Taftan Recipes

Karachi's Persian-heritage leavened bread — milk-enriched dough flavoured with saffron and cardamom, topped with poppy seeds, baked in the tandoor. Softer and sweeter than naan, more fragrant than kulcha. Karachi's Persian communities brought it 200 years ago.

Karachi's Persian-heritage leavened bread — milk-enriched dough flavoured with saffron and cardamom, topped with poppy seeds, baked in the tandoor. Softer and sweeter than naan, more fragrant than kulcha. Karachi's Persian communities brought it 200 years ago.

Taftan

Taftan

Sindh

Taftan is a delicate, Persian-heritage bread from Karachi's Iranian community — soft, slightly sweet, saffron-golden, and scattered with poppy seeds. It is more refined than a naan and more flavourful than a plain roti, sitting somewhere between bread and festive pastry.

55m medium

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