Flatbread

Flatbread

 

This Flatbread is really delicious and super easy to make.  You don't even have to turn on the oven!  I use it to make wraps, as a quick pizza dough, or even as a substitute for Naan Bread.  Anyway you serve it, it's sure to be a hit.

Save extra dough in the freezer, so you can have fresh bread at a moments notice!

 

 Ingredients

1 3/4 cup white bread flour

1 package yeast

1/2 teaspoon sugar

1 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup room temperature water

 1 teaspoon olive oil

Directions

Combine the flour, sugar, yeast, and salt in a large bowl.  Add the water and mix until it is incorporated with the dry ingredients.  Knead the dough, on your counter or cutting board,  for about 5 minutes.  Coat a large bowl with the olive oil.  I just use the same bowl that I used originally to combine the ingredients.  One less dish to wash :)  Place the dough into the now coated bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and let rise for 1 hour.

*If you have a bread machine, just set the machine to "dough", and program it to knead for 5 minutes and rise for 1 hour.  Place the water into the bread machine first, followed by all of the other ingredients in the order they are listed above.*

Now that your dough has risen, it should have at least doubled in size.  It will be very light and it will actually deflate a bit as you remove it from the bowl.  Divide the dough into four equal pieces.  (At this point, you can wrap any of the quartered dough balls in plastic wrap and place it in the freezer to be used at another time.)  Roll out one of the pieces to a square that is about 8x8".  Preheat a pan on your stove top to medium heat.  A flat top skillet pan works best, but if you don't have that, any large pan will do.  Place your rolled out flatbread directly onto the heated pan, no oil is necessary at this point.  Heat for about 2 minutes, or when you start to see bubbles on the top side of the flat bread.  Flip over the bread and cook the other side for an additional minute.  Voila, you have flat bread!  You can now proceed to make a wrap, pizza, or just enjoy some warm homemade bread.  Enjoy!