This recipe for homemade flatbread is super versatile, easy to make and taste amazing.
In our house, we have homemade flatbreads quite often because you can use them to make so many different meals – they’re great as pizza bases, dipped in soups, as wraps or as an accompaniment to any meal that needs something to dip in it (like our ham, sweetcorn and potato chowder).
They’re super quick to cook but I must admit to sometimes using the breadmaker on the dough setting to make the dough if I’m pushed for time as I can get one of the kids to weigh out the ingredients quickly and pop them in so I know it’ll be ready when I’m ready to cook it.
Prep Time: 1 hour
Cook Time: 3 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 3 minutes
Homemade flatbread is one of my favourite things to make and not just because of the amazing smell that fills the kitchen when it's cooking!
Ingredients
- 500g strong white bread flour
- 2 tsp (7g) dried yeast
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tbsp softened butter
- 300ml warm water
Instructions
- Mix all of the dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl.
- Add in the butter and most of the water and give it a good stir until it starts to come together a little bit.
- Then just get your hands in (take off any rings first 😂 ) and knead the mixture until the dough feels soft and no sticky at all. If you need to add the last of your water or a bit more flour to get a dough consistency then go for it.
- Place the dough back into the mixing bowl, cover it with a tea towel and pop it somewhere warm for 45 minutes.
- In theory, by that time the dough should have doubled in size but it's not a disaster if it hasn't as it doesn't make a huge difference when you're making flatbreads.
- Heat a heavy based frying pan with a small amount of olive oil.
- To cook each flatbread, break off a small handful of the dough and roll it into a ball. Using a rolling pin on a floured surface, roll it out into as close to a cirlce shape as you can manage.
- Cook them one at a time in your pan - you can tell when they're done on one side as you can see bubbles appearing on the surface.
Notes
The 7g of yeast is conveniently the amount that you get in one of the little dried yeast sachets that you can buy.
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