Pastries

🇵🇪Lima, Peru

Picarones

Ring-shaped fritters of sweet potato and squash dough, bathed in chancaca syrup. A 17th-century street dessert.

🇬🇧London, United Kingdom

Pie and Mash

A minced beef pie with mashed potato and a green parsley sauce made with the liquor from stewed eels.

🇦🇺South Australia, Australia

Pie Floater

Adelaide specialty: meat pie submerged upside-down in thick green pea soup, topped with tomato or mint sauce, a South Australian heritage icon since the 1890s.

🇵🇱Poland

Pierekaczewnik

Pierekaczewnik is a pastry from Podlaskie Voivodeship, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇵🇱Poland

Pieróg biłgorajski

Pieróg biłgorajski is a pie from Lublin Voivodeship, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇵🇱Poland

Pieróg postny ze Starych Kolni

Pieróg postny ze Starych Kolni is a pie from Stare Kolnie, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇬🇾Guyana

Pine Tart

A triangular pastry sealed around crushed pineapple cooked down with sugar and spice.

🇼🇸Samoa

Pineapple Pie

Paifala

Samoan pineapple half-moon pie; pastry filled with pineapple and coconut cream; baked until golden; sweet, tangy, and creamy; often served dessert and bakery item; pineapple is grown locally in Samoa; a TasteAtlas-listed dessert; the pie that combines Samoa's tropical fruits.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Pineapple Tart

Tart Nenas

Buttery pastry filled with pineapple jam, melt-in-mouth pastry with balanced sweet-tart filling.

🇷🇺Russia

Pirog

Пиріг

Large closed oven pie of yeasted dough wrapped around savoury fillings such as cabbage, fish, mushroom or meat; the ancestor of every Slavic pie.

🇷🇺Russia

Pirozhki

Пирожки

Pirozhki are small baked or fried Russian yeast buns filled with meat, potato, cabbage, mushrooms, or fruit.

🇹🇲Turkmenistan

Pishme

Pişme

Yeasted dough is cut or shaped, deep-fried until golden, and served with green tea as a light Turkmen pastry.

🇷🇴Dobruja, Romania

Placinta Dobrogeana

Plăcintă dobrogeană

A protected Dobrujan pastry of thin layered dough and cheese filling, coiled or folded before baking into crisp, flaky sheets.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Plantain Tart

A Jamaican sweet pastry of ripe plantain cooked with sugar and spices, enclosed in a flaky crust and baked, a rustic island dessert.

🇦🇹Austria

Plum Jam Pockets

Powidltascherl

Pastry pockets filled with Powidl (thick plum jam), good quality Powidl with flaky pastry, a traditional Austrian dessert, not too sweet, comforting.

🇸🇮Ljubljana, Slovenia

Pofaláča

Pofaláča is a Ljubljana pastry pie with a thin baked crust and a soft, sweet filling.

🇭🇺Hungary

Pogácsa

Pogácsa is a small round savory pastry with various toppings (cheese, seeds, cracklings), flaky texture with rise.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Polvorosa de Pollo

Chicken stew in a sweet-savoury sauce with raisins and olives, sealed under a very short, crumbly pastry lid dusted with sugar.

🇷🇺Northwest Russia, Russia

Pomor Fish Pie

Поморский рыбный пирог

Pomor fish pie is an Arkhangelsk pie filled with local white fish and root vegetables.

🇦🇲Yerevan, Armenia

Ponchik

Պոնչիկ

Fried dough balls injected with thin custard and rolled in icing sugar, sold hot from small counters and eaten standing up.

🇫🇮Finland

Poor Knights

Köyhät ritarit

French toast-like dessert, bread soaked in egg and milk, fried, served with jam and powdered sugar, a sweet treat.

🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

Poppy Seed Roll

Makovnjača

Traditional yeasted dough roll filled with ground poppy seeds, sugar, and milk, a Christmas and Easter dessert, sweet and nutty.

🇺🇸United States

Poppyseed Muffins

Tender muffins dotted with poppy seeds, often with lemon or almond flavor.

🇬🇷Greece

Portokalopita

Πορτοκαλόπιτα

Greek orange pie: a phyllo-and-orange cake soaked in orange syrup, moist and fragrant. A modern café and home dessert, sweet and citrusy, a national favorite, served with ice cream.

🇺🇸United States

Possum Pie

A Missouri dessert of layered chocolate and cream cheese in a crust — named for playing possum, not the animal.

🇨🇦Atlantic Canada, Canada

Pot-en-Pot

An Acadian meat pie layered with pork, chicken, and vegetables under a flaky crust.

🇨🇱Chile

Potato Pie

Pastel de papas

Shepherd's pie with beef pino topped with mashed potatoes, a comforting Chilean home-cooked dish, golden and hearty.

🇸🇮Carinthia (Slovenia), Slovenia

Povitnek

Povitnek is a Carinthian rolled pastry with a thin dough wrapped around a sweet or curd filling.

🇬🇷Greece

Prassopita

Πρασόπιτα

Greek leek pie: phyllo filled with leeks, onions, and feta, baked golden. A taverna and home classic, sweet and savory, a national and winter specialty, a Lenten and rustic pie, a comfort dish.

🇸🇮Prekmurje, Slovenia

Prekmurska Gibanica

Protected layered cake from Prekmurje: filo alternating with poppy seed, walnut, apple and cottage cheese fillings, nine layers deep, baked and cut into squares.

🇵🇪Huánuco, Peru

Prestiños

Huánuco fried pastries glazed with chancaca and served during local festivities.

🇲🇪Montenegro

Priganice

Spoonfuls of slack yeast dough dropped into hot oil and fried into knobbly, hollow puffs, served hot with honey, cheese or plum jam.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Princessi

Принцеси

Open-faced baked sandwich with minced meat or sirene.

🇪🇨Ecuador

Pristiños

An Ecuadorian Christmas fried pastry, crown-shaped, served with miel de panela, a festive and traditional classic.

🇫🇷France

Profiteroles

Small choux puffs filled with cream, often served with warm chocolate sauce.

🇷🇸Serbia

Propeć

Пропећ

Propeć is a southern Serbian layered pie of stretched pastry, cheese and egg, baked until blistered.