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# Khubz Markouk (خبز مرقوق)
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/khubz-markouk/
- Published: 2026-05-18T01:27:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-22T19:39:33.000Z
- Description: Markouk bread; large, thin mountain bread. From Mount Lebanon.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: Lebanon, Flatbreads, Lebanese Breads, #auto-imported

**🇱🇧 Lebanon** · Family: [Lebanese Breads](https://onesandwich.com/tag/breads/) · Bread: markook

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*Khubz Markouk* (خبز مرقوق) is the large, paper-thin mountain bread of Lebanon, and as a sandwich base it is built for one thing: the tight roll. This is a wide sheet of dough stretched until it is almost translucent and baked fast on a domed metal griddle, the *saj*, so it stays soft and foldable rather than crisping. The angle is pliability at scale. Because it is so thin and so broad, it does not get split into a pocket; it gets laid flat, dressed along one side, and rolled into a long, slim cylinder, which makes it the bread of the wrap rather than the stuffed sandwich.

The bread is a short formula and a high-skill bake. Flour, water, salt, and sometimes a little yeast are worked into a slack dough, then stretched and swung by hand until it is a vast, even, near-transparent round, and slapped onto the convex hot saj where it cooks in well under a minute. Good *khubz markouk* is supple and slightly elastic, with faint toasted freckles where it touched the metal, thin enough to wrap snugly without bulk but strong enough not to tear under a damp filling. It is at its best soft off the saj; left too long it dries to a brittle sheet that cracks the moment it is folded. As a sandwich vessel it is the classic wrapper for fillings spread thin and rolled tight, where the bread almost disappears around the contents. A poor markouk is thick and doughy, unevenly cooked, or already dried and shattering at the first fold.

It belongs to the Lebanese flatbread family beside the all-purpose pocket round, the thicker soft *kmaj*, and the oil-dressed bread, each a distinct form worth its own treatment. Among them markouk is the specialist: not a pocket to be filled but a sheet to be rolled, the bread chosen when the goal is a slim, tight cylinder with a high ratio of filling to crumb, the format used for many rolled saj sandwiches. The pocket breads contain; markouk wraps and nearly vanishes. What stays constant is its role and its limit: a huge, thin, foldable sheet that performs only while it is fresh and supple, judged on whether it can hold a filling close without cracking or going through.

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## More from this family

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- [Khubz Arabi (خبز عربي)](https://onesandwich.com/khubz-arabi/)
- [Khubz b'Zayt (خبز بالزيت)](https://onesandwich.com/khubz-bzayt/)
- [Khubz Kmaj (خبز كماج)](https://onesandwich.com/khubz-kmaj/)
- [Khubz Saj (خبز صاج)](https://onesandwich.com/khubz-saj/)
- [Khubz Samoon (خبز صمون)](https://onesandwich.com/khubz-samoon/)
- [Khubz Tannour (خبز تنور)](https://onesandwich.com/khubz-tannour/)
- [Mountain Bread Wraps](https://onesandwich.com/mountain-bread-wraps/)
- [Pita](https://onesandwich.com/pita-lebanon/)