Easy flat breads

[lmarshal1]

I'm looking for a not-for-purists, simple flat bread using flour, boiling water, and salt, using the dough cycle of a bread machine.  Is there such a thing?  Similar recipes called for minimal yeast or baking powder.  Some added melted butter.  What works?  I found a recipe called Chinese bao bing that used only flour, boiling water, and salt, and needed 10 minutes of hand kneading.

 

I'm also interested in a simple flat bread that uses Greek yogurt.  The recipes I have found call for differing amounts of yogurt (1/2 cup to 2 cups flour, one cup to 1 cup flour, and 1 cup to two cups flour).  What works?

 

Also, would a tortilla press work to form the individual flat breads?

 

Thanks for suggestions.  lkm from Indiana

[Duvel]

Three questions in order to be able to help you:

 

1) Do you have to employ your bread machine (and whatever cycles it has) or are you willing to use other methods of kneading ?

 

2) What cooking method are you envisioning - skillet, oven, grill ..?

 

3) What will you do with said flatbread ? Make wraps, top with things like an open sandwich, mop up saucy dishes ..?

 

 

[blue_dolphin]

My go-to flatbread is one that uses yogurt and it’s from Andy Baraghani’s book, The Cook You Want To Be. It’s called Fluffy (and Crispy) Flatbread. It does not meet your need for using a bread machine. The recipe is available online at this link, though they look nothing like the photo shown there.

Mine look more like this:

3 things: I almost always need to add an extra tablespoon or two of flour.  I give the dough balls a 15-30 min rest before rolling out. And I get the pan ready and slap the breads into the pan as soon as I roll it out instead of rolling them all out and arranging on oiled sheet pans. By the time the first one is ready, I’ve got the next ready to go. 

[TdeV]

@Duvel

 

I'm also interested in a recipe for simple flatbread.

 

In my case, I use a bread machine to knead dough because my hands don't work well enough. I have conferred with a consultant on King Arthur Flour's Bakers Hotline who searched through their published recipes to identify which recipes can be done with the bread machine.

They are:

Quick and Easy Flatbreads

Naan

Soft Wrap Bread

Sourdough Naan

 

Can't say much about these recipes as I haven't actually made any of them yet. 🙄

 

 

Edited to add that I don't know how the KAF consultant chose bread-machine or no-bread-machine for the flatbread recipe, i.e. what the selection criteria was.

 

 

Edited 14 hours ago by TdeV
Clarity (log)

[liuzhou]

薄饼 (báo bǐng), literally ‘griddle cake’ is a pancake rather than what is normally considered ‘bread’. They certainly aren’t made in bread machines.

 

Note 刨冰 (bào bīng) means ‘shaved ice’, a popular summer dessert so searching Google etc for ‘bao bing’ will return more recipes for that than for flatbreads.

 

Just to confuse things further 抱病 (bào bìng) means ‘to be ill’ which you should try to avoid!

 

The only flatbread I regularly come across in China is 馕 (náng), a variation on the Middle Eastern naan. These these are baked in commercial ovens and don’t use bread machines, either. They do, however usually contain yoghurt.

 

 

Edited 14 hours ago by liuzhou (log)