Unleavened cakes in water and flour in a pan can be cooked in no time, but they taste excellent. This is the perfect analogue of ordinary bread. Such pastries, which can be whipped up without even turning on the oven, will be an excellent addition to cabbage soup, soup, okroshka and other first courses. You can also bake tortillas from flour in a frying pan for any other food: pilaf, potatoes, vegetable stews, salads, etc. Some hostesses like to cook them specially for meat or salty culinary compositions. Also, the proposed lean baking option is combined with chocolate spreads, jam, honey, nougat, and toppings. Try it! It's really simple, tasty and fast!
Cooking time is 45 minutes.
Servings Per Container - 8.
Ingredients
To quickly and easily bake tortillas instead of bread in a pan, you need to prepare a minimum set of ingredients. All of them are affordable, inexpensive and will certainly be found at hand any day. So, here is a complete list of the foods you need for a delicious pancake recipe:
- boiling water - 250 ml;
- wheat flour - 450 g;
- salt - 10 g;
- vegetable oil (preferably refined) - 20 ml;
- sugar - 7 g.
How to make cakes in a pan
Many hostesses often think about how to cook cakes in a pan without unnecessary fuss and financial costs. In fact, it is not so difficult. You can make appetizing and simple cakes without yeast in water in a frying pan for one-two-three, if you strictly follow the presented recipe with the photo and follow all the recommendations.
- Let's get started! First you need to prepare everything that is indicated in the recipe for unleavened cakes without yeast in a pan.
- We will whip up the dough for the tortillas in a pan. This will require sifting the flour. Pour salt into it. Add granulated sugar. Pour in refined sunflower oil (you can also take olive oil, it is also great).
- Now, following the step-by-step recipe for flat cakes in a frying pan without eggs, mix thoroughly the resulting mixture with a spoon. Keep in mind that it will not work too wet.
- Heat a glass of clean drinking water with a capacity of 250 ml to boiling water. Pour the steep var into the resulting composition on cakes in a pan instead of ordinary bread.
- Mix the resulting mass thoroughly. First, you need to do this with an ordinary spoon.
- Next, knead the dough on the cakes according to the recipe with flour in a pan by hand. This must be done thoroughly so that the mass turns out to be elastic, delicate and completely non-sticky. Wrap the composition in plastic wrap and leave at room temperature for half an hour.
- After the specified 30 minutes, remove the wrapper. Divide the entire mass into 8 equal parts. Roll each piece of dough into a ball.
- Now you can roll out the blanks according to the recipe for cakes in a pan with water.
On a note! While working with one piece of dough, cover all the other pieces with cling film so that the balls do not wind.
- You can fry our cakes instead of bread in a frying pan according to the recipe with the photo that is offered here. For this, the dishes must be well heated. It is not necessary to lubricate it with oil or other grease.
- As soon as the first side is browned (this happens very quickly), turn the product over with a culinary spatula and fry it on the other side.
Following this principle, making all the cakes is not difficult. But remember: they will not turn out lush, since there is no muffin in them. But all the same, the pastries are surprisingly tasty and satisfying.
Video recipes
In video format, recipes for cakes in a pan in water will help you cook something tasty, but completely unpretentious and simple instead of ordinary bread:
Step-by-step recipes for making delicious bread cakes
2018-05-29 Natalia DanchishakGrade
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42 gr.193 kcal.
Option 1. The classic recipe for bread cakes in a pan
Homemade bread cakes are a great alternative to store-bought baked goods. You only need three ingredients that can be found in the kitchen of any housewife: water, flour and salt.
Ingredients
- premium flour - 2.5 cups;
- drinking water - a glass;
- finely ground rock salt - pinch.
Step by step bread cakes recipe
Pour the indicated amount of drinking water into the prepared dishes. Add rock salt and stir until it is completely dissolved.
