H'mbasha/Ambasha/Himbasha/Ethiopian Flat Bread

Himbasha/Ambasha is a popular Ethiopian/Eritrean celebration bread which is cooked traditionally in stove top as a round shaped bread with a frying pan. However many baked versions do exists. This bread is served at special occasions. Do you know Ethiopian tradition involves breaking the himbasha over the back of a child at his first birthday to give him strength. Though its a celebration bread it can be also eaten during breakfast or for snacks with spreads,jams or else with some stews where you can tear a piece of bread and dip in the stew and enjoy. This bread is prepared with many variations and the most favourite flavoring goes to grounded cardamom seeds. Some people adds raisins in their Himbasha while some adds Black sesame seeds, grounded fenugreek seeds etc.

Though this bread is cooked in stove top or baked in oven, the shaping of this bread involves just spreading the dough as much as possible as your large frying pan and scoring a wheel like pattern on the top. Thats the particularity of this bread. Since am trying Himbasha for the first time, i dont want to experiment with grounded fenugreek seeds and i kept mine as simple as possible. I opted for grounded cardamom powder and black sesame seeds to flavor my Himbasha. This flatbread came out extremely prefect and we finished our brunch with this fabulous bread. Though this bread is sweet and savory bread, i loved having this bread slices with peanut butter and jam. Am running this month's blogging marathon with A-Z baking around the world as theme, and my today's post is this Ethiopian Himbasha bread.

Dont forget to check my previous post under this Megamarathon:
Aysh Abu Laham from Saudi Arabia
Bhapa Doi from India
Cemita Buns from Mexico
Dobos Torte from Hungary
Earthquake Cake from America
Fonott Kalacs from Hungary
Gougéres au Fromage from France

Recipe Source: Here
4cups All purpose flour
1tbsp Instant yeast
1/4cup Sugar
1tsp Cardamom powder
1/4cup Oil
1tsp Salt
1+1/2cups Luke warm water
1tsp Black sesame seeds

Take the flour, instant yeast, sugar, salt, cardamom powder,black sesame seeds, oil in a bowl.

Add the luke warm water, and knead everything well to form a smooth dough.

Drop the smooth dough in a greased bowl and let it sit in warm place for atleast two hours.

Once the dough gets rised, punch down and drop the dough in a kitchen top.

Knead and flatten it, take a large frying pan, grease it generously with oil, drop the flatten dough to the pan.

Slowly start flattening it until it covers the pan, now score concentric circles on the top of the dough to form a wheel pattern.

Let it sit again for few minutes, brush the top with oil. Preheat the oven for 350F.

Bake for 20-25minutes until the top of the bread turns golden brown.

Slice and serve.

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