Name: Sweet Bread (Roht)
Yield: Serves 6–8
Cuisine: Afghanistan
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons ground cardamom; 330 g (1½ cups) caster (superfine) sugar; 2 large eggs; 170 ml (⅔ cup) lukewarm milk; 300 g (2 cups) wholemeal (whole-wheat) plain flour; 2 tablespoons milk powder; 1 teaspoon white poppy seeds; 1 teaspoon black poppy seeds; 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda); 125 ml (½ cup) sunflower oil; 300 g (2 cups) self-raising flour

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Parwana

By Durkhanai Ayubi

Published 2020

About

In Afghanistan, this popular sweet bread is made for birthday and engagement parties. People would make the roht dough at home and send it with one of the children in the family to the local bakery where the daash waan, or baker, would roll and intricately decorate the roht before baking it perfectly in a special oven. It would be picked up a couple of hours later and taken home to cut and enjoy as part of the celebratory spread.