Pour in most of the pre-sifted flour and stir, carefully breaking the lumps. Pouring in the remaining flour little by little, knead an elastic pliable dough. We divide it into small identical pieces.
Roll them out one at a time into a fairly thin circle. Heat the pan and lightly grease with oil. We spread the tortillas and fry until browned on both sides.
If you roll out the dough as thin as possible, you get pita bread, in which you can wrap any filling and serve for breakfast with drinks. You can knead the dough not only with water, but also with milk or fermented milk drinks.
Option 2. A quick recipe for bread cakes in a pan with herbs
An easy and simple recipe for tortillas that are perfect instead of bread for first or main courses. They can be served with tea, seasoned with sour cream. For cooking, you only need flour, fresh dill and water. Thanks to the herbs, the baked goods are incredibly aromatic.
Ingredients
- 100 g of fresh dill;
- a glass of drinking water;
- 20 ml of sunflower oil;
- 5 g of rock salt.
How to quickly cook bread cakes in a frying pan with herbs
Sift the flour twice and combine with salt. We pour it in a slide on the countertop and make a funnel in the center. We pour sunflower oil and water into it. Sprinkling flour from the edges, knead the plastic soft dough. Cover it with a towel and leave for ten minutes.
Rinse the dill greens under running water. Using a paper towel, remove excess moisture and finely chop.
Divide the dough into three equal parts. Roll each one in turn into a thin circle. Sprinkle with chopped dill on top. Roll the tortilla into a tight roll. Use a sharp knife to cut it into small pieces.
Roll each piece into a small circle. Put the tortillas in a frying pan with heated oil and fry until golden brown. Turn over and brown on the back.
If you are making tortillas in winter and there are no fresh herbs, you can use dried ones. For aroma, you can tame with Provencal herbs. These pastries can be served on their own with sour cream-based garlic sauce or ketchup.
Option 3. Bread cakes with oatmeal and almonds
Oatmeal cakes with spices and almonds are very tasty and aromatic. In addition, such baked goods contain a minimum of calories, so they are suitable for lean and dietary meals.
Ingredients
- a bag of dry instant yeast;
- a glass of oat flour;
- a glass of filtered water;
- a glass of high-grade flour;
- 5 g each granulated sugar and rock salt;
- 50 g almonds;
- 3 g each nutmeg and thyme.
How to cook
Pour a glass of slightly warmed water into the container where you will knead the dough. Add dry yeast, salt and granulated sugar. Stir until ingredients are dissolved.
Add a glass of oatmeal and knead thoroughly so that no lumps remain. Add nutmeg and thyme. Gradually adding wheat flour, knead a slightly sticky dough.
Place the almonds on a board and chop finely. Add it to the dough and knead well. Fill a large pot with ice water and place the dough in it. After 15 minutes, it will float to the surface.
Squeeze the dough with your hands and knead with a little flour. Form into small tortillas. Place on a baking sheet and let sit for ten minutes. Turn the oven on at 180 C. Send a baking sheet with cakes to the preheated device and bake for 20 minutes.
Sprinkle the top with white or black sesame seeds. Wrap the finished tortillas in a towel to keep them warm longer. You can lightly dry the almonds in a hot skillet.
Option 4. Bread cakes with kefir
Pan-fried bread cakes are a great alternative to bread. To knead an obedient dough, you need a minimum of ingredients and very little time. If you plan on serving tortillas with tea, brush the hot baked goods with butter and sugar.
Ingredients
- half a liter of kefir;
- three glasses of fine flour;
- 4 g of soda and rock salt;
- 10 ml of lean oil + for frying;
- chicken egg.
Step by step recipe
Pour kefir into a suitable dish and dissolve soda and rock salt in it, stirring vigorously. Beat in an egg and add a spoonful of vegetable oil. Stir everything again.
Sprinkling the sifted flour in small portions, knead the elastic pliable dough. We spread it on a floured countertop and knead for about five minutes. Cover it with a tea towel and leave it to rest for 20 minutes.
