Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, manakish zaatar. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Manakish zaatar is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Manakish zaatar is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Manakish Zaatar is a traditional Lebanese variety of pita bread spiced with Zaatar. This Middle Eastern delicacy is similar to a pizza, made of soft pita base topped with zaatar spice mix. We had to bring this recipe to you all. This is something we had at a middle eastern restaurant once and really liked it.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook manakish zaatar using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Manakish zaatar:
- Get For the dough:
- Make ready 3 cups flour
- Get 1 teaspoon dried yeast, dissolved in 1/4 cup warm water
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups water
- Prepare 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- Get For the thyme mixture:
- Prepare 2 cups wild thyme, finely ground
- Get 5/8 cup sumac
- Prepare 5/16 cup sesame seeds
- Prepare 1 cup olive oil
- Get 1 teaspoon salt
It's an easy recipe to make from scratch using very few ingredients! Manakish Zaatar or spiced pita bread is a popular Middle Eastern recipe very similar to pizza. It's bursting with flavors and can be served as a snack or for breakfast, lunch and even dinner. Manakish zaatar has Palestinian originality and is a common zaatar bread in many Arabic countries such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.
Instructions to make Manakish zaatar:
- In a bowl, mix all the thyme mixture ingredients together. If needed add some water to get a medium fluid mixture.
- To prepare the dough: mix the flour, sugar and the water dissolved yeast. Add the vegetable oil and mix again. While kneading, gradually add the water until you get a well-combined dough.
- Cover the dough with a plastic wrap and leave it to rest in a warm place for at least 1 hr.
- After the dough has risen, knead it again, with some flour on your hands. Divide the dough into big parts and roll each part on a lightly floured surface using a rolling pin. Cut the dough into 10 cm diameter circles using a circular pastry cutter.
- Top each circle with 1 tablespoon of thyme mixture.
- Slightly grease 2 oven trays with olive oil and place the manakeesh on them. Bake at medium heat for around 20 min or until the bottom of the dough turns lightly brown.
- Serve warm or at room temperature.
It's bursting with flavors and can be served as a snack or for breakfast, lunch and even dinner. Manakish zaatar has Palestinian originality and is a common zaatar bread in many Arabic countries such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Manakeesh perfect for breakfast, brunch or as a midday snack. Zaatar Bread, aka Manoushe or Manakish, is a popular flatbread from the middle east. The bread can be prepared with pizza dough and is then topped with a zaatar seasoning paste before being baked in.
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