How to Use lavash in a Sentence

lavash

noun
  • Crispy seeded lavash, to scoop up lamb tartare with egg yolk and toum.
    — Anna Spiegel, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Spoon a third of rice over lavash; top with a third of herbs and a third of green garlic.
    — Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2017
  • Some lay lavash or potato slices on the bottom of the pot to create a crispy tahdig.
    — Melissa Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Cut lavash into strips about 1¼ inches thick and 3 inches long.
    — Amisha Gurbani, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023
  • With spicy chili sauce and lots of onions, wrapped burrito-like in the lavash, cağ kebab is a hearty and rich meal.
    — Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2023
  • The cooks will offer demonstrations and bake lavash flatbread.
    — Max Kutner, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
  • Lay one piece of lavash bread flat on each pan, brush it with 1 teaspoon of canola oil, and sprinkle lightly with salt.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Diners can graze between seasonal salads and spreads, scooped with homemade lavash bread.
    — Anna Spiegel, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Serve on top of the lavash, garnished with more Parmigiano-Reggiano, if desired.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2017
  • The pocket is made from chile lavash flatbread and filled with chicken, poblano peppers, green jalapeños, three-chile-pepper cheese, and jalapeño cream cheese.
    — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Use a spatula to remove the baked eggs and place one egg rectangle towards the bottom of each lavash flatbread.
    — Laura McLively, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Made of marinated lamb or beef, the kebab is cooked on skewers and served alongside vegetables or wrapped up in lavash bread.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2023
  • That lavash, for instance, arrives warm, studded with herbs and comes with a garlicky tomato cucumber salad.
    — Jessica Yadegaran, The Mercury News, 19 June 2019
  • Lamb tartare with red shatta comes hidden under seeded lavash, and a signature small plate is smoky escargot with arak butter.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The filet mignon is impossibly tender, almost melting into the lavash beneath.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • Khachatryan, who is Armenian American, and her husband walked out of there with ice cream and a pack of lavash.
    — Linh Tat, Daily News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • These beauties are lavash (bought at Trader Joe’s) spread with cream cheese and rolled around watercress (or arugula) and pickled ginger.
    — Orange County Register, 20 Jan. 2017
  • Long thin slices are carved off by the chef and served to guests with lavash, a thin flatbread that’s more like a flour tortilla than the thick pita commonly served with, say, a doner kebab or gyro.
    — Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2023
  • The Chicken & Roasted Pepper Wrap is filled with chicken, roasted peppers and cheese in a lavash wrap.
    — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • Expect new creations to show up, like a Mediterranean ceviche with sea bass, prawns, cilantro oil, some kind of seasonal fruit (such as persimmons in the winter) and lavash chips.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Everyone stood around the grill instead of at the table and essentially ate right off the grill, taking pieces of lavash and loading it up with meats and veggies that had been skewered and grilled on the open fire.
    — Andrea Strong, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Just do some smaller bites, do a couple of fun salads, do a couple of fun dips, make a really simple flatbread, or just buy some great lavash or something and just throw together a spread that is very low stakes.
    — Bon Appétit, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Some food characters appear to have ethnicities (for example, a bagel who presents as Jewish and a lavash bread with big eyebrows and facial hair) that are stereotypically portrayed.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • Purists, like Hovhannisyan, insist that fresh lavash—torn and folded for easy scooping—is the only acceptable utensil for eating khash, and that vodka, never wine or beer, is its only worthy sidekick.
    — Benjamin Kemper, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The menu changes often, but appetizers with staying power include housemade sausage, classic mussels, and French feta topped with pistachios, dates, capers, and spiced honey and served with coriander lavash.
    — al, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Made from flour, salt and water (and usually unleavened, except in some cases — such as Armenian lavash), the thin bread is made for topping, dipping, making sandwiches or tacos, scooping up dinner and more.
    — Samantha MacAvoy, Good Housekeeping, 12 June 2023
  • In the rugged mountains of Germany's Westphalia region, bakers steam loaves of dense rye for up to 24 hours, while a round of Armenian lavash made from wheat turns blistered and brown after 30 seconds inside a tandoor oven.
    — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 4 May 2022
  • Though lavash was added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List a decade ago, Armenian food has yet to break onto the global scene in the same way as the cuisine of neighboring Georgia.
    — Caroline Eden, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Aug. 2024

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