Homemade Pita Bread. Pita bread (also known as Arabic bread and Syrian bread) is a yeast-leavened flatbread common in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisines. It can be made with or without an interior pocket. Carefully lift the dough circle and place quickly on hot baking sheet.
You can cook Homemade Pita Bread using 6 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Homemade Pita Bread
- Prepare 3 cup of King Arthur All Purpose flour.
- Prepare 2 tsp of instant yeast.
- Prepare 2 tsp of sugar.
- You need 1 1/2 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 cup of warm water.
- It’s 2 tbsp of olive oil or veg oil.
Cover the disks as you roll them out, but do not stack them up. This homemade pita bread recipe is easy to make and requires a few ingredients you may already have on hand! Mix up the very simple dough, let it rise, and experience the magic of fresh, warm, perfectly puffy homemade pita bread. Pita bread is one of those things that seems super intimidating but actually is pretty easy to make.
Homemade Pita Bread step by step
Combine all ingredients, making a shaggy dough..
Knead the dough 10 min if by hand, 5 if by mixer, and the regular cycle if in a bread machine..
Place dough in a lightly greased bowl. Let sit for an hour..
Place dough on a lightly greased work area. Divide dough into 8 pieces..
Preheat oven to 500°F. Make sure you have 1 rack at the very bottom of your oven and one in the middle..
Roll out 2 to 4 pieces from the 8 into 6 in rounds. Place the flattened dough onto lightly greased cookie sheets. Probably will hold 4..
Place on bottom rack in oven for 5 min. Then place on middle rack for 2min. This is to brown the pitas. After 5 min, you should see the pitas beging to bubble or begin to pocket..
If your pitas have not pocketed after 5 min, you need to turn the heat up for the next batch..
After the 7 min is over, take pitas out and place in a clean dish towel. It keeps them moist. I just placed mine in a bowl and covered with a dish towel..
Repeat steps 6 thru 9 for last batch..
Store pitas in an air tight container or plastic bag..
I tried out a few recipes and I think that this one is the best, mostly because it requires very little hands on time and it gives you soft, fluffy pitas that work as well dipping into humus as they do a sandwich wrap. 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 hyperactive when both are hit with the heat from the oven or stovetop. This recipe is very easy and quick to make and yields a soft yet sturdy pita bread that can be used in all sorts of mediterranian recipes. Making your own homemade pita bread is both easy and inexpensive.
