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Ka'ak

Name: Ka'ak
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Jordan
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 2 tsp Dry yeast; 1 tbsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 150ml Milk; 100ml Water; 2 tbsp Olive oil; 100g White Sesame Seeds; 1 tbsp Honey; To taste Hard-boiled eggs

Snack

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Oval bread thickly coated in white sesame — a morning snack sold on Jordan's street corners.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Ka'ak is an oval or ring-shaped bread thickly coated in white sesame, sold for breakfast on street corners in Jordan and Palestine. Vendors sell it from wooden carts or trays carried on their heads, and it's eaten with za'atar (an herb and sesame mix), boiled eggs, or cheese.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In downtown Amman early in the morning, a vendor calls out from a cart piled with sesame bread as commuters get theirs in paper bags.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 2 tsp
Sugar 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Milk 150ml
Water 100ml
Olive oil 2 tbsp
White Sesame Seeds 100g
Honey 1 tbsp
Hard-boiled eggs To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Dissolve the yeast and sugar in warm milk and water, add the bread flour, salt, and olive oil, knead, and let rise 1 hour.
Divide into 8, roll into long ropes, and shape into oval rings.
Dissolve the honey in 3 tbsp water and brush generously over the dough.
Press the dough into a tray of white sesame to coat all over.
Rest 20 minutes and bake at 220°C for 15 minutes.
Serve with boiled eggs.

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