Spring onion and prawn empanadas

Xiaolongbao

delicate soup dumplings with a savory filling and rich broth inside.

Gyoza

Pork and cabbage filling in a thin wrapper, steam-fried to create a crisp bottom.

Pierogi

This Polish dumpling features a tender dough wrapped around a savory potato and cheese filling, often served with fried onions and sour cream.

Momo

These are pleated steamed dumplings filled with spiced meat or vegetables.

Mandu

Kimchi, tofu, and glass noodle filling in a dough wrapper, served steamed, pan-fried, or in soup.

Bichak

A Central Asian stuffed baked or fried pastry, similar to a turnover with various fillings.

Bánh bao

A ball-shaped bun filled with pork, chicken, and vegetables, typically steamed.

Jalangkote

A fried Indonesian dumpling filled with rice vermicelli, vegetables, potatoes, and egg.

Pizza puff

A deep-fried dough pocket filled with cheese, tomato sauce, and other pizza ingredients.

Pyanse

A Russian steamed bun or dumpling, typically filled with cabbage and meat.

Modak

A sweet dumpling, often steamed, with a filling of grated coconut and jaggery.

Pierogi (Polish Dumplings)

These Polish dumplings are a classic example of dough wrapped around various fillings, often boiled or pan-fried.

Hamantash

A triangular filled-pocket biscuit from Central European Jewish cuisine.

Jamaican patty

A semicircular pastry with various savory fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell.

Cheese Borek

This Algerian dish consists of phyllo dough wrapped around a savory cheese filling.

Wonton

These Chinese dumplings are typically filled with meat or vegetables and often served in soup.

Taro dumpling

A deep-fried dim sum made from taro paste filled with pork, shrimp, and mushrooms.

Runza

A yeast dough bread pocket filled with ground beef, cabbage, and onions.

Leberknödel

Ground liver is mixed with bread and spices, then formed into dumplings.

Burek

Filo pastry wrapped around a minced beef and onion filling.

Rogaliki (Polish Croissant Cookies)

Polish croissant-shaped cookies made from a rich dough and filled with jam.

Har Gow

Steamed Chinese dumplings with whole shrimp encased in a translucent starch dough.

Air Fryer Egg Rolls

These Chinese egg rolls feature a savory filling wrapped in a thin wrapper and air-fried.

Zhong Dumplings

These Chinese dumplings are boiled and served cold with a distinctive sweet soy and chili oil sauce.

Analı kızlı soup

This Turkish soup includes bulgur-covered meatballs as a key component.

Borș de burechiușe

A Romanian soup featuring small pasta pockets filled with mushrooms.

Murtabak

A stuffed, pan-fried bread with a savory filling of mincemeat, egg, and vegetables.

Siu Mai

Ground pork and shrimp filling wrapped in a thin wheat wrapper, left open at the top and steamed.

Salteña

A Bolivian baked empanada with a savory-sweet meat and potato filling.

Tamale

A Mesoamerican dish of masa dough wrapped around various fillings and steamed in corn husks or banana leaves.

Kachori

A deep-fried, spicy, stuffed pastry with a flour dough and lentil or onion filling.

Burro percherón

A traditional dish, this is a larger variation of the classic burrito, featuring a tortilla filled with various ingredients.

Breakfast burrito

Breakfast ingredients wrapped inside a flour tortilla.

Orama (dish)

Central Asian steamed pie, made from rolled dough with a savory filling.

Hallaca

This Venezuelan dish features corn dough stuffed with stew and wrapped in plantain leaves.

Fish fofos

Fried fish dumplings, a savory filling encased in dough.

Pastisset

Fried pastries with various sweet fillings like jam or nuts.

Jamaican Beef Patties

Flaky pastry filled with spiced minced beef, a staple in Jamaican cuisine.

Game pie

Game meat encased in a pastry crust, a historical savory pie.

Homity pie

An open-faced savory pie with a potato, onion, and leek filling topped with cheese.

Pirozhki

Eastern European baked or fried yeast-leavened buns with various fillings.

Uszka

Small Polish dumplings filled with mushrooms or meat, similar to pierogi.

Tequeño

A spear of wheat dough stuffed with semi-hard white cheese and deep-fried.

Coxinha

Brazilian teardrop-shaped fritters with a creamy chicken and cheese filling encased in a potato-flour dough.

Paste (pasty)

This Mexican dish is a filled pastry, often savory, similar to a Cornish pasty.

Briouat

A sweet or savory filling wrapped in thin warqa pastry.

