Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Pita bread
Pita bread. Sprinkle the yeast over the warm water in a large bread bowl. In the bowl of a heavy-duty electric mixer fitted with a dough hook, combine the yeast, sugar, and warm water; stir to blend. There are two ways to cook 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. Pita bread is served at just about every meal in the Middle East.
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Sprinkle the yeast over the warm water in a large bread bowl. In the bowl of a heavy-duty electric mixer fitted with a dough hook, combine the yeast, sugar, and warm water; stir to blend. There are two ways to cook pita bread.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pita bread using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pita bread:
- Make ready 300 g of strong white flour.
- Take 200 g of plain flour.
- Make ready 8 g of fresh or 1 tsp fast action yeast.
- Take 1 tbsp. of caster sugar.
- Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
- Get 2 tbsp. of vegetable oil.
- Prepare 325 g of warm water.
It can be used for dipping, or to make delicious sandwiches in the pocket. This recipe makes a dozen pitas you can garnish with some minced fresh parsley, or you could sprinkle with za'atar or other spice blend. Pita bread, with its unique pocket, makes terrific sandwiches. For ideas, check out these recipes that use pita bread.
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..
Pita bread is also wonderful paired with hummus or vegetable dip, or baked up into pita chips as appetizers or snacks. Pita (/ ˈ p ɪ t ə / or US: / ˈ p iː t ə /) 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. It includes the widely known version with an interior pocket, also known as Arabic bread (Arabic: khubz ʿarabī), Syrian bread and other names, as well as pocketless versions such as. Pita bread dates back thousands of years and is a staple in the cuisines of the Middle East and Mediterranean. Just as corn or potatoes appear on American tables every day, so does pita bread in countries like Turkey, Israel, Greece, Lebanon, and Egypt.
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