Open-faced thyme pies - manakeesh bi zaatar
Open-faced thyme pies - manakeesh bi zaatar

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Chef Kamal demonstrates how to prepare these delicious Thyme or Red Pepper Pizzettas. Zaatar Manakeesh is a Mediterranean flatbread that's made with dough and zaatar spice. Dilute the rice in a bit of cold water.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook open-faced thyme pies - manakeesh bi zaatar using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Open-faced thyme pies - manakeesh bi zaatar:
  1. Get - For the dough:
  2. Get 3 cups flour
  3. Make ready 1 teaspoon dried yeast dissolved in ¼ cup warm water
  4. Take 1 1/2 cups water
  5. Make ready 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  6. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon sugar
  7. Take - For the thyme mixture:
  8. Prepare 2 cups dried wild thyme, finely ground
  9. Prepare 2/3 cup sumac
  10. Prepare 1/3 cup sesame seeds
  11. Get 1 cup olive oil
  12. Prepare 1 teaspoon salt

A flat dough topped with a mix of thyme, sumac, sesame grains and olive oil, then oven baked. Pita is nice, but when I have a little extra time, I make up a batch of manakish zaatar to eat over a few days. This pizza style dish is usually topped with an exotic za'atar or cheese mix. I bake manaish all the time.

Instructions to make Open-faced thyme pies - manakeesh bi zaatar:
  1. In a bowl, mix all the thyme mixture ingredients together. If needed add some water to get a medium fluid mixture.
  2. To prepare the dough: mix the flour, sugar and the water dissolved yeast. Add the vegetable oil and mix again. While kneading, gradually add the water until you get a well-combined dough.
  3. Cover the dough with a plastic wrap and leave it to rest in a warm place for at least 1 hr.
  4. After the dough has risen, knead it again, with some flour on your hands. Divide the dough into big parts and roll each part on a lightly floured surface using a rolling pin. Cut the dough into 10 cm diameter circles using a circular pastry cutter.
  5. Top each circle with 1 tablespoon of thyme mixture.
  6. Slightly grease 2 oven trays with olive oil and place the manakeesh on them. Bake at medium heat for around 20 min or until the bottom of the dough turns lightly brown.
  7. Serve warm or at room temperature.

It's such a good thing to have ready in the freezer! Husband (Palestinian) loves zaatar, I still haven't gotten used to the taste. Manakeesh is a Lebanese flatbread topped with a variety of possibilities such as za'atar (zaatar), cheese, an onion and tomato mixture, or keshek. Manakeesh are a Middle-eastern flatbread typically eaten for breakfast. Delicious and crispy homemade dough is topped with a za'atar topping or a blend.

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