Moroccan Flatbread pan-fried | © Foto: Doreen Düe
Pan-fried

Moroccan Flatbread

by Doreen Düe | Food blogger with a van

Sometimes we have really stupid ideas... For example, staying in Portugal this winter to experience the weather here live and in colour and not just follow it on the weather app.

Okay, okay, admittedly, I'm writing this in the coldest phase we're experiencing this winter. It's mid-January, we're close to the beach in the very south of beautiful Portugal and it's 2 degrees at night. If you look at it positively, you could say: Hey, the daytime temperatures are in TWO digits and - THIS is the really POSITIVE thing - the sun is often shining! And when the sun is shining, everything is good. If we listen to our fellow overwinterers, the weather here this winter is really nice, hardly any rain, hardly any storms, lots of sunshine. So it's the same as always: complaining at a high level! It's not just the weather that makes us long for Morocco from time to time. A longing for our oasis (link), for warmth, more sun, palm trees, mud houses, the call of the muezzin, lively souks, never-ending hospitality, the braying of a donkey, delicious olives and flatbread. Still warm and fluffy and simply delicious.

Moroccan Flatbread pan-fried | © Foto: Doreen Düe
  • Foto: Doreen Düe
The recipe for Moroccan flatbread works everywhere, whether in your motorhome kitchen or on the boat, by the campfire or on the gas cooker in your tent!

Then it's high time to bring a little bit of Morocco here to Portugal in the blue box and bake flatbread!

I was amazed at how well it works and that it comes quite close to the original. It's so quick and easy that I could bake a new one every day. However, I mustn't neglect my other delicious bread and bread roll recipes ;).

Moroccan Flatbread pan-fried | © Foto: Doreen Düe
  • Foto: Doreen Düe
Moroccan Flatbread pan-fried | © Foto: Doreen Düe
Ingredients
for a small flatbread
  • 120 g flour
  • 50 g semolina (alternatively replace the semolina with flour)
  • 3 g dry yeast
  • 110 g lukewarm water
  • 2 pinches of salt

Preparation

1
Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl. If you don't have semolina, use 50g more flour instead.
2
Pour in half of the lukewarm water, stir it into the flour mixture and then add the remaining water.
3
First mix everything together well with a fork and then knead the dough well with moistened hands. You want a smooth yeast dough, so knead for about 5 - 8 minutes.
4
Put the dough back into the bowl, cover it and leave the yeast to work for about an hour until the dough has doubled in size.
5
After the resting time, sprinkle the work surface with plenty of semolina (or flour). Take the dough out of the bowl and use your hands to form a flatbread with a diameter of approx. 20 cm on the work surface.
6
Turn the flatbread so that the grains of semolina also stick to the other side. Place the flatbread in your pan, cover and leave to rest again for 30 minutes.
7
Place the pan with the lid on the hob and turn the flame to the highest setting. Bake the bread for 4-5 minutes, making sure it doesn't burn. Every cooker is a little different.
8
Turn the bread and bake the other side for 8 minutes on the lowest setting.
Moroccan Flatbread pan-fried | © Foto: Doreen Düe
  • Foto: Doreen Düe
The photos of the Moroccan flatbreads were taken at Praia Falesia in Portugal.

Now you have the choice, eat warm or leave to cool :)

That's how quickly you can have a fresh flatbread from the pan! You don't need an oven and can bake it anywhere in the world, whether in your campervan kitchen or on the boat, at the campfire or on the gas cooker in your tent!

Happy camping!

Yours Doreen