Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, pita bread. It is 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. Pita bread will begin to puff up and fill with hot air.

Pita bread is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Pita bread is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin 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 can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Pita bread:

1. Get strong white flour
2. Take plain flour
3. Get fresh or 1 tsp fast action yeast
4. Take caster sugar
5. Make ready salt
6. Make ready vegetable oil
7. Get warm water

This pita bread is best served warm and fresh. This pita bread also freezes well too. Making your own homemade pita bread is both easy and inexpensive. No need to pay the grocery store Making your own pita bread is such a smart thing to do.

Steps to make Pita bread:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

Bread is always the same…mix, rise. An oval-shaped Middle Eastern flat bread. It can be opened up to form a pocket which can be stuffed with a variety of fillings. Pita bread is a staple in Middle Eastern food. Pita bread is served at just about every meal in the Middle East.

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