Saj bread facts for kids
Unleavened yufka bread made on griddle
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| Alternative names | Tava bread |
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| Type | Flatbread |
| Place of origin | Middle East, South Asia |
| Main ingredients | flour, water, salt |
Saj bread (Arabic: خبز صاج, romanized: khubz ṣāj, Turkish: sac ekmeği) or tava bread (Hindi: तवा रोटी, romanized: tavā roṭī) is unleavened flatbread in Middle Eastern and South Asian cuisines baked on a metal griddle, called saj in Arabic and tava in the Indian subcontinent (concave in India and convex in Pakistan).
Types
Middle East
Bread
Yufka bread (Turkish: yufka ekmeği) is the Turkish name of a very thin, large (60 cm [24 in]) unleavened flatbread in Turkish cuisine, also known under different names in Arab cuisine, baked on a convex metal griddle, called saj in Arabic and saç in Turkish.
Arab saj bread bread is somewhat similar to markook shrek, but is thinner and larger.
In Palestine, the saj bread is simply called shrāke, differing from the markook, which is baked in a clay oven (tannur). In Israel it is commonly known as "Druze pita", even when made by non-Druze.
Stuffed bread
Gözleme is a savory Turkish stuffed flatbread, and cooked over a griddle, the saç. Gözleme may sometimes be made from prepackaged hand-rolled leaves of yufka dough.
Indian sub-continent
Tava roti bread
Tava roti is a roti cooked on a tava.
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