Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 3 of 4 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 3 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 1 pkg. Yeast
- 2 cups Warm water
- 2 tbl. Sugar
- 5 1/2 cups All purpose flour
- 2 tsp. Salt
Directions
Lightly oil a bowl for the dough. Mix the yeast, water and sugar in a large mixing bowl.
Add the flour and salt and mix until it forms a well-blended but somewhat soft dough.
Knead the dough by hand or machine. If by hand, turn it out on a floured board and work it until it is smooth and elastic, approximately 10 minutes.
If using a dough hook on an electric mixer, knead the dough at the slowest speed for about 5 minutes.
Pat the dough into a ball and put it in the oiled bowl.
Cover the dough with a kitchen towel and set it in a warm, draft-free place to rise until the dough has doubled in bulk, about 30 to 40 minutes.
When the dough has doubled, turn it out on a floured board, punch it down, and knead it again until there is no air left in it. #Divide the dough into 8 round mounds, place them on the board, cover again with a towel, and let rise until almost doubled, about 30-minutes.
While the dough is rising, preheat the oven to 450 F.
Position a rack as close as possible to the oven bottom. Flour a 12x15-in baking sheet.
When the 8 mounds of dough have risen, roll them out, one piece at a time into rectangles about 12x15 inches and about as thin as for a pizza.
Puncture the entire surface at 1/2-inch intervals with the tines of a roasting fork.
Bake the breads, one at a time, for 6 to 8 minutes, or until the tops are lightly browned.
Remove each finished bread to a wire rack to cool and continue baking the remaining breads until all 8 are finished.
During the baking, if any large bubbles start to puff up, puncture them immediately with a fork.
The bread in the Middle East is traditionally a type of cracker bread called Lavash (Lawasha in Assyrian).
This flat leavened bread is available in grocery stores and specialty markets and can be eaten as a cracker in the dry, crisp form in which it comes.
However to serve along with a meal, it is preferable to dampen it so that it becomes more bread like.
Moisten the lavash, one cracker at a time, under cold running water, making sure that both sides are completely wet; place in a plastic bag for 3 hours, at the end of which time the bread will be pliable and chewy.
Lavash prepared in this fashion is also used for Aram sandwiches.
In the old country, a lavash bread would bake in a clay bottomed oven in 2 to 3 minutes.
You can get much the same result baking on a ceramic baking tile or directly on the floor of a gas oven