Unleavened yufka bread made on griddle | |
| Alternative names | Tava bread |
|---|---|
| Type | Flatbread |
| Place of origin | Middle East, South Asia |
| Main ingredients | flour, water, salt |
Saj bread (Arabic: خبز صاج, romanized: khubz ṣāj, Turkish: sac ekmeği) or tava bread (Hindi: तवा रोटी, romanized: tavā roṭī) is unleavened flatbread in Middle Eastern and South Asian cuisines baked on a metal griddle, called saj in Arabic and tava in the Indian subcontinent (concave in India and convex in Pakistan).
Yufka bread (Turkish: yufka ekmeği) is the Turkish name of a very thin, large (60 cm [24 in]) unleavened flatbread in Turkish cuisine, also known under different names in Arab cuisine, baked on a convex metal griddle, called saj in Arabic and saç in Turkish.[1][2][3]
Arab saj bread is somewhat similar to markook shrek, but is thinner and larger.[4]
In Palestine, the saj bread is simply called shrāke, differing from the markook, which is baked in a clay oven (tannur).[4]
Gözleme is a savory, soft Turkish stuffed flatbread, cooked on the convex saç.[5][6]
