Pancakes

🇾🇹Mayotte

Mahorais Rice Pancakes in Coconut

Fénénétsi

Thick rice-flour pancakes cooked in a special pan (marmite dogo), then bathed in warm coconut milk sweetened with sugar, vanilla, cinnamon and cardamom. A Ramadan and special-occasion sweet.

🇲🇱Mali

Malian Fried Pancakes

Maasa

Traditional Malian deep-fried pancakes or flatbreads made with rice or millet flour; the dough is fermented slightly, then fried until golden; sweetened with sugar and flavored with nutmeg, cinnamon, or vanilla; a popular snack and breakfast item; listed in Wikipedia's Malian cuisine; similar to puff-puff but with a distinctive Malian flavor.

🇸🇦Hail, Saudi Arabia

Maqshush

مقشوش

Maqshush is a Saudi Hail dessert made from naturally fermented whole-wheat batter, griddle-baked and topped with date molasses or honey.

🇳🇪Kano, Niger

Masa

Waina

Fermented rice batter cooked in a dimpled iron pan into small, spongy, faintly sour cakes, eaten with pepper sauce or honey.

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

Masabeeb

المصابيب

Masabeeb are small round Saudi pancakes made with whole-wheat and white flours, eggs, and milk, served with honey and ghee.

🇮🇳India

Masala Dosa

मसाला दोसा

A crispy rice crepe stuffed with spiced mashed potatoes and onions. One of India's most famous dishes, it originated in South India and is served with sambar and chutney.

🇨🇱Los Lagos, Chile

Milcao

Traditional Chiloé potato pancake made with raw grated and cooked mashed potatoes, a southern island specialty, crispy.

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

Millet Galettes

Galettes de mil

Millet pancakes cooked in a special pan with holes (poêle à trous); known by many ethnic names (misd laaga, wonmi faaga, lampaahoun); a village and urban breakfast or snack.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Mini Pancakes

Poffertjes

Small fluffy pancakes made with yeast and buckwheat flour, baked in a special poffertjespan, served with butter and sugar.

🇵🇰Sindh, Pakistan

Mitho Lolo

مٺو لولو

Sindhi griddle bread sweetened with jaggery and flavoured with fennel and cardamom, fried in ghee until dark.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Mofo Gasy

A sweetened rice-flour batter left to ferment overnight and cooked in the hollows of a cast-iron plate over charcoal into small, spongy rounds.

🇦🇹Tyrol, Austria

Moosbeernocken

Moosbeernocken is a dessert made with a defined local recipe and ingredients.

🇰🇷Seoul, South Korea

Mung Bean Pancake

빈대떡

A crispy pancake made from ground mung beans with kimchi and pork, a specialty of Gwangjang Market in Seoul.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Nalysnyky

Налисники

Nalysnyky is a thin crepes filled with meat, cheese, mushrooms, sweetened cottage cheese, poppy seeds, or berries.

🇮🇳Karnataka, India

Neer Dosa

ನೀರ್ ದೋಸೆ

A thin, watery rice batter dosa from Karnataka that forms a lacy, bubbly crepe. It is soft and served with chicken curry or chutney.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Net Crepe

Roti Jala

Net-like lacy crepe served with curry, a Malay-influenced dish from Riau and coastal areas.

🇧🇾Vitebsk, Belarus

Oatmeal Pancakes

Цадавікі

Thin pancakes from soured oat flour, cooked on a dry pan and eaten with melted butter or curd — the everyday breakfast of the north before wheat was affordable.

🇷🇺Russia

Oladyi

Оладьи

Oladyi are small thick Russian pancakes or fritters made with kefir or buttermilk, served with smetana or jam.

🇯🇵Osaka, Japan

Osaka-Style Okonomiyaki

お好み焼き

A savory cabbage-and-flour pancake mixed with pork, seafood, and egg, grilled on a teppan.

🇳🇦Namibia

Oshikwiila

Traditional pancake made from mahangu (pearl millet) flour — a staple of the Owambo people, cooked on a griddle, eaten with relish or as a snack.

🇫🇮Ostrobothnia, Finland

Ostrobothnian Pancake

Kropsu

Regional pancake from Southern Ostrobothnia, also called pohojalainen pannari, a traditional hearty dish.

🇫🇮Finland

Oven Pancake

Pannukakku

Finnish oven-baked pancake similar to Dutch baby, with crispy browned edges and smooth custard-like center.

🇭🇺Hungary

Palacsinta

Palacsinta is a thin crepe-like pancakes, sweet or savory, never eaten for breakfast in Hungary, thin almost transparent.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Palačinky

A Czech thin crepe filled with jam, chocolate, or fruit, served rolled, a daily and dessert classic

🇿🇦South Africa

Pampoenkoekies

Fluffy pumpkin fritters fried golden and rolled in cinnamon sugar while hot, a Cape farm-kitchen treat made from mashed pumpkin in a batter.

🇼🇸Samoa

Panikeke

Samoan deep-fried pancake balls; plain or banana-flavored; round and golden; sold by street vendors all over the islands; often served sweet treat; crispy outside, doughy inside; the grab-and-go snack of Samoa; a TasteAtlas-listed snack.

🇮🇳Tamil Nadu, India

Paniyaram

பணியாரம்

Soft, round dumplings of fermented rice-lentil batter, cooked in a special pan.

🇳🇴Norway

Pannekaker (Crepes)

Pannekaker

A Norwegian thin crepe, served with sugar, jam, or cream, a national and family dessert

🇦🇷Argentina

Panqueques

Panqueques con dulce de leche

Argentine thin pancakes (crêpes) rolled around either dulce de leche or dulce de membrillo, often flambéed or dusted with sugar. A classic dessert in homes and bodegones.

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Patishapta

পাটিসাপটা

Thin rice-flour crêpes rolled around a filling of coconut and date molasses or thickened milk.

🇮🇳Andhra Pradesh, India

Pesarattu

పెసరట్టు

A green mung bean dosa from Andhra Pradesh, thin and slightly crisp. It is often served with upma inside and ginger chutney.

🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Pickert

Pickert is a dish made with a defined local recipe and ingredients.

🇦🇺Australia

Pikelets

Small thick pancakes, Australian teatime treat, served with butter and jam, light texture with properly cooked and good toppings, a familiar and nostalgic classic, daily.

🇲🇰North Macedonia

Pitulici

Питулици

Thin salty pancakes of flour and water cooked on a griddle and eaten hot with cheese or yoghurt.

🇵🇱Poland

Placki z Jabłkami

Polish apple pancakes: grated apples mixed with batter, pan-fried until golden. A sweet, comforting dessert or breakfast, served with sugar or sour cream.

🇵🇱Poland

Placki Ziemniaczane

Polish potato pancakes: grated potatoes mixed with egg, onion, and flour, pan-fried until golden and crispy. Served with sour cream, applesauce, or goulash on top.