Nigellan Flatbread

Look, the name is meant to be a bit of joke, but what I’m talking about is a pitta-like bread, glazed golden with beaten egg and sprinkled with nigella seeds. I came across a recipe rather like it in Eric Treuille and Ursula Ferrigno’s inspirational Bread and made it, you could say, my own. (You can get the nigella seeds, usually marked ‘kalonji’, from shops that sell Indian food, and many more besides.)

This is what I make when I’m in mezze-mode. It’s not hard, and although