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A flatbread is bread made usually with flour; water, milk, yogurt, or other liquid; and salt, and then thoroughly rolled into flattened dough. Many flatbreads are unleavened, although some are leavened, such as pita bread. Flatbreads range from below one millimeter to a few centimeters thick so that they can be easily eaten without being sliced.
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In the medieval Arab world, with the development of the brick oven or furn, a wide variety of flatbreads baked together with stuffings or toppings emerged, including sfiha, and spread across the Ottoman Empire. [2] In Brazil, esfiha gained popularity in the late 20th century, and since has become one of the most popular fast foods. [4]
Both traditional recipes and modern recipes are popular, with new methods replacing older ones to some extent. Of the bread types currently available, flatbrauð (flatbread) and laufabrauð (leaf bread) have the longest traditions. Flatbrauð came in various sizes and thicknesses and was made from rye-flour and hot water. Sometimes wheat was ...
Paratha (pronounced [pəˈɾɑːtʰɑː], also parantha/parontah) is a flatbread native to the Indian subcontinent, [2] [3] with earliest reference mentioned in early medieval Sanskrit, India; [2] prevalent throughout the modern-day nations of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives, Afghanistan, Myanmar, [1] Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad ...
The paste dries and cracks during the baking process, creating a two-colour effect similar to a tiger's markings, hence the name. Tonis puri: Flatbread Georgia: Made of white flour and baked in tandoor. Torta frita: White flour, lard, flatbread, fried Argentina, Uruguay: Leavened flatbread deep fried in lard. Similar to sopaipilla: Tortilla ...
Crescia (Italian:) is a thin Italian flatbread typically prepared in Marche and Umbria (Pesaro, Urbino, Ancona, Macerata, Perugia, and Terni).The crescia probably has a common ancestry to the piadina, to be found in the bread used by the Byzantine army, stationed for centuries in Romagna, in the north of the Marche (), and in the Umbrian Valley crossed by the Via Flaminia.
In ancient Rome, panis focacius was a flatbread baked in the ashes of the hearth (focus in Latin). [1] This eventually became a diverse variety of breads that include focaccia in Italian cuisine, hogaza in Spain, fogassa in Catalonia, fugàssa in Ligurian, pogača in the Balkans, pogácsa in Hungary, fougasse in Provence (originally spelled fogatza), and fouace or fouée in other regions of ...