By Published June 30, 2017.
Bring the Mediterranean—from Italy and Greece, to Morocco and Egypt, to Turkey and Lebanon—into your kitchen with 500+ fresh, flavorful recipes from our recent release, The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook. This comprehensive cookbook translates the famously heart-healthy Mediterranean diet for home cooks with a wide range of creative recipes, many fast enough to be made on a weeknight, using ingredients available at your local supermarket.
Popular in the eastern Mediterranean, traditional lavash is a little bit nutty and a little bit sweet, and has a crisp and airy texture perfect for serving with dips. Melissa Griffiths of Bless This Mess recently made these crispy, crunchy crackers after getting her hands on a copy of The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook.
“Have you ever made homemade crackers?” Melissa asks her readers. “I have a few times, and they are fun but a little tedious. This recipe, however, is extremely simple to make and even easier to roll out and use.”
To get just the right flavor and texture, we used a combination of three flours: fine semolina flour, nutty whole-wheat flour, and all-purpose flour.
“You simply mix together flour, water, and salt, and let it rest," writes Melissa. "Then you flip over a sheet pan, roll out a quarter of the dough, brush it with an egg and salt and pepper, and then bake it. When it comes out of the oven, you let it cool on the sheet pan and then you break it into pieces. How easy is that? No cutting out cracker shapes, no placing them individually on the sheet pan—you just roll it, bake it, and break it.”
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"Sometimes the most simple things in life are the best," writes Melissa. "They are perfect to snack on, and they are great dipped in roasted red pepper hummus.”
In developing The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook, we aimed to create foolproof recipes—like with the lavash rackers—that wouldn’t be relegated to the “weekend project” category. With over 500 streamlined recipes, home cooks can make a wide range of food that can be made any night of the week.
“This cookbook has recipes for everything from Roasted Eggplant and Tomato Soup, to Wheat Berry Salad with Orange and Carrots, to Grilled Greek-Style Lamb Pita Sandwiches, to Pita Bread (next on my list!).”
For the full review and recipe, see the original post on Bless This Mess. And for more on Mediterranean cooking, read these posts:
