Saj bread
![]() Unleavened yufka bread made on griddle | |
Alternative names | Tava bread |
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Type | Flatbread |
Place of origin | Middle East, South Asia |
Main ingredients | flour, water, salt |
Saj bread (Arabic: خبز صاج, romanized: khubz ṣāj, Turkish: sac ekmeği) or tava bread (Hindi: तवा रोटी, romanized: tavā roṭī) is unleavened flatbread in Middle Eastern and South Asian cuisines baked on a convex metal griddle, called saj in Arabic and tava on the Indian subcontinent.
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 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 Israel it is commonly known as "Druze pita", even when made by non-Druze.
Stuffed bread[]
Gözleme is a savory Turkish stuffed flatbread, and cooked over a griddle, the saç. Gözleme may sometimes be made from prepackaged hand-rolled leaves of yufka dough.[5][6]
Indian sub-continent[]
Tava roti bread[]
Tava roti is a roti cooked on a tava.
Gallery[]
Kurdish bread (Iran)
Lavaş (Azerbaijan)
Qurasah (Sudan)
Roti (India)
Shrāke (Palestine)
Yufka bread (Turkey)
See also[]
- Markook, another bread called "saj bread"
- List of flatbreads
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., Photographic illustration no. 30 "Dreizehn Brotarten", 'Thirteen bread types'.
- ^ 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.
External links[]
- Tutorial: How to make Saj Bread on YouTube (Arabic)
- Flatbreads
- Turkish cuisine
- Arab cuisine