Hi and a huge welcome to Steve's kitchen. Today we're going to be making the most
simple bread in the world, this is a bread I make so often I don't actually use a
recipe at all but I'm going to give you a recipe so it's simple for you to to
learn. Now this bread is a simple flatbread they go back, I tend to
attribute this to Indian cooking but they go back in history to almost every
culture in the world, very easy to make, let me show you how.
It really doesn't get simpler than this, we've got two cups of plain flour, you
could use a bread flour, I'm just using all-purpose flour here and we've got a
cup of water and about half a teaspoon to a teaspoon of salt, really you can
adjust that to suit your flavor. Now I'm just going to put the salt in there and
the one cup of water, now we will need more water but for the moment I'm just
putting one cup in there. Now this looks really simple but I can tell you it's
going to taste fantastic, just take a fork now and start to bind that together.
Now the reason I use a fork is just to keep your hands clean at the beginning
really and you can see that starting to come together, we'll need a little bit
more water in there, not using a full cup, just a few splashes, maybe two or three
tablespoons. Now just start to draw that together again, now that is looking
really good, I'm just going to start to use my hand now, take the fork out of
there and start to, you see the way the flour is pulling away from the side of
the bowl, that is perfect, might be a little bit wet, if I need to I'll add a
sprinkle of flour into there just to get the consistency that I want and as that
comes together like that into a ball we can draw it out of the bowl on to the
side. I'm also going to just flour the surface a little bit as well and you can
decide now how much work you want to put into this dough, the more we knead it the
more the gluten strands will stretch out, even in this all-purpose flour and we
get a lovely elastic dough. I usually like to go for about five or ten minutes.
Now I've kneaded that dough for about five minutes you can see it's still
quite sticky which is perfect we don't need to overdo this, it's not a rise
bread, it's a flat bread but see the texture. Now the dough it's still got
some stickiness there which is great, I'm going to now divide this up into balls
around about the size of a large golf ball. So there you go I've made nine
little balls here, so we're going to get nine breads out of this. I'm just going
to pop these aside, then I want a fairly heavily floured surface just to roll
these out on and I take one of these little balls of dough here and I'm using
the edge of my rolling pin rather than the outside, it's just a technique that I
find works really well and what you do is just roll,
roll these out, spin them, turn, spin, roll the technique you develop and this
makes a perfect little round bread. There you have it now, that is ready to cook.
Now they're very like a flour tortilla or a chapati but I don't want to give it
a particular name because this is a bread I use all the time. Now I prefer a
heavy bottom pan to cook these breads it really works well, I've heated up, it's
piping hot there, if I sprinkle a bit of water you'll see it sizzling on the top
and now we just bring our bread over to the pan, lay it down and what this does
it's just going to toast and seal that side of the bread. I can push it down
with a spatula if I like, there is no oil in this pan, it needs nothing at all. Now
just a few seconds that side and then turn it over and now we're sealing the
other side, so we're getting a little sealed surface on the bread. Now both
sides are sealed, I'm going to turn this over again and this time I'm going to be
looking for a separation in the center of the bread, little air pockets to start
forming. Now you see those little air pockets that are coming there that is
perfect, it means that the bread is separating in the middle. I can flip that
one over now so we've got that beautiful little dimples on there and it's puffing
up into a little ball and I can push it down that's creating a nice little
pocket in there and that is ready to eat, that will be delicious just as it is and
if you take that one pop it onto a plate, stack them up high and serve these you
will have one of the most delicious breads you've ever tried and just after
minutes we've got a whole plate of these beautiful soft breads, which tear so
easily and so softly. These are lovely and warm, I really urge you to try these,
they are so delicious, you can have these, I mean my kids have them like regular
bread, you can put them with Nutella, peanut butter and jam. You can obviously
do them with a curry, you can do them with pasta, it tastes delicious.
If one bread on my channel you give a try, it's this flat bread, it is fantastic,
one of my favorites. So if you've enjoyed the video please share the love, give it
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