Laffa Bread

"It's hot!" Candice turns to Adam. A couple miles back, their rental car had broken down right in the middle of this hot, scorching desert. "We are both hot, Candice!" Adam states, grumpily, continuing down the long road that leads to nowhere. "I'm so hungry, Candice!" "Adam, I'd totally kill for some hot wings right now, but we're in the middle of nowhere and..." Candice is suddenly interrupted by a deep voice. "Hello, my friends, can I interest you in some laffa bread?" A man stands there with a wagon next to the road, with delicious looking laffa bread hanging all over it. Adam turns to Candice, shock in his eyes. He quietly whispers, "He wasn't there two seconds ago, was he...?" "Who cares," Candice replies, "I'm getting me some laffa bread!" "Here my friends, have some green tahini dip with it, on the house!!" "YAY!" Adam and Candice both exclaim.

OK, magical laffa man aside, laffa really is a delicious Middle Eastern bread that goes so well with so many things. A lot of people make amazing wraps out of them, so how could we not give it a shot and try to make it as well.

Before we started, we decided that although this recipe made six portions, we should definitely only eat two, we have been on a diet lately! We repeated to ourselves as our mantra, "We would make six, but eat two, we would make six but eat two, we would make six but eat two..." We ended up eating all six... WE REGRET NOTHING!

Honestly, everyone, you have to give this recipe a try, they were absolutely awesome. The recipe originally comes from breadmanTalking with some slight changes. It's really, really good, so we hope you all like it!

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Laffa Bread
 
Servings                          
6
 
Prep Time:       02:30    
Cook Time:      00:10
 
Main Ingredients 

3 1/2 Cups of bread flour
7 grams of active yeast
1 1/3 Cups of warm water
1 Tablespoon of sugar
1/2 Tablespoon of salt
2 Tablespoons of olive oil
1 Tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil
1 Tablespoon of za'atar (In Australia, can buy from Woolworths)

Preparation

1. Pour one satchel (7 grams) of yeast into a small bowl. Add the warm water. Cover with glad wrap and leave for 10 minutes.
2. Take the flour, sugar and salt and mix together in a large bowl (We are using a Kitchenaid).
3. Make a well into the middle of this dry mixture and add the olive oil and water with yeast.
4. Kneed this until it's a smooth dough that is slightly sticky. If it's too sticky, add a little bit more flour, if it's not sticky at all at a little bit of water. We kneeded using the Kitchenaid for about 15 minutes as our dough was quite sticky!
5. Transfer the dough to a well-oiled bowl, making sure the dough is covered in the oil. Cover and leave for 1.5 to 3 hours, until the dough has doubled in size.
6. Remove dough from the bowl. You will notice that it's quite a different texture than other dough recipes. We felt it was a very gummy feel and this is due to the oil.
7. Flatten the dough and separate into six different dough balls. Allow to rise again for another 10 minutes. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius (fan-forced).
8. Flatten each dough ball into a ovular shape about 22cm long and 15 cm wide. Place on baking paper on a tray. Put into oven for 10 minutes, you should see slight gold marks on the top of the dough once ready.
9. Remove from the oven, allow to cool, then paint some extra virgin olive oil on top and add the za'atar. Serve warm. Delicious with dip and falafel!

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