Clean Monday - Lagana

Clean Monday today here in Greece. It's the first day of the Eastern Orthodox Christian. The name refers to the leaving behind of sinful attitudes and non-fasting food.
It's a public holiday and is celebrated with outdoor excursions, consumption of fasting food and the custom of flying kites.
One of our traditional food is a special kind of bread eaten only at this day called "lagana". It's thin and crispy and yiammee!!! :)
Here's the recipe:

Ingredients:

20 gr. fresh yeast
1/2 cup warm water (40C)
1 kg all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon salt
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons superfine sugar
sesame for sprinkling
Preparation:
Mix the yeast in the warm water until it is dissolved. Add some flour until it becomes a thick mash. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and leave in a warm place for 12 hours. It will double in size and then "sit".

Sieve the remaining flour and the salt in a bowl. Make a hole in the middle and add the sugar, the olive oil, the yeast mixture and 2 cups of warm water.

Start moulding, until you have a soft, elastic, easy to mould dough. If the dough is too dry, add a little extra water, 1 tablespoon at a time. If the dough is too sticky, add extra flour, 1 tablespoon at a time. Cover it and let it double in size.
Then divide the dough in  half , put them in lightly floured surface and roll the doughs half finger thick, giving them a rectangular shape.

Put them in pans covered with baking paper and let them double in size.
With a fork pinch the doughs all around, sprinkle with a little water and sesame on top. Bake in 200C for about 40 mins.

Enjoy with halva or butter and jam!!

Good luck!!;)

xoxo

B.

"Wash yourselves and ye shall be clean; put away the wicked ways from your souls before Mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well. Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, consider the fatherless, and plead for the widow. Come then, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them white as snow; and though they be red like crimson, I will make them white as wool (vv. 16–8)." Isaiah 1:1-20