Taboon bread is a flatbread eaten in the Middle East. It is traditionally baked in a taboon oven (Arabic: خبز طابون‎: bread of the taboon, Hebrew: לאפה ‎: la-fah).

Taboon bread is spread with various toppings or used as a wrapper.^[1]It is sold as street food, stuffed with hummus, falafel or shawarma.^[2] It is also used in the popular Palestinian dish musakhan.^[3]

Variations of taboon bread include:

• Laffa or Lafa is an Iraqi pita that is of medium thickness, slightly chewy, doesn't tear easily, and is mostly used to wrap shawarma in food stands.
• Druze pita is paper thin and traditionally spread with Labneh, olive oil, and/or zaatar. ^[4]
• Bukharan pita, an oval, thin and crispy flatbread, spiked with cumin seeds. Usually eaten as a snack by Bukharan Jews, along with savory food.

Taboon bread is also a staple of Arab Middle Eastern cuisine worldwide, found in Arabic restaurants.

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