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Farinata (Italian Flatbread)

allrecipes.com · 2019 · Original

Farinataas labeled by the source

DietVegetarian. Not vegan: shredded gruyere cheese, butter.

Against 5,130 pizza recipes

Farinata style, one of 4 in the lab. Its dough did not parse to grams, so it sits out the dough comparisons.

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Farinata (Liguria / Nice): unleavened chickpea-flour batter baked in an oiled pan; no wheat, no yeast

Tradition: 450 to 550°F bake (this recipe: 400°F)

Baker's percentages

Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.

Flour

200g

Water

237g

Hydration

n/a

Salt

n/a

Yeast

n/a

Oil

27.2%

Sauce

n/a

Cheese

n/a

Dough weight

491g

Hydration above 95% is almost certainly a cups-to-grams parse error, so this dough sits out the charts.

Process

Bake temp

400°F / 204°C

Bake time

15 min

Oven

home standard

Surface

stone

Ingredients (5)

  • oilolive oil4 tbsp · 54.4g
  • flourchickpea flour1 cup · 200g
  • waterlukewarm water1 cup · 237g
  • saltsalt and freshly ground black pepper to tasten/a
  • cheese othershredded Gruyere cheese2 tbsp

Toppings (4)

Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.

  • over cheesebutter1 tbsp · 14.2g
  • over cheesereen onion
  • over cheese1 clove garlic
  • over cheese1 pinch ground nutmeg

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