Name: A milky bread (Naan-e sheermal)
Yield: Makes 2 loaves
Cuisine: Russian
Ingredients: ¼ cup (50 g) sugar; nigella seeds, sesame seeds or linseeds (flaxseeds), to garnish; 2 cups (300 g) plain (all-purpose) flour, plus extra for dusting; 100 g (3½ oz) butter, melted; 2 teaspoons (7 g) dried yeast; 2 tablespoons melted butter; 1 cup (250 ml) milk; 1⅓ cups (200 g) wholemeal (whole-wheat) flour; 1½ teaspoons saffron infusion; 1 egg; 1 egg, lightly beaten; a splash of milk; 1½ teaspoons salt

Preparation info

Makes
2
loaves

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Pomegranates & Artichokes

By Saghar Setareh

Published 2023

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Enghelab Street in downtown Tehran is always busy and bustling with people from all walks of life, but never as much as around 5 p.m., when university students, workers and employees alike, tired of the day’s work and weary of the traffic and pollution, spend the last of their energies winning the race of getting a cab, bus or the metro to finally take them home. The ‘Revolution Road’ is home to many universities, among which the University of Tehran is one of Iran’s best and largest. The s