Chickpea flat bread. Spiced Chickpea Flat Bread is always served in all Indian weddings to accompany curries. However, this bread has so much flavor, you will enjoy it alone or with just some melted butter or pickle on the side. Even though this flat bread is specialty of North Indian State - Punjab, it is popular all over the India.
Enjoy it solo or with hummus or olive oil. Perfect as a starter, appetizer or a wonderful healthy snack. Made from chickpea / garbanzo bean flour, socca can be enjoyed as a quick snack, with a meal, or piled with fixings for a pizza fix. You can have Chickpea flat bread using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Chickpea flat bread
- You need 1/2 cup of chickpea flour (also known as gram flour, besan, or kabab.
- It’s 1/2 cup of water.
- It’s 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt.
- Prepare of Freshly ground black pepper.
- It’s 1 teaspoon of olive oil.
- Prepare of Spray oil to coat the pan.
This may seem rather dramatic, but socca and I are soulmates. This socca recipe produces a wonderful savory chickpea flatbread that happens to be vegan and gluten free. Chickpea flour batter is a flour batter and will stick to most pans and skillets. Seasoned cast iron when heated well is the best option for cooking chickpea flour based batter or other flour based batter for pancake or crepe like result.
Chickpea flat bread instructions
- In a medium bowl combine the chickpea flour, water, salt, pepper and olive oil. Whisk with a fork until a medium thick batter forms. You don’t want it to be too watery, but it shouldn’t be too thick either. Depending on your brand of chickpea flour you may have to adjust and add in more water, but do so one tablespoon at a time until the desired consistency is reached..
- Lightly spray the pan with oil and allow to heat on a medium flame before adding in half the batter. Swirl it around slightly to spread and cook on low heat until the edges start to brown and the top has firmed up, roughly 3 minutes. Flip over and cook for an additional 1-2 minutes. Repeat for the remainder of the batter..
- Tip: These are meal prep friendly - you can definitely double or triple the batch and make extra to freeze and use later as you would normal flatbread throughout the week. They re-heat brilliantly. Adding a pinch of herbs de provence (or whatever herbs you like) is a great way to spice up the base. You can make this without the added oil in the batter if you so wish, but definitely make sure you’re using a non-stick or ceramic pan otherwise things will get a bit messy!.
Whisk together the water, chickpea flour, oil, and salt in a bowl until all the clumps are gone. That’s all you need to whip up a simple, savory and delicious flatbread. This bread is known as Socca, in the south of France. An easy, soft flatbread recipe that’s made without yeast. You’ll love how soft and pliable this flat bread is, making it perfect to use as wraps for Souvlaki or Gyros, or as naan to dunk into Tikka Masala or Butter Chicken.