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Lagana (Greek Bread)

Written by Published on Updated on May 25, 2019 in Breads

Monday was our Clean Monday or Ash Monday, and is the day we usually bake the Greek Bread “Lagana”.  I am sure you have seen other photos of Lagana from other Food Bloggers that look gorgeous 🙂  (Great Work fellow bloggers!!) mine doesn’t look like much, I know, but it does taste very good.  🙂

Now, you might be wondering why my bread isn’t oval shaped, well like I have mentioned before my kitchen is quite small and I have very limited  counter space. 🙂  (I don’t mind though I do my best with what I have). 🙂 So, I used a baking pan that I have and just used my fingers to push it out into a oval shape.

This bread is so thin that you can actually use it to dip into the delicious dips you enjoy eating, or you can spread your dip onto the Lagana. 🙂  or even make delicious thin sandwiches….:)

LAGANA (GREEK BREAD)

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Ingredients
  

  • 400 grams All-Purpose-Flour
  • 200 grams Whole Wheat Flour
  • 350 grams warm Water
  • 1 or 9 grams of teaspoon Dry Yeast
  • 1 tablespoon Sugar
  • 3 tablespoons Vegetable Oil
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • Plenty of Sesame Seeds 🙂

Instructions
 

  • In a small bowl add 50 grams of warm water, yeast and sugar. Set this aside for about 20 minutes. At some point you should be able to see a bit of movement going on, it should start to bubble.
  • Whisk flours, salt and vegetable oil in a large bowl. Then make a hole in the middle of the flour mix and add in the yeast mix that was set aside earlier. Start kneading the bread by hand and slowly start to add in the rest of the warm water.
  • When your done kneading cover the dough with a piece of plastic wrap and a towel and place the dough somewhere warm for 2 hours. This will help the dough rise.
  • Separate the dough into 2 pieces…this recipe makes 2 large pieces of bread. What I did was made 1 large and 3 small pieces 🙂 If you have large counter space its best to roll it out with a rolling pin. Spread some flour onto the rolling pin so that the dough does not stick to the rolling pin, and some flour onto the surface, and start to roll out an oval shape bread.
  • Now here is a great tip for the Sesame Seeds to stick…once you shaped the dough, dip a brush into water and spread water all over the top of the dough, once you’ve done that top the dough with the Sesame Seeds. 🙂
  • My oven is old so it took about an hour for them to bake. It usually takes about 35 to 40 minutes or until golden brown.

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Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece. My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural. In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it. Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits. So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Sophie

13 Comments

  1. Megala
    February 24, 2018 at 10:01 am  ·  Reply
    Greek bread looks so beautiful & delicious !!
  2. jyo
    February 24, 2018 at 5:58 pm  ·  Reply
    Sounds interesting ✌✌
  3. dtills
    February 24, 2018 at 5:58 pm  ·  Reply
    All bread, in any shape, is amazing! Great job Sophie :)
  4. foodzesty
    February 25, 2018 at 6:52 am  ·  Reply
    Thanks so much Ben!! I hope your having a good weekend.
  5. diannayota
    February 25, 2018 at 10:41 am  ·  Reply
    Yumm your bread look so good!! Bread and dip are one of my favourite things to have so this is just perfect to me!! :)
  6. Diana Tyler (Eccentric Muse)
    February 26, 2018 at 12:36 am  ·  Reply
    The shape of the bread matters not to me for it looks delicious!

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