Manakish - Leham, Za'atar, Chili or Cheese
Manakish - Leham, Za'atar, Chili or Cheese

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An all-star Za'atar manaqish (or manakish) recipe. The perfect vegan appetizer, snack or brunch! Vegan za'atar manaqish are the most popular in many parts of the Levant.

Manakish - Leham, Za'atar, Chili or Cheese is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Manakish - Leham, Za'atar, Chili or Cheese is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have manakish - leham, za'atar, chili or cheese using 8 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Manakish - Leham, Za'atar, Chili or Cheese:
  1. Take 2 Tablespoons yeast dry active
  2. Take 2.5 Tablespoons flour all purpose flour fine or unbleached all purpose
  3. Get 1/2 Cup Flour for kneading process
  4. Get 1 - 2 Cups water lukewarm for kneading process
  5. Make ready 1 Teaspoon Sugar
  6. Get 1 Teaspoon Salt
  7. Get 3 - 4 Tablespoons Olive oil
  8. Get as required To Taste Olive oil

Za'atar is a traditional spice blend of a combination of Lebanese oregano, a few other herbs, sumac and toasted sesame seeds. The cheese most often used in manakeesh is a white salty cheese known as akawi. For the za'atar, combine all the ingredients in a small bowl. Garnish with parsley if desired, and eat by folding it in half so each bite gets.

Instructions to make Manakish - Leham, Za'atar, Chili or Cheese:
  1. Cooking Time: 20 minutes| Preparation Time: 1 hr, 10 minutes|Makes 6 Manakish, 4 medium piesThe dough: Note: This dough can be used to make the Manakish wrap, pies and even Pita bread (just remember it takes 2 hrs more for the Pita bread to rest)
  2. Whisk together the yeast, 1/4 cup of lukewarm water, sugar and 1 tbsp of the flour and let it rest for 10 minutes. It should have a foamy creamy texture however if it does not then your yeast has gone bad, so restart with new yeast. Add 1 tbsp of olive oil to it the mix.
  3. Next take a bowl with the flour and salt and mix well. Pour the yeast mix into a large bowl and slow keep adding the flour mix one cup at a time and knead well. You will find the mixture to be a bit stickier than the normal Italian pizza dough but that is fine.
  4. Za'atar topping:On the oiled bowl Coat a clean bowl with a dab of olive oil and move the dough to the bowl, cover with a plastic wrap/cling film and allow it to rest and rise for about an hour and a half. Dough ready to be wrapped
  5. Since I recently made the Za'atar spice blend, I decided to use the same. Take 4 tbsp of Za'atar in a bowl with 2-3 tbsp of EVOO and mix well.Set aside.
  6. Manakish:On dusted work top - Dust some flour lightly on a wooden base or your clean worktop. Next take the dough onto the dusted base and knead it well, it may still be slightly sticky as you are kneading (dust flour as require but do not overdo).
  7. Divide the dough mix as required and roll out into your preferred size. Roll out the Manakish into a perfect or almost perfect round. I used my Chapati board(Indian Flatbread board and used its size as a natural measure).
  8. Note: If you are making Pies, you need the dough rolled out to be thicker and smaller probably enough to cover the center of the board only, you can make it as small as you need for the pie as mini pies as well, just make sure it is thick.
  9. In fact you would not need to roll it using a rolling pin, just make it into a small ball, hand mould it to the size you require and use the palm of your hand to flatten.Rolling out the doughKneading one more time
  10. Top with the Za'atar mix and place it in your oven on its base or a tray. Use the lower rack in case you have different levels. I placed mine on the base directly and kept the flame at medium. It literally takes not more than 2 minutes to cook.
  11. In case your oven does light on top, then pop it into the microwave for a minute on grill/bake. The settings on each oven is different so try it for one Manakish and see how it works for you.
  12. In the ovenTop with chopped olives if you like. After the manakish is cooked, you can fold it into a wrap (you can use parchment paper to cover and pack it as an evening snack for your loved one).
  13. Traditionally the oven is brick based and the bread is placed close to the fire. It literally takes one minute.
  14. Normally the ones with lamb mince as a topping is usually made with diced tomatoes and vegetable oil and served with pickles or ground pepper and labneh or yoghurt. It is normally quite heavy and can be had as a lunch or dinner meal.
  15. Za'atar Manakish served up I also tried the Za'atar topping on a Mediterranean bread I bought from Q-Mart. It had sundried tomatoes, herb onion, Pizza Sauce and the usual wheat flour, sugar, salt, etc.
  16. Za'atar on Mediterranean bread Hope you enjoy this as a snack, breakfast or meal! If using the mince meat (Lahem) option or for vegetarians egg plant or zucchini as toppings, it could be had as a meal on its own or with some Hummus and Fattoush on the side.
  17. Incidently the Mince Meat Manakish is called Lahem Bajeen in Arabic which is ground fillet mignon on flatbread. The Lebanese version is quite savoury where the meat is cooked with tomatoes and shallots. Try with with the variants of toppings. Bon Appetit…

Serve Manakish Zaatar as breakfast or as a party appetiser along with Tzatziki or Hummus too. It makes a good addition to a Lebanese or Middle To begin making the Manakish Zaatar, you can begin by preparing Zaatar at home, if you do not have it on hand. Mix all the ingredients listed under. Flatbread Recipe: Manakish Zaatar. by Emily Han. In Lebanon, manakish (also known as manakeesh and manaqish; singular manousheh) are frequently eaten for breakfast and may be topped with herbs, cheese, or meat.

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