This flatbread was the recipe that just didn’t want to be made. After spending almost 4 years now with a food blogger, you think Ulysses would’ve learned that when “special” ingredients appear in the fridge or pantry, they’re off limits until asking if I need them for something. Store bought flatbread would be one such ingredient.

But it doesn’t stop there. While arugula and dried tart cherries are typical staples in our house, both ingredients (even after telling him my plans for this flatbread multiple times) happened to disappear one right after the other.

So for a recipe as simple as this one is, it somehow required 4 separate trips to the grocery store. Single living would be so much easier sometimes (until I come home with new bathroom light fixtures I want installed like I might’ve done a few weeks ago I suppose).

The amount of times we default to pizza for dinner is kind of embarrassing. Pizza just seems like a cop out and usually means way more bread than I want to consume but I do it anyway out of sheer laziness. Flatbread, however, that’s got this air of “gourmet” that pizza could just never pull off. The best part about flatbread though is that it’s even easier than pizza. Store bought bread is totally acceptable, toppings don’t have to include sauce or cheese and it really just needs to toast, not bake. Boom.

The flavor combinations on top of a simple piece of bread here are pretty killer if I do say so. You’ve got savory chicken with sweet caramelized onions, tangy goat cheese, tart but still sweet dried cherries and then a drizzle of balsamic reduction for a sticky, sweet topping with some bright, peppery arugula to balance it all out.

My mom ended up coming over to go shopping with me (for those bathroom light fixtures) the day after (finally) making this and finished off the last half of flatbread.

Her words after the first bite were “the cherries are the best part” to which I of course took the opportunity to tell her they weren’t only delicious but good for you too being packed with vitamin A and a natural source of melatonin to help you sleep well – something she definitely needs because the woman never sleeps!

Love this flatbread? You might also like this goat cheese tomato sausage tart or this naan bread pizzarecipe too.

*This post is sponsored by the Cherry Marketing Institute. All opinions and content are my own.