I found this great website: www.dedemed.com that has Mediterranean recipes and videos. Very helpful! This pita recipe is from there. I tried it out and it works well.
Ingredients
- 3 Cups flour As always, mix in a cup of some other type of flour!
- 1 Cup flour For kneeding (approximate)
- 1 Cup Warm water
- 1 Tbsp Yeast
- 1 Tsp sugar
- 1/2 Cup Warm water
- olive oil
Servings:
Instructions
- In a small bowl, mix yeast, sugar and 1/2 cup warm water and let site for 10-15 minutes.
- In a large bowl, mix 3 cups of flour with salt.
- When the yeast is ready (it should be bubbly and at least double in size), add it to the flour mixture along with 1 cup of warm water. Mix with a wooden spoon until well combined.
- In a clean large bowl, coat the bottom and sides of the bowl with olive oil. Use about 1 tablespoon. Transfer dough into this bowl. Cover with a damp teatowel and let it sit in a warm place for about 3 hours. (You can speed this process up a bit by turning on the oven for 2 or 3 minutes to warm it up a bit, then let the dough rise in there. Just make sure it's not too warm!)
- Once the dough has doubled in size, scoop it out onto a floured counter top. Kneed the dough for 10 minutes (set the timer, it's a long time!) Continue to add flour to the countertop to ensure the dough does not stick.
- After 10 minutes of kneeding, form dough into balls and let them sit on a plate for 10 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 450F.
- Using a rolling pin, roll each ball out until it's about 1/8 inch thick. Try to make circles like pita bread! Place rolled out dough onto a cookie sheet.
- Cook in oven for 3-4 minutes on each side. The dough should puff up. They should get slighly brown but they are easy to overcook.
- Once you remove the pita's from the oven, you can squish them down to make them flat again. Otherwise, then they cool with will be puffed!
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