This simple sourdough flatbread is ideal for sandwich wraps, serving with meals, or simply consuming heat. The dough is an absolute dream to work with!

In case you love baking with sourdough OR are simply beginning out on the sourdough baking practice, this flatbread is a should-make. The bread is tremendous gentle and a bit bit chewy with the very best taste!

First, Let’s Discuss Sourdough Starter

Whereas many recipes name for sourdough discard (which suggests the sourdough starter can be utilized straight from the fridge with out being fed first), this recipe depends on energetic or fed sourdough starter.

This implies your sourdough starter must be ripe and bubbly earlier than utilizing so the dough can rise correctly.

My sourdough starter is maintained with a 1:1:1 ratio. You possibly can see from the picture beneath that it has the consistency of a thick batter. In case your sourdough starter is thicker or thinner, it’s possible you’ll want to regulate the flour quantity within the recipe barely (see the be aware within the recipe).

TIMING: This flatbread will be made in a number of hours on the identical day, so I recommend feeding your sourdough starter the night time earlier than so that’s bubbly and energetic within the morning to make use of on this recipe.

Easy Sourdough Flatbread Dough

The substances for this dough are thrown collectively in a bowl and blended by hand.

• all-objective flour (I exploit unbleached)
• fed sourdough starter
• olive oil
• water
• salt

The dough ought to kind a gentle, barely shaggy ball that’s simply indented with out leaving plenty of dough residue in your fingers. Resist including extra flour if in any respect potential!

The dough must rise till doubled. This may occasionally take longer than a standard business yeast-based mostly dough. It is going to rise extra shortly in a heat, draft-free spot.

Separate the dough into ten equal items and allow them to relaxation on a frivolously floured baking sheet for 20 to 30 minutes. This can assist make them simpler to roll out.

Rolling Out the Flatbreads

Roll each bit into skinny circle on a frivolously floured counter.

The precise dimensions and thickness will rely upon how thick and puffy you need the completed bread. You possibly can roll them tremendous skinny for tortillas or barely thicker for a fluffy naan-kind bread.

Take care to not add an excessive amount of flour whereas rolling. The dough ought to keep very gentle and pliable.

Cooking Flatbread in a Forged Iron Skillet

I like to make use of a forged iron skillet to cook dinner this simple sourdough flatbread. It heats evenly and provides the very best little bits of spotty golden coloration to the bread. The one draw back is you possibly can solely cook dinner one flatbread at a time.

So if you wish to velocity up the cooking course of, a bigger griddle might work nicely, too.

The flatbreads cook dinner shortly! Just some minutes on all sides. The bread will puff a bit. The steam in these bubbles contributes to the gentle, ethereal texture, so don’t pop them! Moreover, the golden spotty coloration develops when these bubbles are flipped over onto the new cooking floor! Basically what I’m saying is: bubbles are necessary right here.

Serve Sourdough Flatbread

This simple sourdough flatbread is ideal for therefore many various model of meals.

• roll and cook dinner them skinny and use as tortillas for tacos or different meals the place you want a “gentle shell” for consuming
• roll and cook dinner them barely thicker for Indian-impressed meals like fast curry or this simple basil curry (we love them with this egg roll skillet meal!)
• roll out the dough and use for particular person (or perhaps bigger?) pizzas! I feel you may simply cook dinner them in an air fryer or on a pizza stone or baking sheet in a 450 diploma F oven
• cook dinner and funky the flatbread and use for any number of sandwiches or wraps

I like to cover one or to leftover flatbreads from the opposite people on this home so I can take them (the bread, not the people) and roll them up with ham, swiss and a drizzle of mustard. My favourite lunch. SO GOOD.

Nevertheless, when you strive a chunk of this sourdough flatbread scorching off the skillet with a contact of butter and honey, it’s possible you’ll not ever have any bread truly make it to its predestined objective, not to mention leftovers.

The Finest Flatbread

In case you have the time to prep sourdough starter, this flatbread wins out over even the opposite flatbread recipes on my web site, as a result of:

1. the dough is SO pliable and straightforward to work with
2. the cooked flatbread stays gentle and yummy for days
3. the flavour is extra advanced than your fundamental bread with out overpowering with too-tangy sourdough taste

That is undoubtedly certainly one of my favourite recipes; I’ve been so excited to share it with you!

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Easy Sourdough Flatbread

Yield: 10 flatbreads

Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Prepare dinner Time: 25 minutes minutes

Rising Time: 4 hours hrs

Whole Time: 4 hours hrs 40 minutes minutes

• 2 ½ cups (355 g) all-objective flour
• ¾ cup (175 g) heat water
• ⅔ cup (175 g) fed/energetic sourdough starter
• 2 tablespoons (25 g) olive oil
• 2 teaspoons (10 g) salt

• To a big bowl, add the flour, water, sourdough starter, olive oil and salt. Combine with a picket spoon or spatula till the dough comes collectively (I exploit my fingers on the finish of blending to assist). Knead a number of instances till the dough kinds a gentle ball. Resist including further flour except the dough is just too sticky to work with.

• Cowl the bowl and let the dough rise in a heat spot till doubled, anyplace from 2 to six hours. This may occasionally take longer than a standard business yeast-based mostly dough. A heat, draft-free spot will assist the dough rise extra shortly.

• Mud a parchment-lined baking sheet with flour. Put aside.

• Cut up the dough into ten equal items, about 65 to 75 g every. Kind each bit right into a ball by turning the ends beneath. Place a number of inches aside on the ready baking sheet.

• Let the dough relaxation for 30 minutes.

• On a frivolously floured counter, roll each bit into a skinny 6- or 7-inch circle. It would not need to be excellent – it is okay if the sides are a bit wavy.

• Prepare dinner the flatbread in a scorching skillet or on a preheated griddle for 1 to 2 minutes on all sides till golden in spots and cooked by means of. It is going to probably bubble and puff because it cooks – do not pierce the bubbles.

• Serve the flatbread heat or at room temperature. It shops very nicely for a number of days in a sealed bag (it additionally freezes nicely).

Sourdough Starter: my sourdough starter makes use of a 1:1:1 ratio. It has the consistency of thick, pourable batter. If the starter you might be utilizing is thicker, it’s possible you’ll have to drizzle in a bit of additional heat water to attain the appropriate consistency. If the starter you might be utilizing is thinner, it’s possible you’ll want so as to add a bit extra flour till a gentle dough is shaped. 
This recipe depends on fed/energetic sourdough starter. Sourdough discard probably received’t work, so plan forward to have the ability to use sourdough starter that’s ripe and bubbly.
Timing: I’ve all the time made this dough and cooked the flatbreads on the identical day. Nevertheless, it will probably work fairly nicely to cowl the dough and refrigerate (both in bulk or as soon as separated into items) for 1 to 2 days for a deeper sourdough taste, if desired. 

Serving: 1 flatbread, Energy: 154kcal, Carbohydrates: 27g, Protein: 4g, Fats: 3g, Saturated Fats: 0.4g, Sodium: 467mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 0.1g

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