What is Lavash?

Lavash is a type of flat bread - most likely from Armenia - this is one of the main features of the Middle East and Armenian cuisine. This thin, unmarried bread is prepared using simple combinations of traditional ingredients; However, it can be decorated with the addition of spices or other foods such as seeds. Flatbread is widely consumed throughout the Middle East, along with similar breads such as sangak, taftan, mother and barbaric bread. Fresh bread is popularly made of sandwich wrap with yoghurt and greenery; It is also consumed with Kababs, usually made of parts of grilled lamb or chicken. When they eat fresh, this bread can also be cut or torn into small sections as an appetizer by folding goat cheese along with onion and greenery like parsley.

Lavash phenomena by a combination of flour, water and salt, but without yeast. The thickness of the bread may vary depending on how thin the flat square is. To the basic recipeU can be added spices such as fennel, pepper, cumin or even pepper or curry to add taste. Seeds such as sesame, cumin or poppy can also be added to a change in taste.

This Flatbread is one of the most commonly consumed types of bread in the Caucasus in Russia and the Armenian diaspora, including countries such as Iran, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. Other types of bread that are in common for these regions include Sangak, Taftan, Manakash and Barbari bread. However, all these other breads are jumps - made with the addition of yeast to increase the dough.

Sangak, made of wheat or sourdough struggle and baked in clay furnace, is shaped by simiarox with lavash and is very popular in Iran. Taftan is also yeast bread made of yeast and rice flour; Shirmal is a flat bread similar to taftan and it is a sweeter bread to which the fruit has been added. Matnakash is a traditional Armenian bread, makessome yeast or sourdough and shaped into small loaves, which become golden color after coating sweetened tea during baking. Barbari bread is a traditional Persian favorite in elongated shapes, jump and baked in clay furnaces.

The word "lavash" is said to have different derivatives, depending on the consultation of the dictionary or a language specialist. For example, Turkish Armenian sources say that it comes from the word lavuk or "bucket", while the vocabulary simply attributes to Lavash as Armenian origin. The Armenian Soviet encyclopedia further describes "Lavash" as Armenian and has two parts: Lava , which means "good" and ashes , which means "food" or "food".