Turkey

Bazlama

Name: Bazlama
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 3 1/4 cups maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 1 1/2 tsp instant dry yeast; 1 tsp sugar; 1 tsp salt; 2/3 cup curd (plain yogurt, natural yoghurt); 2/3 cup lukewarm water; 1 tbsp olive oil; 2 tbsp to serve butter; 2 tbsp to serve honey

Big, fluffy village bread cooked on a dry tawa. Your Turkish breakfast table just found its centre.

100 minTime

8 gProtein each

mildSpice

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Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

342kcal

8 gprotein

2 gfibre

100minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)3¼ cups

Instant dry yeast1½ tsp

Sugar1 tsp

Salt1 tsp

Curd (plain yogurt, natural yoghurt)⅔ cup

Water⅔ cup, lukewarm

Olive oil1 tbsp

Butter2 tbsp, to serve

Honey2 tbsp, to serve

Method

5 steps

1Mix the maida, yeast, sugar and salt. Add the curd, lukewarm water and olive oil and knead 8 to 10 minutes into a soft, slightly sticky dough.
2Cover and leave in a warm place for 1 hour until doubled.
3Divide into 6 balls and rest 10 minutes. Pat each into a round about 1 cm thick and 15 cm across.
4Heat a heavy dry tawa on medium. Cook one bread 2 to 3 minutes until it puffs and brown spots form underneath. Flip and cook 2 minutes more.
5Wrap the cooked breads in a cloth while you finish the rest. Serve warm with butter and honey.

Serve it like this

Tear warm bazlama into wedges on a board, with small bowls of butter, honey, cheese, olives and sliced tomatoes around it.

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