Zaatar - Pull Apart Bread

Finally I managed to complete all the recipes in this mega marathon. Better late than never right..
Zaatar is  a middle eastern spice powder made with dried herbs such as oregano, thyme and marjoram, roasted sesame seeds, salt and sumac. I made this at home for a previous recipe. Find it here. I used the leftover spice to make this lovely pull apart bread.

Zaatar can be used as a condiment mixed with olive oil, or can be used to top breads or can be used as a coating spice for meats. It is so versatile and it tastes awesome. I am unable to explain the taste in detail as I am not at all familiar with the unique flavour. But it is tangy, tart and salty and it is so nice. You need to try to understand it.

I am happy that I was able to make the perfect bread dough for this recipe. Ofcourse I checked gayathri's video thoroughly. Since I didn't have a round tin, i tried to bring in the shape in small muffin cups and they turned out like beautiful lotuses. I loved the shape.

The filling is pretty easy as I just applied butter and sprinkled zaatar over it. As zaatar doesn’t have any type of chilly in it, I added some pepper powder while filling the bread. In one of the cups, I added some cooked potato to the filling.

Recipe Source: Gayathriscookspot
Country: Middle East

 Ingredients:

For The Dough:
Flour – 1 3/4 cup
Salt – 1 tsp
Sugar – 2 tsp
Instant Yeast – 2 tsp
Butter – 2 tbs
Curd / Yoghurt – 2 tbs
 Milk – 1/2 cup


For The Filling:
Zaatar Spice – 2 – 3 tbs
Butter – 2 tbs
Pepper Powder – 1 tsp
Boiled potato - 1

Method:

• In a bowl mix together flour, salt, sugar, yeast, butter, curd and milk.
• Mix to form a rough dough.
• Turn it on to your work table, and knead the dough for 12 – 15 minutes.
• Grease a bowl with butter and place the dough inside.
• Brush the top with more butter, cover with cling film and set aside for 1 hour or until double in volume.
• Preheat oven to 200°C once the proving is done.
• Turn it on to the work table, press it, sprinkle with flour and roll into a thin square.
• Apply butter on top and sprinkle zaatar and pepper powder.
• Cut the square into smaller squares.
• In some of the squares, mash and place the boiled potato as a very thin layer.

• Grease an 8″ round tin or 3 muffin cups
• Fold each square along the diagonal to form a small triangle.
• Slightly fold the triangle along the longer side and place them in the bread/muffin tin. This will look like a petal of a flower.
• Fill the tin with such petals. Start from the far end of the tin and then come to the center.
• Brush the top of the bread with milk and sprinkle sesame seeds on top.
• Bake for 25-30 minutes until the top is golden.
• Remove from oven, allow it to sit for 5- 10 minutes.
• Flip it on to a plate and flip it back to reveal the top.
• Serve immediately.

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