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| Flatbread, low sugar breakfast alternative to toasted bread. |
Flatbread with no sugar added.
Flatbread with no sugar and no added salt. Ideal alternative to high sugar and carb bread.
When you get older every calorie counts. According to BBC4's fantastic show, Food and healthy eating, one should try and eat less than 6 teaspoons of sugar a day. The problem is that so many processed foods contain sugar and added salt. For instance many sauces have sugar added just to lure us into buying more. Somehow everyone is a bit of a sweet tooth. Even some soups contain just the right amount of sugar to tickle our taste buds and shouting for more more more!
Anyway, my wife and I realized that a slice of bread contains 18g of sugar, that includes carbs. For us, at our age that is just too much. So she came up with this idea, flatbread. So I came up with this blog idea. Yeah we work as a team :)
2. Combine 2 cups flour, salt, butter and milk.
3. Sprinkle work surface with flour (basically make a legal mess on the table) then knead for a few minutes until it is smooth - it doesn't need much kneading. Add extra flour if the dough is too sticky.
When you get older every calorie counts. According to BBC4's fantastic show, Food and healthy eating, one should try and eat less than 6 teaspoons of sugar a day. The problem is that so many processed foods contain sugar and added salt. For instance many sauces have sugar added just to lure us into buying more. Somehow everyone is a bit of a sweet tooth. Even some soups contain just the right amount of sugar to tickle our taste buds and shouting for more more more!
Anyway, my wife and I realized that a slice of bread contains 18g of sugar, that includes carbs. For us, at our age that is just too much. So she came up with this idea, flatbread. So I came up with this blog idea. Yeah we work as a team :)
Ingredients
- 2 cups / 300g plain flour (all purpose flour) (level cups, unsifted, not packed), + keep ¼ cup extra for dusting & adjusting dough
- · ½ tsp salt
- · 3½ tbsp / 50g butter (1.75 oz) - I think she added four :)
- · ¾ cup / 185 ml milk
- · ½ tbsp oil (for cooking)
Instructions
1. Combine butter and milk and heat until butter is just melted - on stove or in microwave.2. Combine 2 cups flour, salt, butter and milk.
3. Sprinkle work surface with flour (basically make a legal mess on the table) then knead for a few minutes until it is smooth - it doesn't need much kneading. Add extra flour if the dough is too sticky.
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| Knead, but not too much. Just a nice lazy knead is good enough. |
4. Wrap with cling wrap and rest at room temperature for 30 minutes or so. (See my arty photograph at the top)
5. Dust bench top with flour, cut dough into 4 pieces, roll into balls, then roll out into about ⅛" / 0.3cm thick rounds.
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| After kneading for a while, make this long bread shape for cutting |
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| The bread is cut into four pieces. Could have done 5 actually |
6. Heat ½ tbsp olive oil in a non stick pan over medium heat - or lower if you have a heavy based skillet. (Note 1)
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| PRE-HEAT the pan. Our first batch was not as good as the second. Also the pieces were slightly too thick, ±1.5cm about half an inch. Should be about 1cm thick. |
7. Place one flatbread in the pan, cook for around 1- 1½ minutes - it should bubble up (ours did not bubble and did not take 1- 1½ minutes, it was more like 3 minutes, but that was beacause ours was too thick.)- then flip and cook the other side, pressing down if it puffs up. There should be a smallish golden brown spots on both sides.
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| Not too hot pan. About as hot as you would fry eggs, but not as hot as pancakes. |
8. Stack the cooked bread and keep wrapped with a tea towel - the moisture helps soften the surface, making them even more pliable. I don't want it soft though. I wanted to replace toast, so I wanted the crunch effect.
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| Low carb, low sugar breakfast that will last a whole day |
9. Continue to cook with remaining pieces. That is what the recipe says but I started eating.
Summary of ingredients
- 350 g self-raising flour , plus extra for dusting
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- Fresh eggs - fried of course!! (Coffee no sugar for afterwards)
