Name: Phitti (Hunza bread)
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Pakistani
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon salt; 1 carrot, grated; 8 dried apricots, roughly chopped; 1 teaspoon goji berries; 125 g (4½ oz/1 cup) millet flour, or 150 g (5½ oz/1 cup) wholemeal (whole-wheat) flour; 2 tablespoons melted butter, or rice bran oil; 375 ml (13 fl oz/1½ cups) lukewarm water; 150 g (5½ oz/1 cup) strong (‘bread-making’) flour; 2 teaspoons (7 g) active dried yeast; 1 teaspoon raisins; ¼ teaspoon ground allspice; 1 tablespoon honey; ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon chopped hazelnuts

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 5

Appears in

Lands of the Curry Leaf

By Peter Kuruvita

Published 2018

About

Studded with raw nuts, raisins, goji berries and dried apricot, this energy-building bread is rich in proteins and antioxidants, and has sustained the local inhabitants of the remote and spectacularly mountainous Hunza Valley region in northern Pakistan for nearly 2000 years.

I remember eating this wholesome bread while trekking through the Himalayas, after trudging into another hill town, feeling the lack of oxygen, and watching school kids running up the stairs past us as if they