Last night my husband was bemoaning the fact that there was no bread left. He searched the fridge looking for a snack and announced that he was going to nip to the local shop to buy a pack of wraps.
Instead, I offered to make him some. Now I often make bread but I’d never made wraps so I lifted my bread machine book from the shelf and looked for a suitable recipe. The closest thing I could find was pitta bread so I decided to try this but use less yeast. (By the way, you don’t need to use a bread machine).
I have to say, making the wraps was very easy and only took 20 minutes from start to finish. It would probably have taken him that long to go to the shop and back.
When they were done, he walked back into the kitchen and said, “ooh, nice one” and later declared that they were the nicest wraps ever, far superior to shop bought ones.
Ingredients: (makes 4 -6 wraps)
210ml /7 ½ fl oz / 1 cup warm water
350g /12 oz / 3 cups plain white flour
15ml / 1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
½ tsp dried yeast
Instructions:
Combine all the ingredients in a bread machine and select the dough setting. Or put in a food mixer until all ingredients form a dough.
Remove from bread pan/food mixer and place on a floured surface.
Divide dough into four to six lumps. I made four quite big wraps but it’s up to you how big you want them.
Here’s the tricky bit: Roll out into a flat, very thin round shape of about 2mm depth. No matter how hard I tried, I started off well, kept turning the dough, but as it got thinner, the perfect circle eluded me!
Carefully transfer the dough to a baking sheet (you’ll need more than one) and place in the oven preheated to 200°C/450°F/gas 8.
Bake for about 3-4 minutes on the first side, flip over and bake for a further 2 minutes on the other side. Keep an eye on them and don’t leave them any longer otherwise they go crispy.
Leave to cool on a wire rack.
Finally, make the wraps into a sandwich. My husband fancied a cheese salad wrap. As I was trying to photograph it in the fading daylight, he kept saying, “Have you finished? Can I eat it yet?”
