Easy flatbreads – these easy tortilla style flatbreads are naturally vegan, quick and simple to make with a few storecupboard ingredients and don’t use any yeast! They are soft and delicious and perfect for making wraps or for scooping up hummus.
Prep time: PT25M
Cook time: PT3M
Total time: PT43M
Rating
4.92 stars (12 reviews)
Keywords
bread
Ingredients
500 g (4 cups) white bread flour (or plain (all-purpose) flour)
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
60 ml (¼ cup) olive oil (or sunflower/vegetable/canola)
300 ml (1 ¼ cups) lukewarm water
oil for greasing
Categories
Side Dish
Cuisine
vegan
Steps
Place the flour in a large bowl and stir in the baking powder and salt.
Add the oil and most of the water. Mix, gradually adding the rest of the water until you have picked up all of the flour and formed a rough dough. You may not need to add all of the water.
Turn the dough out onto an unfloured surface and knead for about 5 minutes until it is smooth and elastic and has formed a smooth skin. It should be slightly sticky at first but become less so as you knead. If it is still too sticky you can add a little bit more flour as needed.
Cover the dough with a clean tea towel and set aside to rest for 15 minutes.
Divide the dough into 8 even pieces (I use a scale for accuracy) and shape each piece into a ball.
On a floured surface, roll one of the balls of dough out into a thin round about 20-22cm (8in) wide. Keep the other balls of dough covered with the tea towel to prevent them from drying out.
Place a large, heavy bottomed frying pan over a medium-high heat and brush it with a little oil.
Once the pan is hot, flip the round into the pan and cook for about 1-2 minutes until the underside is browned in spots. The bread should puff up as it cooks.
Flip the bread over and cook for about another minute until that side is browned as well. Press down on it gently with a spatula if it puffs up too much to cook evenly.
Repeat with the rest of the balls of dough, oiling the pan as needed. With practice you will be able to get into a system of rolling one flatbread out while the previous one cooks.
Once cool keep the flatbreads well wrapped to prevent them from going stale.
Reviews
Elise Moon on 2026-04-05 (5 stars): We love how few ingredients are needed, and they turn out great! Extras refrigerate and warm up well. We'll try them as pizza bases soon and I'm sure they'll be perfect. Our little vegan fam loves this new addition. Thanks Hannah!
Jules on 2025-04-26 (4 stars): Nice thanks I used half and worked out great
Taryn on 2024-06-22 (5 stars): I tried the flatbread recipie for the first time tonight to go with pasta as a garlic bread substitute. I did use garlic infused olive oil which added to the desired flavour. This is the first time I've cooked from scratch and they turned out pretty good for my first shot. I'm going to have to practice more because mine were quite hard and stiff (if you tried to fold it, it would snap in half) but it tasted delicious. They also didn't bubble up in the pan. Practice makes perfect though! Thank you
r on 2024-04-26 (5 stars): great recipe! family loved them - will definitely be making them again
Simz on 2022-12-06 (5 stars): This recipe was awesome. It was better than I expected and so delicious. This is going to be my go to flatbread recipe. Thank you!
Tracie on 2022-10-13 (5 stars): I'm giving you 5 stars even before making, for your effort to share simple sweet recipe I'm making today...I am confident that if I follow your recipe all shall be delightful...Of course I shall return to comment once I'm eating a flatbread, yummy
Lisa Marie on 2022-02-22 (5 stars): Very, very, very good recipe. It’s so easy to do and really everything you need is explained. This was my first time trying to make naan/flatbread and they turned out great with spelt flour and about 20ml less water than the recipe states. Thank you for mentioning that in the notes!
5 stars!
Sue on 2021-12-21 (5 stars): So easy and delicious thanks so much for this great recipe
Suzie on 2021-06-19 (5 stars): Made a half quantity as it was the first time I tried this flatbread recipe (or any). I got the hang of frying them by the third one and they taste divine. I did use half water and half left-over beer for the liquid. Will definitely be making again, and experimenting with herbs and favoured oils. Thank you Hannah, it's a fabulous recipe - even a novice like me got a great result.
DF on 2021-04-08 (5 stars): Finally, the PERFECT flat bread recipe. Thank you for sharing--will never buy plastic-packaged flat breads again!
Terry on 2021-03-14 (5 stars): Very nice recipe. I really don't measure, I'm a "throw it together" kind of cook. I had some spelt berries to use up, so I threw them in the vitamix and turned them into flour, added the rest of the ingredients (used cashew milk for the liquid) - Bam - These came out Great. I brushed the top while cooking with a bit of oil, and sprinkled on minced herbs and garlic powder.
Lynn Smith on 2020-07-17 (5 stars): I have baked the easy ginger traybake cake twice now and its so simple and delicious the whole family love it on it's own or with custard/ cream 5 stars for this cake