Piadina - Italian Flatbread
Author: Christopher Kosovich
Serves: 8
Ingredients
- 2 cups (10.5 ounces) all purpose flour
- 1½ teaspoons (5 grams) baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon (3 grams) fine sea salt
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- ¾ cup warm water
- Sandwich fillings of your choice
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt to combine.
- Using a fork, stir in the olive oil. Pour in the water, and using a wooden spoon, stir until the mixture forms a rough dough. Turn out onto a clean counter (you do NOT need to flour it beforehand). Knead the dough a few times until it becomes smooth.
- Heat a cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat.
- Divide the dough into eight equal pieces. Take a ball of dough and starting at the center, gently press it out into a circle using your fingertips.
- Switch to a rolling pin and gently finish rolling it out into an 8-inch round.
- Pierce the surface a few times with the tines of a fork. Repeat with the remaining balls of dough.
- Place a formed piadina in the preheated skillet, and let it cook until golden with some dark or charred spots on the underside (it may also puff up a little).
- Flip the piadina and cook until the other side is golden with a few dark spots as well.
- Serve warm the sandwich fillings of your choice.