I saw Jamila’s recipe for pan-fried peasant flatbread on youtube and it made my mouth water, so I started experimenting, turning that wheat flour flatbread into gluten-free one. I needed a slightly starchier flour than bread flour, so in the millet flour I usually use I put ¼ starch. And because I no longer use white rice and potato in cooking, I used tapioca starch. I was satisfied with the result, even if they are not as smooth and fluffy as the wheat ones, I preferred to use natural flour, not mixes, so this is tasty and healthy gluten-free flatbread.
Ingredients
- 200 grams of millet flour
- 50 grams of tapioca starch (plus a little more for kneading and rolling)
- 5 grams of psyllium bran
- 5 grams of dry yeast
- 50 grams of coconut milk (optionally, it can be replaced with the same amount of water)
- 150 grams of warm water
- 3 grams of salt
Method of preparation
Soak the psyllium bran in warm water. Mix the millet flour, tapioca starch, yeast and salt and mix well. We make a hole in the middle of this mixture where the water with the soaked bran is poured. Slowly incorporate the flour, then knead, adding a bit of tapioca starch from time to time as needed, in case it sticks to your hands or the bowl. We don’t overdo it with the starch though, we want our dough to be supple, not stony. Knead for 5-7 minutes, then cover the bowl and leave it in a warm place. After about an hour the dough should double in size.
Dust the work surface with starch, knead a little more, then divide the dough into balls (I made balls of 100 grams each) which we flatten with the rolling pin. Cover with a towel and leave for another 20-30 minutes. We heat the non-stick pan, grease it with a napkin soaked in coconut oil, turn the heat to low and start baking the pieces of flatbread. We put them one by one and turn them several times during baking, being careful not to burn them. When they are golden on both sides they are ready. They are very tasty, a bit bitter, the normal taste of bread, totally different from the sweet bread sold in stores, they can be eaten both warm, immediately taken out of the pan (a treat), and cold. A goodie!
