Mini Grilled Flatbread with Hummus & Baba Ghanoush

Recipes by:zainab

Mini Grilled Flatbread

Recipe adapted from Kath Eats Real Food (without adding the herbs)
Makes 16 mini flatbread

2 cups unbleached flour (you can use 1 cup whole wheat flour + 1 cup unbleached flour).
3/4 cup warm water.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
1/4 teaspoon dry yeast.
1 Tablespoon olive oil.
1)place all ingredients in a bowl of mixer , knead for 10 minutes to make a soft dough.
2)Cover the dough and let rise for 90 minutes.
3)Preheat oven to 550 F.
3)Divide the dough into 16 pieces; shape each piece into a ball, allow to rest for at 20 minutes.

4)Roll them into circles (4 or 5-inch circle) on a floured board.
5)Bake on hot baking surface for 1 minute per side.

Hummus

2 cans (about 410g each)chickpeas.
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice.
1-2 clove garlic, crushed.
1/2 cup tahini.
2 Tablespoons olive oil.
salt (to taste)
enough water to smooth the hummus.

olive oil for drizzling.
Red hot pepper for garnish.

1)Place all all ingredients in a food processor.
2)Process until smooth (add water if need it).
3)Drizzle olive oil on top & sprinkle with red hot pepper .

Baba Ghanoush

500 g medium eggplants (roasted).
1/8 or 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice.
1-2 clove garlic, crushed.
8 Tablespoons tahini.
2 Tablespoons olive oil.
salt (to taste).
1/8 cup Fresh Labneh or you can use strained yogurt.
1/4 cup fresh coriander.

olive oil for drizzling.
1/4 cup fresh coriander for garnish.

1) Pierce eggplants in several places with a skewer.
2) Place whole eggplants on oven tray. Bake, uncovered in 450 F oven about an hour or until soft; cool 30 minutes.
3) Peel eggplants, chop flesh; discard skins.
4)Place all all ingredients in a food processor.
5)Process until just combined.
6)Drizzle olive oil on top & sprinkle with fresh coriander.


I am sending this Grilled Flatbread to Susan for YeastSpotting host this week by Nick .

Thank you so much Anam & Lien for sharing those awards with us.
& we passing those awards to all blogger friends (too many to list)

Have a good day

Multigrain Bread , Brilliant Weblog Prize & Arte Y Pico Award

Recipe by:zainab

This is my entry for BreadBakingDay #13, Whole Grain Breads, hosted by Jude (Apple Pie, Patis, and Paté) .

Deadline: September 1st, 2008

Makes 1 loaf or 12 rolls .

1/2 cup Oat bran (I used Bob’s Red Mill brand)
1/4 cup Ground Golden Flaxseed (I used Bob’s Red Mill brand)
2/3 cup Oats.
1/4 cup Rye flour (I used Doves Farm brand)
1 1/4 cups Whole Wheat Graham FLOUR (I used Hodgson Mill brand).
3 cups Country Grain Bread flour ( I used Allinson brand)
1/4 cup date molasses or honey
1/4 cup oil.
2 cup water or as needed.
2 teaspoons salt.
2 1/2 teaspoons yeast.

1) Put the oats, oat bran & water together in a saucepan and set the heat to medium high , continue to stir until the liquid is absorbed, about 5 minutes or so. When the mixture thickens, remove from heat, stir in date molasses & oil, and let it cool to room temperature.

2) Place all ingredients in the bowl of mixer; beat 10 minutes to make soft dough.

3) Cover dough and let rise in warm place until doubled in size, about 60-90 minutes.

For Bread:

Shape into loaf, cover; let it rise in warm place until doubled in size, about 40-60 minutes.
Bake at 350 F for 30-40 minutes.

For Rolls:

Divide dough into 12 pieces. Shape each piece into a ball, take one piece of dough and shape it into your favorites shape.

Place the rolls on a baking sheet, brush the top with milk, and sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Cover and let rise for 30-40 minutes.

