If there's one simple trick to come across as a superchef, it's by making your own bread. This flatbread can be conjured up in no time with a few ingredients and is perfect as a side dish with... With what? How about a vegan Indian curry, a vegan drinks board or homemade falafel sandwich.
Everyone loves flatbread!
Flatbread is found in many cuisines. From the Middle East to India and from Mexico to the Mediterranean, you will find variations of this simple, unleavened bread all over the world. It stands out for its simplicity: with just a few basic ingredients, you create a delicious thin bread that is perfect for filling, dipping or serving as a side dish. Because of its versatility, flatbread is ideal for combining with different dishes such as a spicy vegan curry, a savoury veggie chicken wrap, or even as part of a drinks board. Moreover, making your own flatbread is not only fun and easy, but also a conscious choice: you avoid packaging waste and have full control over the quality of the ingredients you use. And nice anti-waste tip: you can freeze the dough really well!
This way, you can put a flatbread on the table in no time!
Making your own flatbread
Kitchenware
- big bowl
- frying pan
- optional: rolling pin
Ingredients
- 300 gr flower
- ½ sachet of baking powder half teaspoon
- 150 ml semi-skimmed yoghurt vegan alternative: soy yoghurt
- 1 fluorescent salt
- 1 el olive oil
- 2 el cold water
- optional cumin
- optional garlic
- optional extra oil or butter
Instructions
- Put the flour, baking powder, yoghurt, salt, oil and water in a large bowl and knead into dough. Does it remain sticky? Then add a little flour just until it kneads nicely.
- Continue rolling out the dough on the clean countertop, dusting the dough and the countertop with some flour if necessary. Keep kneading until it is reasonably smooth. Divide the dough into about eight pieces, each part becoming a bun.
- Roll out each piece of dough into a sandwich. You can do this with a rolling pin or your hands. In this step, add some extra cumin as a flavouring. Roll the cumin seeds into the dough.
- Heat a frying pan on high heat with oil or butter and fry the bun for about 2 minutes on each side, until you get nice golden brown buns.
- Optional: put some pressed garlic in the oil and rub the buns with it while frying.
- Serve the sandwiches with the dish of your choice. Enjoy!
Notes
More recipes from thegreenlist.nl
- Another tasty side dish: Spicy vegan balls of chickpeas and quinoa.
- Leftover vegetables? Make a waste-me-not pizza with homemade dough!
- Baking vegan pancakes you do it like this.
Photo credits: main image: Valeriya Kobzar (Pexels), dough: thegreenlist.nl, flatbread with dips: Roman Odintsov (Pexels), flatbread topped: Engin Akyurt (Pexels). Sources: Delicious magazine.
