Greek pita bread
Greek pita bread

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, greek pita bread. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

A traditional recipe for pita bread comes straight from a Greek restaurant. The secret to the most tender, freshest pitas is to let the dough sit after forming to relax the gluten. Pita bread (from Greek: πίτα) is a staple of countless Greek dishes.

Greek pita bread is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Greek pita bread is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have greek pita bread using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Greek pita bread:
  1. Prepare 160 ml milk (room temperature)
  2. Take 80 ml water (room temperature)
  3. Make ready 1 tsp white granulated sugar
  4. Get 7 g yeast
  5. Make ready 2 tbsp olive oil
  6. Prepare 340 g strong white bread flour
  7. Get 1 tsp salt and pepper mix
  8. Prepare 1 tsp fresh chopped thyme

Greek Pita Bread How To Make Pita Bread. Whisk all ingredients except flour in a mixing bowl. Then gradually incorporate the flour into the mixture while mixing with your hands. You may need to add a bit more or less flour as needed.

Steps to make Greek pita bread:
  1. Combine the sugar, yeast, water and milk in a bowl. Set the bowl aside for 10 minutes. Wait for the mixture to start bubbling.
  2. In a second bowl, combine the flour, salt and chopped fresh thyme leaves. Mix thoroughly.
  3. Add olive oil to the yeast mixture before slowly combining with the flour mixture. Use stand mixer or knead by hand until dough is smooth.
  4. Brush or spray bowl with oil and add the dough. Sprinkle some flour over the top and leave for 60 minutes to prove. Cover with a tea towel or similar. It should double in size.
  5. Cut dough into 6 equal portions, approximately 100g in size. Using a rolling pin, roll dough out until approximately 30cm in size.
  6. Pizza oven and frying pan fundamentals are the same - cook each size for 1-2 minutes, watching as the puff up slightly. Turn when a golden brown colour. Don’t allow to go too dark in colour.

It depends on how "strong" is the flour as we are using bread flour in this recipe. Greek pita bread is one of those lesser-known flatbreads that is often referred to as "Mediterranean Pita" or as "pocket-less pita". Whereas the more common pita bread (sometimes called "Arabic pita") has a hollow "pocket" that is usually stuffed, Greek pita bread is soft, slightly thicker and has no pocket. Traditional Greek pita bread does not have a large packet, they look like the ones in my pics. Trust you will no regret making these, pockets or no pockets!

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