Bake at 350 F, for 20-25 minutes or until browned.

For Feta Cheese & Zaatar breakfast Rolls:

Roll the dough into rectangle. Fill with 1/2 cup Feta Cheese or more, sprinkle with Zaatar & a drizzle of olive oil.

Roll up from the long side and seal well. Cut into 12 even slices.

Place the slices on a baking sheet.

Cover and let rise for 30-40 minutes.

Bake at 350 F, for 20-25 minutes or until browned.

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During the last few weeks Haley @ Appoggiatura & George @ Culinary Travels Of A Kitchen Goddess were kind enough to pass the “Brilliant Weblog Prize” to us .
Thank you so much Haley & George

Brilliant Weblog is a prize given to sites and blogs that are smart and brilliant both in their content and their design. The purpose of the prize is to promote as many blogs as possible in the blogsphere. Here are the rules to follow:

1. When you recieve the prize you must write a post showing it, together with the name of who has given it to you, and link them back.
   
   


2. Choose a minimum of 7 blogs (or even more) that you find brilliant in their content or design. Show their names and links and leave them a comment informing they were prized with ‘Brilliant Weblog’.

We pass this award to :

Cynthia @ Tastes Like Home.

Deeba @ Passionate About Baking .

Mallugirl @ Malabar Spices.

Susan @ wild yeast.

Kevin @ Closet Cooking .

Gretchen Noelle @ Canela & Comino.

Jai and Bee @ Jugalbandi.

We also recieved the Arte Y Pico Award from Rajani @ vegetarian in me.
Thank you Rajani

The rules of Arte Y Pico award are:

Pick five blogs who deserve this award because the content of their blog is creative, interesting, and they inspire the blogging community. Each recipient has to have their name and link back to their blog. The recipient must display the award and link back to the blog that awarded them the award. The recipient must also show the link back to Arte y Pico blog so everyone knows the origin of the award.

& we pass on this award to :

Manuela @ Baking History.

jeena @ jeena's kitchen.

Yasmeen @ Health Nut.

Mona @ Zaiqa .

Mandira & Aswin @ Ahaar.

Congratulations to all .... Enjoy your Award

Thank you again Haley,George & Rajani

Award & Meme

Haley of Appoggiatura was kind enough to pass this award along to us.

Thank you so much Haley,you literally made our day .

& we pass on this award to everyone who really make our days by stopping by & leave us a nice comments.
Everyone feel free to add the award on your blog .


We have been tagged by Meeso (For The Love Of Food!) to do the seven songs meme...

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to.

Zainab:

1) Diana Karazon "Ensani ".

2) Josh Groban "Cinema Paradiso".

3) Evanescence "My Immortal".

4) Rashed Al-Majed "Ashan Al Hob".

5) Rashed Al-Majed "Sa3at".

6) Shayne Ward "Breathless".

7) Rashed Al-Fares "Baitak Hena".


Meedo :

1) Delta Goodrem "Not Me, Not I".

2) Evanescence "Lacrymosa".

3) Angie Martinez "if I could go!".

4) Josh Groban "Mi Morena".

5) Rashed Al-Majed "wdy Abky" .

6) Angam "Ma Batalamsh".

7) "Sad Love Story Ending Song" .


We tagging :

1) Haley @ Appoggiatura.

2) jeena @ jeena's kitchen.

3) Bal @ be foodie!.

4) Aditi @ My Kitchen Stories.

5) Susan @ Wild Yeast.

6) Jenn @ The Left Over Queen.

7) Noor @ Ya Salam Cooking .

5 Facts About Arabic Bites's Girls,3 Awards & a poem

we have been tagged by Dorit from pretty baking in israel to write 5 facts about us.



So here goes the facts:




Zainab

1)I love my bird kino more than anything & I tend to spoil him as much as I could,who could blame me just take a Look at his eyes.

2)When I graduated from high school I got a scholarship to study medicine, but I changed it & now I study multimedia and web development.

