Making Bread

Flat Bread, or Naan, in Kurdish, is a must have in every meal. Its eaten in every meal, in different ways. For breakfast, you dip the naan in yogurt, or roll it up with some cheese and marmalade. For lunch, you eat it along with your rice and soup, and for dinner, you roll it up with a kebob. Many homes still make their own naan using a variety of equipment. In the villages, everyone makes their own naan. Its an intensive labor work which requires mixing dough, kneading dough, shaping it into balls, then beating it flat, then cooking it on something called a Saj. When I was in Byara, my dads village, I caught my aunt and her sons wife making some for the week: