Indian bread
Chapati or roti
Indian bread covers several unrelated foods.
In Native American cuisine, it typically means fry bread—a flat dough fried in oil, now associated with Navajo and other Indigenous peoples.
In the context of South Asian food, Indian bread refers to varieties like naan, roti, chapati, and paratha.
Context usually makes the meaning clear: We had curry with Indian bread.
- plain naanUnadorned Indian flatbread
- garlic naanLeavened Indian flatbread with bulb seasoning
- butter naanLeavened flatbread brushed with ghee
- naanLeavened tandoor-baked flatbread
- tandoori rotiIndian oven-baked flatbread
dosa · chapati · roti · paratha · puri · idli · masala dosa · aloo paratha · poori · poori
culinary tradition/origin
Indian breadFrench bread
Crisp-crusted European loaf
Italian bread · baguette · white bread · sliced bread · sourdough