Oh no! The oven breaks two days before Christmas Eve and we don’t have time to arrange for a new one. Luckily, we can finish cooking at my parents’ house and a few days after Christmas we go to Austria for three weeks. When we get home we go shopping but I can’t bring myself to buy bread, it has become crazy expensive and it is both easy and delicious to make at home. Without an oven, however, the usual recipes do not work. Instead, we make fried bread and my daughter is happy to help! It’s extra fun to bake together!
This recipe is both simple and quick because it is baked on baking powder and therefore does not need to be leavened. It is also possible to vary in several different ways. Here is the basic recipe with some suggestions to spice up the bread a bit.
Frying pan bread
about 6 pcs
5 dl wheat flour (can be mixed with other types of flour to your taste)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 tsp salt
50 g butter, room temperature if you have time to wait
2 ½ dl oat milk (or other milk, filet or yogurt)
Do this:
- Mix the dry ingredients well. Feel free to sift the baking powder because lumps of baking powder are not good.
- Mix in the butter with your hands.
- Add the milk. It will be a rather sticky dough.
- Divide the dough into about 6 parts
- Roll out the dough on a floured board. Make them thin, otherwise there is a risk that they will not be baked all the way through.
- Heat up a frying pan (medium heat). Fry the bread so that it gets a nice color on both sides and feels well-baked.
Some variations; mix in some seeds in the dough, add your favorite bread spices, fry outside over an open fire (aren’t all foods more tasty outdoors?!). I use vegan butter.
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