🥐 Za'atar Croissant

Name: Za'atar Croissant
Total time: 240 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Lebanon · Levant
Ingredients: 500 g bread flour; 10 g salt; 50 g sugar; 10 g instant yeast; 280 ml cold water; 250 g cold butter for laminating; 4 tbsp za'atar; 3 tbsp olive oil; 1 tbsp sesame seeds

Origin: Lebanon · Levant

316kcal

per serving · 80 g

395kcal

per 100 g

6 gProtein7.5 g / 100 g

19 gFat24 g / 100 g

30 gCarbs38 g / 100 g

A za'atar croissant is a flaky, buttery laminated pastry brushed with a paste of za'atar, olive oil and sesame before or after baking. The layers stay crisp outside and tender inside, and the herb blend adds a tangy, savory note. It is a bakery breakfast across Lebanon and the wider Levant, often eaten with tea or coffee.

Diets

✓

Vegetarianno meat or fish in a typical recipe

✓

No pork

Not veganbecause of: butter

Contains glutenbecause of: flour

Contains dairybecause of: butter

Not keto38 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Milk ⚠ Sesame

What it is made of

flourbutterza'atarolive oilsesame

Recipe

8 servings240 min

Ingredients

500 g bread flour
10 g salt
50 g sugar
10 g instant yeast
280 ml cold water
250 g cold butter for laminating
4 tbsp za'atar
3 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp sesame seeds

Method

Mix flour, salt, sugar, yeast and water into a firm dough; chill for 1 hour.
Roll the dough, enclose the flattened butter and fold in thirds; repeat the roll and fold three times, chilling 30 minutes between folds.
Roll to 4 mm, cut long triangles and roll them up into croissants.
Proof for 1½–2 hours until puffy.
Mix za'atar, olive oil and sesame, brush it over the croissants and bake at 200 °C for 15–18 minutes.

How to make it lighter

A croissant is mostly flour and butter, so treat it as the main item of breakfast, not an extra.
Choose a smaller croissant or share one, and add cucumber, tomato and fresh mint on the side.
Brush on a thin layer of the za'atar paste; 1 tbsp olive oil ≈ 120 kcal.

History

The croissant reached the Levant through French-style bakeries, and local bakers paired it with za'atar, the herb mix already eaten every morning on manakish. Today the za'atar croissant is a standard item in bakeries in Lebanon and neighbouring countries.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →