Puddings

🇮🇳India

Jolpan

জলপান

An Assamese breakfast of puffed rice with yogurt, jaggery and fruit.

🇲🇩Romanian Moldavia, Moldova

Julfă

Hemp seed pounded to a milk, sweetened and layered with sheets of thin baked dough — a Lenten dessert from before dairy-free meant a diet.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Kaikanas

Καϊκανάς

Kaikanas is a Cypriot semolina pudding cooked with milk, sugar and cinnamon until thick and spoonable.

🇹🇻Tuvalu

Kakai

Kakai is a banana-and-coconut pudding cooked until thick and spoon-soft, with the ripe fruit giving the Tuvaluan sweet its natural flavour.

🇸🇪Sweden

Kalvdans

Kullings kalvdans

Colostrum-based dessert; overlaps FI uunijuusto and IS abrystir as regional variants.

🇳🇴Norway

Kalvedans (Oven cheese)

Kalvedans

Kalvedans (Oven cheese) is a dessert from Norway, a sweet finish to the local table. Distinct from food-uunijuusto.

🇪🇪Estonia

Kama Foam

Kamavaht

Light foamy dessert made from kama flour mixed with whipped cream, sugar and berries, a popular Estonian treat.

🇯🇴Jordan

Karawiya

كراويه

Dark caraway and cinnamon pudding thickened with rice flour, topped with coconut and nuts, made to celebrate a birth.

🇹🇷Turkey

Kazandibi

Kazandibi, the deliberately scorched milk pudding lifted from the pan bottom, is a named Turkish dessert.

🇺🇸United States

Kentucky Cheese Pudding

A savory Southern pudding of bread, cheese, eggs, and milk, baked until puffed and golden.

🇮🇳India

Kesari Bath

केसरी बाथ

A sweet semolina pudding from Karnataka flavored with saffron, cardamom, and ghee. It is often served alongside khara bath.

🇹🇷Turkey

Keşkül

Keşkül is the almond milk pudding of the old dervish kitchens — pale, barely set and served in shallow bowls with coconut or almond slivers.

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

Khabees

خبيص

Khabees is a toasted flour dessert mixed with honey or sugar, cardamom, saffron, and rose water; nuts or coconut may be added before it is served warm.

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

Khabeesa

خبيصة

Khabeesa is the semolina version of Khabees, toasted with butter and flavored with saffron, cardamom, rose water, and sometimes nuts.

🇦🇲Armenia

Khavits

Խավից

Flour toasted in clarified butter and beaten with hot milk or water and honey into a smooth, rich, spoonable sweet.

🇮🇳India

Kheer

खीर

A rice pudding of milk, sugar and cardamom, served at festivals.

🇰🇳Saint Kitts and Nevis

Kittitian Black Pudding

Black Pudding

Spiced sausage of pig's blood and rice eaten as a morning snack; a cookshop breakfast classic; rich, herby, slow-simmered, and spooned beside souse on Saturday mornings; every cookshop has its own secret blend of thyme, scallion, and pepper; reflects plantation-era resourcefulness; the black pudding of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

🇧🇶Bonaire

Ko'i Lechi

Ko'i lechi is a Curaçaoan pudding of sweet corn kernels simmered in sweetened coconut milk until creamy, then served warm or chilled.

🇩🇰Jutland, Denmark

Koldskål

Cold Danish buttermilk soup with eggs, sugar, vanilla, lemon, and kammerjunkere.

🇮🇱Israel

Kugel

קוגל

A traditional Ashkenazi-Jewish baked pudding of noodles or potatoes with eggs, sugar and cinnamon, brought to Israel by European Jews.

🇷🇺Siberia, Russia

Kyorchekh

Кёрчэх

Yakut whipped dessert of heavy cream foamed thick with lingonberries, bilberries or cloudberries into a pale pink cloud.

🇵🇰Pakistan

Lab-e-Shireen

لبِ شیریں

A layered Pakistani dessert of vermicelli, cream, jelly and fruits in milk.

🇻🇺Vanuatu

Laplap Sosor

Laplap sosor is a Malekula laplap variation cooked with a hot volcanic stone in the centre, then served with chicken, onion, tomato, and coconut milk.

🇪🇬Egypt

Layali Lubnan

ليالي لبنان

A Egyptian semolina and milk pudding with rosewater, cream, and pistachios, a daily and sweet shop classic

🇼🇫Wallis and Futuna

Lu

A ceremonial Wallisian pudding of arrowroot or cassava flour and coconut milk folded into taro-leaf baskets and baked in the umu, especially prepared for St. Joseph's Day and large family gatherings.

🇧🇯Benin

Lèwayi

A tapioca porridge with milk and sugar; a comforting Beninese breakfast or snack; the cassava starch gives it a distinctive gelatinous texture; served warm.

🇲🇴Macao

Macanese Ginger Milk Curd

Ginger Milk

Macanese ginger milk curd; hot milk poured over ginger juice; the milk curdles into a silky pudding; warm, sweet, and spicy from the ginger; a comforting dessert; resembles Hong Kong ginger milk curd; the ginger milk that is a Macau dessert classic.

🇸🇩Sudan

Madeeda Hilba

A Sudanese fenugreek pudding sweetened and served warm or cool.

🇲🇭Marshall Islands

Mafa

Boiled mashed breadfruit blended with eggs, sugar, butter, coconut milk, raisins, and spices, then baked; a Marshallese breadfruit pudding; a modern adaptation of traditional breadfruit that combines it with imported ingredients; often served dessert and side dish at gatherings.

🇰🇼Kuwait

Maghuta

ماغوطة

Sago pearls cooked in sweetened milk with coconut, saffron and cardamom until they turn translucent and the pudding sets loose.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Mahallepi

Μαχαλεπί

Cornflour and milk set into a very lightly set white pudding, served cold with rose syrup and mastic rather than mixed with it.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Majarete

A Dominican silky corn pudding of fresh corn, coconut milk, milk, sugar, and cinnamon, set until creamy. Served cold with a dusting of cinnamon, a classic dessert.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Majarete

Venezuelan majarete is a firm corn-and-coconut pudding sweetened with papelón and scented with cinnamon.

🇪🇸Balearic Islands, Spain

Mallorcan Fresh-Cheese Pudding

Greixonera de brossat

Greixonera de brossat is a Mallorcan baked dessert made with fresh cheese, eggs, and dairy, with a soft set texture.

🇵🇦Panama

Mamallena

A Panamanian bread pudding of soaked bread, milk, eggs, and sugar, baked until golden and often topped with meringue.

🇸🇾Aleppo, Syria

Mamounia

مأمونية

Semolina toasted in ghee and cooked with sugar syrup into a soft, glossy porridge, topped with cinnamon and clotted cream.