Batagor

Fried fish dumplings, a savory filling encased in dough.

Pepperoni roll

An Italian-American stuffed bread roll, typically with pepperoni.

Shekerbura

A sweet, half-moon shaped pastry filled with ground nuts and sugar.

Chè trôi nước

A Vietnamese dessert of glutinous rice dough filled with mung bean paste, served in syrup.

Red peach cake

A Teochew dumpling with a glutinous rice flour skin wrapped around a savory filling.

Walnut Roll Gužvara

A sweet bread roll with a rich walnut filling.

Ada (food)

Indian sweet parcels made from rice flour dough with sweet fillings, steamed in banana leaves.

Hwangnam-ppang

A Korean dessert with a sweet red bean paste filling encased in a small bread.

Raviole du Dauphiné

A French regional specialty, these are tiny ravioli with a cheese and fresh cheese filling.

Curry puff

A small, fried or baked pastry turnover filled with a savory curry mixture, often chicken and potato.

Mutabbaq

This version features minced meat, egg, and vegetables encased in filo pastry.

Niño envuelto

Thin slices of beef are wrapped around a filling of bread crumbs and cheese.

Bourek (Algerian cuisine)

Thin pastry sheets filled with various ingredients, then deep-fried or baked.

Braised stuffed cabbage

Cabbage leaves wrapped around a savory rice and chestnut filling, then braised.

Banbury cake

This oval puff pastry is filled with a spiced mixture of currants, mixed peel, and brown sugar.

Speķrauši

Baked bread rolls filled with finely chopped bacon and onions.

Rice paper dumplings

These Vietnamese dumplings use delicate rice paper to encase a savory filling.

Barbecue pork buns

Buns made from white bread mix filled with a savory-sweet pork mixture.

Serviettenknödel

Bread dumplings made from dried wheat rolls, milk, and eggs.

Cornes de Gazelle (Gazelle Horns)

An almond-filled pastry shaped like a horn.

Casunziei

A type of stuffed pasta with a filling sealed between two layers of thin dough.

Tuna and Egg Briks

Tunisian filo pastry parcels filled with tuna, egg, and vegetables, then fried.

Lörtsy

Half-moon shaped pastry with either a savory meat or sweet apple filling.

Chocolate empanadas

A filled pastry made with flour and cocoa, containing a sweet filling.

Tatar böreği

Turkish dough parcels, often triangular, filled with ground beef and served with yogurt.

Tangbao

These large Chinese steamed buns are famously filled with hot soup.

Burrito

Historically a regional name for a tortilla filled with food, now widely known as a wrapped meal.

Stuffed leaves

This Turkish dish involves leaves rolled around a filling of minced meat, grains, or both.

Bourekas

a baked turnover with various savory or sweet fillings, popular in Israeli cuisine.

Sauerkraut pierogii

Ukrainian dumplings filled with a savory mixture of sauerkraut and cabbage.

Classic Tourtière

A savory pie with ground beef and pork filling encased in pastry.

Tourtiere

A Canadian meat pie with a shortcrust pastry shell and a spiced minced meat and potato filling.

Takoyaki

Ball-shaped Japanese snack made of wheat flour batter cooked around a diced octopus filling.

Pastel de Camiguín

This Filipino sweet pastry features a soft, filled dough.

Mini chilli beef pies

Savory minced beef and vegetable filling encased in shortcrust pastry.

Steak pie

Stewing steak and gravy enclosed in a pastry shell, a classic savory pie.

Sauerkraut pierogi

Dough dumplings filled with sauerkraut and cabbage, typically boiled or pan-fried.

Paszteciki (Polish Pasties)

Polish pasties with a beef brisket filling in a flour dough.

Jjinppang

This Korean steamed bun holds a sweet red bean paste filling.

Khinkali

Large Georgian soup dumplings with a meat filling that creates broth when cooked.

Jian dui

Glutinous rice flour dough fried with a sweet filling and sesame seed coating.

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Sweet fruit filling baked within a pastry crust.

Lamb and Potato pie

A British pie featuring lamb and vegetables in gravy, topped with shortcrust pastry.

Minced Beef Pie

A British pie with minced beef and gravy, encased in shortcrust pastry.

McSinghs Scotch pie

A British pie with spiced lamb mince encased in a hot water crust pastry.

Chicken Ham and Leek Pie

A British savory pie with chicken, ham, and leek in a creamy sauce, enclosed in pastry.

Cheese roll

A New Zealand snack where a slice of bread is rolled around a cheese filling and toasted.

