Bread is the universal food! Discover 25 savory bread recipes from around the world, and learn how to make, serve, and enjoy them.

“Breaking bread together.” It’s a phrase we often hear when we come together to share a meal! It’s universally understood that we’ll sit, share food—often bread—we’ll chat and laugh and find our common ground rather than our differences.

Wherever you travel, you will find bread. Every culture has found a way to combine flour and water to create something delicious.

It might be a soft, white loaf still warm from the oven, begging to be sliced, toasted, and spread with mayo and a slab of a freshly picked tomato the size of your hand.

It could be a buttery, chewy German-style pretzel studded with sea salt and ready to be dipped into a cheesy beer dip.

There are freshly pressed corn tortillas waiting to be wrapped around your favorite taco fillings or pillowy naan to help you scoop up every drop of your favorite curry.

Whether it’s buttermilk scones slathered with clotted cream and jam, southern biscuits for sopping up stew, fluffy braided challah, or the best pizza dough you’ve ever come across, there is no shortage of bread to try!

Flatbreads, yeasted breads, fried, baked, kneaded (or not)… come together with friends and dig into this collection of 25 bread recipes from around the world!

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1. Foolproof No-Knead Focaccia Recipe

by Food Nouveau

Learn how to make the easiest, most delicious no-knead focaccia at home! Focaccia is a classic Italian flatbread from Liguria, famous for its soft, airy texture and crispy olive oil crust. Discover the key steps to create the perfect focaccia, from mixing the dough and letting it rise, to dimpling the surface and baking it to golden perfection. Perfect for any season, this versatile Italian bread will become your go-to recipe for every occasion!

2. Italian Panini Bread

by Mangia Bedda

Make homemade crusty Italian rolls with this easy no-knead panini bread recipe! Enjoy them filled with your favorite sandwich ingredients.

3. Foolproof Pizza Dough

by Familystyle Food 

This quick, super-easy pizza dough recipe is a deal-breaker. It mixes up in minutes and can be ready to bake in about 1 hour. The supple dough is easy to handle and bakes into an airy crust with perfectly browned edges.

4. Buttery Homemade Soft Pretzels

by Delicious Little Bites 

Buttery soft homemade pretzels taste fresher and more delicious than any mall pretzel you have ever eaten. These traditional, German-style pretzels are dippable, shareable, and perfect for serving as an appetizer paired with a creamy dip. This easy recipe uses ingredients already in your pantry and is a fun baking project to complete with friends and family.

5. Homemade Soft Pretzel Bites

by The Forked Spoon 

These warm and buttery-soft Homemade Pretzel Bites are easy to make and taste just like your favorite mall pretzels. Perfect for parties and game days, serve these irresistibly delicious little pretzel bites plain, coated in cinnamon and sugar, or with your favorite dip, like hot cheese sauce or stone ground mustard.

6. Easy Dinner Rolls

by Shaken Together Life 

Delight in the soft, pillowy texture of these easy dinner yeast rolls recipe, perfect for sopping up sauces or enjoying on their own with a pat of honey butter.

7. Basic White Sandwich Bread

by Hungry Lankan 

This easy basic white sandwich bread recipe always comes out super soft and delicious. It’s so quick and easy to make, you might never want to buy white sandwich bread from the store after trying this one!

8. Honey Wheat Sandwich Bread

by Simple Bites 

Upgrade your family’s lunchbox with this good-for-you honey wheat sandwich bread! Light enough to slice and serve, it also toasts nicely for grilled cheese and soup or during the breakfast rush.

9. English Muffins from Scratch

by Food Nouveau 

Instantly upgrade your breakfasts and brunches by making whole wheat English muffins from scratch: it’s easier than you think!

10. Homemade Bagels

by The Busy Baker 

These Easy Homemade Everything Bagels are perfectly dense and chewy, topped with Everything Bagel Seasoning. And they’re SO easy to make—no special equipment or ingredients are needed!

11. Classic Challah

by House of Nash Eats 

This braided Challah Bread recipe makes two of the best, most gorgeous braided loaves you will ever eat! Enjoy one loaf warm from the oven and save the other loaf for French toast a few days later!

12. Homemade Corn Tortillas

by Love and Lemons 

Learn how to make homemade corn tortillas! With this easy 5-ingredient recipe, they’re soft, pliable, and flavorful – perfect for tacos and enchiladas!

