Oven-Baked Yeast Flatbreads

Lush, soft, tasty — from what you always have at home! To prepare flatbreads from yeast dough in the oven, you will need a minimum of simple ingredients, which makes them very affordable and budget-friendly. Cooking them is even easier. Flatbreads are good for first and second courses, or just with milk or tea.
cook time: 2h 20 min
Owen Truitt
Oven-Baked Yeast Flatbreads

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

240
Calories
4g
Fat
37g
Carbs
9g
Protein

Ingredients (8 portions)

Basic:

Salt 0.5 tsp
Sugar 1 tsp
Wheat flour 260 g
Milk 200 ml
Dry yeast 1 tsp

For the top:

Water 1 tsp
Eggs 0.5 pc
Vegetable oil 1 tsp
Flax seeds 1.5 tsp

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to bake cakes from yeast dough in the oven? Prepare the necessary ingredients. Take premium or first grade flour. Heat the milk a little; it should be slightly warm. Flax seeds can be replaced with sesame or sunflower seeds.

Step 2

Step 2
To activate the yeast, combine the yeast, sugar and 50 ml of milk in a small container and stir. Leave the mixture for 15 minutes until a foamy “cap” forms. Read about all the intricacies of working with yeast in a separate article (link at the end of the recipe).

Step 3

Step 3
Sift the flour through a sieve into a wide, tall container. This will improve the baking properties of the flour due to the contact of all its particles with atmospheric oxygen. Read more about the properties of flour in the article at the link at the end of the recipe.

Step 4

Step 4
In a bowl of suitable size, combine the rest (150 ml), milk, salt, sugar (0.5 tsp), mix.

Step 5

Step 5
Pour in activated yeast, mix well.

Step 6

Step 6
Add sifted flour. I do this through a sieve, thereby sifting it twice. Do not add all the flour at once; you may need less.

Step 7

Step 7
Mix the dough first with a spoon. If the dough is quite sticky, add a little more flour while mixing the dough. It is important to monitor the consistency of the dough so that it does not turn out too steep and heavy, otherwise the finished cakes will turn out too dense.

Step 8

Step 8
The dough should be soft, pliable, almost non-stick to your hands. Cover the dough with a towel and leave in a warm place for 1-1.5 hours. The rising time for the dough will depend on the ambient temperature as well as the activity of the yeast.

Step 9

Step 9
The dough should increase in volume by 2-2.5 times. In the warm season, usually all processes happen faster, so do not forget to monitor the dough so that it does not over-acidify.

Step 10

Step 10
Punch down the dough and place it on a table sprinkled with flour. Divide the dough into equal parts depending on the desired size of the cakes.

Step 11

Step 11
Mash each piece of dough into a round cake. You can use a rolling pin, but the dough is quite manageable and the cake can be easily formed by hand.

Step 12

Step 12
Place the cakes on a parchment-lined sheet and leave to rise for 15 minutes, covering the top with a light towel. You can choose the right parchment paper by reading a separate article about the features of parchment, the link is at the end of the recipe. Turn on the oven to 180 degrees in advance.

Step 13

Step 13
Lightly beat the egg, mix with vegetable oil and water.

Step 14

Step 14
Brush the mixture onto the top of the flattened flatbreads.

Step 15

Step 15
Sprinkle each flatbread with flax seed.

Step 16

Step 16
Bake the cakes in an oven preheated to 180C for about 20 minutes until golden brown. The exact time depends on your oven. You can learn about the operating features of ovens by reading a separate article, link at the end of the recipe.

Step 17

Step 17
Cool the finished flatbreads slightly and serve. Bon appetit!

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