List of fried dough foods
Fried dough foods

List of fried dough foods

Section Title: Fried dough foods
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Name	Image	Origin	Description (including main ingredients and notable aspects)

Akara, Acarajé	-	West Africa, Brazil	Fried dough made from ground black-eyed peas or black-eyed pea flour. Onions, peppers, and salt to taste are added for more flavor.

Achappam	Kerala, India	Sweet, shaped like a star

Awameh	-	Levant	is a kind of fried-dough Levantine pastry similar to doughnut holes, made of deep fried dough, soaked in sugar syrup or honey and cinnamon, and sometimes sprinkled with sesame.

Bamiyeh, zulbiā, ballıbadı	Zoolbia Bamieh.JPG	Iran, Azerbaijan	Traditional treat made from a yogurt and starch-based dough, which is fried before being dipped in syrup. Similar to Turkish tulumba.

Bánh chuối chiên	Vietnam	Banana fritter. Several varieties of banana may be used.

Bánh gối	Banh goi 01.JPG	Vietnam	Empanada-like pastry filled with minced cellophane noodles, minced pork, cloud ear fungus, and thin slices of Chinese sausage.

Bánh rán, bánh cam	-	Vietnam	Glutinous rice ball coated with white sesame seeds and filled with sweetened mung bean paste.

Bánh rế	Vietnam	Sweet potato pancake.

Bánh tôm (bánh tôm Hồ Tây)	-	Vietnam	Sweet potato–battered shrimp fritter.

Bánh xèo	-	Vietnam	Savory pancake made with rice flour and turmeric and stuffed with various ingredients

Bannock	Inuit bannock.JPG	Canada	Also called frybread

Bannock	-	Scotland	A bread the same thickness as a scone. Native Americans and particularly Métis, in western Canada and the northern Great Plains in the United States, adopted bannock in their own cuisine over the 18th and 19th centuries.

BeaverTails	-	Canada	Pastries - registered trademark, oblong shaped fried dough, like American elephant ears

Beignet	-	France	The pastry is also present in New Orleans, Louisiana as a deep-fried choux pastry covered with confectioner's sugar in the U.S.

Berliner	-	Germany and Switzerland	The doughnut equivalents, typically do not have the typical ring shape (except for a variety in southern Germany as so-called Auszogne which have a ring shape but a skin in the middle) but instead are solid, usually filled with jam.

Bhatoora	-	Indian Punjab, Pakistan	Very chewy bread made by flattened dough being fried until it puffs into a light brown fluffy form.

Binangkal	-	Philippines	Fried flour balls covered with sesame seeds

Bolinho de chuva	-	Brazil	Deep-fried sweet dough balls

Bomboloni	-	Italy	Similar to German Berliner, with a cream (or chocolate) filling.

Boortsog	-	Central Asia	A fried dough food found in the cuisines of Central Asia, Idel-Ural, and Mongolia. They may be thought of as cookies or biscuits, and since they are fried, they are sometimes compared to doughnuts.

Bugnes	-	France

Buñuelo	Buñuelos.JPG	Spain	They typically consist of a simple, wheat-based yeast dough, often flavored with anise, that is thinly rolled, cut or shaped into individual pieces, then fried and finished off with a sweet topping.

Cascaron	-	Philippines	A variant of buñuelo from the Philippines made with ground glutinous rice and coconut milk. Usually eaten on skewers.

Çäkçäk	Tatarstan, Bashkortostan (Russia)	A sweet made from unleavened dough cut and rolled into hazelnut-sized balls, which are then deep-fried in oil.

Chakli (Murukku)	-	India	A South Indian snack of savory crunchy twists made from rice and urad dal flour. Murukku means twisted in the Tamil language.

Chapssal doughnut	-	Korea	Chewy, mildly sweet doughnuts made with glutinous rice flour and filled with sweetened red bean paste.

Chiacchiere	-	Italy	And lattughe in Lombardy

Cenci	Italy	And Donzelle in Tuscany- Chiacchiere (also called cenci - lit. 'rags') can be served with honey on top (or powdered sugar).

Chiburekki	-	Central Asia, Crimea, Russia	A fried turnover with a filling of ground or minced meat and onions. It is made with a single round piece of dough folded over the filling in a half-moon shape.

Churro	-	Spain	A thin cylinder of deep-fried pastry with a characteristic 'ridged' surface, due to being extruded through a star shaped hole. Churros are often had for breakfast or in local fiestas, matched with thick chocolate or white coffee.

