Welcome to the very first day of this Mega Marathon I will be doing the whole September. For the first week, which is only for three days, I am posting only flat breads. The first flat bread in the series is Manakish. Also pronounced as manaqish, manaeesh or manakeesh, this is a popular Levantine bread with cheese, meat or spice topping. As I had zaatar spice given by Priya during our meet in Chennai, I tried using it as the topping for the bread. This is a baked bread and there are so many variations of the dough recipe across the blog world.
The one I am posting here is my second attempt at Manakish. At first I used my Sunflame oven and it didn’t heat enough to bake the bread. My bread turned out hard as a rock, and also pale in colour. I baked almost three breads before I felt that I needed a hotter oven. So I brought my old oven home and then baking bread was so much easier as it heats up pretty much. This dough has oil in it and so the finished bread is so flaky and tastes divine. If you like Zaatar spice, then you will surely love this bread. If you don’t have zaatar, then go for a cheese topping or a spicy paneer topping.
Makes 2
Ingredients:
Flour – 1 1/4 cups
Water – 1/2 cup
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Sugar – 1/4 tsp
Instant Yeast – 3/4 tsp
Oil – 1/4 cup
Zaatar
Procedure:
In a bowl mix together flour, salt, sugar and yeast.
Add oil and water to make a soft dough.
Knead the dough for 3-5 minutes on counter until soft and smooth and elastic.
Place in a bowl and cover with cling wrap.
Set aside for an hour or until double.
Preheat oven to 250 C.
Divide the dough into two equal portions.
Roll them into thick discs and place on a greased baking tray.
Top the discs with zaatar spice mix and some extra sesame seeds.
Press it well into the disc.
Bake for 8 – 10 minutes.
Serve hot.
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Manakish Zaatar Recipe
Ingredients
Ingredients
- Flour – 1 1/4 cups
- Water – 1/2 cup
- Salt – 1/4 tsp
- Sugar – 1/4 tsp
- Instant Yeast – 3/4 tsp
- Oil – 1/4 cup
- Zaatar
Instructions
Procedure
- In a bowl mix together flour, salt, sugar and yeast.
- Add oil and water to make a soft dough.
- Knead the dough for 3-5 minutes on counter until soft and smooth and elastic.
- Place in a bowl and cover with cling wrap.
- Set aside for an hour or until double.
- Preheat oven to 250 C.
- Divide the dough into two equal portions.
- Roll them into thick discs and place on a greased baking tray.
- Top the discs with zaatar spice mix and some extra sesame seeds.
- Press it well into the disc.
- Bake for 8 – 10 minutes.
- Serve hot.
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I made this when we did international cuisine couple of years ago. Loved it and your manakish as come good.
Very interesting bread, Gayathri. Flatbreads will be an interesting theme..looking forward to them.
Sounds like a great flavorful bread.
This is something that I have been wanting to make for a while now. I also bought the Zaatar spice, but did not get around using it. Looks really good Gayathri!
I m yet to try my hands with zaatar, lazy me!! manakish looks scrumptious gayathri! i know you will rock with your bread theme!!
loved zataar 🙂 and the flatbread too ! lovely pick to start the BM, Gayathri !
What is zatar
It is a middle eastern spice powder. I have a few recipes using zaatar in my blog. Please do check them..
Now that I have your recipe for a foolproof one at that will make mine
The flatbread looks amazing topped with zatar spice.Lovely choice for the start up .
Fantastic theme Gayathri, though you have not revealed the rest..I love flatbreads..:)
Fantastic theme Gayathri, though you have not revealed the rest..I love flatbreads..:)
Manakish looks absolutely delicious
Gayathri. And As you said, cheese or paneer topping would be great too. A must try.
i make this whenever i have left over pizza or pita dough…u gave a real name to this now 🙂 , beautifully made
Wonderful choice Gayathri,the bread looks amazing with zatar.Wish i could have some,looking forward to see your recipes..
Lovely theme Gayatri and the bread looks delicious. Vibha loved it when I prepared it, your post is tempting me to bake them again
very interesting.. Now I need to prepare the saatar spice mix..
Fantastic manakish Zaatar, i can have this flatbread just like that. Looking forward all ur dishes for this Marathon Gayathri.
I have been wanting to explore Mediterranean cuisine since forever. This flatbread tempts me to go out and buy Zatar immediately! Lovely post to kick off this Marathon 🙂
I made this bread a while ago an dwe all loved it. Your pics are now tempting me to make them again.Superb dish to start the marathon with..
Super theme and this Arabic bread is actually very delicious , we all love it at home . Very well made , zaatar is a flavor that we enjoy in meals.
Nice looking soft bread Gayatri…I’m already a big fan of yours. Waiting eagerly for your amazing recipes 🙂
yes another round of mega baking recipes from you…. eagerly waiting for the remaining… I havent heard of zaatar but the bread looks very delicious.
Wow, what a perfectly baked flat bread that is Gayathri. Zaatar must have added an amazing taste to the dish.
This flatbread looks divine and delicious
Hi I want to know if we make the dough around 1 and bake it at 7. Will that be okay
That is too much time between. If the weather is cold, the dough may take 3-4 hours to double, but if hot, it will double sooner. If let to sit for longer period, the dough would become sour. You can prepare the dough, once double, keep it in fridge,. Remove it from fridge at 6 pm and make the bread at 7pm.
hi, can this be made without oven?
Yes, you can definitely make it in a tawa