Divide the dough into eight equal parts. We crumple each one and form a ball out of it. Press a portion of the dough with the palm of your hand and roll it out with a rolling pin into a circle the size of the pan.
Pour a little vegetable oil into the pan and heat it well. We spread the cakes and fry for three minutes until golden brown. Then turn over and brown on the back.
You can serve flat cakes with tea, first or main courses instead of bread. Pastries can be used as a base for making sandwiches. The calorie content of cakes depends on the fat content of kefir. You can bake tortillas in a dry frying pan, or with the addition of lean oil or butter.
Option 5. Bread cakes with milk
Bread cakes with milk, due to their neutral taste, successfully replace bread. Flavored with garlic, the pastries go well with borscht. If the cakes are poured with honey or greased with boiled condensed milk, they will be an excellent addition to tea.
Ingredients
- 300 g high-grade flour;
- 50 g of homemade milk;
- 20 ml of vegetable oil;
- 4 g of soda;
- a pinch of rock salt;
- 10 ml apple cider vinegar.
How to cook
Sift the flour for the tortillas twice. Add salt and stir. Pour homemade milk and vegetable oil into the flour. Put in the slaked soda. Knead to a soft elastic dough. Leave it to rest for ten minutes, covered with a tea towel.
Divide the rested dough into ten equal portions. Roll each into a ball. Coat the table with vegetable oil. Place a portion of the dough on it and roll it into a three millimeter thick flat cake.
Put the pan on moderate heat. Fry the tortillas on it until golden brown. Turn over and brown on the back. Place baked goods in a stack on a flat plate. Cover with a tea towel to keep the scones soft.
If you use acidified milk, you may not need to quench the baking soda with vinegar. To prevent the tortillas from swelling during baking, make several small cuts with the edge of a knife. You can replace some of the wheat flour with oatmeal, buckwheat or corn.
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Even if there is bread in the house, sometimes you so want to get away from the daily monotony. When there is time and desire, I try to bake something. To light chicken broth, I often make hot cakes in water and flour and an egg in a pan. Previously, I always considered them a dish of exclusively Central Asian cuisine. But such fried bannok bread is prepared in Indian, mchadi - Georgian cuisine. They are loved in the countries of the Latin American continent, Finland. A distinctive feature that unites these pita breads is the absence of yeast. Sometimes spices, white cheese, fried bacon or dried fruit are added to the dough. I suggest making quick cakes with water and flour. They can be used as a substitute for bakery products or as a base for rolls, sandwiches with a variety of colorful fillings. See illustrated step-by-step guidelines for this simple yet highly fun treat. You will need a maximum of 30 minutes, but you are provided with a delicious breakfast or hearty lunch. The recipe will help you make these tortillas quickly and easily. I think you will like these too.
Ingredients:
- 1 glass of sifted premium wheat flour,
- ¾ a tablespoon of refined sunflower oil,
- 1 fresh egg,
- 70 milliliters of purified boiled water,
- 1/3 teaspoon table salt.
How to cook from a photo step by step
Sift flour, combine with salt and mix the ingredients. 
Enter the egg and, stirring constantly, add water. 
Knead the sticky dough, gradually pour in the butter. Knead a flour mass comparable in consistency to a dough piece of dumplings.
To swell the gluten, leave the dough for a quarter of an hour, then roll it out in the form of a sausage and cut into pieces no more than 2 centimeters thick. 
Roll each piece into a round cake. You can gently form a circle with your hands, then the workpiece will be softer and more pliable. 
Preheat a skillet, add just a little oil and fry on both sides over low heat. 
When baking the first, cover with a lid to retain moisture and protect the product from drying out. If you are cooking in a non-stick pan, you do not need to add oil to the next cakes, then they will be less nutritious. They are also very tasty. 
