Recipe for khobz (moroccan bread)
The classic Moroccan bread, which is used with almost every dish.
In most Middle Eastern cultures, we use bread to eat our dishes with instead of a knife and fork.
The Moroccan bread can be made either with white flour (as seen here) or with whole grain flour, both are equally delicious.
The bread is very simple to make:
Ingredients
- 500 gram Wheat Flour 4 cups
- 295 gram Water warm. 1.25 cups
- 12 gram Salt
- 8 gram Sugar
- 20 gram Yeast or 1 tbsp. dry yeast
- 27 gram Olive Oil
- Flour Semolina flour for shaping
Instructions
- Start by mixing flour, salt, and sugar together in a bowl.
- Make a small indentation and crumble your yeast in.
- Pour water into the indentation and dissolve the yeast.
- Knead the dough for a few minutes until it becomes smooth and elastic - it should not be wet.
- Divide the dough into 2 and let it rest for about 15 minutes.
- Then take a baking sheet with parchment paper and sprinkle semolina on the parchment paper.
- Take your 2 doughs and shape them into round, slightly flattened forms.
- Let them rise for at least 1 hour.
- Brush with water and sprinkle sesame seeds on top.
- Bake for about 20 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit), depending on the thickness of your bread.
- They should be baked until they are golden and sound hollow when you tap on them. ????