Sabaayad is a Somali flat bread made with flour and then it is cooked on a hot griddle. It can be rolled with butter and sugar or honey and it is good with cup of tea or with stews and sauces. It makes a great snack too. Made with very basic ingredients flour water, oil and some salt.
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Sabaayad: Flat bread
Ingredients
- 3 cups of all-purpose plain
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 table spoons oil
- more oil for rolling and for the skillet
- more flour for rolling
Instructions
- Combine the flour, oil and salt in deep bowl add one cup of water gently using your fingers Knead the dough.
- Add more water a tablespoon to make a soft dough continue to knead if it sticks sprinkle with some flour.
- Kneed the dough until it turns very smooth for 5 to 10 minutes.
- Brush a bowl with oil, and leave dough to rest covered in a plastic and set aside for 30 minutes.
- Divide the dough into 8 large balls. On a lightly floured surface, roll each piece into a rough circle about 8 inches in diameter.
- Brush with oil on top spread evenly fold to edges in to meet center fold, fold the other edges in
- You should now have a square fold, set a side.
- Finish until you have applied the same method to all the pieces.
- Again on a floured surface roll each piece out into 8 inch and place it on a hot griddle over medium heat.
- Fry the sabaayad one at a time with little oil, turning them once each side is golden brown.
- The sabaayad will puff slightly and become crisp and brown.
- Drain the sabaayad on paper towels and serve warm.
Asalamu aleykum 😀
My aunt adds eggs and oil when making the dough 😀 it comes out lovely 🙂
Thanks for the step by step guide:)
jazak Allahu khayr xx
Thanks Maryan,
I have not tryed with eggs yet, next time Insha Allah I will add the eggs.
mashallah it looks tasty…… but i am just wondering to addeggs or not doesnt it still taste the same
thanks to whoever made this website. i had a project in my cooking class which i had to make 5-course- meal. i got all the ides from this website. thanks alot.
Sabayad is cool, but my mom use to make sweet sabayaad the traditional one. Do you know if you can add sugars while frying it?
Sabayad with shah is cool.
Can I use all purpose flour to make Sabaayad?
yes you can use all purpose flour
Salaam,sis when I make this the dough is enough for 6 small sabayas,also can you please show us how to make the circle sabayad thanks
Asalamu Alaikum Hana,
Increase the flour and add more water to moisten if you think that they are on the smaller side. Insha Allah I will post soon how to roll it round.
salam sister
I tried the sabayad recently and it come out really nice i used 1 cup
of flour to make 4 sabayad and kept it warm to make it more flakly so thank you so much inshallah allah bless you .
thanks for sharing
Asalamu alaykum. I’m on an abroad Somali website looking for some recipes all the way from….You guessed it, Somalia. Lol, The irony. You can add a bit of yeast to the recipe right? thank you in advance
Wacalaykum Salaam
Maria sorry for the late reply,
It is good to have you here Maansha Allah you are in Somalia, yes you can add yeast let me know how it works for you.
All the best
Masha Allah my somalifood waxbadan ayad easy ka dhigten oo waqti badan la gelin jiray
Aad ayaad u mahadsantahay.
Greetings from the US! I work with someone with disabilities who is a refugee from Somalia. The person really likes “mulwah” and I’d like to show the person how to make it homemade. Any ideas? Also, as healthy of a recipe as possible would be great as the person has diabetes. Thank you so much!
Hi LeAnn, many thanks for visiting here. I have uploaded the recipe, I hope you will enjoy making it for your friend. To make it more healthy this recipe can be enjoyed occasionally you could also add maybe half wholewheat flour. Please let me know how it goes.