Fold the ruddy cakes in a stack (they do not cool down quickly), smearing each with butter. When serving, cut into 4 pieces. Taste a wonderful treat with meat or sweet filling, or as an addition to a hot meal.
Not all housewives love baked goods. Either the dough will not work, then the products of the “wrong system”, or flour all over the kitchen ... In general, it’s a headache, not a pleasure. But there is such a baking that any housewife can do - it cooks quickly, requires a minimum of ingredients, it can be sweet, salty, lean, yeast and will certainly please everyone at home. These are cakes in a frying pan. They can be quickly prepared when bread runs out in the middle of the night or you really want something for tea, if the guests will be in 5 minutes and there is no time for delights, but you want to surprise. Plain flatbreads are good for the first course, while the options with tricky fillings can be used as a full meal.
Preparing food and dishes
Probably, every country in the world has its own national dish like flatbread. These are khachapuri, shanezhki, tacos, tortilla, kystyby, chalpak, pita, matnakash, lavash, puri, patyr, katlama, matzo, focaccia ... You’ll break your tongue! And that's not all! Regardless of which of the recipes below you like, remember one thing - half of the success lies in the quality of the products.
- The simplest cakes are made with water and flour, with the addition of a certain amount of salt to taste. Therefore, it is clear that the choice of flour should be given special attention. Be sure to get the premium grade from a reputable manufacturer. The flour should be dry and absolutely white, then the cakes will be tasty, soft, appetizing.
- Egg cakes are more ruddy and have a slightly different taste. If you decide to add this ingredient, be sure to either reduce the amount of water or add flour so that the finished dough falls well off your hands.
- Don't skimp on quality cheese or cottage cheese if you want to use them in a recipe. Do not use so-called cheese and curd products for baking. The first one does not melt and can taste bitter, the second stratifies and crumples.
- Most recipes involve frying in a dry skillet, but some peoples fry their tortillas in a large amount of oil. It can be melted butter or sunflower. But it is better to refuse margarine.
So, for the preparation of the most common cakes you will need:
- fine sieve;
- one large bowl and one or two smaller ones;
- beaker;
- rolling pin;
- pan.
Before kneading the dough, prepare all the ingredients that you will use in the process:
- sift flour to remove possible debris and "fluff" it;
- shake the egg;
- melt the butter;
- measure out the required amount of liquid and bulk products;
- chop herbs and vegetables.
Pay special attention to the frying pan. Ideally, it should be cast iron, or, in extreme cases, just thick-walled. It is such dishes that will be able to give our cakes the maximum of the accumulated heat and fry them quickly, evenly and with an appetizing crust. Everything seems to be ready? Let's get started!
How to cook tortillas in a frying pan?
The process of making most flatbreads is extremely simple, since for all the peoples of the world this dish was mainly food for the poor and workers - in general, those who are not up to delights.
- Kneading. Always knead the flatbread dough in the pan with your hands. To do this, pour some of the sifted flour into a large bowl, form a slide. Make a groove in the top with your fingers and pour water into it. Knead the dough, adding the necessary ingredients and constantly adding flour to the desired consistency (the dough should be tight, not sticky). Keep in mind that the amount of flour will fluctuate depending on the quality of the flour.
- Relaxation. Give the finished dough the shape of a ball, cover it with a bowl on top and let it rest for half an hour. At this time, sprinkle flour in a thin layer on a large cutting board or directly on the work surface of the table and put the pan on fire.
- Rolling out. Transfer the rested dough to the table and cut it into several pieces with a knife (depending on the diameter of the pan, the amount and type of dough). Make a ball from each part, crush it with flour and roll it into a thick pancake with a rolling pin. Many housewives make smaller cakes by simply kneading balls of dough between their palms. They claim that it tastes much better this way.
- Frying. In most recipes, frying is carried out without oil, therefore we quickly make cakes in a pan, distribute the dough evenly and immediately on a hot surface. Roasting on each side takes from 30 seconds to a couple of minutes. The readiness indicator is a dried edge, golden color and brownish "freckles" all over the surface of the cake. If after frying a burn remains on the bottom of the dishes, then it must be removed so that the next portion does not taste bitter and does not burn.
