Who can resist the smell of freshly baked bread that's just come out of the oven?
Not me for sure; all I need is butter melting into that slice of hot bread, a cup of dark roast filter coffee, and I'm in seventh heaven.
But when you start kneading that bread a little too close to lunchtime, a gal has to come up with
a plan, not so!
How about stealing some of that mock sour bread dough and making flatbread, even though it was a first for me; lunch will just be a little late but I was going to make it special.
Instead of scratching through my old recipe books, I headed straight to granny google for advice.
All I needed to do was shape the dough into little round balls, dust the surface with flour and roll them out thinly with a good old-fashioned rolling pin. Cover loosely with cling wrap and leave to rest so it can rise a little.
While the flatbreads are proving, prepare the crushed garlic, diced parsley & herb butter by melting, to brush over the flatbreads.
Cook flatbreads in a hot heavy-based skillet in a very thin layer of Olive Oil till it starts bubbling and is brown underneath, then turn and cook for at least a further 3 minutes.
Turn around again and brush the bubbly side with the garlic butter, turn and cook quickly to slightly brown the garlic.
Lots of tossing and turning went on at this stage.
Keep the flatbreads warm until they're all done.
I quickly threw together an antipasto salad to serve with the flatbreads by opening cans and bottles of - smoked mussels, chargrilled red peppers and sunflower seeds preserved in garlic & vinegar, sweet cherry tomatoes from the garden, feta cheese and drizzled it all with a delicious spicy Harissa red pepper paste. So quick and easy and the colours looked very pretty with the serving dish my son's girlfriend made especially for me when she was doing pottery classes!
Hubby had been in and out of the kitchen, stealing a couple of mussels and a flatbread before I could even get to present it nicely, so I had to hurry up as the man was getting hungry!
Absolutely yummy and we did not have space for even one slice of hot bread!
My friend who lost half her house in the storm needed to fetch something from one of the boxes stored in our garage, and knowing how much they enjoy homemade bread, something she is too afraid to attempt even though she's an excellent cook, I sent her home with the hot loaf of bread and made us a fresh loaf this morning. I've totally lost my appetite for the mass-produced bread that one buys in the stores, and as we don't have a good bakery close by, I often make my own bread these days.
Garlic & Herb Butter Flatbreads have me hooked and I will definitely be making this more often, but will have to control myself next time, or I'll end up the size of a house!
Bon Appetit friends!
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