Fluffy crab and avocado flatbreads

Fluffy crab and avocado flatbreads. Photograph Nick Bradshaw
Fluffy crab and avocado flatbreads. Photograph Nick Bradshaw
Serves: 4
Course: Side Dish
Cooking Time: 0 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

  • For the flatbreads
  • 350g natural yoghurt
  • 350g self-raising flour plus a little extra for dusting
  • A pinch of salt
  • 1 tsp baking power
  • Zest of ½ a lemon
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • For the topping
  • 100g picked crabmeat
  • 2 ripe avocados
  • ½ a red chilli finely diced
  • Juice of one lime
  • Sprigs of coriander
  • Salt and pepper
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1 For the flatbreads, mix the yoghurt, flour, baking powder, salt and lemon zest together until it becomes a dough.

2 Cover the dough with cling film and let it rest for 20 minutes before cutting into eight even pieces.

3 On a floured surface, press the dough into half centimetre (thickness) rounds.

4 Heat the olive oil in a frying pan until it is gently smoking and cook the flatbreads for three minutes on either side, until golden and puffy.

5 Drain them on kitchen towel and keep warm.

6 Crush the avocados with the lime, chilli, salt and pepper.

7 Spoon this, and some of the crabmeat, on top of the warm flatbreads and garnish with a few coriander leaves.

Paul Flynn

Paul Flynn

Paul Flynn is a chef, restaurateur and contributor to The Irish Times. He and his wife, Máire, run the Tannery restaurant and cookery school in Dungarvan, Co Waterford