Pastries

🇵🇹Lisbon Region, Portugal

Pastel de feijão

Pastel de feijão is a Torres Vedras pastry with a crisp shell and a smooth sweet white-bean-and-almond filling.

🇨🇴Colombia

Pastel de Gloria

A Colombian puff pastry filled with guava jelly or paste and sometimes cheese, sprinkled with sugar. A bakery sweet, especially popular at Christmas.

🇵🇹Portugal

Pastel de Nata

A flaky Portuguese pastry filled with baked egg custard, finished with a blistered caramelized top.

🇲🇿Mozambique

Pastel de Nata Moçambicano

A Portuguese custard tart adopted in Mozambican bakeries and cafés.

🇦🇷Argentina

Pastel de Papa

Argentine shepherd's pie: a deep dish of seasoned beef with olives, hard-boiled eggs and sometimes raisins under a blanket of mashed potato, baked until the top browns. Everyday home cooking.

🇵🇹Coimbra, Portugal

Pastel de Santa Clara

Pastel de Santa Clara is a Portuguese sweet from Coimbra, shaped as a pastry and finished with its characteristic sugar, nut, or egg filling.

🇵🇹Centro, Portugal

Pastel de Tentúgal

Ultra-thin, crispy pastry rolls filled with egg cream from Tentúgal.

🇸🇻El Salvador

Pasteles de Maíz

A Salvadoran fried corn pastry with chicken, beef, or vegetables, a street and daily classic

🇻🇪Mérida, Venezuela

Pastelito Andino

Wheat-dough turnover from the Andes filled with cheese, chicken or beans and fried, eaten for breakfast with coffee.

🇨🇺Cuba

Pastelito de Guayaba

A guava-filled sweet pastry found as a flaky Cuban puff pastry and as the smaller Dominican pastelitos de guayaba, a daily and breakfast classic.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Pastelitos

Dominican fried or baked pastries filled with ground beef, chicken, or cheese, smaller and more elaborate than empanadas. A party and bakery staple, served with hot sauce.

🇦🇷Argentina

Pastelitos Criollos

Fried puff-pastry parcels filled with dulce de membrillo or dulce de batata, dusted with sugar. A patriotic-holiday treat, especially for the 25 de Mayo and 9 de Julio celebrations.

🇮🇹Naples, Italy

Pastiera Napoletana

Neapolitan Easter tart of shortcrust filled with cooked wheat berries, ricotta, eggs, candied fruit, and orange blossom water. A spring ritual.

🇲🇦Morocco

Pastilla (B'stilla)

بسطيلة

Festive Moroccan pastry of thin warqa layered around spiced poultry, seafood, or a sweet-savoury filling.

🇫🇷Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Pastis Gascon

Pastis Gascon is a delicate layered apple pastry made from very thin dough, butter, and sugar.

🇫🇷Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Pastis landais

Pastis landais is a tall Landes brioche flavored with rum or orange blossom and baked until golden.

🇲🇹Gibraltar, Malta

Pastizz

Diamond or oval parcels of very flaky lard pastry filled with ricotta or a mushy pea paste, baked until the layers separate.

🇨🇻Cape Verde

Pastry with the Devil Inside

Pastel com diabo dentro

Deep-fried pastries filled with a spiced meat and vegetable mixture that packs a surprising kick from hot peppers.

🇺🇸United States

Pasty

The Upper Peninsula's Cornish hand pie of beef, potato, rutabaga, and onion in a turnover crust.

🇵🇹Lisbon Region, Portugal

Pastéis de Belém

Pastéis de Belém is the named Fábrica product: a flaky pastry shell around baked egg custard made from the house recipe in Belém.

🇵🇱Poland

Pasztecik Szczeciński

A Szczecin street food: a deep-fried cylindrical pastry filled with meat, cabbage, or cheese. A regional icon since 1969, served with barszcz, a PGI-protected snack.

🇭🇹Haiti

Pate Kode

Pate kòde

Half-moon of flaky pastry stuffed with spiced ground beef, salted herring or chicken, deep-fried and eaten from paper.

🇨🇷Limón, Costa Rica

Patí

Caribbean meat pastry with turmeric-infused dough and spiced meat filling, a Limón province Afro-Caribbean specialty, flaky and spicy.

🇲🇨Monaco

Pavés du Rocher

Almond and honey confection flavoured with orange, cut into small pavé-shaped pieces.

🇷🇸Novi Pazar, Serbia

Pazarske Mantije

Пазарске мантије

Small spheres of stretched filo filled with minced beef, onion and oil, packed tightly in a round tray and baked until the tops crisp.

🇹🇷Istanbul, Turkey

Paçanga Böreği

A börek variety especially popular in Istanbul, regarded as a traditional Sephardic Jewish specialty. Yufka dough is stuffed with pastırma, kaşar cheese, and parsley, then rolled and deep-fried until golden and crisp. It is a favorite meze and street snack.

🇺🇸United States

Peach Cobbler

A Southern dessert of spiced peaches baked under a golden biscuit topping, served warm with vanilla ice cream.

🇫🇷Paris, France

Pear Tart Bourdaloue

Tarte Bourdaloue

Pear tart with almond frangipane, a Parisian patisserie classic.

🇺🇸United States

Pecan Pie

A Southern pie with a gooey brown sugar and corn syrup filling studded with toasted pecans.

🇬🇪Tbilisi, Georgia

Penovani Khachapuri

Ფენოვანი

Squares of puff pastry folded around salty cheese and baked until they shatter, sold hot from bakery windows all day.

🇹🇼Taipei, Taiwan

Pepper Bun

胡椒餅

Bun packed with black-peppered pork and a fistful of spring onion, stuck to the wall of a barrel oven and baked until the base blisters.

🇿🇦South Africa

Peppermint Crisp Tart

Peppermint Crisp tert

A South African fridge tart of Tennis biscuits, caramel, cream, and Peppermint Crisp chocolate, layered and chilled. A national and party classic, sweet and minty

🇷🇺Russia

Perepechi

Перепечи

Udmurt open-faced boats of rye dough pinched up around a filling of mushroom, egg, cabbage or meat, baked and served hot.

🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

Persian

A Thunder Bay, Ontario pastry: a round, iced sweet roll with pink icing and coconut, sometimes with a custard center.

🇦🇱Albania

Petulla

Albanian fried dough fritters, similar to doughnuts but less sweet, served with honey, jam, powdered sugar, or savory with cheese and tomatoes, light fluffy inside and golden crispy outside, a breakfast staple.

🇨🇱Chile

Picarones

Sweet fried dough rings made with pumpkin and flour, served with chancaca syrup, a traditional Chilean dessert, light and airy.