Armenian homemade lavash

Homemade pita bread is much tastier than store-tested! Thin pita bread at home is not easy to cook, but very simple! You don't need to be a cook to do this, even a beginner can handle it. Especially if he uses our proven recipe. By the way, such lavash is also made in Azerbaijani and Turkish cuisine.

Maria

The author of the recipe

Watch the video

Unfortunately, you have it turned off or not working Javascript . To work with most of the functions on our site, this is a necessary element. Contact your administrator to resolve this issue.

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Flour

250

Water

125

Sunflower oil

Salt

0.25

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 15 % 8 g

Fats 9 % 5 g

Carbohydrates 76 % 42 g

247 kcal

GI: 0 / 0 / 100

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 20 min

Step 1:
Prepare the ingredients. To prepare Armenian lavash at home, we will need: 250 g flour; 125 ml water; 1 tbsp sunflower oil; ¼ tsp salt.
Step 2:
Pour salt into hot water and stir until the crystals dissolve.
Step 3:
Sift the flour into a deep bowl. I immediately sifted into the bowl from the kitchen machine, in which I kneaded the dough. Make a recess in the flour.
Step 4:
Pour in hot water with salt and vegetable oil.
Step 5:
Knead the dough. At first it is very tight, but as it is kneaded it becomes more plastic. Knead the dough for about 15-20 minutes.
Step 6:
Cover the dough with a towel and leave to rest for 30 minutes.
Step 7:
Divide the dough into 4-5 identical pieces and roll them into balls. Remove the balls under the towel so that they do not wind up.
Step 8:
Sprinkle the work surface with flour so that the dough does not stick. Roll out each ball into a thin circle equal to the diameter of the pan in which the pita bread will be baked.
Step 9:
Bake each tortilla in a dry hot frying pan over low heat. Bake the sides for about 1.5 minutes until golden brown spots appear on the pita bread. Then turn the pita bread to the other side and bake for about 30 more seconds.
Step 10:
Put the finished pita bread on a plate, sprinkle with water and cover with a towel. So the pita bread will become soft. Enjoy your meal!

Probably the very first dish that we remember when mentioning Armenian cuisine is lavash. For the Armenian people, lavash is the same as pancakes for us. It has its own history, rooted in ancient times.
According to custom, the dough for pita bread in a large wooden trough is usually kneaded by the oldest woman in the house. In the original version, the dough was rolled out and stuck on the walls of a tandoor – a round oven-brazier. Archaeologists still find many remnants of lavash in them today.
Lavash is baked from wheat flour in ovens, and then dried in a suspended state and stacked in stacks. It can be round, rectangular, oval, but the top crisp is important. In Azerbaijan, a special clay circle is also used for baking lavash – "saj".
Well, in the absence of tandoor and saj, we will cook lavash in an ordinary frying pan. It will be delicious anyway!

If you have never cooked lavash yourself, but limited yourself to store-bought pastries, then you have lost a lot! It seems that the composition of the dough is the same - flour, water, oil and salt. And lavash turns out to be airy, soft and very tender. You can't buy this in a store!