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Pita bread is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Pita bread is something which I have loved my whole life.
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 (/ˈpɪtə/ or US: /ˈpiːtə/) or pitta (British English), is a family of yeast-leavened round flatbreads baked from wheat flour, common in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and neighboring areas.
To get started with this recipe, we must 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:
- Get 300 g strong white flour
- Make ready 200 g plain flour
- Make ready 8 g fresh or 1 tsp fast action yeast
- Make ready 1 tbsp. caster sugar
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 2 tbsp. vegetable oil
- Take 325 g warm water
Pita bread is one of those things that seems super intimidating but actually is pretty easy to make. It can be a little difficult to get the "pocket" feature, where the two side puff. 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.
Steps 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.
When the bread is removed from oven, the dough will separate and forms like pocked which vary pita bread from other bread. Pita bread, spelled "pitta bread" in the UK, is a round leavened flatbread that is consumed all over the world in many different cultures. It is generally made with wheat but can also be made in multigrain. Pita bread will begin to puff up and fill with hot air. Stack cooked breads on a plate; when cool I tried making pita bread in the past and every time I failed miserably so of course I was skeptical that I.
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