Puddings

🇺🇸United States

Panocha

A New Mexican pudding of brown sugar, flour, and milk, baked or stovetop — also called capirotada-style panoche in some regions.

🇼🇸Samoa

Papaya Cocoa Dessert

Kokoesi

Kokoesi is a Samoan coconut-and-taro dessert cooked into a soft pudding with a gentle cocoa or toasted coconut depth.

🇹🇴Tonga

Papaya in Coconut Milk

Vai lesi

Ripe papaya cooked gently in coconut milk until tender, a warm fruit dessert traditionally served at Tongan celebrations.

🇦🇸American Samoa

Papaya Soup

Supoesi

Samoan supoesi is a creamy soup of ripe papaya, tapioca pearls, coconut milk, and sugar, served as a sweet dish.

🇷🇺Russia

Paskha

Пасха

Paskha is a pyramid-shaped Russian Easter dessert made from tvorog, butter, cream, and vanilla, traditionally served with kulich.

🇫🇷Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Pastis béarnais

Pastis béarnais is a sweet Béarn cake or pastry with tender crumb, perfumed with rum and sometimes fruit.

🇫🇷France

Pavé de Corbie

Pavé de Corbie is a dense French sweet made in sliceable form, with a firm crumb and a confection-like finish.

🇧🇷Brazil

Pavê

A layered dessert of biscuits soaked in coffee or chocolate milk, alternated with creamy custard and chocolate, served chilled.

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Payesh

পায়েস

Rice simmered slowly in milk with sugar or date molasses, cardamom and bay until thick, served at birthdays and festivals.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Pease Pudding

Split yellow peas boiled with a ham hock until they collapse into a thick savoury paste, spread cold on bread with ham or served hot beside boiled bacon.

🇭🇹Haiti

Pen Patat

Grated sweet potato, banana, coconut milk, evaporated milk and spice baked slowly into a dense, sticky, dark pudding-cake.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Pengat

Coconut milk dessert with bananas or sweet potatoes, thick and creamy, thick creamy consistency with balanced sweetness and fresh fruit.

🇺🇸United States

Persimmon pudding

An Indiana specialty: a baked pudding of American persimmon pulp, eggs, and spice, dense and jammy.

🇵🇦Panama

Pesada de Nance

A Panamanian nance fruit cream with sugar, cornstarch, and cinnamon, served with crumbled cheese, a regional and daily classic

🇮🇳India

Phirni

फिरनी

Ground rice is simmered in milk with sugar, saffron, and cardamom, then chilled in shallow clay bowls.

🇫🇲Pohnpei State (Capital FSM), Federated States of Micronesia

Pihlohlo Mwehng

Pihlohlo Mwehng combines ground swamp taro and starch in oblong pieces coated with caramelized coconut-sap syrup from Mwoakilloa.

🇨🇱Rapa Nui, Chile

Po'e

Traditional Easter Island sweet pudding made with banana, pumpkin, or cassava, a Rapa Nui dessert, sweet and moist.

🇨🇰Cook Islands

Poke

Po'e

A sweet Cook Islands pudding made from overripe bananas (or pumpkin, taro, or breadfruit) mashed with arrowroot or tapioca flour, baked, and served with coconut cream sauce; a familiar island dessert.

🇳🇨New Caledonia

Polynesian Pudding

Po'e

Po'e; a Polynesian pudding widely enjoyed in New Caledonia; a sweet, starchy pudding made from banana, papaya, or pumpkin; served with coconut milk; a reflection of Polynesian influence on New Caledonian cuisine; often served dessert; a feature of local restaurants and gatherings.

🇪🇸Castile and León, Spain

Ponche Segoviano

Ponche Segoviano layers sponge and pastry cream beneath marzipan, with a caramelized diamond grid across its rectangular top.

🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

Poor Man's Pudding

Pouding chômeur

Cake batter cooked over maple syrup or brown sugar sauce, created during the Great Depression in Quebec.

🇵🇹Portugal

Portuguese Rice Pudding

Arroz Doce

Creamy cinnamon-scented rice pudding, a beloved Portuguese dessert.

🇺🇸United States

Potato kugel

A Jewish baked pudding of grated potatoes, onion, eggs, and schmaltz, crisp on top.

🇼🇸Samoa

Pounded Breadfruit Dessert

Taufolo

Taufolo is roasted breadfruit pounded with coconut caramel into a dense, sweet Samoan pudding with a smoky fruit base.

🇬🇾Guyana

Prasad

Semolina toasted in ghee with sugar, raisins and cardamom until it clumps, distributed after Hindu prayers.

🇧🇷Brazil

Pudim de Leite

A smooth, creamy caramel flan made with condensed milk, eggs, and sugar, with a dark caramel syrup that pools around it when unmolded.

🇬🇮Gibraltar, Gibraltar

Pudín de Pan

Traditional Gibraltarian bread pudding made with stale bread rolls, milk, sultanas, eggs, caramel flan pieces, cinnamon, and sugar; soaked, mixed, baked until set, and served warm or cold; some family recipes add flan powder or fruit; a classic dessert passed down through generations.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican Bread Pudding

Budín de pan

Stale pan de agua soaked in evaporated milk, egg and vanilla with raisins, baked over caramel and turned out like a flan.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican Rice Pudding

Arroz con dulce

Rice cooked down in coconut milk with ginger, clove and cinnamon until stiff, then chilled in a tray and cut into squares.

🇼🇸Samoa

Puligi

Puligi is a Samoan steamed pudding made from flour or root starch with coconut and sugar, producing a dense, tender dessert.

🇸🇭Saint Helena

Pumpkin Pudding

A baked Saint Helena dessert of cooked pumpkin or butternut squash, flour, sugar, butter, mixed dried fruit, egg, baking powder, nutmeg, and mixed spice; cut into squares and served hot or cold with tea or milk on Sunday afternoons.

🇨🇩DR Congo

Pumpkin Seed Pudding

Mbika

A dish made from flour produced by grinding squash seeds; the flour encases the food it's cooked with, creating a wrapping; often prepared in the liboke method, wrapped in banana leaves; the finished dish has a texture similar to blood sausage; listed in Chef's Pencil and Wikipedia's Congolese cuisine; a unique Congolese dish; the pumpkin seed pudding of the Congo.

🇫🇯Fiji

Purini

A steamed pudding of flour or cassava with burnt sugar, cooked in a cloth or tin and served with coconut sauce.

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Put Chai Ko

缽仔糕

Put chai ko, the brown-sugar rice pudding steamed in a small porcelain bowl and eaten off two bamboo sticks, is a named Hong Kong street sweet with a distinctive serving ritual.

🇶🇦Qatar

Qatari Asida

عصيدة

Sweet porridge of flour, oil (or ghee), and sugar — a warming winter dessert celebrated by chef Noof Al Marri, one of the four dishes in the Qatar Museums Akilna series.

🇮🇳Hyderabad, India

Qubani ka meetha

قُباني کا میٹھا

Dried apricots are stewed with sugar into a syrupy Hyderabad dessert, often topped with cream.