13 flat recipes

Homemade flatbread you cook in a frying pan, no oven needed. A soft yeast dough rolled into thin rounds and toasted until lightly golden and pillowy, ready to fold around curry or any savory filling.

Homemade naan with a yogurt-leavened dough, no yeast required. Cooked on a cast-iron skillet then finished under the broiler for charred spots and puffed bubbles. Makes 9 pieces.

Italian onion focaccia: a soft yeasted flatbread crowned with buttery sautéed onions and rosemary. Golden, fragrant, and ready to tear and share at the dinner table.

Authentic Indian roti made with just whole wheat chapati flour and water, cooked on a hot cast-iron griddle and puffed directly over an open flame. Two-ingredient vegan flatbread.

Beef and sausage chili built on a scratch-made ancho chile sauce, with green chiles, tomato, cumin and Mexican oregano. Rehydrated dried anchos give it deep, smoky flavor you can dial up to taste. No beans.

Ethiopian injera flatbread made with self-rising, whole wheat, and cornmeal flours. Spongy, slightly sour fermented bread used as both plate and utensil for scooping stews.

Mix self-rising and whole wheat flours with club soda into thin batter, pour into a hot skillet, and cook on one side only for spongy Ethiopian flatbread.

Flat cat cookies, the gleefully gruesome Halloween treat. Roll out refrigerated sugar cookie dough, cut roadkill cat shapes, add red candy eyes and a drizzle of jam blood. Easy enough for kids.

Injera, Ethiopian fermented flatbread made with a three-day sourdough batter cooked crepe-style on one side. Soft, spongy, and tangy with signature bubble eyes on top.

Good way to cook steak with BBQ beans, tastes really very great.

Mexican flag cookies bake a coconut-extract sheet cookie cut into 3x4 rectangles, then decorate with green, white, and red icing stripes plus a chocolate eagle. Cinco de Mayo party favorite.

A silky baked custard infused with orange zest, cinnamon, and cloves, set over golden homemade caramel with slivers of candied orange peel. Low-fat, elegant, and worth the overnight chill.

A quick and easy baked flan recipe that is great served warm or cold.