Vegan Lasagna

Pasta sheets layered with a rich lentil and vegetable filling and creamy sauce.

Reshteh khoshkar

An Iranian sweet pastry made from rice flour dough, filled with ground nuts and sugar, then fried.

Scaccia

A Sicilian stuffed flatbread made from a thin dough layer folded multiple times around a savory filling.

Wontons

Delicate dough wrappers filled with seasoned pork and vegetables, typically boiled or fried.

Qingtuan

This Chinese glutinous rice dumpling is colored green and filled with sweet bean paste.

Gordita

A Mexican masa dough pocket, often fried or griddled, and stuffed with various fillings.

Enchilada

A Mexican corn tortilla rolled around a filling and covered with a savory sauce.

Polish doughnuts (Pączki)

A Polish fried dough pastry filled with jam.

Pie and mash

the minced beef pie component of this British working-class meal.

Taquito

Small rolled-up tortillas filled with meat or cheese, then fried.

Steak and Kidney Pie

A savory pie with beef and kidney filling encased in pastry.

Quesabirria

birria-style beef and melted cheese folded into a griddled tortilla.

Spanakopita

A savory pastry made with layers of phyllo dough filled with spinach and feta cheese.

Milk-cream strudel

This strudel features pastry dough wrapped around a sweet filling of milk-soaked bread rolls, eggs, sugar, and spices.

Egg tart

This tart consists of a pastry crust encasing a sweet egg custard filling.

Chelsea Buns

These sweet buns are made from yeast dough rolled with a filling of butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, and dried fruit.

Cumberland Pie

A British savory pie with a beef filling topped with a pastry crust.

Spinach & Ricotta Cannelloni

An Italian dish of pasta tubes filled with spinach and ricotta, baked in tomato sauce.

Zelnik

Balkan pastry with layers of dough filled with cheese, meat, or vegetables.

Flaouna

A Cypriot baked good with a dough casing filled with cheese.

Golabki (cabbage roll)

Polish cabbage leaves wrapped around a filling of meat and rice, then cooked.

Sarburma

A traditional meat pie, often rolled or coiled, from Crimean Tatar cuisine.

Three Fish Pie

A British pie with a fish filling, often topped with mashed potato or pastry.

Beef and Mustard Pie

A savory pie with beef and vegetables encased in puff pastry.

Gimbap

Cooked rice and various fillings rolled in dried seaweed sheets.

Enfrijoladas

A Mexican dish where corn tortillas are rolled around a filling and then covered in a savory bean sauce.

Torta de fiambre

An Uruguayan dish where ham and cheese are baked within a dough, forming a savory pie or tart.

Mushroom & Chestnut Rotolo

This British dish features lasagne sheets rolled around a mushroom and chestnut filling, then baked.

Ang ku kueh

A sweet, glutinous rice flour dumpling, typically red and tortoise-shaped, with a sweet filling.

Mince Pies

A British sweet pastry with a fruit and spice filling encased in a dough shell.

Vietnamese veg parcels

Fresh spring rolls made with rice flour pancakes wrapped around rice noodles, chicken, and vegetables.

Pain aux raisins

This spiral viennoiserie is made from leavened dough rolled with a sweet raisin filling.

Flapper Pie

This pie features a graham cracker crust filled with a creamy custard and topped with meringue.

Peanut butter bun

This sweet bun is made from dough filled with a rich peanut butter mixture.

Gevulde koek

A Dutch pastry with a rich almond paste filling encased in shortcrust pastry.

Melktert

This dessert consists of a sweet shortcrust pastry filled with a creamy milk, flour, sugar, and egg custard.

Beef Empanadas

Uruguayan pastries with a dough crust wrapped around a spiced beef filling.

Ziva (dish)

A puff pastry filled with cheese and olives, often topped with sesame seeds.

Beef and Oyster pie

A savory pie featuring beef and oysters in a rich gravy, baked under a pastry crust.

Meat and potato pie

A pie with a pastry casing filled with meat and potato.

Beef Wellington

A beef fillet encased in mushroom duxelles, Parma ham, and puff pastry, then baked.

Ngo hiang

Minced meat/shrimp and spices wrapped in bean curd skin, typically deep-fried.

Makmoura

This large pie made of dough, chicken, onions, and olive oil is a regional specialty, fitting the idea of dough encasing a savory filling.

Saskatoon Pie

A sweet pie filled with Saskatoon berries, encased in pastry.

Pirog

A Russian yeast-leavened bun with various fillings, baked or fried.