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Pita bread recipe / How to make pita bread / Easy pita bread / pita bread/Homemade pita bread recipe / without oven recipes with detailed step by step photos. Pita bread is a round flat breads made with flour and yeast mixture and its common in Mediterranean and middle east cuisine. This is usually made with wheat flour, but you can use either maida or both the flours. Pita bread is very popular for its pita pockets where we can stuff tahini, falaffel, hummus or with meat. You can toast the pita bread and serve it with hummus I like this combo. I make pita bread for Shawarma usually.
Homemade pita breads are far better than store bought ones. Pita bread recipe preparation is so simple and requires basic ingredients like flour, yeast oil, salt. You can make pita bread with all purpose flour or with wheat flour or with the both the flours with 50:50 proportion. This recipe is a fool proof and works best if you follow the right measurements.
You can make pita bread either in the oven or on the stove top. Today i covered both the methods, both are equally good. However i like the the stove top pita bread more. You can choose which method works for you the best.
Few tips and suggestions
Make sure to activate the yeast before adding it to dough, if using instant yeast then you can directly add it to the flour
Dough has to be rest for sometime till it doubles in its size
Pita bread should not be either thick nor thin. if you roll it too thin then you will not get the perfect pockets and if it is too thick it may turn harder
You can also use milk to to knead the dough and it should be warm
You can make pita bread with only using wheat flour or with maida completely.
Pita bread recipe / How to make pita bread
Ingredients
- 2 tsp Active dry yeast
- 1 cup Warm water
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1.5 cup All purpose flour / Maida
- 1.5 cup Wheat flour
- 1 tbsp Olive oil you can use any oil
- 1 tsp Salt
Instructions
- To activate the yeast, In a bowl take warm water add sugar and yeast and stir it and set aside for 10 minutes. This mixture will bubble and foam so the yeast has been activated
- In a large mixing bowl take All purpose flour/ maida, salt, olive oil and add the yeast mixture
- Start to knead the dough, knead it well for good 5 minutes and cover and rest the dough till it doubled in its size
- Now the dough had doubled, knead it once again
- Dust some flour in the workspace and take a small ball sized dough and roll it
- Roll it to flat (like chappati) about 1/4 inch approx, similarly make all the remaining dough
To make in stove top
- Heat a iron skillet and place the prepared pita bread on medium heat
- And cook till the bread puff up and bottom has brown spots then flip to other side cook. once it has cooked completely take it out and keep in cloth covered this helps retain the softness
To make it in Oven
- Pre heat the oven for 10 minutes with the tray in it
- Take the tray carefully as it may be very hot. now place the pita bread on the tray i placed 2 at a time
- Cook for 10-12 minutes at 180 degree c. it will puff up nicely you can see in the picture.
- take it out once it cooked completely
- Serve it with falaffel or make shawarma
Notes
Lovely dish. As always ur way of explanation is damn superb.
Thank you