- Innings. Fold ready-made tortillas one on top of the other, like pancakes on Shrovetide, and cover with a towel to keep them warm. Serve instead of bread or sweets for tea, neat or with sauces and jams in small bowls.
- Storage. Usually, such yummy is scattered right at the table, but if there are too many cakes, it is permissible to store them in the refrigerator for a couple of days. When they become harsh, reheat them before serving in the microwave with a drop of water on each.
Tortilla dough (options)
Such a dish can be prepared from a variety of types of dough:
- yeast or yeast-free;
- on water, kefir, sour cream, yogurt, whey;
- custard or mineral water;
- lean or rich.
It all depends on the capabilities and preferences. Often half a glass of kefir or yogurt remains in the refrigerator, which simply has nowhere to put it. In this case, cakes are a great way out! The usual classic dough is kneaded with water and flour. Nothing will prevent you from mixing cheese or herbs, flax or sesame seeds, adding sugar or, on the contrary, finely chopped garlic.
1. Cakes in a pan (recipe for kefir)
This recipe for pancakes in a pan is good for those who love sandwiches. The neutral taste of the finished dish allows you to add a variety of fillings to it - from jam to salami.
A glass of flour will require 2/3 cup of kefir, an egg, a little baking powder, salt. We will fry in a little oil.
Drive an egg into a bowl of kefir, add salt, baking powder. Gradually introducing flour, knead an elastic, but not very tight dough and let it rest. At this time, grease the pan with oil and heat it up. We make the cakes relatively thin, but not to the state of sheet pita bread, and fry each side for a couple of minutes.
2. Cakes in a pan with cheese
These cakes are probably the most famous and popular. This is a traditional Georgian dish called khachapuri (hard to read without an accent, right?) There are many options for how to cook delicious khachapuri. Let's take the classic one.
Make a dough in water with yeast and sugar. When ready, add salt and egg, stir in flour. At the very end of the kneading, add butter (up to 2 tablespoons), and leave the dough for an hour - let it fit. At this time, prepare the filling: grate suluguni or another cheese of a similar taste, add a couple of eggs and melted butter.
Khachapuri is folded in different ways. You can pin them like pasties, or you can use an envelope. Traditionally, they are made in the form of cheesecakes, spreading the cheese in the middle of the cake and covering it with the edges. Fry in oil for a couple of minutes, putting the filling down first.
3. Cheese cakes on kefir in a pan
Cheese can be added not only to the filling, but also to the dough. This is a great breakfast idea! It's good to add a slice of ham to the filling of such a cake.
For cooking, take:
- incomplete glass of kefir;
- cheese and ham 200 grams each;
- sunflower oil;
- salt, sugar and black pepper to taste.
Knead these cakes on kefir with the addition of baking powder. Mix finely grated cheese into the dough. It's good if it is spicy, not bland. Finely chop the ham for the filling.
We form large "dumplings" with ham filling and send them to the frying pan with sizzling butter. Fry both sides of the cakes for 4-5 minutes.
In principle, you don't need to mix the cheese into the dough, but mix it with ham and add it as a filling. You can make such cakes without filling, simply by introducing cheese into the dough.
4. Tatar cakes
In Tatarstan, of course, it was also not without flat cakes. Here they are called yuka and there are no special secrets in its preparation. Nevertheless, this is a great option when in the winter cold you really want to bake, but you don't want to go to the store.
For one and a half glasses of flour, take 100 ml of ghee and milk, an egg, half a spoonful of salt and twice as much sugar.
Whisk the egg into a bowl and stir, add milk and butter to it. Salt, sweeten. Knead the dough and traditionally set it aside to rest. Yuka is fried without oil for up to 2 minutes on one side and the other.
