Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pita bread. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pita is actually a very straightforward bread dough: water, flour, yeast, salt, and that's about it. What makes it puff so impressively is the dual action of water turning to steam and the yeast becoming. Store-bought pita (like store-bought sandwich bread) is often several days old.
Pita bread is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Pita bread is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook pita bread using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pita bread:
- Prepare 300 g strong white flour
- Get 200 g plain flour
- Make ready 8 g fresh or 1 tsp fast action yeast
- Prepare 1 tbsp. caster sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 2 tbsp. vegetable oil
- Get 325 g warm water
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Instructions to make Pita bread:
- Mix the flours with the salt, yeast (even if using fresh, just crumble it in) and sugar in a large bowl or the bowl of a standing mixer. Add the oil and water and mix to a soft sticky dough. Leave for 10 minutes, then knead briefly by hand or mix with a dough hook attachment. Leave for another 10 minutes, then repeat the kneading twice again. The final dough should be smooth, elastic and stop sticking to your hands and bounce off the sides of the bowl in a standing mixer. Leave covered for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to your highest setting (250C/485F/gas 9, or whatever you can get). Place a baking sheet in the oven to get it very hot.
- Turn the rested dough onto a floured surface and divide into 9-10 pieces, about 90g each. Shape them into balls, cover with a clean tea towel and leave to rest for 15 minutes. Roll out each ball, one or two at a time, reasonably thin, into oval shapes – about 5mm thick.
- Place one or two pitas on the preheated baking sheet and bake for 3 to 5 minutes until they puff up and only just start to colour. Cool on a wire rack covered with a cloth, to keep them moist.
It can be opened up to form a pocket which can be stuffed with a variety of fillings. Pita bread (also known as Arabic bread and Syrian bread) is a yeast-leavened flatbread common in Our recipe is intended to make a pita bread with pockets. And originally, we cooked the pita bread. How to make homemade pita bread. This Pita bread recipe is so simple.
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