13. Homemade Pita Bread

by Baking Sense 

If you’ve never made homemade Pita Bread, you’ll be surprised how easy they are to make. It’s quite something to watch the flat round of dough puff up like a balloon in the oven. Because this dough only needs to rise one time, it’s one of the fastest yeast bread recipes you can make.

14. Provencal Chickpea Flatbread (Socca)

by Pardon Your French 

This chickpea flatbread (known as “socca”) is a little culinary treasure hailing from the sun-kissed Ligurian Coast, stretching from Italy to France. Naturally vegan and gluten-free, this delectable and rustic chick pea flatbread has seen a big revival in these past few years. But its recipe is truly as ancient as can be – and very, very easy.

15. Pissaladière (Provençal Flatbread)

by Food Nouveau 

Pissaladière is a flavorful Provençal flatbread garnished with caramelized onions, olives, and anchovies. Learn how to make this classic French dish, perfect for happy hour, lunch, or a picnic!

16. No-Knead Loaf Bread

by Christina’s Cucina 

This no-knead bread recipe will change your life, and probably make you stop buying bread altogether! This extremely easy, foolproof recipe is nothing short of phenomenal.

17. Classic French Boule Bread

by Pardon Your French 

If you’re new to bread-making using a sourdough starter, or if you’re just craving a simple, delicious, authentic French boule bread, this recipe is for you! This amazing recipe is from The Larousse Book of Bread by Eric Kayser. Eric Kayser, the superstar French baker, has built his fame on his incredible baguettes, boules, ciabatta, croissants and buns – for the most part made “au levain” (meaning, with a starter). And this French boule bread “au levain” is one his classics.

18. Tandoor-Style Tawa Naan

by The Sassy Foodie 

This tandoor-style tawa naan is an effortless way to achieve restaurant-level results at home. This egg-free is low maintenance to come together and cooks up on a cast iron skillet. The result is perfectly fluffy and charred naan that will scoop up your shahi paneer or dal makhani perfectly! Looking for the perfect accompaniment to this homemade naan? This collection of recipes that perfectly pair with naan will be your bestie!

19. Whole Wheat Naan

by Indian Ambrosia 

This whole wheat naan recipe makes soft and pillowy naan to go with all kinds of curries and stews. You’ll never want to buy pre-packaged naan from the supermarket once you try this authentic and healthy naan recipe you’ll make right at home. If you’re a vegetarian, pair naan with paneer butter masala for a fantastic meal!

20. Roti Flatbread

by Masala Herb 

The Indian roti, or chapati, is a delicious but straightforward put-together soft flatbread prepared with whole wheat flour. Roti is the simplest bread in the world and the humble flatbread can be used in so many ways with your food. It’s essential in your Indian food repertoire. You can use the flatbread to spoon up Indian curries, or you can simply transform it into a wrap, or in India, they would call them stuffed chapati rolls. You can also drop some ghee over the still-warm, freshly prepared roti during serving time.

21. Classic Buttermilk Scones

by Liv for Cake 

Classic buttermilk scones are the perfect way to start your day. No dry crumbliness or hockey puck texture here! These scones are moist, flakey, and delicious. They are simple and free of additions, but you can certainly add many things to take these to the next level, whether it be berries, chocolate chips, or cheese and herbs for a savory scone.

22. Old-Fashioned Southern Biscuits

by The Cagle Diaries 

These old-fashioned Southern biscuits are a staple breakfast item in many families in the South of the United States. Deliciously soft, light, and buttery, they’re perfect for any meal setting.

23. Irish Scones

by Zoe Bakes 

Buttery soft Irish scones are a classic treat from Northern Europe. Like biscuits or pie dough here in America, there seems to be a scone recipe for every household in Ireland. The one constant is the quality of the butter and dairy used to make them. This is such a simple recipe, and the butter makes all the difference, so make sure to go with a good one!

24. Irish Soda Bread

by Alexandra Cooks 

This easy Irish soda bread recipe requires only 5 minutes of hands-on time to stir together flour, salt, sugar, baking soda, one egg, buttermilk, and butter. It emerges from the oven with the perfect crumb. No yeast is required! It’s ready in 1 hour.

25. Herbed Yorkshire Puddings

by My Kitchen Love 

This towering, light, and fluffy Yorkshire Pudding recipe is perfect for Sunday dinner, the holidays, or simply for a little something special at dinner. This popover recipe is as easy as it comes!