Spinach Salad

This light and fresh salad is perfect summertime meal. It can work alongside whatever you happen to be serving this summer, and is as fresh as the season itself. If you don’t have sangak bread, just use any crispy flat bread you have on hand.

Sangak is a plain, rectangular, or triangular Iranian whole wheat leavened flatbread. Its name consists of two parts: ‘Sang’ in Persian means stone and ‘sangak’ means little stone. The bread is baked on a bed of small river stones in an oven. There are, normally, two varieties of this bread offered at Iranian bakeries: the generic one which has no toppings; and the more expensive variety which is seed bread (this is, topped with poppy seeds and/or sesame seeds). Sangak bread was traditionally the bread of the Persian army. It is mentioned for the first time in the 11th century. Each soldier carried a small quantity of pebbles which at camp were brought together with the “sangak oven” and used to cook the bread for the entire army. It was eaten along with lamb kabab.

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