Pita Bread
Pita Bread
Pita Bread
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Recipe type: breakfast, brunch Cuisine: middle eastern
Prep time: 1 hour 30 mins Cook time: 30 mins Total time: 2 hours
Serves: 5-6
the best whole wheat pita bread recipe
Author: dassana
whole wheat pita bread recipe with oven as well as baking method
Ingredients
3 cups whole wheat flour
11/4 cup warm water - one cup and an extra one-fourth cup
1/2 tbsp active dry yeast
1 or 1.5 tbsp olive oil
1/2 tbsp salt
a pinch of sugar
Instructions
preparing & rolling the bread:
1. in a small bowl add 1/2 cup of the warm water. sprinkle a pinch of sugar. the
n and the yeast and stir.
2. keep aside for 10 to 15 minutes at room temperature.
3. in a large bowl mix the rest of the warm water with flour, salt and olive oil
with a wooden spoon.
4. after the yeast has frothed, add the yeast mixture and knead into a soft, smo
oth dough.
5. keep the dough moist and soft as well as smooth and springy.
6. place the dough into a greased container or in the same bowl with some olive
oil applied all over the dough.
7. cover with a kitchen napkin and keep at room temperature for for 1 to 1.5 hou
rs.
8. preheat the oven to 200 degrees C.
9. once the dough has doubled up, then remove the dough from the bowl.
10. put the dough on your working surface & deflate the dough gently.
11. make medium sized balls from the dough.
12. dust the working surface with flour and roll each ball into round circles of
about 6 inch about 1/4 inch thick.
13. cover the circles with the kitchen towel loosely and let them rest at room t
emperature for 10 minutes.
baking the pita bread in the oven:
1. now place them on a greased tray and bake at 200 degrees C for 7 to 10 minute
s or till puffed up and light
brown.
2. bake all the pita breads this way.
making the pita bread on stove top:
1. heat a non stick frying pan or tava.
2. place the bread on the tava and cover for 2-3 minutes till the bread starts p
uffing up.
3. flip the bread the other side and cook for more 2 to 3 minutes.
serving:
1. stack them up and store in a kitchen towel or bread box.
2. you can also serve them warm.
3. just slice the bread into two you will see the pockets.
4. stuff the pockets with a filling of your choice and your pita sandwich is rea
dy.
Notes
if the dough becomes too sticky than add some more flour. remember to proof the
yeast in warm water. less warm
water or hot water will not not yield good results. you can also knead the dough
in a mixer fitted with a paddle
attachment. you can double as well as triple this recipe. like all my bakes, i h
ave baked the pita bread in a microwave
oven in the convection/baking mode. since the recipe is lightly adapted, the pit
a breads should fluff well in a regular
oven too if the yeast proofing and leavening of the bread is done well.
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