Middle Eastern Flatbread
This is a generic flatbread recipe that can be used in various ways. I part bake them and then just before serving finish off either in the oven or under the grill.
Equipment
- This is best done using a stand mixer fitted with a flat beater. You will also need baking paper and a peel/paddle or
Ingredients
- 285 ml Luke-warm Water
- 3 Tbsp Olive oil
- 450 g Plain flour plus lots more for dusting
- 7 g Fast Action Dried yeast
- 10 g Salt
Instructions
- Put the flour in the mixer bowl. Add the yeast to one side and salt to the opposite side. Mix for 20 seconds on a slow speed. Add the oil and the water and mix slowly for 1 minute before turning up to a medium speed for 8 minutes.
- Remove the bowl and cover and leave in a warm place.
- Heat the oven to 230C with pizza stone on a shelf in the middle.
- After an hour and half the dough should be ready to use. The dough will be fairly gooey. Dust the work surface and empty the dough on to it. Using a scraper cut the dough into 8 pieces.
- Working on one piece of dough at a time, sprinkle with flour and using the scaper to turn over and sprinkle again so you have a well floured piece of dough, form the dough gently into a ball. Roll out the dough, turning over and roll again. Roll as thinly as possible while keeping it one piece.
- Sprinkle some flour on a piece of baking paper and put the rolled our dough on the paper and roll out again.
- Use the paddle to carry the flatbread to the over and slide the paper onto the pizza stone. Let the bread bake for about 3 minutes. Meanwhile prepare your next flatbread in the same way.
- Open the oven and slide the cooked flat bread onto a paddle and quickly slide the next flatbread on to the pizza stone. Continue this way until all the bread is baked. Stack the bread covered with a cotton tea towel.
- The bread can be frozen after cooling. It can be used in a variety of ways.
- Reheat on the pizza stone or heat under the grill until patches are a little golden but the bread is still soft. Optionally you can brush with oil before grilling.
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