Ciambelle	-	Italy	The doughnut equivalents (but they are never glazed)

Coxinha	-	Brazil	A croquette-like food with chicken filling.

Croquettes	-	Europe	Usually made of mashed-potato.

Crostoli	-	Italy	Or crostui in Friuli Venezia Giulia

Curry bread	Curry-bun,curry-pan,katori-city,japan.JPG	Japan	A curry-filled bread, dipped in panko and deep fried. It is usually pre-packaged and sold in convenience stores and bakeries.

Dutchie	Tim Hortons dutchie front.JPG	Canada	Originated at Tim Horton's restaurants, is a square doughnut-like pastry topped with raisins and a sugary glaze

Elephant ears	-	United States	Fairground specialty, a large, flat round fried yeast dough, often covered in fruit or sugar, also called fried bread, fried dough, Whales Tails™, tiger ears, pizza frita, frying saucers, doughboys.

Empaná	Curaçao, Aruba, and Bonaire (Caribbean)	Dough made from pre-cooked cornmeal, salt, sugar, aniseseed, buter, and water. It can have various fillings and is fried in oil.

Falafel	-	Middle East	Deep-fried balls of ground chickpeas or fava bean. Very popular amongst vegans and vegetarians as an alternative to kebab, as it's served alongside hummus, wrapped in a lavash with fresh vegetables and various sauces, and usually available in kebab spots.

Fartura	-	Portugal	Fairground specialty, fried in a spiral and then snipped into pieces that are powdered with sugar (see fartura)

Faworki	-	Poland	Also known as chrust, is a fried, crispy flat dough, sometimes twisted and sprinkled with confectioners' sugar.

Flancati	-	Slovenia	Rectangular, fried yeast dough topped with powdered sugar.

Frappe	Italy	And Sfrappole in Emilia Romagna

Festival	Jamaica	Fried Sweet Dough

Fish cracker	Kerupuk ikan.JPG	Southeast Asia	Deep-fried crackers made from starch and fish

Fraser	United Kingdom	A disc of leavened wheat flour dough shallow fried in oil. A traditional dish prepared by travelling communities, usually in a frying pan over an open fire.

Fried bread	-	United Kingdom	Is triangular (usually) quarter or half slices of white bread fried in, traditionally, bacon dripping, and served on a plate with eggs, bacon, sausage, black pudding, beans and tomatoes as part of a traditional "Full English breakfast".

Fried Coke	-	United States	A creation made in the summer of 2006 which has proven very popular in Texas. Batter is mixed with Coca-Cola syrup and fried, after which it is topped with more Coke syrup or whipped cream, a cherry, etc.

Frittelle	-	Italy

Fritter	-	Is any kind of food coated in batter and deep fried. Although very similar to a doughnut it differs in the fact that it requires some base ingredient beyond the dough it is cooked with.

Fritule	Fritule(miske).JPG	Croatia

Frybread	-	United States	(Also known as "popovers") is a Native American fried dough which may range from bread-like to donut-like depending on the source, as many tribes use different recipes.

Funnel cake	Funnel Cake With no Toppings.jpeg	United States	A creation which is made with fried sweet pastry where the pastry dough is extruded through a funnel into a pan of hot oil and allowed to "criss-cross" in the oil until the string of dough fills the bottom of the pan in a kind of tangled spaghetti-like arrangement, which is cooked as a cake rather than an individual snack.

Gogoşi	-	Romania	Round or ring shaped, fried dough usually topped with powdered sugar or filled with fruit jam or chocolate cream.

Haliva	-	Circassia (Russia)	A fried dough turnover filled with either potatoes or Circassian cheese.

Hirschhörner	Germany	A dough that uses Hirschhornsalz and Pottasche as leavening agents. The dough is rolled out thin, cut into diamonds.

Hushpuppies	-	United States	Savory fried dough balls made from a heavy cornmeal batter

Jalebi	-	India, Pakistan	(Hindi: जलेबी, Urdu: جلیبی‎, Punjabi: ਜਲੇਬੀ, Telugu: జిలేబి) or Jilapi (Bengali: জিলাপী), this is a deep-fried sweet batter with rose water and saffron.

Jersey wonders	-	Jersey	These are also known as Mèrvelles

Jin deui	-	China	A hollow fried pastry made of glutinous rice flour that is coated with sesame seeds and filled with a sweet filling.

Kabkab	Philippines	Deep-fried cassava wafers

Kachori	-	India	Dough balls filled with different kinds of savoury stuffings like de-skinned moong bean, de-skinned black gram, etc. along with salt, pepper, red chili powder and other spices.