5. Potato cakes in a pan
And this recipe also came from Tatarstan and has been tested by more than one generation. These are ordinary Tatar yuki flatbreads stuffed with mashed potatoes. In their homeland, they received the name kystyby.
Fry the yuki according to the above recipe, but prepare the filling in advance:
- boil potatoes with garlic and bay leaf;
- sauté finely chopped onions in oil;
- prepare mashed potatoes with warm milk and onions (it should be big enough to spread).
Brush half of the cooked yuca with potatoes and cover with the other half. Kystyby is ready!
6. Unleavened cakes in a frying pan instead of bread
But such loaves in India are called puri. Let's try to cook them at home, since no tricky ingredients are required for this dish.
In addition to water and flour, for puri you will need:
- a tablespoon of butter (butter, melted);
- a glass of vegetable oil.
We heat the water, salt and only after that we begin to knead the dough. We introduce the pre-melted butter closer to the end of the batch.
We heat the vegetable oil and fry thin puris in it, as in deep fat. Put the finished crispy rounds on a paper towel or napkin before serving, so that excess fat remains on it, and not in our stomach.
7. Lean cakes in a frying pan (no eggs)
And such cakes will be an excellent solution for those who are fasting. Take a glass of mineral water and one and a half to two glasses of flour. Prepare the dough by adding sugar, sunflower oil and salt. Grease a pan with oil and fry the prepared cakes. It is good to add lean fillings to them: mushrooms, onions, potatoes, cabbage, preserves.
8. On milk without yeast
Here's a great example of how you don't have to invent something to make it tasty. It is enough to take 1.5 cups of milk, a couple of tablespoons of sour cream and butter, an egg and salt. Knead the dough - it will be soft and very docile, shape into cakes and fry in butter. Make them thin or thick. Add sugar if desired.
9. Cakes in a pan with herbs
Such cakes are good both instead of bread and as an appetizer.
In addition to water and flour, take:
- egg;
- greens (except for dill and parsley, green onions, spinach are good);
- spices as desired.
Wash the greens and shave off excess water. You can grind it with just a knife or in a blender. In the first case, pieces of greenery will be visible to the naked eye; in the second, the dough itself will become a beautiful green color. Stir the egg and herbs into the dough, then fry the cakes in the usual way.
You can diversify such a dish by preparing a filling from a boiled egg, chopped herbs and salted cottage cheese. In this case, put cottage cheese with herbs on each classic cake and cover with a free edge (like a cheburek). Fry the same way.
10. Cakes in a pan made of flour and water
Only Jews could have come up with such an extremely economical dish. Flour and water are the basis of a laconic recipe for the Hebrew dish matzah. Mix a glass of flour with 100 ml of water, roll out thin rounds from the resulting dough, prick them with a fork over the entire area and fry until golden brown and brittle.
11. Corn flour cakes
However, the poor Mexicans also prepared their authentic tortillas without adding exotic ingredients. Only at the base of their tortillas is corn flour. When you can get a real, special fine grinding (Masa Harina) - great. If not, dilute with wheat and add some oil.
For 2 cups the mass of harin, take a little more than a glass of hot water. Make a dough, let it brew, and fry the tortillas in a skillet without oil.
12. Indian flatbreads
But what is there, in India, too, they did not particularly stand on ceremony with the preparation of cakes. Here they are called chapatis and are made from ordinary wheat flour, but preferably coarsely ground. The secret is that when frying, they inflate as if they are about to burst, and if you open them, you can put any filling into the resulting "pocket"!
For two glasses of flour, take a pinch of salt and 100 ml of boiling water. Knead the dough well, and let it ripen for a couple of hours (you can even leave it overnight). Roll out round dough on chapatis up to half a centimeter thick and fry without oil on both sides.
13. Oat cakes in a pan
And this is a recipe for losing weight. Something similar is prepared in Scotland for breakfast, but preferably in the oven.
