Why Buy When You Can Bake? Make Delicious Pita Bread at Home – No Oven Needed

Are you tired of eating the same old bread? Try this homemade pita bread recipe and bring a Mediterranean flavour to your kitchen. this homemade pita bread is super easy to make they are so soft and tender. It’s easy to chew and tastes amazing

The recipe is very straightforward all that we need are some flour, water, little bit of salt, oil to add more taste and yeast as a leavining agent. So let’s see how to make these wonderful pita breads at home.

Ingredient

• Flour – 400g (300g plain flour + 100g whole wheat flour)
• Warm water – 1 cup
• Sugar – 1 tbsp
• Active dry yeast – 1/2 tbsp
• Salt – 1 tbsp
• Olive oil – 2 tbsp

Activate yeast

So let’s start by activating the dry yeast. Yeast always need a sweet and warm environment to bloom up so in a bowl take 1 cup of warm water . Add 1 tbsp of sugar and 1/2 a tbsp of active dry yeast to it and then stir them well until they dissolved completely and keep it aside for the yeast to get activate.

Form the pita dough

In another bowl take a 400 g of flour(300g plain four+ 100g whole wheat flour) then add 1 tbsp of salt and 2 tbsp of olive oil. now add the activate yeast mixture and then mix them together with help of spoon untill you get a shaggy mass of dough. you can add some water if needed.

In this recipe you need not to be very strict on the measurements, the dough may be little sticky that’s okay but if it is soo sticky you can add little more flour and if it is too tough you can add little more water . the point is that after kneading for six to eight minutes dough should be soft and supple and elastic enough to withstand all of the stretching and puffing.

Let the pita dough rise

The softer the dough, the more softer and tastier our pita bread will be. After kneading for six to eight minutes dough is ready and lightly oil a clean bowl and place the dough inside it and lightly coat it with some oil .

and then cover it with a plastic wrap and now dough is ready for the first proofing so let them rest in a warm environment for one and a half to two hours or until they have doubled in size.

Divide the dough

After dough has risen well, Now is to genlty deflate or degas the dough and turn it on a lightly floured work surface and give them a roll shape so that you can divide them into equal pieces.

Take a pieces then shape each small portion into small balls. and roll each ball into a circle which is approximately six inches in diameter and not more than 1/4 of an inch thickness. and place their dough disk on a lightly floured surfaced and cover it with a damp cloth. Prepare them all in the same manner.

so after this a final shaping let them rest for about thirty minutes or untill they puff and rise slightly and gain their shape.

Bake

So now move take them to the stove top for the final step, place a rolled pita on the hot skillet and bake for 30 second unitll you see bubbles starting to form and then flip and cook for one to two minutes on the other side, then flip again and cook for another 1 to 2 minutes the pita as it should start puff up during this time and if it does’t or if only small pocket formed you can help them by pressing the surface of the pita.

I can promise you that you will never want to buy store-bought pita bread again after making this easy homemade pita bread. I hope you try this recipe and love it.

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Tips

After wrapping the dough for proofing you can place it in the oven light.

While shaping the dough cover the remaining dough with a wet towel so that the dough does not dry out