Date: Sunday, August 25, 2024
Join us for this NEW OFFERING in the BSM Education Center - Lebanese Flatbreads! Katya Lyukum, our go-to global culinary expert, has learned to master three flatbreads central to Lebanese tradition, but widely loved and enjoyed across the Levantine region (thanks to our lovely friend and guest, Joan!) For this partner's class, you'll learn to mix your dough by hand and shape it into three distinctive breads: Ka'ak, Simit, and Manakish. Each pair will leave the class with at least two ka'ak breads and two simits, and you will enjoy your manakish in class as a finale. Your manakish will be paired with three delicious vegetarian filling options of a feta and mozzarella cheese blend with nigella and sesame seeds, a tomato and pepper harissa spiced filling or a zaatar filling.
Ka'ak (Arabic: كعك; also transliterated kaak) typically refers to bread made in a ring shape and covered with sesame seeds. The class recipe is for one variation of Ka'ak known as Purse bread, which is widely sold by street vendors as a snack or for breakfast with za'atar. It is less known in the Western world as pocket bread that can be stuffed just like Pita.
Manakish (Arabic: مناقيش, romanized: manāqīsh), or in singular form man'ousheh, or other spellings, is a popular Levantine food consisting of dough topped with za'atar, cheese, or ground meat. In 2023, manakish was inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists as an emblematic culinary practice in Lebanon. Like many other global staple foods, this is a quintessential flatbread that is endlessly adaptable to your personal tastes and pantry favorites.
Simit is a circular bread, typically encrusted with sesame seeds, found across the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire and the Middle East, especially in Armenia, Turkey, and the Balkans.
This class is BYOB for participants 21+, so bring a special ferment if you so please.
Beginners are welcome, and encouraged to attend.
Things to look forward to:
Have an opportunity to work with our own fresh flours, stone-milled right here at Barton Springs Mill
Learn tips and tricks for hand-mixing dough with stone-milled flour, to be used in traditionally shaped breads and flatbreads
Eat & take home freshly baked flatbreads
Purchase BSM products at a 15% discount
Class Policies:
By purchasing these class tickets, you acknowledge and agree to our Participant Class Policies and Media Release Form. Close-toed shoes and a head covering (such as a baseball cap) required for all classes.
TICKETS ARE FINAL SALE, NON-REFUNDABLE, and NON-TRANSFERRABLE TO OTHER CLASSES. You may transfer tickets to another person to attend in your place - simply have them check in under the original name used to purchase the ticket(s).
Touring our facility requires that all participants adhere to health guidelines - all touring participants (included in ticket) will be required to remove most jewelry and piercings, and wear a beard net (if applicable) and/or hair net. Close-toed shoes are required for entering any part of our facility.
In keeping with low COVID risk level in Travis County, masks are optional and up to personal discretion for this class.
In the event of class cancellation, we will email you to notify you of a canceled class.
