Recipe: Delicious Egyptian Bread & Dukkah Dip

Egyptian Bread & Dukkah Dip. Egyptian Flatbread (Aish Baladi) Similar to pita, but made with whole wheat flour, this Egyptian flatbread is traditionally baked in scorching-hot ovens in Cairo's bustling markets. Flour, milk, olive oil, and salt are all it takes to make this delicious Egyptian-style crispy flatbread. Egyptian bread is yeast-raised flat bread. and neither flat bread nor pita are exclusive to Egypt, as they can be found throughout the Middle East.

Home » Baking » Egyptian Mahlab bread. Bread in standard Arabic is "Khobz", which is the most common word for bread in Arab countries, except Egypt. There, Egyptians call bread "Aish baladi". You can Have Egyptian Bread & Dukkah Dip using 20 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Egyptian Bread & Dukkah Dip

1. Lets Go Prepare of aish baladi.
2. Lets Go Prepare 1 tsp of dried yeast.
3. What You needis 1 1/4 cup of hand-warm water.
4. What You needis 1 1/2 cup of white bread flour.
5. Lets Go Prepare 1 1/2 cup of wholemeal bread flour.
6. Lets Go Prepare 1/2 tbsp of salt.
7. Lets Go Prepare 1/2 tbsp of olive oil, plus a little extra to oil the bowl.
8. What You needis of dukkah.
9. It's 1/2 cup of hazelnuts.
10. It's 1/4 cup of sesame seeds.
11. Lets Go Prepare 1/4 cup of coriander seeds.
12. It's 2 tbsp of cumin seeds.
13. What You needis 1 tbsp of fennel seeds.
14. Lets Go Prepare 1 tbsp of caraway seeds.
15. Lets Go Prepare 1 tsp of dried red chilli flakes.
16. It's 1 tsp of dried mint.
17. Lets Go Prepare 1/2 tsp of sea salt flakes.
18. It's 1/4 tsp of ground black pepper.
19. Lets Go Prepare of to serve.
20. Lets Go Prepare 8 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil.

Baladi means traditional or authentic in English, but the word "Aish" is the key to understanding the special place of bread in Egyptian heritage. It is sweet, tastes a little like a simple bread pudding, and is pretty rich so a small slice is plenty. Posted for Zaar World Tour III. However, some flour caused severe abrasion of the teeth particularly among those who depended upon bread as their main source of nourishment.

Egyptian Bread & Dukkah Dip step by step

1. Start the bread by putting the warm water and yeast in a bowl, and stir then leave a few minutes..
2. Add half of the white flour and half of the wholemeal flour to the yeast mixture, stir with your fingers and leave for 10 minutes..
3. Add the salt and oil to the bowl, along with the rest of the flour and combine to make a dough..
4. Knead the dough on a floured surface for 10 minutes..
5. Place dough into a lightly oiled bowl, cover with plastic wrap and set aside in a warm place for one and a half hours..
6. Meanwhile, make the dukkah....
7. Heat oven to 220C..
8. Put hazelnuts on a baking sheet and place in oven for 4 minutes maximum, but keep an eye on them and don't let them burn..
9. Take hazelnuts out and put them in a clean tea towel. Rub off as much of the skins as you can, but don't worry if a little is left..
10. In a dry skillet, put the sesame seeds, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fennel seeds and caraway seeds. Toast them gently over a medium low heat. It is a good idea to keep them moving. They are toasted when you can smell all the lovely fragrance from them..
11. In a pestle and mortar, bash the hazelnuts until quite small, but not powdered..
12. Put them in a bowl, then do the same with the toasted seeds and add them to the bowl..
13. Add the chilli flakes, dried mint and salt and black pepper mixing it all together..
14. After an hour and a half has passed, uncover and punch down the dough..
15. Take out dough and divide it into 8 pieces. Make each one a circle shape and roll to about a quarter inch thickness.
16. Cover breads with a clean tea towel..
17. Put a baking sheet into the oven to heat up..
18. Put two or three breads at a time onto the hot baking sheets and cook for 5 minutes, or until they are puffed up and smell nice and cooked..
19. Continue with the rest of the breads, until all cooked..
20. Serve breads with dukkah and a bowl of olive oil. The idea is to tear the breads, dip them into the olive oil, then into the dukkah, and eat them like that..

Aish Baladi is an Egyptian whole wheat flat bread that looks a lot like pita bread, but is unique to Egypt. In ancient Egypt, Aish Baladi was made with emmer, an ancestor of modern wheat. Egyptian baladi bread recipe…finally, after many failures! I almost hugged that piece of bread when I saw it rising correctly and looking like the Egyptian baladi bread. It was such an excitement as if I won a lottery even when I never play it anyway.