Armenian Bread Recipe
This recipe was given to me by an Armenian girl, for which I am very grateful to her!!! But I had to adjust it to their products. In general, write as I did, and if you bake, always remember to look at your flour. Otherwise, you can not eat bread, but the sole!
Servings 8
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 180 minutes
Ingredients
- 550 gram Flour wheat / Flour
- 2 tablespoons Sour cream
- 12 gram Salt
- 20 gram Sugar
- 10 gram Dry yeast
- 400 milliliters Water
- 2 tablespoons Vegetable oil
Instructions
- Here are the products we need.
- Heat 100 ml of water, add sour cream, sugar and yeast, mix well. Pour in the yeast slowly so that lumps do not form.
- Cover the bowl and put it in a warm place for 15 minutes. As soon as the dough begins to settle, everything is ready.
- Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl, make a recess, pour in the yeast and the remaining water, also warm.
- Slowly raking the flour from the edges, knead the dough. If you feel that it turns out cool - pour some water. I had water.
- Grease the table and hands with oil, lay out the dough and start kneading with your hands. Knead for a long time, 20 minutes. This is the secret of this bread! When the dough starts to peel off from the hands and becomes elastic, like this:
- Turn it over, oil it on all sides, put it in a bowl. Cover with a lid and put away in a warm place for at least an hour. The dough should increase in volume three times. That's what it will be. I was wandering so much that I even tore the lid off the bowl!
- Spread the dough on the table, knead, cut into two parts. Such oval blanks are obtained.
- Take one blank, put it on a baking sheet (oiled or covered with paper) and knead it with your hands, giving it a round or oval shape. By the way, matnakash is translated from Armenian as stretched fingers. The thickness is about one and a half cm. Keep in mind, my keys are small!
- Then we make depressions along the perimeter and lower it. I did it with my fingers, you can use some kind of tool, for example, a roller for rolling out dough.
- Cover with a damp towel and let it come up for 10-15 minutes. Then lubricate with water mixed with oil and draw the grooves again.
- Put it in a very hot oven. I have a mini oven preheated to 250 degrees, but it's really too much for her! He's hot as Martin! You need to put 300-320 degrees in a large oven, I think. Bake the bread for 10 minutes. Here's how it should work out.