Homemade flatbread with spicy red pepper hummus

Simon Rimmer · bbc.co.uk · 2007 · Original

Flatbreadinferred from the title

DietVegetarian. Not vegan: fl oz natural yoghurt.

Against 5,130 pizza recipes

Flatbread style, one of 259 in the lab. Its dough did not parse to grams, so it sits out the dough comparisons.

Flatbread (Generic): flatbread-only titles: a topped bread with no pizza claim (naan, lavash, grilled flatbread, restaurant 'flatbread')

Tradition: 400 to 500°F bake

Baker's percentages

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

Flour

550g

Water

2835g

Hydration

n/a

Salt

3.3%

Yeast

1.15%

Oil

4.9%

Sauce

n/a

Cheese

n/a

Dough weight

3437g

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

Bake temp

n/a

Bake time

0.5 min

Oven

home standard

Surface

stone

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

over cheesecoriander seeds1 tsp · 4.2g
over cheese/9fl oz natural yoghurt250 oz · 7087g
over cheese/14oz canned chickpeas400g
over cheesearlic cloves
over cheese/2oz tahini paste50g
over cheese3 lemons
over cheese/3½oz Peppadew peppers or sweet pickled chilli peppers from a jar100 oz · 100g
over cheese6 olives
over cheese1 red chilli

Same style and topping profile. This dough's numbers did not parse, so they cannot be matched.