Fresh garlic flat bread with basil butter and parmesan cheese

The Story:

The story on this particular recipe is not terribly complicated or even that thought out. It was more of an innovation of neccesity than of creativity. I really wanted Indian originally but we didn't have the proper ingredients so I thought that maybe Mexican would be an acceptable substitute, only we didn't have any tortillas. The result was the need to create a extremely simple flour tortilla recipe which then lead to this recipe. We were doing an Italian themed family dinner with Kourtney's veggie Italian sausage lasagna and what goes better with carbs than carbs!! Thus the illustrious birth of the garlic flat bread with basil butter and parmesan cheese recipe!!

*note: If you bake these, they essentially turn into super awesome pita chips that are great with hummus

The Ingredients:
Flat bread
4 cups of all purpose flour
2 TSP of baking powder
1 TSP of salt
4-5 cloves of finely minced garlic
3-4 TSP of olive oil
~1.5 cups of warm water

Basil butter
1/2 stick of unsalted butter
3 TBS of FINELY minced basil
1 TBS of olive oil
Flat bread:
This recipe, like pretty much all bread recipes, is alot easier to do if you have a stand mixer with a bread hook. As that's what I did this with, thats how I'm going to write the recipe. Toss all of the dry ingredients for the flat bread in the mixing bowl. Start on a low power and slowly add the water. As it's mixing add the minced garlic into the dough. Let the dough to continue to mix untill it becomes smooth and does not stick to your fingers when you touch it. If it does, and the dough is already well mixed, add small amounts of flour until it is no longer tacky. Once the dough is done it needs to be rolled out into indivigual flatbreads. Take a round piece of dough roughly the size of a plum. For this dough to work properly you need to roll it out extremely thing, to the point when when you hold it you can see your fingers through it. Once it rolled out, add a small amount of oil to a large pan heated to a medieum high heat. Place the rolled out dough into the pan only one at a time. The flat bread cooks best if the bottom is evenly coated with oil. Flip the bread after a minute or two, depending on how quickly it is browning. Make sure there is enough oil in the pan to coat the second side as well.

Basil butter:
This part is extremely simple. All you need to do is cut the butter into small cubes and then whip it with the oil and the basil. Once its all the same smooth consistancey all you need to do it brush it on the flat bread when it comes out of the pan. Slice the flat bread into eighth's and dust with paremsan cheese to taste.

Serve hot