Take oatmeal, grind it in a coffee grinder, but not to dust. For a pound of such flour, add a couple of tablespoons of wheat (it contains gluten, due to which the cakes will not "creep"). Knead the dough in boiling water with a little oil. Make the round pieces not too thin and fry in a skillet with grease.
14. Rye cakes
And here is another version of spicy bread for vegetarians who are losing weight and just wanting to diversify their diet. A glass of rye flour will require half as much water, 2 tablespoons of oil, salt, paprika, your favorite herbs and green onions. Mix all the ingredients and make thin rye pancakes from the finished dough.
Be careful, the dough is not as tight as with wheat flour, and the finished tortillas are crisp and more crumbly.
15. Rice cakes
Rice flour cakes (better than coarse grinding) will also go to the piggy bank for lovers of healthy food. They are called tirimgubi and are prepared in the classical way - in boiling water with the addition of eggs and butter.
Tirimgubi can be eaten simply as bread, but try making a sauce for them with herbs, yogurt, and finely chopped pickled vegetables.
16. Curd cakes in a pan
In Dagestan, such cakes are called a miracle with cottage cheese. The dough for them is kneaded without frills - on water and flour, and for the filling you will need:
- cottage cheese;
- egg;
- butter.
After rolling, start preparing the filling. To do this, fry finely chopped onions with salt in butter. Then add the egg and prepared onion to the curd. Place the filler on top of the flatbread and cover.
Such a miracle is fried in butter until tender. Ready and ruddy, they are smeared with sour cream and put in a bag so that they become soft - done!
17.With feta cheese in a frying pan
A great option for a quick snack on a weekend, while borscht is boiling and meat is stewed for a family dinner.
Take:
- a pound of flour and feta cheese;
- a glass of kefir and baking powder;
- 2 eggs;
- vegetable and butter.
Beat an egg into a bowl of kefir, add butter and baking powder. Knead by adding flour. When the dough is resting, grate the cheese, add the egg and butter. Put the filling in the middle of the dough round, splitting its edges on top, as in khinkali. Such cakes are baked for several minutes on both sides.
18. Onion cakes
They are made in Uzbekistan. Cheap and cheerful, but nonetheless not trivial. In addition to water and flour, take a couple of onions, oil (preferably sunflower), salt-sugar-greens and a small spoonful of yeast.
Make yeast dough in the usual way and leave to rise. Chop the onion and herbs finely and stir into the dough when done. Fry the onion cakes in a little oil until browning.
19. Cakes with meat in a pan
In principle, many peoples make their cakes with meat. But let's stop at Arabic cuisine and their chic minced meat dish called lahmajun.
Dough: make a hole in a pile of flour, add yeast with sugar and add some water, mix without stirring in flour. After a quarter of an hour, knead the dough, add salt, adding the remaining water and olive oil. Remove the dough for an hour to come up.
Filling: herbs, spices, tomatoes or pasta, grind the bell pepper in a blender and add the minced meat. Season with salt, pepper, add a little oil.
Put thin cakes in a pan, grease with minced meat on top and fry under the lid for up to 10 minutes. Shred fresh herbs and sprinkle on lahmajun before serving.
Well, it's no surprise that regular flatbreads were made sweet all over the world. In India it is roti, and among Jews it is almoishavena. We have just a sweet cake for tea.
In a glass of flour, take a chicken egg, 2 tablespoons of sugar and the same amount of butter, a pinch of salt, vanilla and cinnamon, baking powder.
Knead the dough and cut it into pieces, each of which roll out into the thinnest translucent pancake. Grind the pancakes with sugar and roll into tight rolls. Twist a "snail" from each roll, and then roll it out again into a thin cake, which you will fry.
Ready-made cakes are sweet, crunchy, slightly flaky. Rub them with cinnamon before serving.
21. Honey cake
Another version of cakes, from which you cannot drag children by the ears, and adults too.
