Sweet potato flatbread or tortilla is easy and simple to make unleavened bread and you get delicious, healthy, quick and colorful flatbread which you can enjoy along with side dishes or use these flatbread for making wraps or burritos for a change. Adding butter or ghee on prepared flatbread like I have done is totally optional, but its totally delicious as well!
more easy recipes using sweet potatoes:
- baked sweet potato slices (oven roasted)
- sweet potato chocolate cake
- sweet potato cake with cream cheese frosting
- sweet potato soup with coconut milk
When my older son was a baby, he loved sweet potatoes in its mashed form.
But now as an older boy he wouldn't touch it, but both my kids love these sweet potato flatbread so its an easy to way to get toddlers or small kids to eat the sweet potatoes with this kid friendly sweet potato flatbread recipe (since you can easily sneak them in these) even if they don't like them in the mashed form.
texture of sweet potato flatbread
The sweet potato flatbread recipe uses fresh sweet potato which is boiled, peeled and mashed which is then mixed with flour to make the dough for making flatbread.
It is so simple, easy and quick! You can just mix the cooked mashed sweet potatoes with the flour to make the dough, which is then divided into almost equal sized balls, which is then rolled and cooked to make delicious and colorful flatbread.
I used all purpose flour to make this sweet potato flatbread, but you may use wheat flour or try other flours.
See acorn squash flatbread recipe here
Depending on the kind of flour used including the brand and also the size of sweet potatoes and its moisture content, there may be slight variations in the amount of flour you will need to make the dough but you can always add more flour as needed until you get the right consistency of the dough to prepare the flatbread.
Also based on the size of the sweet potato that you use, the amount of flour and also the size of the flatbread that you make, the number of servings can slightly vary, though you should be able to make anywhere from 8 to 12 number of flatbread from one sweet potato.
So here is how you can easily make sweet potato flatbread following the below instructions.
how to make sweet potato flatbread?
We use the following ingredients to make easy, delicious homemade sweet potato flatbread.
ingredients used to make sweet potato flatbread
- 1.5 cups flour (may need little more)
- 1 medium sized sweet potato cooked and mashed, slightly warm
- 1 tablespoon oil
- salt as needed
- extra flour as needed for dusting
- extra oil (or ghee or butter as needed to cook the flatbread and to grease the pan)
step by step instructions
To make the dough
- Take the slightly warm mashed sweet potato in a large bowl (if its cold, you may microwave the mashed potatoes in a microwave safe bowl for about 30 seconds to make it warm before making the dough).
- Add one cup of the flour and enough salt to the bowl with the mashed sweet potato, mix well and knead to make a sticky dough. Then add the remaining ½ cup of flour and also the one tablespoon of oil to the bowl, knead everything well to make the dough.
- If the dough is still sticky, you may add some more flour little by little (or a little more oil) until you are able to form the dough. Let the dough rest for a few minutes, keep it covered until ready to use.
To make sweet potato flatbread
- Once you are ready to make the flatbread, make equal sized balls out of the prepared dough.
- Take the first ball, dust it with more flour and roll it in a flat surface using a rolling pin.
- Heat a greased pan or skillet (or use a non stick pan) and transfer the rolled flatbread.
- Add a little oil (or ghee or butter) cook for about a minute or until the bottom side is cooked.
- Flip the flatbread and cook the other side too. Keep the heat in medium and adjust as needed as the pan gets hot. Transfer the cooked sweet potato flatbread to a serving dish.
- Similarly roll all the balls and cook all the flatbread.
- Serve the delicious sweet potato flatbread hot with more butter or ghee or any curry as you wish, or use it for wraps or burritos as you wish!
Below you can read the recipe for sweet potato flatbread in detail.
Sweet Potato Flatbread - Homemade Tortilla From Scratch
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups flour (may need little more)
- 1 medium sized sweet potato cooked and mashed, slightly warm
- 1 tablespoon oil
- salt as needed
- extra flour as needed for dusting
- extra oil (or ghee or butter as needed to cook the flatbread and to grease the pan)
Instructions
To make the dough
- Take the slightly warm mashed sweet potato in a large bowl (if its cold, you may microwave the mashed potatoes in a microwave safe bowl for about 30 seconds to make it warm before making the dough).
- Add one cup of the flour and enough salt to the bowl with the mashed sweet potato, mix well and knead to make a sticky dough. Then add the remaining ½ cup of flour and also the one tablespoon of oil to the bowl, knead everything well to make the dough.
- If the dough is still sticky, you may add some more flour little by little (or a little more oil) until you are able to form the dough. Let the dough rest for a few minutes, keep it covered until ready to use.
To make sweet potato flatbread
- Once you are ready to make the flatbread, make equal sized balls out of the prepared dough.
- Take the first ball, dust it with more flour and roll it in a flat surface using a rolling pin.
- Heat a greased pan or skillet (or use a non stick pan) and transfer the rolled flatbread.
- Add a little oil (or ghee or butter) cook for about a minute or until the bottom side is cooked.
- Flip the flatbread and cook the other side too. Keep the heat in medium and adjust as needed as the pan gets hot. Transfer the cooked sweet potato flatbread to a serving dish.
- Similarly roll all the balls and cook all the flatbread. Serve the delicious sweet potato flatbread hot with more butter or ghee or any curry as you wish, or use it for wraps or burritos as you wish!
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