Markook shrek

Markook bread, also known as khubz Ruqaq, shrak, khubz rqeeq,[1] mashrooh (Arabic: مرقوق ، شراك ،مشروح ، خبز رقيق, خبز رقاق ) is a kind of Middle Eastern unleavened flatbread common in the Levant and the Arabian peninsula. It is baked on a convex metal griddle (a saj) or in a tannour.

Markook Bread
Alternative namesShrek, Ruqaq, rqeeq, or mashrooh
TypeFlatbread
Place of originMiddle East
Region or stateLevant, and Arabian Peninsula

Markook shrek is a type of saj bread. The dough is unleavened and usually made with only flour, water, and salt, and after being rested and divided into round portions, flattened and spread across a round cushion until it is thin then flipped onto the saj.[2] It is often folded and put in bags before being sold.

It is commonly compared to pita bread, also found in Middle Eastern cuisine, although it is much larger and thinner. In some Arab countries, such as Yemen, different names are given for the same flatbread, such as khamir, maluj and ṣaluf, depending on the regional dialects.

Etymology

Markook مرقوق comes from the Arabic word raqiq رقيق meaning delicate, and raqiq رقيق also comes from the Verb Raq رق.[3]

History

Markook was also mentioned in the tenth-century cookbook of Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq under the name ruqaq. He describes it as large and paper-thin, unleavened bread.

German orientalist Gustaf Dalman described the markook in Palestine during the early 20th-century as being also the name applied to flatbread made in a tannour, although, in this case, it was sometimes made with leavening agents.[4]

See also

References
  1. "طريقة عمل خبز رقاق - موضوع". موضوع (in Arabic). Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  2. Elamine, Anthony Morano and Leila. "Rima's Saj Bread Film |The Recipe Hunters in Lebanon". The Recipe Hunters. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  3. "مرقوق".
  4. Dalman, Gustaf (1964). Arbeit und Sitte in Palästina (in German). 4 (Bread, oil and wine). Hildesheim. OCLC 312676221. (reprinted from 1935 edition), Photographic illustration no. 30 [Dreizehn Brotarten (Thirteen bread types)]
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