I love za’atar, and it tops lots of my everyday eats, from cottage cheese on toast to labneh on pita chips to plain-jane chicken soup. Za’atar, the spice blend, is an herbaceous, lemony combination of thyme leaves, toasted seasame seeds, ground sumac, and sometimes salt. “Homemade Bread Lovin’ Friend, meet Za’atar. If you’ve never been up-close-and-personal with the spice blend, za’atar (or zaatar or zahtar or sometimes zatar, if your a’s get away from you), let me do the introductions: And then at dinner I’m going to eat my share of the rest of the flatbreads as if nothing ever happened.īecause homemade, yeasty, puffy, grilled flatbread is just that hide-some-for-yourself good! Hi, Homemade Bread Lovin’ Friend! Let’s make the easiest of all the breads of all the world: flatbread!Īnd then, I don’t know about you, but I’m going to make an odd number of flatbreads (5) for an even number of people, and after we’ve seasoned them with tasty olive oil, flaky salt, and puckery-wonderful za’atar spice, I’m going to take that extra one and go hide, and slowly pull the fresh and toasty flatbread apart into steamy pieces and eat each piece one at a time, while trying to stifle all the mmmmmm’s coming out of my throat, lest I be found out and exposed for the greedy za’atar flatbread eating girl that I am.
If you’ve made it this far down in the post - past the point above where I uttered those frightful words, yeast bread - then I think it’s safe to say that you and I are muy simpatico about the awesomeness of homemade bread. (They’re dippable!) It’s easiest yeast bread you’ll ever make: just a few minutes of hands-on work, a nice rest, then grill ’em up and serve ’em hot. Homemade grilled flatbread, seasoned with the bright and lemony za’atar spice blend, is the perfect side dish for hot soups this winter.
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