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Monday, April 4, 2011

Aunt Karen's Arab Flat Bread

I have such fond memories of growing up with Stuffed Grape Leaves and Arab Bread.  Loved going with Aunt Karen  to pick the grape leaves and then bottling them.  It has made me (what is the word)  a food snob or spoilt.  The Store bough grape leaves are just not the same. I will post the grape leave recipes later.   I have used the flat bread recipe a lot.  Used it in Primary and for friends and family.  In her recipe she drew little drawings to show me how to do it.  I have not figured out how to put the drawings online. So Aunt Karen if i have got this wrong let me know.

 2 T. yeast
1 T. sugar
1 c. warm water
add together and let stand about 5 min until yeast grows

Add:
about 3-5 c. warm water.
start with 3   In a large mixing bowl
mix with yeast mixture
Add:
 3-4 c. flour
 Mix: flour and water as needed
add:
 salt to taste
 Textrue should be elastic.
 Keading is very important ( so is yeast for texture).  Knead as long as possible,  adding water to dry flour a little at a time. Squeezing dough, punching dough, kneading,  ( as you are slowly adding water to flour and kneading the flour and water will look milky)  Continue to add flour and knead- leave dough damp not dry, not sticky.

Let raise, untill double about 1 hour.Knead down and let raise again  1/2 hour.   cut dough  into 4 or 5 roll and knead leaving in a round ball.
Let raise till soft   like a new baby skin about double in size..
 Flatten around outside first this will make a flat edge.
 Then flatten a little in center
 You can move from arm to arm streching, like they do pizza, this makes the bread more flat.  Or just flatten around edges, and bake --It will be more fluffy

Place in Hot oven  475-500 degrees oven vary but the oven does need to be very hot.   Place on bottom rack on large cookie sheet, or cover the bottom rack with tin foil with shiny side down.
Bread will puff up in center.  This will bake center of bread.   When bottom of bread is browned, move to top rack bake until browned, move to top rack bake till browned on the top.

 Then Karen wrote.     GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!          I guess i needed the luck!!!

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