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The dough that inflates like a balloon: just flour and water!

Today’s recipe is for a very simple dough that requires little more than just water and flour and that blows up like a balloon. It is a preparation that comes to us from the Middle Eastern tradition: Arab bread.

Let’s see how it’s done.

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The dough that inflates like a balloon: just flour and water!

The ingredients

The ingredients we need are few and basic:

the tip of a teaspoon of sugar
300 g of flour
200 ml of hot water
enough salt

The preparation

In a boule we pour the sugar, a pinch of salt and the hot water. Let’s mix a little and then add the flour a little at a time. Then you turn everything around with a spatula and go on like this until you get a soft but not sticky dough. We go on until all the flour is incorporated.

We pass the loaf we have now on a floured pastry board and work it again for another five minutes.

At this point we divide this dough into eight almost equal parts and we manipulate each of these until we give it a more or less ball shape. We now seal each of these balls with food film, so as to prevent the dough from drying out.

After letting our good balls rest for a few minutes, we recover them, remove the film and with a rolling pin we roll them out to the thickness of a sheet of about twenty centimeters in diameter.

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Once this is done, we put a pan on the fire and pour the oil into it, after which, when the oil is hot, we dip our sheets. We let them go over medium heat until the dough begins to swell. When this happens, use a spoon to wet the entire surface of our “loaves” with oil, so that they get a uniform browning.

Clearly this goes on until there is dough to be consumed.

After that, we bring it to the table and enjoy this wonder.

Good job, have fun and bon appetit!