Maloonga ~A Flat Bread From Yemen

Maloonga ~A Flat Bread From Yemen

This week I am doing International Flatbreads. My first thought
was Aloo paratha, naan but Valli had said no Pakistan, India!

Since we cannot get a makhbaza, bake it like pizza crust.
I took the picture with the girls being extremely hungry and irritable for a delayed dinner, so that calls for a  trail again for better pictures.

Maloonga ~A Flat Bread From Yemen

Malooga

• 2 cups warm water
• 2 ½  tsp active yeast
• 5- 6 cups flour
• 2 tsp salt
• 1/3 cup semn,
  warmed
• 2 tbsp  oil

Method:

• Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup warm water and proof it.
• To the 5 cups of flour and salt add the  water as needed. Mix with hand, adding more
  flour if needed to form a stiff dough.
• Knead for at least 10 minutes or until dough is smooth, not
  sticky, and pliable.
• Cover dough, and place in a draft-free place. Set aside for 1 hour or until
  risen.
• On a surface sprinkled with flour, cut dough into mounds( the recommendation
  was of the size of what you do for a large pizza suit yourself). Let sit for 5
  min.
• Preheat oven at250°C/ 550° F.
• Mix the warmed semn with oil in a small bowl. Prepare a
  large surface by sprinkling flour. Place one of the mounds on the surface and
  pat down and stretch into a rectangle, 1/2 an inch thick (about 20 x 15). I used
  a rolling pin.
• Brush or smear with your hand the  entire
  surface with the semn-oil mix.
•  Fold dough in half
  towards you. Brush the top surface with semn-oil mix and fold it in half
  towards you again. Brush with semn-oil mix and fold in half sideways. Brush
  again. Fold sideways and brush with mix again. Finally brush surface and pinch
  corners together to form a ball.
•  Place ball on the
  floured pan and, move on to the next one.
• By the time you have finished layering the last one, the
  first layered dough would be ready for baking because it had time to rest.
• Pat down the dough mound into a large round the size of a
  thick large pizza and place into a greased baking sheet. Brush and egg wash (1
  egg + 2 tablespoons milk) or buttermilk on top. 
• Bake in hot oven until bottom
  is brown and top has brown spots (it won’t fully brown).