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Lavash

Name: Lavash
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Armenia
Ingredients: 300g Bread flour; 170ml Water; 1 tsp Salt; 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil; A pinch White Sesame Seeds

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Dough rolled paper-thin and baked on the wall of an oven — Armenia's traditional bread, on UNESCO's Intangible Heritage list.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Lavash is the thin flatbread essential to the Armenian table; its making and cultural meaning were inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2014. Women stretch the dough thin over an oval pillow-like pad and slap it onto the inner wall of a tonir (pit oven) to bake. Dried, it keeps for months and is softened with a sprinkle of water before eating. At weddings it's draped over the couple's shoulders to wish them prosperity.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a village's communal bakehouse, women sit in a row stretching thin sheets of dough one after another and slapping them onto the oven wall.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread flour 300g
Water 170ml
Salt 1 tsp
Vegetable Oil 1 tbsp
White Sesame Seeds A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the bread flour and salt, add the water and oil, and knead until smooth.
Cover with plastic wrap and rest 30 minutes.
Divide into 8 balls, dust with flour, and roll with a rolling pin until thin enough to see through.
Scatter with white sesame if you like.
Cook in a very hot dry frying pan for 30 seconds to 1 minute per side until it puffs and has browned spots.
Stack under a cloth to keep soft.

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