This crispy gluten free flatbread is yeast free and dairy free too.
It's easy and quick to make, it's crunchy and perfect to pair with hummus, dips and savory spreads!
Try these flatbread crackers with creamy cashew sauce, this vegan basil pesto and this pumpkin sweet potato soup!
If you look for more gluten free yeast free recipes, don't miss this yeast free bread and these corn free tortilla wraps! They are quick and super easy to make!
More and more often I get comments and messages of readers thanking me for my gluten and yeast free recipes (and I'm very, VERY grateful for your appreciation) and I've realized that next to the gluten, dairy or egg intolerance, yeast intolerance are becoming more and more diffused.
This recipe for gluten free flatbread has no yeast, no yogurt and only few ingredients.
Being it a dairy free flatbread, it is suitable for vegan and vegetarian diets too.
Ingredients
As I was saying, these gluten free flatbread crackers call for few and super simple ingredients:
- gluten free white rice flour, the finer the better
- potato or other gluten free starch, like tapioca or corn
- salt, this is always optional, based on your taste and dietary needs
- hot water, it needs to be boiling hot, warm or hot tap water won't work
- olive oil for brushing the surface before baking
These are the ingredients to make the flatbread dough and have plain crackers.
But to add more flavor and fun, you can play around with brushing them with tomato sauce and pesto sauce.
Or sprinkle them with chopped rosemary, oregano and seeds!
Find full quantities and directions in the card below
Cooking and baking in grams
I cook and bake in grams as they are more accurate (than cups) when measuring ingredients. This is especially important when it comes to gluten free and vegan recipes.
Also, I weigh both dry and wet ingredients in grams and most of the time I share one- or two-bowl recipes, to make everything easier for you.
A simple affordable kitchen scale is definitely a useful and worthy investment for your gluten free cooking.
So you will simply need to place the bowl on the scale and weigh ingredients as you go!
I'd LOVE to know what you think of this flatbread and please let me know in the comments if there is any other gluten and yeast free recipe you would love me to experiment with!
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Ciao!
Sonia
📖 Full Recipe
Crispy Gluten free Flatbread | Yeast free * Dairy free
Equipment
- kitchen scale
- parchment paper
- Rolling Pin
- Brush
- baking sheet
Ingredients
For the flatbread
- 150 grams (1 CUP) gluten free white rice flour (+ extra for dusting)
- 75 grams (½ CUP) potato or other gluten free starch
- 1 teaspoon of salt (optional, based on your taste and dietary needs)
- 170 grams (¾ CUP + 1 tbsp) hot water (it needs to be boiling hot, not warm/hot tap water)
- olive oil (to brush the dough before baking)
For the topping
- dried herbs (rosemary, oregano, time)
- tomato sauce
- salt
- chilli pepper powder
- seeds (sesame, sunflower, pumpkin, flax, etc)
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven 200° F / 390 C
- Heat the water, either by boiling it in a small pot, or in the microwave
- In a bowl mix well the rice flour, the starch and the salt then add the (boiling) hot water and quickly start mixing everything with a spoon until big crumbs form
- Now start squeezing the dough with your hand, to incorporate all the ingredients, then move the dough to a flat, floured surface and knead with your hands until you get a firm, uniform dough
- Shape it into a ball, cover it with a towel and let it rest for 10 minutes
- Cut the dough into 4 parts, flatten them with your hands and dust them with rice flour
- Place each dough ball on a sheet of parchment paper, previously dusted with rice flour
- Roll the dough out with a rolling pin until it's a couple millimeter thick (keep dusting with the rice flour, to prevent the dough from sticking to the surface and the pin)
- Just before putting the flatbread into the oven (not before, or the dough will become soggy), season the dough pieces as you like: brush with olive oil and sprinkle ground rosemary and salt on top. Or brush with tomato sauce and sprinkle oregano and salt on top. Or add seeds on top (that you will have to roll on the dough with the rolling pin, so that they stick to the dough) and brush with olive oil + sprinkle of salt.
- Switch the oven to grilling mode and put the baking sheet in the upper part of the oven (but not too close to the oven grill)
- This gluten free crispy flatbread bakes VERY QUICKLY, like 8-10 minutes, so keep an eye on it all the time (it really is important, or you will quickly go from "Oh, it's baking nicely" to "Ok. It's carbonized").
Janelle G says
Hi Sonia!
Do you happen to know what the conversion of grams to cups would be for this recipe? I'm looking at conversions online but they don't seem to be super consistent.
I'm excited to try this recipe and don't want to mess it up! : )
Thanks!!
Janelle
Sweet Sensitive Free says
Hi Janelle and thank you for your comment!
I don't use cups for measurements bc they are not precise, which is not good in baking. I could convert the doses in ounces for you (way more precise), would that help?
Janelle G says
Yes that would be great!! Thanks so much! I'm excited to try your gluten-free, yeast-free breads and pizza! They look so yummy!
Sweet Sensitive Free says
Ok so the doses for this flatbread are:
5.30 oz white rice flour
2.65 oz gluten free starch
1 tsp salt
6.00 oz water
To convert them I simply Google "grams to ounces" and Google should automatically give you a measurement converter first thing at the top of the page 🙂
Anyway, hope this helps, let me know how the baking goes and what you think!
Janelle G says
Thank you!! I really appreciate the info! The more I think about it, I may just purchase a kitchen scale so I can use oz or grams and get it more precise. Thanks for the awesome looking recipes! And sure, I'll let you know how it turns out! : )
Ashley says
I made these crackers to go with some hummus I had at home and really enjoyed them. I made them plain but I might try them with some toppings next time. Also, I really appreciate this recipe is in grams.
Sweet Sensitive Free says
Awesome, so glat you liked them! Definitely try them with the toppings 😉 And yup, grams are much easier to use, especially with gluten free cooking!
Emily says
Could you use cornstarch instead of potato starch? Also, how long will this hold in the fridge prior to baking?
Thanks for the recipe!
Sweet Sensitive Free says
Hi! Sorry for my belated reply! You can totally replace potato starch with cornstarch.
I would advice against keeping this in the bridge before baking. I havent tried, but my guess is the dough would dry out and compromise the end result 🙂
Brilliant says
could you start writing in cup measurements not grams?
Sweet Sensitive Free says
Hi, I have added cups to a few recipes, but they tend to not be as precise as grams. Especially with gluten free baking I would advice getting a simple kitchen scale that will help with precise measurements. Also, using a scale you can weigh everything in one, max two bowls (I weigh liquids in grams too).