For a couple of glasses of flour, take:
- half a glass of milk (water can be used);
- 3-4 tablespoons honey;
- 1-2 eggs;
- half a spoonful of soda and salt;
- two tablespoons of oil;
- sesame and poppy seeds.
We mix all the ingredients, except for the last two. Take half of the honey. Fry sweet honey rounds in butter, put on a dish, pour with the remaining honey and sprinkle with sesame seeds and poppy seeds.
22. Mexican tortilla
These are traditional Mexican flatbreads, the recipe of which was allegedly borrowed from the Aztecs. At home, they are prepared preferably from corn flour, but in our conditions, wheat flour is also quite suitable. An interesting taste is obtained from ready-made tortillas made from a mixture of wheat flour with corn.
Kneading the dough in the classical way, take 50 grams of butter and grind it with flour. Enter the resulting mass into the dough and add a little nutmeg for a piquant taste.
Rolled tortilla pancakes should be thin - only 1-2 mm. Fry them for no more than a minute on one side and the other.
23. Taco cakes
There is bread with all kinds of fillings - the tradition is not ours at all, but, so to speak, the world. Shawarma, lahmanjun and even pizza are classic examples of such dishes in different countries. In Mexico, they are tacos. These are envelopes made from ordinary tortillas prepared according to the recipe above, with juicy fillings and sauces.
For a classic filling, take minced meat, tomatoes, tomato paste, garlic, bell peppers, herbs, olives. Simmer all ingredients. Fold the tortillas, while they are still hot, in half, then put the filling in them, sprinkle with herbs, add lettuce leaves. Our tacos are ready.
Vegetables, beans, seafood, only shrimps and so on can be used as a filling.
24. Uzbek flatbread
A flatbread is called patyr in Uzbek. It has a characteristic shape and is baked in the homeland only in the tandoor. They are often found in ethnic restaurants where they are lush and large (about the size of a soup plate), with a flattened center and taller edges. At home, patyr can be made in a high cast-iron pan or in the oven.
For a pound of flour, take a glass of milk instead of water, 25 grams of yeast, 50 ml of butter, a little sugar and salt.
Prepare the dough by dissolving the yeast and sugar in warm milk. While the leaven is fermenting, add salt and oil to the flour. Knead the dough and remove to rise for an hour and a half. Cut the finished dough, roll out cakes from each portion, in the middle of which make a depression with your fingers and prick it with a fork. Grease the dough with butter and simmer for a quarter of an hour or more.
Patyr cakes are also fried well in a high cast-iron pan or in a slow cooker. When hot they are best folded in a bag or covered with a towel for softness.
25. Oven cakes
- Of the unsweetened ones in the oven, it is best to bake Uzbek flatbreads. Cook them according to the recipe described above, sending them to bake for ¼ hour at a temperature of 220-250 ºС.
- Finnish potato cakes are also good in the oven. Make a dough using salted mashed potatoes with egg and flour. Shape into cakes, brush with butter and place on a baking sheet. Sprinkle with Provencal herbs and sesame seeds, prick with a fork and bake until tender. Serve with sour cream, mushrooms, curd creams with spices. Delight!
- An excellent option for a sweet cake in the oven, mentioned earlier by almoishavena. For 100 grams of flour, take the same amount of sugar and almost the same amount of butter, a couple of eggs, cinnamon. Heat water in a deep bowl, add ghee, salt. After boiling, gently but quickly add flour, kneading the dough. Cool slightly, add eggs. Spread the finished dough evenly on a baking sheet covered with parchment, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and put in the oven for ¾ hour at 180 ° C. Tear or cut the finished almoishavena and serve with tea.
You can think of many more different recipes for flatbread, but even the usual lean one is a great replacement for bread, and with a piece of cheese on top - a full breakfast, and spread with jam is already a dessert. This is really, really, a universal and simple dish that can be different every time and will please all family members.