Uighur Nan With Cumin and Onion
Uighur Nan With Cumin and Onion Ingredients: leavening agents, yeast, baker's, active dry water, bottled, generic wheat flours, bread, unenriched salt, table onions, spring or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw s...
Ingredients:
leavening agents, yeast, baker's, active dry
water, bottled, generic
wheat flours, bread, unenriched
salt, table
onions, spring or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw
spices, cumin seed
Directions:
Sprinkle the yeast over the warm water in a large bowl.
Stir to dissolve.
Stir in 3 cups flour, a cup at a time.
Stir the dough 100 times in the same direction, about 1 minute, to develop the gluten.
Add 2 teaspoons salt, then continue adding flour until the dough is too stiff to stir.
Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, about 8 minutes, adding more flour if necessary to prevent sticking.
Clean and lightly oil the bread bowl.
Add the dough, cover with plastic wrap, and let rise until doubled in volume, about 1 1/2 hours.
Position a rack in the lower third of your oven and arrange quarry tiles, if you have them, on the rack, leaving a 1-inch gap between the tiles and the oven walls.
If you have no quarry tiles, place 1 large or 2 small baking sheets on the rack to preheat.
Preheat the oven to 500 degrees.
Punch the dough down and turn out onto a lightly floured surface.
Divide into 6 pieces.
Using lightly floured hands, flatten each piece into a 4to 5-inch round.
Cover the rounds with a dry cloth.
Keeping the remaining pieces covered as you work, roll each dough round out on a lightly floured surface into a 10-inch round.
The dough may spring back as you roll; it's best to work on 2 or 3 dough rounds at a time, alternating between them, to give the gluten time to stretch before you resume rolling.
Then cover the large rounds with plastic wrap and let rise for 10 minutes.
Working with 2 breads at a time, using a bread stamp or a fork, stamp the center portion of each bread; work from the center out until the dough is thoroughly pricked and flattened, leaving a 1 1/2- to 2-inch rim all around.
Sprinkle a scant teaspoon of scallions, a generous pinch of cumin seed and a generous pinch of salt over the center of each bread, then dip your fingers in water and sprinkle the centers of the breads.
Slide each round onto a baker's peel or flour-dusted baking sheet and slide off onto the quarry tiles or preheated baking sheet.
Bake until the tops of the breads begin to brown, 8 to 10 minutes.
Transfer to a rack to cool for 5 minutes, then wrap in a cloth to keep soft and warm.
Repeat with the remaining dough, scallions, cumin and salt.
Serve warm.