Kachori	Chicken Kachori.JPG	Pakistan	Doughnuts filled with ground beef or lamb and deep fried. Vegetarian ones often contain potatoes.

Karinto	-	Japan

Khuushuur	MongoliaLastDay 153.JPG	Mongolia	A fried turnover with a filling of ground or minced meat (beef or mutton), onions or garlic, and other spices.

Kiping	-	Philippines	Leaf-shaped glutinous rice wafers

Kkwabaegi	Korea	Twisted doughnut from Korea

Khvorost	-	Russia	In Russian Хворост, crisp pastry made out of dough shaped into thin twisted ribbons, deep-fried and sprinkled with powdered sugar

Kleina	-	Iceland	(Plural Kleinur)

Klejne	-	Denmark	(Plural "Klejner")

Koeksister	-	South Africa	A traditional South African confectionery made of fried dough infused in syrup or honey. The name derives from the Dutch word "koek", which generally means a wheat flour confectionery, also the origin of the American English word "cookie"

Krafne	Pokladnice Križevci 2008.JPG	Croatia	From German - Krapfen

Krapfen	-	Austria and Bavaria	Round, fried dough typically filed with apricot jam or vanilla cream and topped with powdered sugar.

Krhki flancati	-	Slovenia, Istria	Rectangular, cut and twisted fried dough topped with powdered sugar.

Krofi	-	Slovenia	Round, fried yeast dough filed with apricot or blueberry jam and topped with powdered sugar.

Kroštule	-	Croatia	Other local names: hruštule, hrustule, hrostule, krustavice, krustule (From Latin Crustulum – cookie, pastry).

Kumukunsi	Philippines	A deep fried rice cake made from rice flour, duck eggs, and sugar cooked into spiral shapes.

Lángos	-	Hungary

Laufabrauð	-	Iceland	A traditional kind of Icelandic bread that is most often eaten in the Christmas season. Originating from northern Iceland but now eaten throughout the entire country, it consists of round, very thin flat cakes with a diameter of about 15 to 20 cm (6 to 8 inches), decorated with leaf-like, geometric patterns and fried briefly in hot fat or oil.

Lokma or Loukoumades	-	Turkey, Greece	Somewhat like crisp doughnut holes, loukoumades (pronounced loo-koo-MA-thes) consist of deep-fried dough balls marinated in honey and cinnamon.

Lokot-lokot	Philippines	Deep-fried ground glutinous rice fried into noodle-like strings and usually rolled into cylinders

Lörtsy	-	Finland	A thin, half-moon shaped pastry originally from Savonlinna, eastern Finland. It is made with a variety of fillings; the most common ones are either a savory meat filling or a sweet apple filling.

Luchi	-	India (Eastern) Bangladesh	Made of wheat flour typical of Oriya, Assamese and Bengali cuisine, dough is made by mixing fine maida flour with water and spoonful of ghee, then divided in small balls, flattened by rolling-pin, individually deep-fried in cooking oil or ghee, 4-5 inches diameter, usually served with curries or gravies.

Luqmat al-qadi	Middle East	(لقمة القاضي) literally, judge's mouthful, this is a relative and etymological ancestor of the Greek Loukoumas. Also called sfingis (in Arabic) and lokma (Turkish, see below).

Ma Hua	-	China	A fried dough twist made by frying a bar of dough in peanut oil. Ma hua has a shiny and golden look.

Malasada	-	Portugal	A fried dough from Sao Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal which are also popular in Hawaii and in Cape Cod Massachusetts, where they are called "flippers".

Mandazi	-	East Africa	A fried bread (served with no glazing or frosting) that is popular in areas around the Swahili countries of Kenya and Tanzania.

Maruya (baduya, sinapot, jampok, etc.)	-	Philippines	Various types of fried banana fritters from the Philippines

Meat doughnut	-	Finland	(Lihapiirakka)

Mеkitzi	Mekici and jam.JPG	Bulgaria	(Мекици)- similar to Funnel cake

Mutzenmandeln	Germany	Dough triangles, deep fried and covered in confectioner's sugar. Originally from Southern Germany, now a common fair snack and offered by pastry stalls around Christmas throughout Germany.

Namak pare	Namakpara1.JPG	Pakistan, India	A crunchy savory snack of the Indian Subcontinent, they're ribbon-like strips of pastry delicately seasoned with cumin seeds, carom seeds, and caraway seeds and deep fried in pure ghee (clarified butter).

