Kitchen of Palestine » Zaatar http://www.kitchenofpalestine.com Sun, 26 Apr 2020 14:05:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Zaatar Bread (Fatayer Zaatar) http://www.kitchenofpalestine.com/zaatar-bread/ http://www.kitchenofpalestine.com/zaatar-bread/#comments Sat, 04 May 2013 18:58:45 +0000 Eman http://www.kitchenofpalestine.com/?p=579 Zaatar is the Arabic word of thyme, it is a wild herb that grows throughout hills and fields of the Levant and East Mediterranean regions. Zaatar has become (along... Read More »

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]]> Zaatar is the Arabic word of thyme, it is a wild herb that grows throughout hills and fields of the Levant and East Mediterranean regions. Zaatar has become (along with olive tree) a symbol of the land of Palestine. It is strongly associated with the Palestinian identity that it’s being widely adopted by poets, writers and artists in their writings and songs.

Zaatar bread also known as “fatayer fallahi” which means villagers’ pie, is a typical Palestinian pastry mostly made in spring, which is the official season of collecting fresh wild thyme. It is a flat bread, oily but crunchy, stuffed with fresh zaatar leaves, onions and sumac.

Personally, I’m in a never-ending romantic relationship with zaatar bread! Smelling the scent of baking bread mixed with the aroma of roasting thyme greased with olive oil, is where the romance starts over again every time…

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