Food family · 9 dishes · 6 regions
The pancake
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The griddle predates the oven. A poured batter, a hot flat surface — this technique crossed deserts and oceans independently, arriving at injera, dosa, blini, and crepe without knowing the others existed.
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3 dishes from India
Dosa
A thin, crispy South Indian crepe made from a fermented batter of rice and urad dal, served with coconut chutney and sambar. Sambar is closely related to the rasam and other lentil-stew traditions of the Deccan.
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Soft, steamed South Indian cakes made from a fermented batter of rice and black gram, traditionally served with sambar and coconut or tomato chutney.
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A thin, crisp South Indian fermented rice-and-lentil crepe filled with a fragrant potato masala and served with sambar and chutney.
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2 dishes from Indonesia
Burgo
An Indonesian folded rice pancake served in whitish coconut milk-based soup flavored with fish and topped with fried shallots. A Palembang specialty popular for breakfast.
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A traditional Bali–Java pancake-like snack made with rice flour batter, coconut milk or cream, and shredded coconut, usually served with kinca, a golden-brown coconut sugar syrup.
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1 dish from Japan
1 dish from South Korea
1 dish from Eastern Europe
1 dish from Levant
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