Turkish Flatbread

Preparation info
  • Makes

    two

    loaves
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Modern Baker

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2008

  • About

I tasted this bread at Alaysa, a Turkish restaurant in Melbourne, Australia, in 2002. At the back of the dining room there sits an immense wood-burning oven, and while we were having lunch we could see the bakers were all hard at work, dividing the risen dough and shaping the small disk-shaped loaves. As soon as a dozen or so were formed, they were arranged on a large wooden peel and went straight into the oven. One of the bakers told me that they normally make several thousand of these a d