On a trip, no oven around, but craving some tasty and healthy bread without all that chemical stuff? DO LIKE ME! Whip up simple SOFT flatbreads in a pan. Basically pitas) You can munch them as is, or turn them into mini-pizzas, or just cheesy pitas )
Ingredients 🍳
- 1.5 cups of flour (~250 g)
- half a cup of warm water (~150 ml)
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil (any kind, but I only had extra virgin lol)
- 1 tsp sugar (I used brown)
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp dry yeast (or 10 g fresh)
How to make 👩🍳
- In a pot or bowl, mix WARM water, sugar, and yeast. Don’t overmix, just enough to dissolve the sugar. Leave it for 5 minutes until a little foam shows up on top (like in a cup of tea).
- Throw in the salt (stir), add the spoon of oil (stir again), and start sprinkling in the flour. At first, you can stir with a spoon, but once all the flour is in-knead with your hands until the dough gets soft and stops sticking to your paws.
- If the dough turns out too stiff (hard, dry)-add a little more warm water (a spoon at a time) until it softens. And if it’s sticking too much-just dust in a bit more flour.
- Cover the dough with a lid (leaving a small gap for CO₂ to escape) + a towel on top, and let it rest (rise) for about an hour.
- After an hour, punch it down and leave it for another hour (makes the bread softer).
- Divide into 6–8 pieces (depending on your pan size, one should fit at the bottom), roll into balls, and flatten (hands work fine if you don’t have a rolling pin) into flatbreads about half a centimeter thick.
- Heat a pan on medium heat, no oil needed.
- Fry each flatbread for 2–3 minutes on each side (until they puff up and get soft inside). They’re like-pop!-and suddenly inflate like they’re about to fly to Mars.
YAY! PITAS READY!
p.s.
Tip from the badger… Too lazy to deal with yeast? No worries. Just flour + water + a pinch of salt – and go. They’ll be way tougher, but still edible )