Sangak
Iranian whole wheat leavened flatbread
Sangak (Persian: سَنگَگ) or Nân-e Sangak (Persian: نانِ سَنگَگ) is a triangular traditional Iranian whole wheat leavened flatbread.
History
In Persian, sangak means "pebble". The bread is baked on a bed of small river stones in an oven. There are usually two varieties of this bread offered at Iranian bakeries: one that has no toppings; and a more expensive variety traditionally topped with poppy seeds or sesame seeds, or, more rarely, with cumin, black cumin, caraway or even dried aromatic herbs.
Sangak bread was traditionally the bread of the Persian army. It is mentioned for the first time in the 11th century. Each soldier carried a small quantity of pebbles which at camp were brought together to create the "Sangak oven" that would bake the bread for the entire army. It was traditionally eaten with Persian lamb kabob in the army.
The bread has also been widely eaten in the territory of present-day Azerbaijan, a former province of Iran, but following the Soviet takeover in 1920, it has become less common in Azerbaijan. The Soviets mandated centralized, industrial mass-production of bread, a modernization which was not amenable to traditional, hand-formed Sangak.
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