🇱🇧 Lebanon
Kaak Beirut
Sold from bicycle carts along the corniche with the vendor's cry of 'kaaaak!', the purse-shaped loaf hangs on wooden pegs and gets split, dusted with zaatar or smeared with Picon, and handed over still warm.
🔪 Prep: 25 min🔥 Cook: 15 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
The handbag shape with its hole for the cart hook, a molasses-water glaze, and a heavy coat of sesame.
Ingredients
- 500 gflour
- 7 ginstant yeast
- 2 tbspsugar
- 1 tspsalt
- 300 mlwarm milk or water
- 100 gsesame seeds
- 1 tbspgrape molasses (for the glaze)
- to tastezaatar to serve
Method
- 1
Knead a soft, slightly sweet dough and let it double.
- 2
Shape ovals, then cut a hole near one end to make the handbag handle.
- 3
Brush with molasses water and press the tops into sesame seeds.
- 4
Bake at 230°C until puffed and bronzed.
- 5
Split along the side and dust the steaming inside with zaatar.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6