Pizza
Electric Grill Flatbread for Apartments
Pizza in an apartment is a perpetual challenge. Home ovens do not get hot enough, stand-alone pizza ovens are a fire-code liability, and delivery is expensive and slow. Grilled flatbread solves all of that by accepting that you cannot make a Neapolitan pizza and pivoting to a dish that is actually better suited to the equipment you have. A home electric grill like the Weber Lumin Standard hits 600F, more than enough to produce the blistered, charred crust of a proper Middle Eastern flatbread or a Roman-style pizza bianca. The dough is straightforward and forgiving, the cook is under 5 minutes, and the result is genuinely impressive.
Ingredients
- 2 cups bread flour
- 1 tsp instant yeast
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup warm water
- 2 tbsp olive oil, plus more for brushing
- 1 tsp honey
- Flaky salt
- Rosemary leaves
Instructions
- 01
Combine flour, yeast, salt, water, olive oil, and honey. Knead 5 minutes by hand or 3 minutes in a stand mixer. The dough should be smooth and slightly tacky.
- 02
Cover and let rise at room temperature for 60-90 minutes until doubled.
- 03
Divide into 4 balls and flatten each into an oval about 1/4 inch thick. Do not overwork, you want some air in the dough.
- 04
Preheat the electric grill to 500F (its maximum setting).
- 05
Brush one side of each flatbread with olive oil. Grill oiled-side down for 2-3 minutes until puffed and charred in spots.
- 06
Brush the top with more oil, flip, sprinkle with flaky salt and rosemary, and grill 2 more minutes.
- 07
Remove and serve immediately while the texture is at its best.
Pro Tips
From our kitchen
- ★Bread flour, not all-purpose, is non-negotiable for flatbread. The extra gluten is what gives you the chew.
- ★Do not worry about perfectly round shapes. Rustic ovals look better coming off a grill than perfect circles anyway.
- ★Eat these within 10 minutes of grilling. Flatbreads reheat poorly, they are a live-performance food, not a leftover food.
We recommend for this recipe
Weber Lumin Standard Electric Grill
The Weber Lumin Standard Electric Grill's 242 sq in surface and 600°f searing temperatures and larger cooking surface than compact make it our pick for this recipe.
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