Traditional Persian Barbari Bread

Years ago, Persians used to wake up by the smell of the fragrant fresh bread. Every family used to have an ancient oven in their houses and every morning mom would wake up early and bake breads. Recently people do not have time to bake bread, they do not even have time to make meals, let alone baking bread. Though making pastry and bread at home is really sweet, one of the pastries you can make at home is Shirini Zaban.

Barbari is a traditional kind of bread that is really popular among Iranians. This Iranian bread is very tasty and nutrient. The Persian bread is made in different ways, here we have taught you the recipe of baking this bread at home.

Persian Barbari Bread Recipe

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Barbari is a Persian bread that is very popular among Iranian bread. There are other forms of bread, too like Taftoon bread or sangak bread. It is a very ideal choice for breakfast. Barbari is very common and popular in southwest of Iran. This bread can be made with sesame or without it. The one sprinkled with sesame is a very tasty one. If you have never tried this kind of bread, we highly recommend you to make it at home and taste it. You would not regret it. So, just follow along!

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Prep Time 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Course Bread

Cuisine persian

Servings 2 people

Ingredients

  

• 2 tbsp Yeast
• 4 cup Flour cup=small cup you serve espresso in
• 1 cup Water
• 1 teasp Sugar
• 1 teasp Salt
• ¼ cup Melted butter
• 2 tbsp Oil
• ⅓ cup Whole grain of wheat
• Sesame as much as required
• 2 tbsp Flour for the bread cover
• ⅓ cup Water for the yeast

Instructions

 

• Mix the yeast with the one third of the water and sugar and stir it, then leave it to rest for a while. The yeast will prepare itself and puff. When it was ready, add the water, melted butter, salt and oil to the yeast and let it rest a little bit more. Now you have a liquid dough and you cannot make bread with it. You need to make it seem and act like a real paste, which is possible by adding flour and the wholegrain of wheat to it gradually. Knead the paste gradually and firmly. Do it until the dough is not sticky any longer. Add the remaining cup of the flour very slowly to the paste in order not to have a very hard dough. When you see it does not stick to the hands, put the flour aside. Wrap it up with plastic or freezer bags and let it rest for an hour or so to have it all ready.
• While the dough is resting, go for the covering material of the bread. Mix the flour (2 tbsp) with the water and put it on the flame and let it become condensed.
• Pick the dough and spread it on the tray covered by the flour on the surface. When you spread the dough just like the bread in the picture, cover the surface of the dough with the condensed liquid you made on the flame and sprinkle as much sesame as you wanton it. Place the tray in the oven that you have preheated and let it bake for35 minutes with the heat of 350 F or 10 minutes with the heat of 500 F.

Helping Tips to Have a Better Barbari Bread.

• If you are not able to use oven, you can use a pot with the lid that the lid must be covered by a napkin.
• The time of the dough rest is necessary. You need to let it rest for a while to have a much crustier and puffier bread.

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