Nonnevotte	Netherlands and Belgium	(Literally "nuns' bottoms"), eaten around the Carnival season in Limburg.

Okonomiyaki	-	Japan	Pan-fried savory pancake made from flour and various other ingreidents

Okoy	-	Philippines	Fried savory fritter made from glutinous rice and shrimp, pumpkin, or sweet potato

Oliebollen / Smoutebollen	-	Netherlands and Belgium	Referred to as "Dutch doughnuts" (or occasionally as 'Dutch Donuts') which contain pieces of apple or dried fruit like raisins, traditionally eaten around New Year.

Ox-tongue pastry	-	China	An elliptical-shaped dough that resembles an ox tongue. They are sweet in taste and the texture is chewy and fine.

Pączki	-	Poland	Springy doughnuts filled with jam, often coated with granulated or powdered sugar. See also Ponchiki (Russian, Пончики or pyshki (пышки)) or Ponichki (Bulgarian, Понички).

Pakora	-	India, Pakistan	Also called bhajji in India, Telugu: పకోడి, this is a deep-fried vegetable fritters in a gram flour batter. In Pakistan, pakoras filled with ground beef are also common.

Pampushky	-	Ukraine	(Пампушки)

Panikeke	Samoa	Also called panikeke lapotopoto, this is a deep fried sweetened fritter. Panikeke are often served with butter or jam.

Panyalam	Philippines	A fried rice cake or pancake from the Philippines made with ground glutinous rice, sugar, and coconut milk

Papadum (Papar)	-	India	Also called papad, papar, etc., this is a fried wafer made from a dough made of lentils (often urad dal) and spices.

Papadum	-	Pakistan	A fried wafer made of rice flour and often sprinkled with spices eaten as a snack.

Paraoa Parai	New Zealand	Fried wheat dough, sometimes with fermented potato (rewena) leavening. Often served with butter and golden syrup.

Paratha	-	Bangladesh, India, Pakistan	Also called parantha, porota, etc., this is a pan-fried flatbread, often stuffed with vegetables, cheese, or ground meat. In Pakistan, parathas stuffed with either potatoes, radishes or ground meat are popular and a common breakfast dish.

Pastechi	Curaçao, Aruba, and Bonaire (Caribbean)	Pastry made from white flower, baking powder, salt, sugar, water, and lard or butter. It can have various fillings and is traditionally fried in oil, but for lesser fat content and more healthy version it can be baked in the oven.

Pastel	-	Brazil	A thin pastry envelope containing minced meat, catupiry and chicken, shrimp or another filling and then deep-fried.

Pasztecik szczeciński	1104 Pasztecik Szczeciński.JPG	Poland	Machine-produced deep-fried yeast dough stuffed with meat or vegetarian filling

Peremech or belyash	-	Tatarstan, Bashkortostan (Russia)	Peremech (Tatar: пәрәмәч) is a fried bun made of either leavened or unleavened dough and stuffed with minced meat. It usually has a hole in the middle.

Pestiños	-	Spain

Petulla	Albania	Dough with yeast. Very similar to the fried dough found in US amusement parks and fairs.

Picarones	Picaronesdessert.JPG	Peru	A sweet, ring-shaped pumpkin-based fritter; often served with a molasses syrup.

Pinakufu	-	Philippines	A dense oval-shaped variant of cascaron from the Philippines made with ground glutinous rice and coconut milk

Pirozhki, pyrizhki	Homemade pirozhki.JPG	Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine	Pirozhki (Russian: пирожки) or pyrizhki (Ukrainian: пирiжки) are traditional Eastern European baked or fried buns stuffed with a variety of fillings.

Porras	Spain	Often served for breakfast, especially in Madrid).

Prawn cracker (keropok, kropek, krupuk, etc.)	Fried Krupuk Udang.JPG	Southeast Asia	Deep-fried crackers made from starch and prawn

Priganice	Montenegro	Fritters or flat doughnuts served with honey, cheese, or jam.

Puff Puff	Nigeria	Also a West African dish, is a fried sweet dough (with no glazing or frosting) made from flour, sugar, yeast, and vanilla extract, typically served as an appetizer when entertaining guest, or bought as a snack from a street vendor.

Puftaloon	Australia	Made from flour, salt, butter, milk, traditionally fried in animal fat, popular with children in winter.

Puri	-	India	Unleavened, made of wheat flour (refined, whole-wheat, or coarse), dough of flour and salt rolled into small circle or bigger and cut into small circles, deep fried in ghee or vegetable oil, puffs up in all directions like a round ball from steam inside.

