Quarantine Cooking Sessions: Arabic Bread/Sheermal Recipe

Shermaal/Arabic Bread Recipe

 Ingredients:

• 1/4th cup luke warm water (for yeast rising).
• 1 egg.
• 1/4th cup Luke warm Milk (for kneading the flour).
• 2 cups of all purpose flour.
• 1 tbsp oil.
• 7 tbsp sugar.
• 1/2 tsp baking powder.
• 1 tsp yeast.
• (1 egg+2 tbsp honey for brushing on naan/sheermal.
• sesame seeds. (as required)

Method:

1. Firstly in luke warm water, add 1 tsp of yeast and cover with lid and let it set for 10 minutes until the the yeast activates and bubbles start to appear.
2. Next in a bowl add the all purpose flour, baking powder, sugar, oil and egg and give it a gentle mix with help of a spatula.
3. Then add the yeast mixture (that has activated) into the bowl, and knead the flour with luke warm milk (as required until a soft and smooth dough is kneaded).
4. After kneading the dough, make a round bowl out of it and place it in a clean glass bowl.
5. Tap the top of the dough ball with a oily hand and then cover the glass bowl with clear (cling) film.
6. Next place the dough in a warm place for about 2 hours until the dough rises.
7. After the dough rises to about its double, take the dough out on a clean shelf and shape it like a 'roti'/'tortilla'.
8. Next, place the roti shaped dough on a flat pan and cook it from its base.
9. Meanwhile turn on the top burner of an oven on medium high flame because we only need to give colour to the naan/roti (as naan/roti takes very less time to cook).
10. Now brush the top surface of the naan/roti with (honey+egg mixture) and sprinkle sesame seeds on it.
11. After that place the naan/sheermal into the oven and let it cook for about 6-8 minutes until light golden colour starts to appear
12. Remember naan/roti/shee  rmal cooks in a very short time, so do keep an eye during the entire time when its in the oven.
13. When done, serve warm with tea.

Follow me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/annie_cooking?igshid=u10jj0j9ehi8