India

Samosa Pav: an illustration of potato and cumin on bread.

Samosa Pav

The whole dish is one gesture: a hot samosa set into a split pav and pressed until the shell cracks. A deliberate clash of two breads, flaky fried shell inside a pillowy yeast roll.

Pyaaz Paratha: an illustration of onion on naan.

Pyaaz Paratha

The pyaaz paratha folds raw onion, the hardest filling a North Indian cook can use, into wheat and griddles its bite down sweet: the cheap morning bread of the Punjab kitchen and the dhaba.