Lagana is a Greek Flatbread traditionally baked for Clean Monday, the first day of the Great Lent. Traditionally, it was prepared unleavened (without the yeast), but leavened lagana is nowadays more common
YIELD:
serves 4-6
ACTIVE TIME: 10 minutes
TOTAL TIME: 1 hour
Ingredients
-
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup lukewarm water
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp yeast
- 1 tbsp tahini
- 1 cup sesame
- 5 tbsp chocolate tahini
INSTRUCTIONS
- In a bowl, you combine all the ingredients except the sesame. You knead until you form a dough.
- Let the dough rest for 10 minutes.
- Divide the dough into 6-7 small pieces.
- Punch them down and stretch them into oval small flatbreads.
- Place them onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Cover the dough again and let them rest for 10 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 380oF.
- Pinch the flatbreads with a fork and brush them with a little water and sprinkle it generously with the sesame seeds.
- Bake the laganas for 30 minutes, until golden brown.