Unleavened bread baked on a griddle
Saaj bread (Arabic : خبز صاج , romanized : khubz ṣāj , Turkish : sac ekmeği , Sorani Kurdish : نانی کوردی ) or tava bread (Hindi : तवा रोटी , romanized : tavā roṭī ) is unleavened flatbread in Middle Eastern and South Asian cuisines baked on a metal griddle , called saj in Arabic and tava in the Indian subcontinent (concave in India and convex in Pakistan ).
Types
Middle East
Bread
Yufka bread (Turkish : yufka ekmeği ) is the Turkish name of a very thin, large (60 cm [24 in]) unleavened flatbread in Turkish cuisine , also known under different names in Arab cuisine , baked on a convex metal griddle, called saj in Arabic and saç in Turkish.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Arab saj bread is somewhat similar to markook shrek , but is thinner and larger.[ 4]
In Palestine , the saj bread is simply called shrāke , differing from the markook , which is baked in a clay oven (tannur) .[ 4]
In Cyprus, it is known as pitta saji. It is eaten as a snack. The dough is lightly sweetened with honey and cinnamon.[ 5]
Stuffed bread
Gözleme is a savory, soft Turkish stuffed flatbread , cooked on the convex saç.[ 6] [ 7]
Indian sub-continent
Tava roti bread
Tava roti is a roti cooked on a tava .
Gallery
Kurdish bread (Iran)
Qurasah (Sudan)
Shrāke (Palestine)
Yufka bread (Turkey)
See also
References
^ "Kitchen Secrets / Some Saj' Advice" . Haaretz.
^ Türk Dil Kurumu, Büyük Türkçe Sözlük search form Archived 2015-05-15 at the Wayback Machine
^ Pitta tis Satzis
^ a b Dalman, Gustaf (1964) [1935]. Arbeit und Sitte in Palästina [Work and Customs in Palestine ] (in German). Vol. 4 (Bread, oil and wine) (reprint ed.). Hildesheim. OCLC 312676221 .{{cite book }}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link ) , Photographic illustration no. 30 "Dreizehn Brotarten", 'Thirteen bread types'.
^ "Pitta Saztis" .
^ Koz, M. Sabri (2002). Yemek kitabı: tarih, halkbilimi, edebiyat . Kitabevi. ISBN 978-975-7321-74-3 .
^ Halıcı, Feyzi (1993). Dördüncü Milletlerarası Yemek Kongresi: Türkiye, 3-6 Eylül 1992 . Konya Kültür ve Turizm Vakfı.
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