Cracker Bread

This is a perfect example of a thin, crisp, Middle Eastern flatbread. It is light, delicate, and easy to prepare. Although the word lavash has been picked up to describe soft breads as well, it indicates a crackerlike flatbread. Traditionally, lavash are baked on bricks or on inverted woks.

This lavash may be quite different from others you have seen. Often lavash is moistened with water to make it limp so it can function as a wrap for savory ingredients, just like the rolled