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Flakey Flatbread

An almost Indian preperation of an almost french dough. Flour, water, salt and butter, what can go wrong.
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 32 minutes
Total Time 5 hours 32 minutes
Servings 8 flatbreads

Ingredients
  

  • 20 gram Salt
  • 90 gram Butter Unsalted, melted
  • 360 gram AP Flour
  • 180 ml Water Warm

Instructions
 

  • Mix salt and flour in stand mixer. Drizzle in melted butter, using dough hook, mix in water, mix / kneed until shiny and soft, cover and rest 4 hours
  • Divide rested dough in 8 pieces. you should have 675 - 700 grams of dough, call it 85 - 90 grams per portion, roll into balls, place balls on baking sheet, and place in oven with a pan (sheet pan) of hot water for 15 minutes
  • Working on dough ball at a time, roll out very thin, 9-10" diameter. Bush each round generiously with butter and dust with fine salt, roll each round into a tight snake, then coil each snake into a disk. Rest each back into oven, whilst working on the rest. Seperate with pieces of oiled parchment paper.
  • Whence all the balls are made to rounds, made to snakes, made to coils, working one coil at at time roll out to 9-10" Diameter. Brush with softened butter on each side and cook on a griddle over medium high heat. Look for browing, blistering and cooked through.

Notes

This is a recipe designed to keep me busy for an afternoon, and an experiment in something other that yeasted breads.
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