Breads

Roti, paratha, koki, kaak. The bread is not a side dish here — it is half the meal.

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Household Status

Sindhi · Everyday

Onion and chilli worked into the dough. Eaten every morning across Sindh, invisible in English.

First documented here In production

Hunza · Everyday

A stuffed meat bread from households closer to Central Asia than to Lahore.

First documented here In production

Balochi · Occasion

Bread baked hard against a heated stone.

First documented here In production

Punjabi · Winter

Cornmeal bread that fights you the whole way, and the saag that requires it.

Living In production

Balti · Everyday

Balti steamed dumplings. Proof of how wide “Pakistani food” actually is.

First documented here In production