The Arabian bread

The Arabian bread, also known as “khobsa tabuna” is a recipe of Arabian origins, a very good alternative choice to our local bread; it goes with cold cuts and cheeses. Arabian bread is good burned at the hotplate, because it immediately becomes crisp and so it is perfect if baked or warmed with PizzaItaly.

Ingredients:

• 300 gr of “00” flour
• 250 cc of water
• 12 gr of yeast (or 4 g of dried yeast melt in water at 37°C-39°C).
• A pinch of sugar
• A pinch of salt

Directions for the hand-made dough:

Divide the flour in two equal portions and make two mounds. In one of them make a hole in the centre. Divide also the water equally in two containers; in the first melt salt and sugar and in the other the yeast; don’t ever mix together the salt and the yeast, because they wouldn’t do their function.
Pour “water, salt and sugar” in the hole made in the first mound of flour and the yeast in the other mound. Knead them separately, kneading the dough until it becomes smooth, elastic and homogeneous.
Continue to knead until you obtain two thick doughes that don’t attach to your hands. Put together the two doughes and finish to knead them only when it is smooth

Directions with dough made with a kneader:

Put in the kneader the flour, melt the yeast in 200 cc of warm water and pour it in the kneader. Melt the salt and the sugar in 50 cc of water: you will add it to the dough when it reaches a good consistence. Don’t ever mix the salt and the yeast, because together they don’t do their function.
The dough will be ready when the kneader container will remain clean and the dough will be smooth.

With both the preparation methods:

Cover the dough with a kitchen cloth and let the dough rise for about an hour.
Divide the dough in parts of 100 gr each and make round sheets about 5mm high.
Cover the sheets of dough with a kitchen dough and set it aside for about half an hour.

Baking:

Put each sheet of dough in the PizzaItaly, already warm and in a few minutes the bread will be soft and of a light colour, slightly swollen because it is empty inside.