Recipe: Tasty Egyptian Bread & Dukkah Dip

Egyptian Bread & Dukkah Dip. Egyptian cuisine makes heavy use of legumes, vegetables and fruit from Egypt's rich Nile Valley and Delta. It shares similarities with the food of the Eastern Mediterranean region. I apologize for the weird quality of this video.

There is a recipe for the Egyptian traditonal bread: the Baladi. It used as a pocket bread for various types of sandwiches. Bread was a staple in ancient Egyptian diet. You can cook Egyptian Bread & Dukkah Dip using 20 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Egyptian Bread & Dukkah Dip

1. Prepare of aish baladi.
2. Prepare 1 tsp of dried yeast.
3. Prepare 1 1/4 cup of hand-warm water.
4. You need 1 1/2 cup of white bread flour.
5. It's 1 1/2 cup of wholemeal bread flour.
6. Prepare 1/2 tbsp of salt.
7. Prepare 1/2 tbsp of olive oil, plus a little extra to oil the bowl.
8. It's of dukkah.
9. It's 1/2 cup of hazelnuts.
10. Prepare 1/4 cup of sesame seeds.
11. You need 1/4 cup of coriander seeds.
12. It's 2 tbsp of cumin seeds.
13. You need 1 tbsp of fennel seeds.
14. You need 1 tbsp of caraway seeds.
15. You need 1 tsp of dried red chilli flakes.
16. Prepare 1 tsp of dried mint.
17. You need 1/2 tsp of sea salt flakes.
18. It's 1/4 tsp of ground black pepper.
19. It's of to serve.
20. It's 8 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil.

Bread and beer were the base of every meal and their combined hieroglyphs were used as the symbol for food. Similar to pita, but made with whole wheat flour, this Egyptian flatbread is traditionally baked in scorching-hot ovens in Cairo's bustling markets. The team analyzed ancient Egyptian art, writing, and artifacts to decode their baking methods. And ever since his parents let him in the kitchen as a teenager, he's been baking bread as well.

Egyptian Bread & Dukkah Dip step by step

1. Start the bread by putting the warm water and yeast in a bowl, and stir then leave a few minutes..
2. Add half of the white flour and half of the wholemeal flour to the yeast mixture, stir with your fingers and leave for 10 minutes..
3. Add the salt and oil to the bowl, along with the rest of the flour and combine to make a dough..
4. Knead the dough on a floured surface for 10 minutes..
5. Place dough into a lightly oiled bowl, cover with plastic wrap and set aside in a warm place for one and a half hours..
6. Meanwhile, make the dukkah....
7. Heat oven to 220C..
8. Put hazelnuts on a baking sheet and place in oven for 4 minutes maximum, but keep an eye on them and don't let them burn..
9. Take hazelnuts out and put them in a clean tea towel. Rub off as much of the skins as you can, but don't worry if a little is left..
10. In a dry skillet, put the sesame seeds, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fennel seeds and caraway seeds. Toast them gently over a medium low heat. It is a good idea to keep them moving. They are toasted when you can smell all the lovely fragrance from them..
11. In a pestle and mortar, bash the hazelnuts until quite small, but not powdered..
12. Put them in a bowl, then do the same with the toasted seeds and add them to the bowl..
13. Add the chilli flakes, dried mint and salt and black pepper mixing it all together..
14. After an hour and a half has passed, uncover and punch down the dough..
15. Take out dough and divide it into 8 pieces. Make each one a circle shape and roll to about a quarter inch thickness.
16. Cover breads with a clean tea towel..
17. Put a baking sheet into the oven to heat up..
18. Put two or three breads at a time onto the hot baking sheets and cook for 5 minutes, or until they are puffed up and smell nice and cooked..
19. Continue with the rest of the breads, until all cooked..
20. Serve breads with dukkah and a bowl of olive oil. The idea is to tear the breads, dip them into the olive oil, then into the dukkah, and eat them like that..

An illustration of the tomb of Ramses II depicted baking bread at the bakery Royal. Egyptian bread was made almost exclusively from emmer wheat, which was more difficult. Find egyptian bread stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. Ancient Egyptians, depending on their wealth and status, could have a varied diet, but central to their nourishment was bread and beer. The Best Egyptian Bread Recipes on Yummly