quality ingredients. Our selection includes: pita bread (made fresh and warm from a local bakery), rolls, pita chips, Turkish Pita bread, and a variety of pastries and sweets, including baklava (and the filo dough that the baklava is made from), cakes, cookies, and many more.
If you have never tried Lavish bread before, it basically is a huge, flat wrap with many, many uses. You can use it similar to a tortilla and put your favorite fajita meat, beans, rice, or grilled vegetables inside. Or you can make a nice rollup by spreading your favorite topping, such as tziziki sauce, on the flat surface, then stuffing it with deli meat, cheese and lettuce or coleslaw, and rolling it up as a wrap. Or, you can even use it as a healthy pizza crust. Just brush with olive oil, put in the oven just for a few moments until slightly crispy, then take out, flip over, and put your toppings on. Then, put back in the over for a little longer. It’s great also to cut into small triangle-shaped slices, put on a cookie sheet, and bake until crispy. This way, you can use them as chips with your favorite humus or other dip. Pita’s work well this way, too, if you don’t want to buy the bags of pita chips which are already prepared. Both pitas and the Lavish bread can make good croutons on top of your salad. After you bake until crispy, just break up into little pieces and sprinkle on top of your favorite salad, along with some wonderful olives from Zitunas Olive Bar and some Feta cheese from the Dairy Section.
Zituna provides the best quality breads, pitas, cakes, cookies, and treats by using the finest
quality ingredients. Our selection includes: pita bread (made fresh and warm from a local bakery), Kaak (Mediterranean style bread), rolls, pita chips, Turkish Lavish bread, and a variety of pastries and sweets, including baklava (and the filo dough that the baklava is made from), cakes, cookies, and many more.
Simit (Turkish), Aramaic qeluro/qelora, koulouri (Greek: κουλούρι), đevrek (Serbian: ђеврек), gjevrek (Macedonian: ѓеврек), gevrek (Bulgarian: геврек), covrig (Romanian: covrig) (the last four, from "gevrek" in Turkish, meaning "crisp", which is, in some parts of Turkey, colloquial to "simit") is a circular bread with sesame seeds, very common in Turkey, as well as in Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and other parts of the Balkans and Middle East such as Lebanon. Simit's size, crunchiness/chewiness, and other characteristics vary slightly by region. In the city of İzmir, simit is known as "gevrek," (literally, 'crisp' in Turkish) although it is very similar to the Istanbul variety. Simits in Ankara, which is the capital of Turkey, are smaller and crisper than the ones in other cities. Simits in Devrek are made with molasses.
Drinking Turkish tea with simit is traditional in Turkish culture. Simit is generally served plain, or for breakfast with tea, jelly, jam or cheese.
Simit and koulouri are often sold by street vendors, who either have a simit trolley or carry the simit in a tray on their head. Street merchants generally advertise simit as fresh ("Taze simit!"/"Taze gevrek!") since they are baked throughout the day.
Simit is also known as "Turkish bagel" in USA.[1]
A type of bread very similar to simit is known in Poland as "obwarzanek". The main difference is that the rings of dough are poached briefly in boiling water prior to baking (similarly to bagels), instead of being dipped in water and molasses syrup, as is the case with simit.
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