Kaak (bread)
Kaak is a kind of bread and a native dish of Baloch and Pashtun peoples. Kaak is cooked on ghargi. In the past, Kaak was a tradition in all Pashtun regions, but now people sometimes cook this traditional Pashtun dish for taste.
Popular among the nomadic Kaak is usually very hard once it has been baked. Hence, it is also sometimes called Pathar Ki Roti .
Preparation
The dough for the bread is prepared with a mixture of flour, dry yeast, sugar, salt, milk, water and other ingredients based on the variation. The dough is then flattened and rolled over a preheated stone. Sometimes sesame seeds are added as a complement. The stone is then baked in a tannur until the bread is fully cooked. Although the dough starts out thin and limp, it expands and hardens greatly during the baking process. Kaak is often served with sajji.Traditions
In Baloch tradition, the matriarch of the home has the most say in how the kaak is prepared. Once the bread rises the responsibilities of the task are handed over to the younger women of the household to finish the job.It is also customary among the Balochi people, that the father of the bride feeds his daughter kaak the night before her wedding.