Breads

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

Koki

Sindhi · Everyday

Koki

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

First documented here

Not yet written — being cooked and tested

Chapshuro

Hunza · Everyday

Chapshuro

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

First documented here

Not yet written — being cooked and tested

Balochi Kaak

Balochi · Occasion

Balochi Kaak

Bread baked hard against a heated stone.

First documented here

Not yet written — being cooked and tested

Punjabi · Winter

Makki ki Roti

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

Living

Not yet written — being cooked and tested

Mamtu

Balti · Everyday

Mamtu

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

First documented here

Not yet written — being cooked and tested

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