Turkish Flat Bread (Bazlama) in Pan

 

Turkish Bazlama Bread

Easy Pan Bread (Bazlama) Recipe

Bread is the oldest food in the world. According to historians, history of baking Bread dates back to many many thousands years ago (about 7000, 8000 years ago). Actually, we, as humanbeing, have consumed many kind of breads since the humanbeing was being in the world. Turkish bread bazlama or Turkish flat bread (in Turkish, we call it: Bazlama) is one of them. Bazlama is a simple and delicious village bread. Turkish flat bread or it is known as Bazlama is a traditional cotton soft bread similar to Turkish lavash bread or other breads. It is generally baked over wood fire in the bakery shop. You may like our No-yeast-cotton-soft-bread-recipe

What is Easy Pan Bread (Bazlama)

In this post, we are going to give an information about our Easy Pan Bread (Bazlama) and share our tasty Turkish flatbread recipe to you. Also you like our Homemade-pancake-recipe

What is the flat bread called? All Turkish people know this Turkish bread as Bazlama. It is also known as Turkish Flat Bread, bread of village etc. In Turkey, especially, in rural villages, Turkish people bake this delicious flat bread very much. Actually, these delicious, tender, Pita-shape flatbreads are traditionally cooked in a cast iron or heavy duty pan over a wood fire or on the stovetop. This Turkish bread (Bazlama) is very soft and chewy bread for the children or old people. You may like our Rose-shaped-turkish-pogaca-pastry-recipe.

Very Famous Turkish Bread

How to Make Turkish Flat Bread (Bazlama)?

Turkish flatbread easy recipe: This recipe is realy super easy and very quick. Turkish people cook this bread verymuch through out the year. Formerly, it is baked and consumed in rural villages of the Anatolia. But, in today, you can find this delicious flat bread in everywhere (in bakery shops, markets, groceries, bazaars etc). Also you like our Cotton-soft-home-made-turkish-pogaca-recipe.

All Purpose Flour Turkish Bazlama

Whole-wheat flour Turkish Flat Bread

In fact, Turkish Flat Bread or Bazlama is a simple and delicious village bread that we got its recipe from our moms. This popular flatbread is made from wheat flour (if you want, you can use all purpose flour), water, salt and yoghurt. These delicious, tender, Pita-shape flatbreads are cooked in a pan on the stovetop or a wood wire in minutes. If you want, you can cook it in the oven. In Turkey, there is also special oven for only baking bazlama. You can find it online Turkish groceries very easily. 

Yoghurt is an important ingredient for the bazlama. By the help of yoghurt, you can get a cotton soft bazlama bread. Do you try homemade yoghurt at your home. Here it is recipe: Homemade-yogurt-recipe.

Ingredients of Turkish Flat Bread

If you use fabrication yeast. 1/4 package 
Of yeast enough

We recommend you to use wild
Yeast for flat bread

Natural Yoghurt makes your bread 
Very soft and fluffy

You should mix your flour 
Mixture by hands or by wooden spoon

Cover the bowl with tea towel and set aside
For about 2-3 hours

Divide your dough into portions

Cover your dough balls or flatten round 
Dough with tea towel and set aside for
15 - 20 minutes

26 cm in diameter and 7 mm thick flatten
Round bread doughs for cooking

Process of cooking flat breads

Turkish Flat Bread - Bazlama Recipe

Recipe of  Easy Pan Bread (Bazlama)

We generally cook this delicious flat bread in a pan on the stovetop or a wood wire in minutes. But, If you want you can cook it in the oven. 

When you cook bazlama in the oven: Place a pizza stone or oven tray in the oven on the centre and preheat to 250°C (nearly 482°F). When you cook your dough of bazlama bread, use the baking paper to lift a bread round onto the pizza stone in the oven, and bake for 11-13 minutes or until golden and baked though. Or You can also bake these flatbreads on baking paper - lined oven trays for 15-17 minutes. Remove from the oven and wrap in a clean tea towel to keep warm while baking the remaining flatbreads in the same way. You may also like our Easy-breakfast-rolls-recipe

Here it is our Easy Pan Bread (Bazlama) recipe; it is very nice one of vegan recipes, bread recipes and homemade sourdough bread recipes.

Serve: 4 - 6 Flat Breads (Bazlama), Preparation Time: 30-35 minutes, Cooking Time: 40-45 minutes, Cuisine: Mediterranean/Anatolian Cuisine, 

Very good family favourite;

Ingredients:

• 600 gr All purpose flour or Whole wheat flour (we tried both of them),
• 1/4 Package of instant yeast (nearly 10 gr) or 90 gr sourdough starter (we recommend you to use sourdough starter/wild yeast/Grandma's yeast),
• 2 Teaspoons granulated sugar, 
• 2 Teaspoons salt,
• 1,5 - 2 Cups of luckwarm water, (nearly 350-375 ml),
• 1 Cup of homemade yoghurt (natural yoghurt), at room temperature, (nearly 150-200 gr),

Preparation:

1. First of all, put your all ingredients on the work surface. Then, combine the flour (all purpose flour or whole wheat flour. Our favourite flour is whole wheat flour), yeast, sugar and salt in a large and deep bowl. In this recipe, we didn't use storebought yeast (fabrication yeast). We used our traditional sourdough starter. If you use wild yeast/sourdough starter: before the make flour mixture of bread: In a small bowl, mix the wild yeast, sugar and 1/4 Cup of warm water. Then, stir them very well so the yeast dissolves. Let it rest for 10-15 minutes - in this time, your organic yeast will become bubbly again - Then, your organic yeast ready to mix ingredients of bread. How-to-make-turkish-sourdough-bread-starter
2. Then, add your homemade yoghurt to flour mixture and mix them very well. Bye the way, you should use a wooden spoon or your hands to mix to a soft bread dough (dough of Turkish flat bread -bazlama- will be quiet sticky at this stage). Then, cover the bowl with a damp tea towel and set aside in a room temperature place for about 2-3 hours or until your dough well risen.
3. Divide the dough into 4 or 6 portions. Use your hands to flatten each portion into a round on a floured bench top to about 25-26 cm in diameter and 6-7 mm thick. Place on a piece of baking paper on a tray and cover with a damp tea towel and set aside in a room temperature place for 15 - 20 minutes to rise slightly.
4. Then, heat your Crepe pan or non-stick frying pan on medium heat. Cook your Turkish flat bread (bazlama) until it starts to turn golden brown, then flip it over.
5. Serve warm topped with honey and butter for breakfast. Also it is served with every dish in lunch or dinner.

ENJOY!

Bazlama Bread Recipe

Turkish Flat Bread - Bazlama

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