Yeasted flatbreads with pesto

Kaja’s post:

“Everybody loves this snack, every single time! I’m not writing any more because I can’t be bothered. This dish speaks for itself. There!”

Hmm… and here I am giving her the 101st post on the site. Hmm… This generation couldn’t give a sh… sha-la-la-la.

At a glance: 

Prep time: 45 minutes

Baking time: about 8 minutes

Oven temperature: 250 degrees Celsius

Serves: this makes two trayfuls of flatbread. For me alone, enough for a year – for two other people, probably just one sitting (and I have no particular two people in mind…). CENSORED 

Calories: it’s pretty light really… and with beer you won’t remember anyway.

Ingredients for yeasted flatbreads with pesto that you can make yourself:

• About half a kilo of wheat flour
• 2 sachets of dried yeast  (14 g)
• A teaspoon of salt
• A teaspoon of sugar
• 300 ml lukewarm water
• A small jar of pesto, green and red (you can make it yourself if you feel like it)

Time to get kneading:

Stir the sugar and yeast into the water and leave for 5 minutes until the yeast gets going (it’ll foam up). Put the flour and salt in a large bowl, pour in the yeast mixture and start kneading.

Knead until you have a nice smooth dough that doesn’t stick to your hands, about 10 minutes (it’ll probably feel wet and sticky at first, but don’t add flour: it gets better as you knead). Leave the dough to rise for 30 minutes (longer is fine. You can even make the dough several hours ahead and refrigerate it. It probably won’t rise in your fridge, though, so let it rise before you put it in – a note from Prymitywna Kuchnia).

Preheat the oven to 250 degrees C (bottom heat). Divide the dough into two equal pieces and roll each out on baking paper to the full length and width of the tray. It should be quite thin.

Now just spread the pesto over the top, green on one piece, red on the other. Bake one at a time for about 8 minutes per flatbread. In a thoroughly preheated oven that should be enough to brown the underside and produce some lovely big bubbles on top.

Cut the hot flatbreads into pieces or tear them up. Done! Enjoy!