Tannour bread is one of the very famous types of bread in the Arab world and the Middle East, but it is the most popular in Iraqi cuisine, and it is eaten with many dishes because of its delicious taste. Follow this article with us to know the traditional, home and healthy way of Tannour bread.

The way of traditional tandoor bread

You can prepare tannour bread at home with simple and easy ingredients. All you have to do is prepare the ingredients and start preparing the tannour bread dough.

Tandoori bread ingredients

Tannour bread depends on a limited number of ingredients, as it can be prepared using:

• One and a half tablespoons of yeast.
• 4 and a half cups of water.
• 9 cups of flour.
• A tablespoon of salt.

Tandoor dough method

Tannour bread dough can be prepared by:

• Mix the water with the yeast, leave the mixture for five minutes until the yeast rises.
• The flour is placed in the kneading machine, then the yeast mixture is gradually added, then the salt is added, and the kneading is done for 5 minutes until we get a cohesive dough.
• In the case of manual kneading, the flour is placed on a marble and a circle is made in the middle in which the yeast mixture is placed, then kneaded until a suitable dough is obtained.
• The dough is placed in a bowl and covered.
• The tannour bread dough is left to rise for at least 45 minutes.
• In the middle of the fermentation process, the dough is lowered using the hands, provided that the hands are wet with water.
• After 45 minutes have passed and the fermentation is over, the dough is kneaded again with two wet hands.
• The dough is divided into balls, the size of the ball is according to the size of the loaf of tanoor bread that you want, whether it is large or small.
• Spread the tanoor rice on some flour with wet hands.
• The dough is stretched until the desired size is obtained, the dough should not be thick.
• Leave the bread to rest for 5 minutes before placing it in the oven.
• Tandoori bread is placed on the sides of the tandoor oven, which is made of clay.
• The bread is taken out as soon as it swells and bubbles appear on its face.

How to bake tanoor at home

It may be difficult to have traditional ovens at home, so it is necessary to look for another way to settle it, such as the electric oven and the gas oven.

the ingredients

The dough is prepared with the same ingredients as the previous recipe, and the dough is rolled out as before, but the method of leveling the electric baking oven and the gas oven differs from the leveling method inside the traditional oven.

How to make tanoor bread at home

In the case of making tanoor bread at home, the following will be done:

• Preheat the oven a quarter of an hour before baking at 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
• The pizza stone can be placed to heat inside the oven to place loaves of bread on it.
• In the event that a pizza stone is not available, an inverted tray is placed in the oven, on which tanoor bread is baked.
• Spread the dough balls with a wet hand on a baking tray lined with parchment paper and sprinkled with semolina flour.
• Then the dough is left to rest for 5 minutes before baking.
• Tandoori bread is pulled out and placed on a preheated pizza stone or inverted tray.
• Tandoori bread is baked for 5 minutes until puffed up.
• The bread is taken out and placed on the shelf, do not stack the bread on top of each other while it is hot.

Healthy tanoor bread

Tannour bread is considered one of the healthy types, but if you want to prepare it in a more healthy way, all you have to do is replace the white flour with whole wheat flour, oatmeal or barley flour, and it is spread on the bread instead of flour, and then you bake it with the same previous steps.

Calories in tanoor bread

A loaf of tanoor bread, weighing 70 grams, contains 159 calories. It also contains:

• 36 grams of carbohydrates.
• 7 grams of protein.
• grams of fat.

Healthy tanoor bread calories

A loaf of oats bread, weighing 33 grams, contains 88 calories, in addition to:

• 17 grams of carbohydrates.
• 3 grams of protein.

A loaf of tanoor bread made of flour mixed with rosehip, weighing 40 grams, contains 104 calories, in addition to:

• 24 grams of carbohydrates.
• 3 grams of protein.

And now, at the end of our article on the method of tannour bread and how it can be prepared in a healthy way, we remind you of moderation when eating bread, even if it is healthy, to preserve your health, while wishing you good health.