🇲🇦 Moroccan Cuisine

Khobz

Moroccan Round Bread

Prep Time 2 hours
Servings 8
Difficulty Medium
Calories 206 kcal

Dense, chewy round loaves with a crisp crust baked in communal ovens, the essential bread that accompanies every Moroccan meal.

Ingredients

  • 300g bread flour
  • 200g whole wheat flour
  • 7g instant yeast
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp sesame seeds
  • 1 tbsp anise seeds
  • 350ml warm water
  • Cornmeal for dusting

Instructions

  1. 1 Combine both flours, yeast, salt, sugar, sesame seeds, and anise seeds. Add olive oil and water, mix into dough.
  2. 2 Knead vigorously for twelve minutes until dough is smooth, elastic, and slightly tacky but not sticky at all.
  3. 3 Divide into two equal pieces. Shape each into a tight ball, then flatten into a disc about twenty centimeters wide.
  4. 4 Place on cornmeal-dusted surface, prick tops with a fork in a pattern, cover and let rise for one hour fully.
  5. 5 Preheat oven with baking stone to 220C. Slide loaves onto hot stone and bake twenty-five minutes until hollow-sounding.
  6. 6 Cool on a wire rack five minutes before serving. Tear into pieces by hand rather than cutting with a knife.

Did You Know?

In many Moroccan neighborhoods, families still send their dough to the communal oven, each loaf marked with the family stamp.

From The Culinary Codex — http://theculinarycodex.com/dish/moroccan/khobz/