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Chickpea bread

Chickpea bread is a type of bread made from chickpea flour from Albania and Turkey. Notably, instead of regular yeast, a yeast found on chickpeas is used; this yeast is mixed with flour and water and left out overnight in a warm place. The next day, the dough is cut into pieces, placed on a tray and baked. In Albania it is baked as dinner rolls.

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Chickpea bread
TypeBread
Place of originAlbania, Turkey
Main ingredientsChickpea

Chickpea bread (Albanian: Qahi/Bukë me qiqra; Turkish: Nohut ekmeği) is a type of bread made from chickpea flour from Albania and Turkey. Notably, instead of regular yeast, a yeast found on chickpeas is used; this yeast is mixed with flour and water and left out overnight in a warm place. The next day, the dough is cut into pieces, placed on a tray and baked.1 In Albania it is baked as dinner rolls.

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  1. Evliya Çelebi (1999). Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels: Land and People of the Ottoman Empire in the Seventeenth Century (in German). BRILL. pp. 264–. ISBN 978-90-04-11485-2. Retrieved 31 July 2013. In Manisa und in seiner Umgebung gibt es auch eine Art Brot, das nohut ekmegi heißt und aus mit Kicherbsen gemischtem Teig gebacken wird.