Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, perfect pita bread. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Homemade pita, perfect for splitting and filling with your choice of ingredients, is easy to make at home. Staring through the oven door as pita bread bakes is the best part of making it at home. You can make pita bread either in the oven or on the stovetop, and there are advantages and disadvantages Pita is also great make-ahead bread. I often prepare the dough through the first rise.
Perfect Pita Bread is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Perfect Pita Bread is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook perfect pita bread using 7 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Perfect Pita Bread:
- Make ready 190 g flour (1 1/2 US cup or 360 ml)
- Get 1 tsp dry active yeast
- Take 1 tsp sugar
- Prepare 3/4 tsp salt
- Take 1 Tbsp olive or vegetable oil
- Take 120 ml warm water (1/2 cup), plus maybe a bit more
- Make ready Flour for dusting, as needed
Picture perfect Pita bread is always great to eat, but it's utter magic to make. For real food geeks, it's all about attaining the perfect balloon-like puff while you bake. Pita bread with an easy dough that requires only flour and yeast, the rest of the ingredients are there Homemade pita bread is the best, soft, pillowy and easy to make. Use this bread for your falafel, ful.
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!
Pita bread with an easy dough that requires only flour and yeast, the rest of the ingredients are there Homemade pita bread is the best, soft, pillowy and easy to make. Use this bread for your falafel, ful. This homemade pita bread is seriously going to change your life. I know that is a bold statement, but Although it is ideal that the pita bread will begin to puff up and fill with hot air to get the perfect. Pita bread is a middle eastern flat bread that puffs up when baked creating an air pocket Pita Bread Dough: The dough needs to have the perfect amount of water in it.
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