Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, perfect pita bread. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Perfect Pita Bread is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Perfect Pita Bread is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have perfect pita bread using 7 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Perfect Pita Bread:
- Get 190 g flour (1 1/2 US cup or 360 ml)
- Prepare 1 tsp dry active yeast
- Take 1 tsp sugar
- Make ready 3/4 tsp salt
- Get 1 Tbsp olive or vegetable oil
- Prepare 120 ml warm water (1/2 cup), plus maybe a bit more
- Take Flour for dusting, as needed
Keep pita wrapped in a towel until it has completely cooled. If you place still-warm pita in a plastic bag or container, condensation will form and the bread will get soggy. Leave us a comment below and let us know how it turned out for you. The possibilities are endless with pita bread.
Steps to make Perfect Pita Bread:
- Put flour, yeast, salt, and sugar into bowl. Mix, then add oil and warm water. Mix with spoon or spatula until you can form dough into a ball.
- Dough should be a little moist but not super sticky. Add a little water at a time if needed. If you add too much, mix in more flour.
- When you have a knead-able dough, dust a surface with flour. Remove dough from bowl and knead for about 5 minutes with palm of hand.
- You want to form a smooth ball like this :) When finished, grease a large bowl with a little oil, and put ball of dough in.
- Cover with wrap and let rise for about one hour in a warm spot until fluffy, about double in size.
- Preheat oven to 500F/260C. Meanwhile, remove puffy dough from bowl, squish out air, forming into a ball again.
- Separate into three even pieces.
- Roll out into about 5-inch/12-cm rounds on a floured surface.
- Lay out a baking sheet or lightly grease your baking pan. Lay out pitas on pan and let rest for 15 minutes, uncovered.
- Make sure your oven has had plenty of time to preheat; you want it hot! Put pitas on bottom rack (if you have one) and bake for 5-6 minutes. They should puff up, if not, let bake an extra minute. (if they don't puff up, the oven wasn't hot enough)
- Move pitas to the top or middle rack of oven and bake another two minutes to brown.
- Wrap in a kitchen cloth to keep soft until serving.
- Pitas are perhaps best filled with plenty of falafel ;) I have some recipes for falafel posted in the story section above!
Leave us a comment below and let us know how it turned out for you. The possibilities are endless with pita bread. Our recipe creates tender, chewy pitas with perfect pockets, every time. We start with high-protein bread flour, which encourages pocket formation and increases the pita's chew. A high hydration level and a generous amount of oil help.
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