Poori	Dal Puri.JPG	Pakistan	Unleavened, made of all-purpose flour and deep-fried bread. It is served in breakfast with chickpeas and semolina halwa as a part of 'halwa poori'.

Papri	-	India	Crisp fried dough wafers made from refined white flour and oil. In papri chaat, the papris are served with boiled potatoes, boiled chick peas, chilis, yogurt and tamarind chutney and topped with chaat masala and sev.

Pilipit	-	Philippines	Twisted doughnut from the Philippines, similar to shakoy but has a hard crunchy texture and is smaller

Rissole	France	Minced meat or fish, enclosed in pastry and deep fried.

Rosette	Rosettes.JPG	Sweden	Ornate irons are dipped into batter and then dropped into hot oil. The pastry quickly separates from the iron, which is removed.

Rosquillas	Rosquillas.JPG	Spain

Salukara	Philippines	Rice pancake fried in a lard-greased pan

Samosa	-	India, Pakistan	Including variants such as mitha samosa, shingara, etc., this is a deep-fried filled pastry

Sata andagi	-	Japan	A sweet, ball-shaped snack, similar to the doughnut, native to the Okinawa Prefecture.

Schneeballen	Schneeball-gebaeck.jpeg	Germany	"Snowballs". Dough cut into strips, formed into a ball and fried then covered in toppings; popular in Rothenburg.

Shakoy	-	Philippines	Twisted doughnut from the Philippines made with regular flour or rice flour

Shuangbaotai	-	China	A sweet fried dough food with cavernous holes in the food and a crisp outside. They are made by sticking two small pieces of dough together and frying them, causing them to separate slightly while still connected, thus resembling conjoined twins, for which the food is named.

Shelpek	ShelpekKZ2.JPG	Kazakhstan	A deep-fried flatbread commonly consumed all over Kazakhstan.

Shing-a-ling	-	Philippines	Deep-fried wheat flour sticks. Traditionally made with dried egg noodles.

Smultring	-	Norway	Literally "lard ring", this is similar to a doughnut but smaller, without glacing or filling, and flavored with cardamom.

Sopaipilla	-	United States, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay	A fried dough side dish or dessert popular among Mexican-Americans in the Southwest. Sopaipillas puff with air when fried, the finished product resembling a pillow.

Struffoli	Struffoli2.JPG	Italy	A dessert of Neapolitan origin

Sufganiyah	Classic Hanukkah sufganiyot.JPG	Israel (Jewish)

Telebhaja (Bengali fritters)	-	Bengal

Tenkasu	-	Japan	Often produced as byproduct of Tempura cooking, because bits of fried batter are easily made while deep frying, but they are also produced at factories by deep frying trickling batter.

Timbit	-	Canada	Doughnut holes sold in many different flavors, originating at Tim Hortons and seen as somewhat iconic in Canada.

Toutin or Touton	-	Canada	Fried bits of leftover bread dough, often served with molasses. Most popular on Newfoundland.

Tulumba	-	Turkey, Balkans	Traditional treat consisting of fried batter soaked in syrup. Similar to bamiyeh in Iranian cuisine.

Urrädla	Germany	A fried dough made in Upper Franconia and served sprinkled with powdered sugar. It is a specialty of Franconian Switzerland, in the area around Forchheim.

Uštipci	-	Serbia

Vada	-	India	Also called vara, bara, etc., this is lentil cakes shaped into patties or donut shapes

Verhuny	-	Ukraine	(Вергуни) or Khvorost (хворост), literally angel wings

Vetkoek	-	South Africa	Pronounced FET-kook, this is a fried bread dough traditional to Afrikaner and also called magwenya by the indigenous population. It is typically rolled into a ball or hot dog bun shape.

Youtiao	-	China	A popular breakfast food in Chinese culture. They are savory and oily in taste.

Zeppole	-	Italy	Commonly light-weight, deep-fried dough balls about 2 inches (5.1 cm) in diameter, these doughnuts or fritters are usually topped with powdered sugar and may be filled with custard, jelly, cannoli-style pastry cream or a butter-and-honey mixture.

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Shuangbaotai, is a sweet Taiwanese fried dough food, with a crisp crust on the outside.
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final_sentence: Shuangbaotai, is a sweet Taiwanese fried dough food, with a crisp crust on the outside.
final_sentence: Shuangbaotai is a sweet fried dough food with dough containing air pockets on the inside and a crisp crust on the outside.