I really like to learn things. I mean, I really, really like to learn things. I'm going to learn about bread this cold season, and I've started by making possibly the easiest imaginable flatbread. Here's the entire recipe and full instructions. It'll take you about 15 minutes end to end.
You'll need these ingredients:
- 2 cups flour
- 1/3 cup water salted with 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- "some" extra flour to dust with
Instructions:
Wash your hands. Clean a surface, you can use a cutting board if need be.
Salt the water first, then mix everything in a bowl with your hands. Knead until it's uniformly moist.
It may be a bit sticky; dust with flour and knead until uniform. repeat dust-knead cycle until it's not really sticky any more.
Cut into about 8 pieces. Heat up a pan to medium heat, dry. While it's heating, roll one or two of the pieces as thin as you can while still being able to peel it off your surface.
Put it in the pan. You might be able to fit more than one in at once, go ahead. After a bit, flip it over. You can use your hands, it's fine if you're quick about it. Does it have brown bits on it? That's good. Hopefully you got it pretty thin; if so this should take like a minute per side.
Roll and cook all 8 pieces. Don't burn your hands.
Get that bread. Eat that bread. Everybody wins.