Table for TwoBint al Sahn
'Daughter of the plate': a tall, flaky layered bread-cake drizzled with honey and sprinkled with nigella seeds.
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⏱ 90 min📶 Hard👫 Serves 2🥬 Vegetarian☪ Muslim-friendly
Ingredients (for 2)
- Flour, 300 g
- Egg, 1
- Instant yeast, 1 tsp
- Sugar, 1 tbsp
- Warm milk, about 120 ml
- Salt, ½ tsp
- Butter or ghee, 150 g, melted
- Honey, to serve
- Nigella seeds, 1 tsp
Steps
- Knead the flour, egg, yeast, sugar, salt and milk into a soft dough; rest for 30 minutes.
- Divide into 8 balls and roll each very thin.
- Stack the sheets in a round tin, brushing each generously with melted butter.
- Brush the top with egg, sprinkle with nigella seeds and let rise for 20 minutes.
- Bake at 180°C for 30–35 minutes until deep golden, then drizzle with warm honey and serve hot.
Cook it together: One rolls the sheets thin, the other brushes and stacks — the more layers, the better.
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