Fouée de Touraine/French Style Pita Bread/Fouace ~~ French Cuisine

French cuisine, this cuisine is definitely one among the famous cuisine of the world. French cuisine is very much know for its rich tastes with a long history behind this cuisine. For this month's long blogging marathon, when its comes to the letter 'F' i took French cuisine, watelse i can do. Since am living in Paris, personally i felt that i should do justice to this cuisine and hence i picked French cuisine for F. I have been looking for varieties of French dishes, but i finally ended up making a bread from this World famous cuisine.Before landing here, this cuisine is very much unknown for me. French peoples are hardcore meat lovers, most of their traditional foods are cooked only with meats and some the traditional french foods are still a nightmare for me. However thank god, i dont have any chance to taste those very meaty traditional foods here. French peoples like stuffed snails, frog legs very much and its their favourite festive food, most of their Christmas table have these two dishes with Duck liver which is the most loved and liked festive food here. But French desserts are my favourite, i love their creativity and the varieties of their desserts available easily to anyone here from many famous French chefs.French pastries are well known around the world especially their macaroons, croissants and many more. My favourite list of French pastries doesnt have an end, yes whenever i go to the nearby French bakery,i'll treat myself definitely with one of their pastry, its quite a ritual for us as most of the pastries are very difficult to prepare at home as they are quite time consuming.

Coming to this Fouée d Touraine,this bread is literally known as French style pita bread, actually this bread is often baked in huge quantities in traditional oven as much as like pizzas. They are very easy to make at home with simple ingredients. This Fouée is traditionally served with goat cheese, with white beans  and pork rillettes. But still this pita style bread can be eaten with salted butter,jam or with any other spreads too.Actually, earlier this bread is made with the leftover bread dough to check the temperature of the oven, if the oven is too hot, this bread gets burns, if the oven is not completely hot, this bread rest unbaked this is how people checked the temperature of their oven in olden days. But later since this bread accompanied very well the regional products for lunch, people started making this bread  during summer get together especially during BBQ. Fouée can be baked in different shapes either as round or rectangles but however this bread looks like pita breads. This Fouée bread is a light bread without much crumb, they looks very much white in colour when compared to other French breads,and this is the speciality of this bread.Sending to Bake Fest guest hosted by Nalini.

Recipe Source:Wiki Anjou
4cups Bread flour
2tsp Instant yeast
Salt
2cups Luke warm water

Take the flour, salt, instant yeast in a bowl.

Add in the water slowly and knead everything as a soft and pliable dough.

Grease a bowl, drop the dough in it, wrap it and arrange in a warm place for 2 hours.

Punch the dough and divide the dough into 12 medium sized balls.

Roll the dough as round medium sized disc,continue the same process with the remaining dough.

Cover the rolled disc with a towel and let them sit for 45minutes.

Preheat the oven to 250F for 15 minutes with the baking tray in it.

Drop the fouées to the hot baking tray and bake for 8-10minutes, remove it and bake the remaining fouées.

Take care not to burn the fouée, handle carefully the hot baking tray while arranging the fouée.

Enjoy this flat bread with your favourite butter or spread.

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