Punjabi Flat Bread

The Punjab is a vast, semi-arid plain crossing northern India and Pakistan; its name, meaning “five rivers,” comes from the Persian. It was home to an advanced civilization at Harappa as early as 2500 bce, since when it has been settled, crossed or invaded by everyone from early Aryans, Scythians and Greeks to the Muslims of the eleventh century and the British of the nineteenth. It is perhaps best known as the home of the Sikhs, who ruled a kingdom there in the nineteenth century and whose