yafai arabic bread oven recipe

how to make yafai arabic bread oven recipe step by step with pictures

ingredients for yafai arabic bread oven

1) 1 cup of warm milk
2) 1 cup of warm water
3) 1 tsp of salt ( or to taste)
4) 4 cups and a 1/2 of white flour (I used Gold Medal all purpose flour)

I kneaded all the ingredient together and made a soft dough. Add more flour or water if you need to make a soft but un-sticky dough. Here is what the dough looks like:

Cover it with plastic wrap and let sit for half an hour:

After half an hour turn this dough into small balls –it’ll make 24 balls of dough comfortably.

Then cover and leave aside for another 30 minutes.

Then with a rolling pin starting opening each one into thin circles, and leave them aside. Make sure you flour the counter so they don’t stick to it or to each other.

Preheat the oven at 500 degrees fahrenheit and place a big circular tray in the oven to heat. Then take another metal circular baking tray and flip it over and oil well. And then start covering the tray with the circles–stretch out the dough so it covers it well. It’ll be a very thin layer.

Oil this first layer well and then continue with the next one and the next one, remembering to oil in between in each layer.

Oil the last one as well. Then take a pair of scissors and cut out the excess dough on the ends like this:

Now you are done and ready to place in the oven. Open up the oven and carefully take the tray that has been heating up inside and carefully flip the layers onto the hot tray. Do this carefully, using your fingers to help the dough along. Close the oven and let it cook. It will puff up beautifully like this: