Greek · Bread
Greek Mountain Cheese Bread with Mastiha
A focaccia-like flatbread from northern Greece, the dough perfumed with pounded mastiha and kneaded with feta and graviera so each bite is salty and resinous-sweet.

- YieldMakes three flatbreads, each about 20 to 25 cm across
- Hands-on45 min
- Total2 h 38 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
- ½ tspmastiha (mastic) crystals
- 1 tspsalt, scant
- 1 tbspactive dry yeast
- 420 mlwarm water, 360 to 480 ml
- 440 gall-purpose flour, 3½ cups to start; up to 565 g in all, as the dough needs
- 1 tbspextra-virgin Greek olive oil, plus more for the bowl and baking sheets
- 300 gGreek feta, crumbled; about 2 cups
- 100 ggraviera or Kefalograviera cheese, coarsely grated; about 1 cup
- ½ tspblack pepper, freshly ground
- 1 tspdried mint or oregano
- to tasteall-purpose flour, for dusting the work surface
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