3)I love josh Groban's music, nature photography,also I am helpful,peaceful !& very good friend .

4)I don't count my calories ,I just don't care, but I do my best to stay healthy.I have allergic to peach, but I eat it anyway,I was a picky eater kid,If I saw any Pea or green herb in my plate I refused to eat it,& in fact I still do but only in very mushy foods,& one thing else I don't believe in No carb diet.
As much as I love to eat, I get even more pleasure from feeding others.

5)My friends and family called me "Arabic Martha".


Meedo

1)I Study Computer Science then I changed to Multimedia and web development to be in the same classes with zainab .

2)Love jewelry design, I design for friends and family,love Painting too.

3)I have allergic to almost everything.

4)Everyone know me,know that I am always smiling.

5)I watch everything Comedy.


We would like to say thank you to jeena @ jeena's kitchen for her lovely "Friend " award/poem,we are really honored to know you jeena .

We pass on this award to all those nice bloggers.....

Also we thank Shubha for passing the "Inspiration Awards" to us...
we love you Shubha .

The blogger who inspire us are:

burekaboy @ is-that-my-bureka.
Susan @ wild yeast.
Zorra @ 1x umrühren bitte.
Mona @ zaiqa.

Aswin & Mandira @ Ahaar.


Also this morning we receives an email from Noor @ Ya Salam Cooking .

Hey this is Noor from Ya Salam Cooking. Anyway, I wanted to pass along this award to you for fabulous blog award! You can add it on your blog forever. All you have to do is give the same award away to five other blog's that you think is fabulous with an email like this explaining. I love your web site its awesome..

NOOR

Thank you so much Noor.

we pass this award to:

Meeso @ For The Love Of Food!
Shubha @ chutki bhar pyar.
Aditi @ My Kitchen Stories.
jeena @ jeena's kitchen.
Cynthia @ Tastes Like Home.

Finally Arabic Bites Turns one ,Thanks everyone for reading !!!

3 Yummy Blog Awards

(May 3) Meeso over at My Humble Kitchen was kind enough to pass this award to us .
We were thrilled to get another award from meeso Thank you so much meeso

Also in (May 10) we recieved our second yummy award from Shubha over at Chutki Bhar Pyar so thank you shubha it's really nice of you to pass it to us

Finally in (May 22) Aditi over at My kitchen Stories pass us the third award , Thanks a lot Aditi for passing this award to us

"Yummy blog award is the award given to the blog with most yummy recipes/photos"

Rules for the ‘Yummy Blog’ award Receiver: The person who receives the award should display the "Yummy Blog !" logo on their blog and also the meaning of the award which is "Yummy blog award is the award given to the blog with most yummy recipes/photos".

The receiver should also quote their favorite yummy-licious :) dessert(s)that they have ever prepared/eaten. Don’t restrict yourself to any dessert,chocolate bars also welcome.

Favorite yummy-licious desserts (zainab):

1)Pudding.

2)Elqaimat.

3)Baklava.

4)chocolat cake.

Favorite yummy-licious desserts (meedo):

1)Konafa.

2)Ataif.

3)Balalit ( gulf desserts).

4)Elqaimat.

We pass this award to :

1) Susan @ wild yeast.

2) Kalyn @ kalyn's kitchen.

3) kelly @ Sass & Veracity.

4) Anh @ Food Lover's Journey.

Since we recieved the award 3 times,we feel that we have to pass it to more yummy blogs so we choice:

5) Meeso @ My Humble Kitchen.

6)Mona @ zaiqa.

7)Pam @ The Backyard pizzeria.

8) George@ Culinary Travels Of A Kitchen Goddess.

9) Gretchen Noelle @ Canela & Comino.

10) Cynthia @ Tastes Like Home.

11) Aswin & Mandira @ Ahaar.

12) jeena @ jeena's kitchen.

Congratulations to all!

Thank you again Meeso , Shubha & Aditi