Turkish Flat Bread is made with flour, yeast, olive oil, yogurt and water. Cooked in a pan over the stove. One of the easiest bread recipes ever! Spread butter and honey on these and have the perfect breakfast!
This is the best Turkish flat bread recipe because the breads are super soft thanks to yeast, yogurt and olive oil. If you are looking for a bread without yeast though, go check out our Easy No Yeast Bread Rolls!
Turkish Flat Bread -known as bazlama is a traditional bread similar to naan bread, generally baked over wood fire in villages. When my grandpas were alive, we used to visit them very often. They used to live in a village and whenever we went there, grandma would always bake the best flat bread for us. She would also brew a teapot of Turkish Tea again over a wood fire. I don’t know why, but the fire of wood changes the taste of everything. If you have the chance of cooking a dish over wood fire, you’ll understand what I mean. Even tea gets a different flavor when brewed over it.
Grandma was great at making bread rolls with yeast and simple flat bread. She would always serve newly baked bread with a piece of butter she herself made or with some olive oil which they themselves produced from their yard. So this simple breakfast became a feast for us. Imagine a piece of newly made flat bread, still fuming, and dipping it into some very natural olive oil or spreading some fresh butter, which has a milky scent on it.
How To Make Turkish Flat Bread
As I don’t have a chance of making my flat bread on a wood fire, I make it on a non stick pan over the lowest heat of the oven. Today the special food for our big Sunday breakfast was this bazlama. Hubby ate it dipping in olive oil, I enjoyed mine with butter.
Put the flour in a bowl. Add yogurt and mix it. Then add olive oil, sugar and salt. Mix the warm water and instant yeast in a cup very well and pour it in the mixture. Then knead all of them. You see my measurement cup here.
The dough should still be sticky, don’t worry. Cover the bowl and wait it in a warm place at least 2 hours to rise well. Waiting it for a day is even better.
When the dough is doubled in size, you can start to make your bread. Sprinkle some flour on the counter, take a piece of dough, a bit bigger than orange. Give it a ball shape, then put it on the counter. Flatten it by pressing your hands on it. You don’t need to use a rolling pin as the dough is very soft. Try to be a bit quick when doing these as the dough is soft.
Heat a non stick pan, and put the shaped dough on it. Cook it flipping over continually over the lowest heat. It will be done in approximately 7 minutes. I make five bazlamas from these ingredients.
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A wonderful artisan bread that you can make at home.
- Prep Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 35 minutes
- Total Time: 3 hours 5 minutes
- Yield: 10 1x
- Category: Bread
- Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients
- 3 and 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup yogurt
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 tsp instant yeast
- 1/4 olive oil
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Put the flour in a bowl. Add yogurt and mix it. Then add olive oil, sugar and salt. Mix the warm water and instant yeast in a cup very well and pour it in the mixture. Then mix all of them with one hand.
- The dough should still be sticky, don’t worry. Cover the bowl and wait it in a warm place at least 2 hours to rise well. Waiting it for a day is better.
- When the dough is doubled in size, you can start to make your bread. Sprinkle some flour on the counter, take a piece of dough, a bit bigger than orange. Give it a ball shape, then put it on the counter. Flatten it by pressing your hands on it. You don’t need to use a rolling pin as the dough is very soft. Try to be a bit quick when doing these as the dough is soft.
- Heat a non stick pan, and put the shaped dough on it. Cook it flipping over continually over the lowest heat. It will be done in approximately 7 minutes. I make five bazlamas from these ingredients.
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This post was originally published in 2013 and has been updated.
Which kind of yogurt is best for this? We have thick greek yogurt (plain) and regular plain yogurt that is thinner in our markets. This looks really good, and I’m ready to try it! Thank you!
We use regular plain yogurt. Hope you love it as much as we do.
I am currently trying this recipe out…ive mixed up the ingredients and waiting for it to rise. I really hope it does as i tried a different recipe last night that was a disaster…I will be back with the result :))