rice flour, coconut milk and a little sugar, sometimes flavoured with vanilla. Traditionally cooked in a special indented pan and eaten for breakfast or as a snack.