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“UNESCO recognized yufka as part of a living flatbread-making heritage shared across five nations.”

Yufka

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Yufka is a versatile thin pastry dough in Turkey that is used in making börek and other Turkish dishes. It is also the dough that is used in making the yufka bread by cooking it on a saj. Yufka is similar to Mexican tortilla, being an unleavened bread, the same term is used in Turkey for a single sheet of filo. In 2016, UNESCO recognized the "flatbread making and sharing culture" of lavash, katyrma, jupka, and yufka as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, shared by Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Yufka is thicker than filo sheets, and are prepared differently, yet the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.

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Yufka is the workhorse of Turkish pastry—a thin, supple dough that becomes crisp börek shells or stretches into flatbread cooked on a hot saj. Thicker and more forgiving than filo, it's an unleavened foundation that connects Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan through a shared flatbread culture recognized by UNESCO in 2016 as Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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  • UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage
  • versatile across multiple dishes
  • shared cultural tradition across five countries

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