Simply Cooking and Health: Rice flour flat bread with kale.

This is a gluten free flat bread. I used only rice flour. Rice flour does not have the elasticity that the all purpose flour has. The gluten in the all purpose flour gives its elasticity. When you roll a rice flour dough into a flat bread, it will fall apart. Often people mix corn starch or tapioca starch with rice flour to give it some binding capacity, so that a flat bread will hold together. Instead of using corn starch or potato starch, I used flax seed paste as a binding agent. It worked well.

Rice flour flat bread with kale.

Recipe Summary
For
Rice flour flat bread with kale

Preparation time:30 minutes
Cooking time:6 minutes per bread

Serves: 4

1. Grind the flax seed into powder in a coffee mill. For two tablespoon of flax seed add 5 tablespoon of hot water and mix well into a thick paste. Let it rest for 10 minutes.

Rice flour flat bread with kale

2. In a medium size bowl, add 4 cps rice flour. Add 1 tsp salt and mix well.

3. Add flax seed paste and one tablespoon of vegetable oil and mix well. Vegetable oil will make the dough a little pliable.

4. Add 150 grams kale, finely chopped in a food processor; 1 onion, finely chopped in a food processor; and 1 green chili, finely chopped. And mix well to spread all ingredients to spread evenly.

5. We will make a hot water dough. Normally you will need 4 cups of water for 4 cups of flour. But for this recipe only two cups of water is necessary because of the moisture from kale and onion in the flour. So add hot water little by little till you get a medium hard dough.

6. Make the dough into a ball and let it rest for 20 minutes.

Ingredients

7. Make small balls of dough. The size will depend on the size of flat bread you desire. A golf ball size would be a suitable size.

Flax seeds

8. You can flatten the ball on a board and use a roller pin to roll the flat bread.

9. Moisten a kitchen paper towel with oil and wipe a skillet or a griddle to give it a light oil coating.

The sandwich made with flat bread

10.Heat the skillet or a griddle and put the flat bread. Cook three minutes on each side.

11. Cook all the flat breads.

12. The flat breads are ready. I served them with snake gourd stir-fry. You can just eat it on its own .It is soft and tasty.It is ideal for breakfast or as a snack. I served the snake gourd fry as a filling to make a sandwich with the flat bread. It was very nice.

Rice flour flat bread with kale is ready.

Recipe follows in detail with pictures.

Preparation time:30 minutes
Cooking time:6 minutes per bread
Serves: 4

Ingredients

Main

150 grams kale, finely chopped in a food processor

4 cups rice Flour
Others

1 onion, finely chopped in a food processor

1 green chili, finely chopped

2 tbsp flax seed

1 tsp salt (or to taste)

4 cups hot water

3 tbsp vegetable oil

Ingredients for Rice flour flat bread with kale.

Preparation

Grind the flax seed into powder in a coffee mill. For two tablespoon of flax seed add 5 tablespoon of hot water and mix well into a thick paste. Let it rest for 10 minutes.

Flax seeds

Method

In a medium size bowl, add the rice flour. Add salt and mix well.

Add flax seed paste and one tablespoon of vegetable oil and mix well. Vegetable oil will make the dough a little pliable.

Add kale, onion and green chili. And mix well to spread all ingredients to spread evenly.

We will make a hot water dough. Normally you will need 4 cups of water for 4 cups of flour. But for this recipe only two cups of water is necessary because of the moisture from kale and onion in the flour.

Dough

So add hot water little by little till you get a medium hard dough.

Make the dough into a ball and let it rest for 20 minutes.

Make small balls of dough. The size will depend on the size of flat bread you desire. A golf ball size would be a suitable size.

Small balls

You can flatten the ball on a board and use a roller pin to roll the flat bread. I smeared both palms with vegetable oil and pressed the ball between my two palms until it formed a flat bread. I extended the diameter by pressing with my fingers on all sides. I wanted the flat bread to be thick because I was afraid that a thin bread might break during handling. A thin bread will cook faster and will be crispy. Thick bread will be softer.

Flattened bread

Moisten a kitchen paper towel with oil and wipe a skillet or a griddle to give it a light oil coating.

Heat the skillet or a griddle and put the flat bread on it. Cook for three minutes on each side.

I was able to cook 3 flat breads at a time on my cast iron griddle.

Cook all the flat breads.

Bread on the griddle

The flat breads are ready. I served them with snake gourd stir-fry. You can just eat it on its own. It is soft and tasty.It is ideal for breakfast or as a snack.

I served the snake gourd fry as a filling to make a sandwich with the flat bread. It was very nice.