Saj

A convex metal griddle: markook and gözleme baked on a dome over fire.

Also called sac, saj griddle · From The Levant and Anatolia

A convex saj griddle with a sheet of markook blistering on the dome and a stack of folded bread.

The journey

A saj is a dome of metal over a flame. Levantine and Turkish bakers still drape a thin sheet of dough on it so the bread blisters in seconds. The same dome cooks minced meat and herbs for a weekday wrap.

A flat comal toasts. A saj stretches the dough over a hill of heat.

Bread wheat — the grain a saj was shaped to bake into a sheet. — Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen (1887) · Public domain. Source

In the kitchen

Heat until a drop of water vanishes. Drape, not press. Peel when the bubbles char. Fold while warm.

Lebanese, Middle Eastern, and Turkish pages in the series all assume this dome when they say street bread.

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