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    Home » Recipes

    Easy Vegan Chickpea Flour Flatbreads.

    Published: Sep 24, 2017 · Modified: Mar 5, 2021 by Louise-Claire Cayzer · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads · 8 Comments

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    Simple & speedy, these yummy Easy Vegan Chickpea Flour flatbreads are made from a mix of chickpea & plain flour. Perfect for mopping up juices & dunking into soups...

    What do you do when you've made delicious warming soup or a chunky veggie stew but have forgotten to buy or make some crusty bread? And you're SO hungry that just some soup won't fill the hole!?! You make some quick & easy, yummy flatbreads like these, that's what you do!

    Chickpea Flour flatbreads ready to eat this recipe

    These quick to make flatbreads are the perfect thing for scooping up soup, curries, stews or dips.

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    • 🌱Ingredients
    • 👩‍🍳Easy Step by Step instructions
    • 🍲What to eat with the flatbreads
    • 📖 Recipe
    • 💬 Comments

    🌱Ingredients

    Chickpea flour: also called besan or gram flour.  Why have I included it in this recipe ? Because it tastes DELICIOUS! It also gives a lovely texture that is perfect for scooping.

    Chickpeas are also a good source of protein & fibre, which we know are always good things to add to your diet

    Plain flour: also known as all purpose flour. You could use spelt or wholemeal flour too. This recipe also works well with gluten free flour as substitute for plain-flour.

    Olive Oil: Adds a delicious flavour and helps the texture of the flatbreads

    Salt: I like to used flakey sea salt. Season to taste.

    Other Flavourings: You can add nigella (kalonji) or sesame seeds just before cooking. Or leave the flatbreads plain.

    👩‍🍳Easy Step by Step instructions

    These easy flatbreads come together really quickly, just mix, leave stand for a few minutes then form into balls, then flatten & fry in a pan with just the teeniest smidge of oil. 

    Bowl with chickpea flour in it.
    Mix the chickpea flour & plain flour together. Form a well and add in the water.
    Showing stage to add olive oil to the dough.
    Mix the dough for a bit, then add a little olive oil.
    Showing how to knead dough with hand.
    Once dough comes together, kneed until you have a smooth ball. Rest for 10 mins.
    Showing how to roll dough out.
    Roll out small ball of dough
    showing how to flatten dough.
    Flatten dough out.
    Image with chickpea flour flatbread in a pan cooking.
    On high heat, cook until slightly charred, flip and cook other side. Repeat with rest of dough.

    🍲What to eat with the flatbreads

    These delicious and easy to make flatbreads are PERFECT for eating with some of our favourite soups and stews..

    Soothing Butternut Squash and White Bean Soup

    Borlotti Bean, Sweet Corn & Tomato Late Summer Stew

    and soups that are kind of more of a stew like my chickpea & tomato stoup (recipe here..)..

    Last, but definitely not least,  more often than anything else, my legendary lentil soup. (see image below for how delicious it is with the flatbreads!)

    (Actually a recipe that I adapted from an old cookbook of my Mum's, but shhh..) - you can find the adaptation here..

    Chickpea Flour Flatbreads with soup

    Let us know in the comments what you think of these easy chickpea flour flatbreads and what you have served them with!

    📖 Recipe

    Stack of chickpea flour flatbreads.

    Easy Vegan Chickpea Flour Flatbreads.

    Louise-Claire Cayzer
    Quick & easy vegan flatbreads that are enriched with chickpea flour. Perfect for mopping up juices & dunking into soups.
    4.46 from 11 votes
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    Prep Time 5 minutes mins
    Cook Time 10 minutes mins
    Total Time 15 minutes mins
    Course Side Dish
    Cuisine Indian, middle eastern, Vegan
    Servings 4
    Calories 123 kcal

    Equipment

    • Frying Pan

    Ingredients Note:

    For accuracy, I measure all ingredients in metric as standard, then convert and test the recipe for American cup measurements etc.

    (Heads up Aussie and UK readers- your measurements in cups are sometimes different, so please use metric or check you have the correct cup and spoon type!!)

    Ingredients

    • ⅔ cup flour (OR 80g *You can use gluten-free flour here. )
    • ⅓ cup chickpea flour (also known as gram or besan flour) (OR 35g)
    • 1 teaspoon olive oil
    • scant ¼ cup warm water
    • pinch salt
    • 1 Tbs Nigella (Kalonji) seeds (Optional)

    Instructions

    • Mix the flours & salt together
    • Make a well in the middle of the flours and very slowly add water & mix. Keep adding water & mixing until a soft dough forms
    • Kneed the dough a little, add in ½ the oil, then kneed more, adding extra water or flour as needed until the dough is pliable and does not stick to your hands.
    • Let the dough rest for 10 - 15 minutes
    • To cook: Heat a frying pan
    • Make golf ball sized balls from the dough, then flatten out into discs using a rolling pin, or even just your hands- pizzeria style! 
    • Push the Nigella/Kalonji seeds into the dough if using.
    • Add a teeeeeny bit of oil to your frying pan & put the flattened disc of dough onto the pan.
    • Cook until the dough starts to lift & bubble a bit & flip. Cook for a few more minutes
    • Keep warm on a plate and cook the rest of the dough as before.

    Video

    Notes

    This recipe is super easy to scale up or down, use the ratio of ⅓ chickpea flour to ⅔ plain flour. 

    Nutrition

    Calories: 123kcalCarbohydrates: 22gProtein: 4gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 8mgPotassium: 107mgFiber: 2gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 4IUCalcium: 8mgIron: 1mg
    Keyword curry, Easy, flatbread, naan, roti, stew
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    1. Stacy says

      April 09, 2021 at 7:49 pm

      Hi. I was wondering for the plain flour, could I use oat flour/buckwheat flour/all purpose gluten free flour?? Thanks.

      Reply
      • Louise-Claire Cayzer says

        April 10, 2021 at 6:17 pm

        One of my friends has made them with All Purpose gluten free flour. She amended the ratio to be 50/50 as she says that G.F. flour isn't as elastic. They turned out really well for her! Hope that helps 🙂

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    2. Catherine Gangcuangco says

      May 14, 2020 at 11:55 am

      hi do u have a video on this? hope u could get back to me asap. thank you

      Reply
      • Louise-Claire Cayzer says

        May 14, 2020 at 12:21 pm

        Sadly we don't have a video of this. We're only just starting out with video and haven't done any yet!

        Reply

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